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Originally Posted by Adder
Was going to share that. I mean, I guess I already knew that Brocialists have a penchant for denial of non-class oppressions, but I was still surprised how racist he was willing to be.
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You can call Taibbi a lot of things, but calling the guy who wrote
I Can't Breathe and has been doing interviews on police brutality of minorities for years is not the wisest charge.
I know it's your thing to scream "misogynist" or "racist" immediately at almost everything you see, like a dog chasing and barking at a spinning tire. But try a little harder, and consider the damage you're doing.
These terms are so frequently overused by people like you that they're beginning to lose all force. People are assuming the woke are so vehement, so orthodox, and so impossible to satisfy, that there's no way - even if you agree with them - for them not to call you a bigot of one sort or another. I used to recoil when it was suggested here that I was a bigot or sexist. Now? Everything's racist. Everything's sexist. Everything's anti-trans. Okay. Well, keep yelling on Twitter and calling people whatever you like. This supporter of trans rights, gay marriage, justice reform, and believer in the concept of systemic racism, and millions like me, is tuning out the loudest and screwiest voices. And I honestly don't feel bad about tuning them out, because most of them are crazy middle class white people.
The dumbest voices in these debates are almost always white. Frequently affluent, clueless whites. They chide you on systemic racism, and then you remind them part of fixing it is changing the neoliberal economic system we use to keep minorities marginalized and allow most of the $$$ to flow to capital that's held disproportionately by old white people and they become disillusioned. They apparently hadn't thought very deeply. They just wanted to "say stuff" and feel virtuous.
I point everyone to Chappelle's
8:46. That usually shuts them up. ...Except for those freaks who'll complain that he's a bigot too. Which one can only respond to with an epic eye roll, snicker, and "Fuck it... I give up! You're nuts."
