Progressive Politics

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.