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This is the dumbest post I have seen in ... hours.
Progressives impotently punching at black people because Progressive social media person is unhappy with purity language tests.
Hows about run for office, Ms Rachel ? Put your past through the ringer publicly to help more than rich children with fast internet, nice computers, and free time to be talked to by a stranger online. You know ... children of wealth.
Or make sure y'all stay as divided as possible. That is what wins the day!
This com isn’t about actual progressive politics but continuing to drive a wedge. Keep watching
This post is proof positive, this is the norm here.
An important step on any path to unity is a requirement that we all believe that the inherent value of human life does not vary by national origin. Demanding that our politicians do better, and stop misusing language in this consistent pattern to minimize perceived suffering of The Other - that's unity. "Israeli families" vs. "the people of Gaza" - isn't it self-evident, that is the wedge? Once you know to look for it, you see it used everywhere.
I don't want unity with people who aren't willing to make the above commitment. When demanding just minimal lip service to such an ideal from a public figure is "driving a wedge", I think you have some serious soul searching to do.
It’s driving a wedge by calling Obama an Uncle Tom, in an effort to other an otherwise ally.
The post here, this com, not what Ms. Rachel said.
But IS HE an ally if he deliberately chooses to use this dehumanizing language for the victims of a brutal genocide? If he's not allied with the victims, who the fuck is he allied with?
He was a lot less shitty than alternatives, and I do think he's got plenty of redeeming qualities. And that's not enough, he's no ally if he dehumanizes suffering victims, and many of us have fucking had it making excuses for nasty shit we can't tolerate.
Obama isn't some good guy. Deportations under him were VERY active, for one thing. Telling him to do better isn't driving a wedge, it's begging the few people we have closest to our side to actually commit. But he won't, he'll stay who he is, just yet another member of the abusive power class. Admittedly better than most of his colleagues.
Obama has never been an ally considering how many innocent families he's responsible for bombing and has never done anything to even hint at remorse for those actions. He got a damn Nobel Peace Prize for doing so.
Obama is not an ally, fucking duh