Pamela Springstein posted:

That's not leftism, that's liberalism. Being 'on the left' of american political discourse does not make someone a leftist.

Jaxyon posted:

I said that was lovely leftism. That's not a jab at the left.

I'm the left. I don't want that poo poo on my side.

LeeMajors posted:

Our government does throw some scraps at people—mothers, children, the disabled, the elderly.

The group most often neglected are poor men with mental health issues.

There is nothing in the way of help for impoverished but theoretically “able-bodied” men in this country—and specifically because our lovely mental health system is simultaneously inadequate and overrun.

Every stand of trees or overpass in my area shelters some. It’s loving depressing to encounter in the richest country in the world.

shirunei posted:

One of our local teachers in NE TN got axed in the lead up to that new TN law. He had spoken a couple times over the years at DSA meetings, so it sucks to see someone you know get their livelihood destroyed.

https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/sullivan-county-teacher-facing-termination-at-school-board-meeting-tuesday-supporters-to-gather/

It isn't listed anywhere but the independent investigator who upheld the termination is a lawyer who has represented various municipality's police departments around here in a bunch of litigation. Shocking decision on his part lmao

Kyla Jenée Lacey posted:

We learned your French. We learned your English, we learned your Spanish, we learned your Dutch, your Portuguese, your German. You learned our nothing, you called us stupid. That's white privilege.

And I'm sure it probably hurts for you to hear those two words kind of like gunshots and explosions from those commissioned to protect you whisking past your ears.

What is white privilege?

It is the only five decades of legal acknowledgment expected to correct 400 years of white transgression, it is crack versus cocaine, blacks receiving almost 20% longer sentences for the same exact offenses or like, for instance, a black man without a record is less likely to get a job than a white felon, or maybe it's because we're lazy and we don't work hard enough, like what the gently caress? 400 years in the same fields literally is an incredible resume builder. It is Katrina answering the government's prayers of eugenics, Dick Cheney going fishing the next day, Condoleezza on a shopping spree, Bush in San Diego; but Kanye is the one you call crazy cuz like it only took the USA two days to get aid to Asia but five for FEMA to get to Canal Street and Esplanade. It is the one black kid who beat the poo poo out of the odds but only thanks to Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer and the white shadow. So now we all can make it. It is when the only time thousands of white people are cheering for a black kid to win is in a stadium.

It is you looking at me crazy if I told you to go back to Europe even though we didn't have a say. It is you, all of a sudden having a problem with immigration, like, this isn't even your nation. How the hell do you discover some poo poo that wasn't even missing to begin with? You've Columbus'ed our traditions, got white girls twerking in high definition with multi colored nails and purple hair but it was ghetto when we did it.

Oh am I making you uncomfortable?

Try a cramped slave ship but wait, slavery is over now, it's just called the prison system cuz like, you're not racist cuz you don't use the 'n' word, but y'all use niggas everyday.

What is white privilege?

It is the acceptance of bombs over Baghdad but not over Boston. It is European history being taught as a major and African as an elective. It is learning about my people only 28 days like I'm not black every loving second as every white boy who wanted to gently caress my brains out not because I'm pretty, but because I'm pretty for a black girl.

It is people thinking that Africa is one nation. It is the waving of the Confederate flag like you didn't lose the battle then telling us to get over slavery.

It is people saying that black people destroy neighborhoods but forgetting that white people have destroyed continents.

It is every time I bring up my plight some white man has to tell me that I'm crazy but is kind enough to praise my English or say that we are all given the same opportunities when he has a family history of wealth and I don't even know my family history at all.

It is the justification of police brutality like what did that person do? Well I'm sure it doesn't hurt as much when the victim doesn't look like you.

It is people thinking that affirmative action is an unfair advantage instead of keeping the qualified from being unfairly disadvantaged or throwing out a qualified applicant cuz their name sounded too African American.

It is Newports imported into black communities but black boys exported for weed. It is big plastic asses being called fat when we naturally have them. It is an Australian woman who’s the new classic of rap music.

It is everyone who hears this poem and dismisses all this truth I just spit as reverse racism.

That is white privilege.

Kyla Jenée Lacey posted:

I was a bit shocked that a group of people would go as far as to fire him for playing my poem. The work had been used as curriculum at different schools in different parts of the country, as well as different countries. Then I was a bit angered. I have a sensitivity towards my art. And one of the things that angered me the most was them saying that I wasn’t a credible source, and I’m not sure how I’m not a credible source to my own experience.

The poem went viral a few times, and in the very first wave of its virality, a lot of the white people who were upset continuously said, “Well, you need to learn your history. You need to learn your education.” I have a degree in history. That is literally what my degree is in.

It’s always a thing where white people are so quick to denounce the education of someone who’s Black when their lack of education is offended.

