(1) For everyone crying tears 4 these white folks who call cops on POC 4 some bullshit (like #JenniferShulte aka BBQ Becky) or going on racist tirades on film, like #AaronSchlossberg, bc we're "doxing" them & calling for them 2b wrecked professionally, a couple things...
(2)...this idea that we shouldn't shame them bc "shame doesn't work," or "we should b better than that," or "we need to show them the error of their ways.." is nonsense. We didn't go LOOK 4 their fuckery...they put that in the street on purpose, knowing they were being filmed...
(3)...if they had no compunction about spewing racism publicly or exercising it by calling out police for no reason, they can expect no privacy protection in these matters. You don't want to be exposed as a racist asshole? Easy. Don't be one...
(4) Now, as for "restorative justice" & the potential for redemption, I very much believe in it. But some folks apparently think it means unconditional forgiveness. Y'all need to Google that shit. For restorative justice to work, the perpetrator of the injury must...
(5)...a) offer a sincere apology, acknowledging the injury done; b) demonstrate a genuine desire 2 make amends 2 those harmed/injured, and c) then actually enter in2 the establishment of a mechanism 4 making those amends real. So far, none of these Beckys & Chads even did (a) yet
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1/ So the right bemoans folks of color 'playing the race card' or claiming to be victims of racism (even when they are), then insists (#TuckerCarlson) that criticism of #BiffKav is little more than 'anti-white' racism & proof we don't want white men to have nice things...
2/ Aside from the blinding hypocrisy (which is typical: right-wingers play victim better than anyone...victims of big gub'mint, and Muslims and gays and humanists and feminists and immigrants, etc), note the simple factual absurdity of the argument...
3/ First off, white men have lots of nice things. Like most of the executive positions in the private sector and a disproportionate share of wealth and the vast majority of tenured faculty gigs and government contracts and Senate gigs...
1/ It must b possible 2 say something abt John McCain that is neither hagiographic worship on the 1 hand nor 'fuck that war criminal' on the other. While the former is plainly unwarranted the latter is peak strategic ignorance 4 those who say it and think it'll help the left...
2/...it's the kind of performative radicalism that some affect to sound revolutionary, even though, ironically, it's the kind of rhetoric FBI plants used to use precisely to discredit the left for years. So ya know, by all means let's copy that. it's always worked so well...
3/...We can insist on a proper accounting of McCain's actions in an unjust war, as well as the awful things he said about SE Asians, among other things, while not using a rhetorical tone guaranteed to turn most folks off and do nothing at all to add to our base...
1/ Perhaps the most maddening thing about the conservative/libertarian/"classical liberal" response to inequality is how utterly self-contradictory it is, and yet how rarely people acknowledge it. Please follow along...
2/ So, on the 1 hand, these folks say inequality is due 2 bad choices by those who are struggling or on the bottom of various heriarchies. Whether working class/poor, people of color, women as women, the explanation is: behavior, lack of responsibility, the wrong mindeset, etc..
3/ The implication being, by definition, that if these folks, individually and collectively changed their behaviors & mentalities (about work, education, etc), they could traverse the distance between themselves and the winners, and actually become winners themselves...
1/ Following the white-wing hysteria re #SarahJeong's NYT hire is like listening to 7th grader complain 'There's Black History Month but no White History Month!' That's what it sounds like when they say "Put 'black' in any of her anti-white tweets and it's OBVIOUSLY racist!"...
2/ First, I've read the "offending" tweets (a hundred or more) going around and which some like @sullydish consider so damning. Before I respond to some of the key ones though, let me just say...
3/ ...Andrew Sullivan calling anything racist, considering he's the guy who thought it was a great idea to excerpt The Bell Curve in The New Republic, should seriously become the children's picture book definition of irony. But I digress...
(1) What's amazing about the Trump/Putin meeting is how incredibly unintelligent Trump was to have no one in the room with him. He probably thought that would protect him from exposure, but actually it makes the risk of exposure and blackmail by Russia even greater...
(2) It means Putin could say Trump promised x, y or z thing, even if he didn't, just to sow more chaos in U.S. politics. While Trump thinks Putin really likes him & wants 2 protect him, Putin only seeks to promote political instability in America for his/Russia's own sake...
(3) If Putin said Trump made certain promises, Trump would either have 2 go w/that version (even if untrue & damaging to U.S. interests) or refute it. But refuting would show he had proved himself naive about being able to trust Putin, which would make Trump look like a fool...
1/ So in no particular order, here are some examples of the 'civility' & 'kindness' Trump cultists' dispense on those they hate, largely ignored by the man in whose name they often do it, even as they lecture the left for being unkind to them. rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-…