This deserves all the stars.

Aha. OK. Well, in my experience, empathy is not something that people generally just *universally have*. A lot of times you have to “walk a mile in someone’s shoes” or more accurately per that truism you have to remember, parse, and process that you have not done so.

That is particularly the case when power and…

If you are bound and determined to categorize any attempt to trace the causes, either in history or in the present (probably itself a false dichotomy) of white supremacy, as ‘making excuses’, then yes, we will have to agree to disagree. To the extent that white people have had agency to a) know what whiteness is b)…

I think your argument is very sound except for where you lump Bernie in with people letting whiteness off the hook, and where you seem to close the door to considering poor white people as victims of a different sort even as they are also oppressors. History tells us that, yes, white people were manipulated and have…

I know all of that, but what I’m wondering is who you’d identify as a new form of Dixiecrat.

You’re absolutely right about racism and the relationship that all white people have to it. No debate whatsoever there.

The political enemy of the progressive is the conservative Republican, not the moderate Democrat.

Sorry, this is bullshit. Not the part about White America being racist as shit, but the idea that you can’t win without endorsing white supremacy. That’s not true — you don’t need to cater to the racism of whites to win, *anywhere* — and big-upping racism to win is fucking unacceptable. Please stop thinking this and…

The Dixiecrats are resurfacing?

It’s *finally* getting (I hope; I haven’t read the comics) to what I’m really eager to see after all the suffering we’ve watched the characters endure — the return of social norms and the establishment of a collective defense against the monsters that TWD’s worldview presents as the inevitable apex predators in a…

Points well taken. I have to disagree about what it means to contest the rigged-ness of the election - all those factors you cite were part of it, and more, but it’s also true that the contest was not fair — unarguably in terms of things-that-are-no-one’s-fault like name recognition, and…

Absolutely, and very well put. Black women have often been the least illusioned folks in any politics in this country since the very start, and have consistently been boxed out despite having the most on-point ideas in the room because of everyone else with some token talisman of power to hold onto and an entitlement…

I think we have a collision of terminology here- and you’re right, that’s been a huge problem in the dialogue left of center for the past couple of years. I feel like people are constantly at war with each other who ultimately should be allies, half because there’s just some weird linguistic uncanny valley between…

Points well taken. I completely agree with everything you wrote in your first graph, and appreciate your perspective on the term WOC. As a white dude who doesn’t exist within dynamics between folks of color it is easy for me to forget that intersectional solidarity isn’t consistently to be assumed. Also as a white…

As much as a empathize with this statement — virtually every current political voice that I have *only* admiration for, nationally and locally, is a woman of color — it’s also super problematic. For instance, I’m not interested in President Omarosa. WOC are individuals. But the fact is — and not due to tokenism but…

Near, NotTheFern, the words “liberal” and “progressive” are not brands. They are specific political terminology describing distinct schools of thought. The group of people that wants more angry white people in power are the liberals; they are devoted to maintaining the power of economic elites and because race and…

What does race have to do with it? Because, despite the fact that you have so internalized your assumptions that you can no longer see when they are rotten and worthless, RACISM IS THE ONLY WAY OBSESSING OVER UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS MAKES SENSE. It *doesn’t* have the economic impacts y’all cite. It *doesn’t* threaten…

Holy shit, the horrible takes in this thread are appalling and uncontested. Here’s a great example! