This gave voters permission to vote for Trump or disengage from politics entirely. If the left and the right both have authoritarian tendencies, what does it matter if the guy who did January 6 gets into power again?
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The Democrats themselves sure didn't help change this perception by agreeing with many of the authoritarianism of the GOP (fund the police, hardline on immigration, tough on crime) and being polite and friendly with Trump et al. Made it look like Dems calling them fascists were being hyperbolic.
The folks who really gave people on our side permission to disengage are called #Uncommitted. Scores of leftists stayed home and the center was wondering why so many on the left want to give the people who attacked our ally a free pass.
What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
Looks like the same centuries of brutal White supremacist independent of any pendulum or defined political orientation racist pit of evil America has been every moment of its cursed enslaving genocidal Japanese concentration camp Klan in the Congress existence to me.
Man. Y’all gotta stop attacking kitty litter. That shit is useful for everything! Specially in classrooms with dirty, messy little tiny shitheads. Kid threw up? Kitty Litter. Kid poured out a glue bottle? Kitty litter. Etc
"Utopian" is the key word from the excerpt that makes your point here obvious. What is utopian about not wanting people to die of preventable diseases? Not wanting to separate families? What is utopian about allowing people to live their actual identities? Letting people choose what books to read?
President ordering the concept of diversity being purged from every aspect of the government and DOJ threatening to prosecute private companies over it is controversial. Random twitter user including pronouns on their profile is the left going too far.
True. Democrats, particularly Biden, are to blame. Not due to policies, but because their lazy messaging and media management let these insane ideas take hold without pushback. Face it, if Biden was capable of holding these daily interactions with press he could have better shaped the narrative.
Maybe classrooms SHOULD have kitty litter boxes. This would make it easier to have classroom cats, which sounds wonderful. Like classroom hamsters, but so much less likely to die at somebody's house on the weekend.
This is exactly right. And it’s why I have had it with being lectured about needing to engage with Trump voters to understand their concerns. They are enraged over made up culture war bullshit like “The War on Christmas” and they lash out when challenged on it.
Woke was never a movement. Progress, humanity, and gaining space to call out inappropriate, but accepted, language and policies were growing organically. The scales were tipping towards justice. Folks who didn't like the changes cast it as a movement, gave it a name and created a target to attack.
Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!"
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
Nearly every conservative that is still mask-on describes themselves as a centrist, as being reasonable and rational before going on to describe blood libel as something that’s literally happening. 1984 happened right in front of our eyes and the fourth estate was paid to ignore it.
The entire revisionist school of reconstruction history blamed the abolitionists for "forcing" the issue with emotion, the whole "the civil war was unnecessary" camp
And there's a reason the Enlightened Centrists took the bait: they desperately need to believe the social hierarchies that gave them such privilege are just. They don't want a better world for all because they are afraid that'd mean less for them.
It's the same shit of self proclaimed "sensible" racists and "moderate"reactionaries of all stripes tut-tutting about what those awful extremists are doing without even a new coat of paint.
Tommy Chatt was obsessed with the Portland protests and Tweeting about them on Jan. 6 and didn't stop until about an hour into the insurrection. I called him on it and Mr. Open Discussion blocked me. So of course he wrote this, he's incapable of any introspection.
The proliferation of the word "woke", a bastardization of the way more specific phrase "stay woke", in and of itself is proof that the right has been leading centrists around on this debate this entire time
Chatterton: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Will: "Trump is liberal's fault"
YApplebaum: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Brooks: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Bedbug: "Trump is liberal's fault"
It's almost as if a memo went out at Bari's University of Bullshit.
Did real progressives unwittingly jump on a bandwagon that was always intended to mobilize white nationalists to vote by instigating hate and irrational fear? Of course, their ultimate goal being to roll back civil rights and preserve whiteness and white power.
I first heard the kitty litter tale about three years ago. A co-worker claimed they were putting kitty litter in her daughter's school to accommodate kids who "Identified as cats."
I pushed her for a source. She said her daughter told her. "So, there's kitty litter in her school bathroom? Right now?" "Yes!" "Have you contacted the school administration?" "No, not yet." "Why not?" "Well, the kitty litter isn't in there right now, but it will be, I saw it on TV."
"The local news?" "No, Fox." "So, your daughter didn't see kitty litter?" "No, not yet." She then went back to work, untrouble that she'd just been caught in a lie. I didn't make any more out of it either, which is on me.
Yes and... They know the planet is FUBAR and total collapse is coming, and this is a great opportunity to create distractions from the strip-mining and hoarding that they are doing to hasten that collapse.
