judging from my inbox this morning a lot of people saw this piece and got fucking furious at me! lots of “you are anti-white” emails, despite the piece being explicitly about biracial coalition building against the rich! very strange. - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 597 days ago

judging from my inbox this morning a lot of people saw this piece and got fucking furious at me! lots of “you are anti-white” emails, despite the piece being explicitly about biracial coalition building against the rich! very strange.

Reposted from Matt Gabriele

The new piece by @jbouie.bsky.social is of course great and reminds us that this right-wing pseudo-populism wasn’t inevitable, and how much the sabotage of Reconstruction still matters 🗃️

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/opinion/rich-men-north-of-richmond-history.html

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coyotl.bsky.social•597 days ago

Yet more projection on the part of the right, with so many anti-poor policies made explicitly because they did not want people of color to benefit from them

kenwhite.bsky.social•597 days ago

Sir are you trying to suggest that people on the internet may not make an effort to understand your point in good faith

ihateravenholm.bsky.social•597 days ago

What's your fucking problem with waffles ken

robinbobcat.bsky.social•597 days ago

Dammit beat me to it.

ihateravenholm.bsky.social•597 days ago

OUR reply, comrade ✊

robinbobcat.bsky.social•597 days ago

Yes, let us drink to waffles!
https://www.sugarlands.com/brunchinajar/

bobcorrigan.bsky.social•597 days ago

Pshaw!

danlather.bsky.social•597 days ago

[gasp]

bridgetmckenna.bsky.social•597 days ago

Not strange for white people.

thielman.bsky.social•597 days ago

Somehow I knew my really liking that one was an extremely bad omen for you

jamellebouie.net•597 days ago

although maybe not strange? maybe these people are telling me very openly that they cannot imagine a “populist” movement that doesn’t also preserve the hierarchies from which they derive meaning

curryhickssage.bsky.social•597 days ago

I think you and other otherwise perceptive writers are sadly a bit misguided on this. Pains me to say it and it’s taken me years to conclude that in many many instances populism (as manifested and not even in bad faith) is not necessarily egalitarian. It’s a huge bummer but the distinction matters

kmagnacca.bsky.social•597 days ago

I think you also missed the point of the piece.

jaegervonkramer.bsky.social•597 days ago

Subsumed into ideology, the American capitalist subject can't imagine wealth without whiteness

bflodude.bsky.social•597 days ago

Populism, another word detourned and tactically stripped of any real meaning.

amidprivilege.bsky.social•597 days ago

Very revealing of who they think counts as a Pople in Populism.

izzyg.bsky.social•597 days ago

Succumbing to fear is following the path of least resistance. I came of age to the words "Ask not what your country can do for you... "And then his brains were splattered on his pretty wife. Education is the only way to stanch this and republicans cut funding at every opportunity

elliottanderson.bsky.social•597 days ago

That or they're not remotely sincere.

garik16.bsky.social•597 days ago

Mahone seems an odd person for that role - A railroad magnate/confederate general who supported a cross-race labor/debtor coalition? Is there a good source to read about him?

hangryman.bsky.social•597 days ago

LOL these bitches gotta learn whiteness doesn't exist, we made it up for money!

In the past 'white people' didn't count the Irish & Italians among their own.

Oh and its not just whiteness. Look at how they defined race and colour in South Africa under Apartheid, or how they saw Asians.

Its all bs

dallas-taylor.bsky.social•597 days ago

Isn't building biracial coalitions against the rich what got MLK killed? Careful, man.

joshksky.bsky.social•597 days ago

I read the whole newsletter, and I can assure you, the rye flour brownies are excellent.

rauchway.bsky.social•597 days ago

but are they racist

joshksky.bsky.social•597 days ago

they aren’t going to have enough time on this earth to demonstrate it

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