They need to quit being afraid of offending people. Sure the Rs do but then turn around and say whatever they want. The dems need to quit worrying about that and others need to quit being so offended. There are more important things to worry about.
I can agree with that. The most effective Dems rn (in my opinion) are the ones who are organic, straightforward, and aren’t censoring themselves or making sure to get PR approval. I don’t think that means using slurs or being willfully insensitive to minorities. But ya…enough of the corporate-speak
Isn't that a good argument for EVERYONE to tone identity politics down? Workers should be banding together to fight the owner/investor class; instead they have us fighting among ourselves over the crumbs from their table.
I mean conservatives will exploit identity regardless of what the left does. Race in America was basically invented to pit poor whites against black slaves + thereby appease any outrage at the material economic inequality. The basis of modern conservatism—fusionism—combines bigotry and capitalism
But why exacerbate the divisions among the workers, who are constantly losing the class war? The energy that goes into identities conflict should be directed into the fight for government by the worker and for the worker, like national health care, housing, nutrition, etc.
Is this getting to the heart of how people can’t keep up with certain things? Like if you’re Spanish speaking being called Latino/a/x and getting upset if people don’t get it right? Or how people get upset if you don’t immediately know which pronoun to use? Asking to understand, please give grace.
I can understand that resistance to that honestly. I pride myself with being a really open minded person, & still feel overwhelmed by the diffs in language for identity. Its not even disrespect, its just too much to keep up with all the time. Like LGBT is now LGBTQIA+. I thought the + covered it?
Personally, I understand when I pop off with personal feelings, I’m bound to rub someone the wrong way. …And get the frustration. These are scary times that’s going to bring out our not so shining-selves sometimes. But generalizing is a slippery slope that begs distraction from what really matters-
There’s WAY too much at stake. I beg everyone to not major in the minors and keep focused on fighting for democracy💙
Yes, cheezy af, but I’m a mom and it’s what I do.
Of all the elections I've voted in, most of them were for the lesser of two evils. The candidates on both sides were less than desirable, so you pick the one that is going to do the least damage to the country. Rarely will the candidates satisfy all of our desires or wants.
Especially when Biden tried to unilaterally repeal the 14th amendment, violated congress’s statutorily and constitutionally assigned power of fund disbursement, and let an unvetted billionaire have access to sensitive, confidential databases. So both sides are equally bad + deserve equal criticism
A claim that compares any political group in the US to the one that tried to violently stop the certification of an election, denied the veracity of said election for years, and justifies all the blatantly illegal, unconstitutional, and dangerous things Trump is doing rn, is total bs
Jack—please define who is “we” and who is “they” in your post above. ‘Cuz if “we’re” all going to be honest here, it would be nice to know who is speaking for who.
I think all Democratic Party voices need to be out holding press conferences, posting, writing op-eds, doing TV appearances. All the names. If you saw them at the DNC, you should see them now.
“They (the independents who “we” wanted to vote for Kamala) are sick of it” is Jack’s argument that globally attacking “men” is not an effective strategy for appealing to those independents.
Whether red, white or blue, women are tired of mansplaining. If men had all of the answers, we would all be in a better place by now. And, if we’re going to be really honest, our “honesty” about the constant mansplaining BS is why mediocre white men are mad. We pushed back & hurt their feelings.
It is Republicans who are fucking over this country! Dem messaging is always the target. It is easy to lie and lies create a false whatever. How to msg the truth? The truth is real and hard. Lies are sensational and easy. Lies are easy and they think YOU are easy targets. I beg you, de-cult.
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Yes, cheezy af, but I’m a mom and it’s what I do.
13 million more than the “winner.”
Misandry is as bigoted as misogyny.