This is why actual history need to be taught, not History Lite™ that sanitizes the civil rights movement to a few speeches so Karens like Ana can spew ahistorical bullshit.
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What was the other one? It's good she did. Not on the same level, bit I remember when Laura Ingraham whined about church services during early COVID days and blah blah America, but she said it was... in Toronto. I guess she didn't know Canada was another country? Laura didn't delete that AFAIK 😂
we've honestly come to think it's just easier to see, now. Going back and looking at what liberals were doing and saying around 2000-2010 is pretty appalling (at least to us, personally, now).
That makes us think this was always there all along and just more people realize, now.
Just as an extremely easy example, there was tremendously broad support for the US imperial mission in Iraq in 2004, even among liberals, and no support for gay marriage but for a few progressives, who got treated the same way they do now (read: like garbage)
Democrats have gotten better in more recent years yes but again, they're only like 3-4 steps ahead of generic milquetoast opinions. Back in 2004 gay marriage wasn't something people agreed on because people are assholes
Liberals have never been a vanguard of progressivism they're usually just whatever is milquetoast at any given time and they're slightly better now just not by much
Some (not all) could be age/time though. Things ppl believed a decade + ago have evolved, and in a few cases improved. Prop 8 passed in CA and I know ppl that were embarrassed immediately after they supported it. Even then those were moderates, not liberals.
Some of it is, for sure. We're commies now, personally, so obviously we see things differently.
At the same time, it's important to look where those things are coming from and see the base is more or less the same. The ways it manifests are different, 100%, but the same basic impulses drive it.
A lot of us did. TYT has been one of the more progressive mainstream media outlets for a while and they weren't as bad as they are now. It's really disappointing
They lost me in 2016 or 2020 when Cenk kept trying to make "a whisper of a dream" happen as a catch phrase for the supposed progressive wave that never materialized, and then he immediately started going to bat for Biden and clinton.
Yeah I kind of assumed that too especially considering that my RT alarm bells have been going off with their Ukraine coverage. So them being anti-trans suddenly would fit with that too
They were never like "the best" but you could reasonably be like "yeah Ana isn't going to say some dumb shit today" meanwhile their coverage on Ukraine is TERRIBLE
Inching closer everyday to her "why i left the left" heel turn. God the way they both openly disrespected @msolurin.bsky.social when she came on to discuss prison abolition...i had to turn it off it was so hard to watch
The U.S. Senator who tried to get the FBI to build a case against MLK on the grounds that he was "controlled by Communists" was third in line to the presidency when I was born.
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So many rights had to be earned through violence in this nation and it's like everyone just forgets until next time.
That makes us think this was always there all along and just more people realize, now.
That's who still bcontrols the party TYT is campist for. To us it all fits perfectly, just wasn't as clear as it is in hindsight, we guess.
They didn’t
At the same time, it's important to look where those things are coming from and see the base is more or less the same. The ways it manifests are different, 100%, but the same basic impulses drive it.
Actual Historian: Actually...
Florida Teacher:
I am 23 years old.
GIFs don't work on BlueSky. Good to know!