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Director of Policy for the ACLU of AZ. Views are 100% my own. Maybe they'll be yours one day too.
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The so-called strategy is a smoke screen to allow members to do what they think is best for their own personal interests. They didn't repel one corrupt nominee. Got nothing. And they knew it from the beginning.
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Too much winning!!!
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MattY intentionally misrepresents black and progressive writers routinely to cast them and their ideas as unreasonable. It actually feeds into the Right's argument and shifts discourse on every issue right. He did the same thing on the discussions around cancel culture and defund. He's dishonest.
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I think the correct way to read the backlash is as hostility towards diversity and civil rights as opposed to legitimate grievances about language as centrist have done. They basically validated a large cultural backlash in media and politics.
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You may think LatinX is annoying but having government mandate that it or pronouns not be used is the FAR GREATER danger than college kids or annoying social media posts. In essence, centrist are laying groundwork for actual censorship by asking govt to step in.
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Not just TCW, the entire right is acting as if there has been a language mandate handed down by govt, as opposed to normal, messy cultural change. In essence they want to use govt to stop cultural changes and centrist are aiding them by being sloppy with where these challenges and mandates start.
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This gets to at what I think is at the heart of current Republican backlash. They are trying to control culture. Look maybe Facebook admin is wrong, maybe right. But we typically have not made this a govt issue. The right seems to want to impose cultural mandates through govt.
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An example I would care about, maybe, is if your school forced you to use LatinX. But young people having different linguistic standards has always happened.
For ex.
Negro-black-afam-black
Homo-gay-queer
Why would LatinX be different?
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Your example was a non-specific conversation with 2 ppl of seemingly equal power. It's not illuminating. Ppl didn't build a movement over argument between black and AF-Am that took place in the 90s. Like why would I care about this linguistic discussion? These discussions have always been with us.
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What is it? I'm curious at what you were specifically asked to do?
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What's the demand? How does it play out in real life?
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They won't do this. They are waiting for the people to act.
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Centrist trying to thread that needle got us into this current period.
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A lot of this has to due with race. It doesn't matter how badly J6ers behave Trump and Fetterman can celebrate them with no repercussions. In contrast, students of color are still facing repression on campus without a peep from Dem leaders. We need more solidarity with the base from party leaders.