Yeah, certainly part of the story.
Climate change and general entry into anthropocene era means we have to do things differently. Some highly greedy, selfish individuals are trying to hang on to the existing system for their own benefit.
Yes, two things. Climate change and what Habermas called "legitimation crisis" A majority doesn't believe in the system. They are just at odds over what they do believe in.
'wokeness' is a propaganda project that's been used over & over again to simply put down and oppress any deviance from a white Christian nationalist (fascist douchebag) point of view. It's just an updated shorthand of referring to SJWs, radical leftists, liberals, progressives, etc etc.
The buzz-word in the Reagan-era was "liberal" as a slur. Then when that lost traction in the early 90's, "political correctness," then when that lost traction, "woke." In every case, they co-opted a term from the left & twisted it. They invent nothing.
You have to admit we give them ammo, though. e.g., abortion. I support it. But I do not support a women having an elective abortion in third trimester. But Dems are afraid of saying they don't support unlimited abortion, so they refuse to say it and the right claims that they favor it.
This is literally the shadowboxing that is being talked about! There just... Aren't elective third trimester abortions. People have them because of medical issues-- or because they didn't know they were pregnant, which is a really really edge case. If Dems engage with this it becomes ammo
Late term elective abortions are a myth you brainwashed boomer. You are literally doing the thing OP is talking about. Turn off your fucking television
I know that. I have said it, elsewhere. What I don't understand is why Dems are not allowed to make their positions clear on this issue. Their followers will condemn them for some inane reason. We're so afraid of the right we cower in fear of telling the simple truth.
This is a fallacious argument you seem to have bought wholesale in response to a post about how this moral panic happened when people saw these fallacious arguments and believed them.
I would appreciate some detail about what is fallacious about it. We are not at fault, but we give their leaders ammo to fight us repeatedly by assuming that they can read our minds.
The “point” that someone not directly condemning something that is a wild and made up accusation makes them responsible for the wild and made up accusations made against them in the first place is just on its face ridiculous.
Also get it out of your head that we need to avoid “giving them ammo”. Denying them ammo only works if they cannot manufacture the ammo themselves (lie) and they are, unfortunately, extremely prolific ammunition manufacturers (liars)
It's good that the technical term "privilege escalation" is being removed from NSA documents, because that saves us all from the scourge of some undergraduate rolling their eyes when grandad talks about "colored people."
God I hate the "gave permission" tack, like we're not only supposed to conduct OURSELVES accordingly, but ALSO account for every possible reaction Everybody Else could or would have to said conduct.
It gets MUCH easier to understand this train of thought when you realize it's nothing more than the standard dynamic in every abusive relationship ever.
You are not only FULLY and SOLELY responsible for your own actions/reactions, but those of your abuser as well.
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Children who learn to manipulate by lies quickly figure out that equating their lies to lies told by others is a great dodge.
What would be helpful is a long, well written, well sourced blog post or similar piece discussing the facts
But they couldn't allow themselves to think for long about school shootings, so they invented a folk devil to rail against.
Pathetic
She wasn't running on this. Trump incessantly claimed she was running on this.
But we live in the age of the shameless "double down".
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
https://bsky.app/profile/missingjigsaw.bsky.social/post/3lhw4b35xmk26
No one less than Hannah Arendt wrote basically this.
https://www.normfriesen.info/forgotten/little_rock1.pdf
The media would do better to report the actions and outcomes rather than the disingenuous bloviating.
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Follow the student.... to a religious institution?
Will: "Trump is liberal's fault"
YApplebaum: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Brooks: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Bedbug: "Trump is liberal's fault"
It's almost as if a memo went out at Bari's University of Bullshit.
Was it an orchestrated cointelpro-like initiative by online RW operatives disguised as progressives?
It will eventually snap and hit them in the face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Climate change and general entry into anthropocene era means we have to do things differently. Some highly greedy, selfish individuals are trying to hang on to the existing system for their own benefit.
'wokeness' is a propaganda project that's been used over & over again to simply put down and oppress any deviance from a white Christian nationalist (fascist douchebag) point of view. It's just an updated shorthand of referring to SJWs, radical leftists, liberals, progressives, etc etc.
Reactionaries: "THEY WANT TO BAN HORTON HEARS A WHO!!!"
Schools: "We're going to stock kitty litter for emergency latrines in the event of a lockdown."
Reactionaries: "KIDS ARE IDENTIFYING AS CATS!!!"
You are not only FULLY and SOLELY responsible for your own actions/reactions, but those of your abuser as well.