yeah, US wise, i don't think you can get a better example of a milkshake duck than cosby
What the fuck is this douchenozzle's problem? Ugh JFC
fuck what some folks on gaming side will tell you, totalbiscuit is total garbage & has been for a while now. his fence-sitting during gg was - and as that interview/tweet today show, is - so transparent
Identity Politics- my only issue here is that it can't be he ONLY issue you speak to, especially as a political candidate. LITERALLY, all I'm saying.
it's important to point out that dudes that look like you & i are
literally tourists to racial injustice. a take i read the night of ferguson that really stuck with me is: we get to be outraged, american POC's get to be
terrified.
which is to say: no matter how much i fuck with BLM, i don't
live it. partitioning off black liberation from the white supremacy literally built into our country's DNA & calling it identity politics & saying you have to speak on other things simultaneously minimizes that without recognizing that important distinction.
i get to ride for healthcare & lots of other things and not spend my day horrified that this administration is making daily efforts to endanger trans folks. if i was trans, you think i'd have that energy to ride for other issues, much less inclination?
Feminism- I know I fully support it when it's completely and only about equality of the sexes. Does it really have to be more than that? Right now, the US is just not an equal place for men and women. Period. I support fixing that.
yeah, it kinda does - caring about a vague finish line & defining what should or shouldn't matter for women trying to get there isn't helpful. and we both know you've RT'd meninist/"feminist bullshit" stuff in the recent past, so does it really strike you as so odd or unfair to point out this weak stance?
To me, intent is everything.
i don't know many people well enough to actually visit their intentions. if they say reckless shit a few times & wanna call it comedy, i don't need to give the benefit of the doubt; tons of 4hchan kids wanna spew hateful venom & call it trolling. hell, we saw a few of them on video the other day trying to say
they were marching just for laughs.
or to lift
from here:
Good intentions do not matter. Actions do. Monsters are on the move, and we must not give them quarter any more. If you think I might be talking to you, I probably am. As Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in Between the World and Me:
The point of this language of ”intention" and ”personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. ”Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.
The important question here is not, I repeat, not whether you are still a good person. In fact, asking that question right now is the surest way to arrive at the answer you don't want to hear.
But I don't knew-jerk call something they really aren't when something happens. PDP is a "comedian" that did a really goddamn dumb thing. Was called an actual Nazi. Richard Spencer is an ACTUAL LITERAL FUCKING NAZI. I just don't put the two into the same camp. I don't see it as reasonable in the larger scope. But again. Consequences. Richard Spencer keeps getting fucking punched and I absolutely adore it. I originally didn't support this so much, because it felt like a slippery slope. But after Charlottesville? 40 miles from my home town? Nah fuck that. Get straddled, and get fucking pounded, I say. It's no longer "speech".
PDP doulbed down with the free speech stuff & starting warming up to sargon and folks like that, i wanna say. the very thread you're getting your balls busted over was him cosignging more henious shit.
i'm not sure what it takes for you to toss someone into the bushes for either saying or standing by awful shit, but expecting better from dudes like colin moriarty tells me you might be waiting for them to actually strap up & hit a like-minded rally, so in case you missed this reply:
Here's where my criticism of you has been. You've mentioned Charlotteville, but you're still excusing the forces that allowed that to happen. All of your "real racist" and "real Nazi" bullshit ignores that you've got people who aren't out there waving the Confederate battle flag or with swastika tattoos, but condoning and normalizing these behaviours, and those are the people you've been caping for.
You don't need to look any further than what's on the news right as you're reading this screen. Look at how Trump's refusal to demonize these groups has received as an acceptance by the groups themselves. Look at how infuriated so many racists - not KKK members, not Neo-Nazi skinheads, but everyday people who don't see themselves as the "real racists" - are getting upset when people on the news do.
If you feel like you're getting dogpiled when you're criticized for defending these people because they aren't explicitly hateful enough, even when they use symbols or expressions of hate that Trump himself might be too shy to display, then you're sticking your head in the sand. You know why you're getting dogpiled. And I really don't think you've learned a damn thing. As far as I'm concerned, you're just yet another person who is more concerned about people being called "racist" than you are about people actually engaging in racism.
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So. Yeah, I reject being called a "racist" as this thread implies. You don't have to "be on the same side." But I support what you support, and want what we all want. I just may not necessarily agree on how to get there.
you're not wrong, i do want a lot of the things you do - but as long as you're kinda dismissive of racial justice/feminism/intersectionality and the like get there, you should know, your support is gonna ring hollow.