Where does it stop? Our entire country was built on the premise of racism. So how do you teach what manifest destiny is without teaching that white people decided that this all was theirs? Because, really, that’s what colonialism is. Colonialism is a white man saying, “This is mine,” and another white man agreeing, by force and by violence, but that’s what it is. So how do you teach that? If not the truth, what are you going to teach the kids?

I know that “inappropriate” language is not the real reason why they fired him. I have their required reading list. And in the books that they are required to read, there’s sexual assault, murder, a lot of cursing. So I know that it was just a terrible excuse for their discomfort. And this is coming from somebody who was 16 years old having to, who grew up in a mostly white neighborhood, in my latter childhood, reading Mark Twain and reading the word “n***er” over 200 times in a book.

That’s classic literature, but the fact that I say, “You’re not racist because you don’t use the N word, but y’all use niggas every day,” now it’s too much? Now, it’s superfluous? gently caress out of here.

Jaxyon posted:

I said it was lovely leftism. It is. If the poster is not a leftist then that would explain why they are engaging in lovely leftism. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

yeah, let's stop arguing about what's leftism and isn't leftism / who's leftist and isn't leftist in this context, please

GreyjoyBastard posted:

yeah, let's stop arguing about what's leftism and isn't leftism / who's leftist and isn't leftist in this context, please

The Sean posted:

This is a political discussion forum and we can't discuss what major political leanings are? The concept is extremely important to US current events and politics in general.

The Sean posted:

This is a political discussion forum and we can't discuss what major political leanings are? The concept is extremely important to US current events and politics in general.

vvvvvv

What do you mean "[you] just want pages of ____"? Did you forget to switch accounts or something? Like , that's what a mod says. "I'm stopping the conversation because I don't want pages of _____."

atriptothebeach posted:

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JonathonSpectre posted:

Imagine working for loving Amazon and being such a brain-dead moron you vote against having a union.

Just... how does someone that dumb get old enough to work, period? How did they make it across all the streets in their life? How have they not drowned in the loving shower? How is it possible to survive such unthinking mindlessness?

Oh it's in Alabama nm

GreyjoyBastard posted:

Grouchio posted:

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey

poo poo if a GOP megadonor's buying stake is Trump getting his account back?

TulliusCicero posted:

If Jack was smart he has majority shares so this can't ever happen

Bear in mind this is @jack we are talking about, soooo

Lazyfire posted:

It looks like Agrawal is actually less amenable to Jack's buddies. Apparently he's scary to the Twitter Conservatives partially because he thinks there needs to be more fact checking on the site.

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

yeah haven't there been multiple wal-marts who closed for 'plumbing issues' as soon as the workers in the store unionized and never reopened

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

And didn't they replace their butchers with pre-packaged cuts of meat after they tried to unionize?

CommieGIR posted:

Quick reminder that this is now a monthly thread and will close tonight for the December CE thread.

the_steve posted:

Don't forget to decorate your Strawmen so Santa Mod won't probe you at midnight.

selec posted:

Buttigieg needs to get on stage and disavow Lis Smith today if not sooner. We’ve needed a Sister Souljah moment for out of control white ladies for years and if he doesn’t take this opportunity he’ll never be president.

selec posted:

Buttigieg needs to get on stage and disavow Lis Smith today if not sooner. We’ve needed a Sister Souljah moment for out of control white ladies for years and if he doesn’t take this opportunity he’ll never be president.

selec posted:

Buttigieg needs to get on stage and disavow Lis Smith today if not sooner. We’ve needed a Sister Souljah moment for out of control white ladies for years and if he doesn’t take this opportunity he’ll never be president.

Majorian posted:

I don't entirely agree with the posts you quoted, but it's a pretty big stretch to claim that they are advocating the Dems adopting right-wing critiques of CRT. Saying that the Dems should say "CRT isn't being taught to kids; that's a college-level thing" isn't remotely the same thing as saying "The Dems should say CRT shouldn't be taught because it's anti-American and traumatizing to our kids."

e: ah, you edited.

Gumball Gumption posted:

Why do people keep thinking this is a series of mistakes and bad eggs? These are the sort of people the Democrats want to be in charge and have power. They keep telling us who they are.

Sarcastr0 posted:

Or you are just wallowing in confirmation bias.

CommieGIR posted:

Quick reminder that this is now a monthly thread and will close tonight for the December CE thread.

VitalSigns posted:

Considering the president is a rapist it would be more shocking if the administration WEREN'T filled with protectors of powerful rapists.

It's kinda a job requirement in the first place, no?

Gumball Gumption posted:

Imagine someone using this response when it's pointed out that Republicans have a lot of high powered rapists and people who defend them.

Beastie posted:

Kinda curious about what led to this thread being monthly.

How are u posted:

Unfortunately that's kind of every political organization on the planet. Bad people are drawn to power, and bad people exist everywhere anyway.

Beastie posted:

Kinda curious about what led to this thread being monthly.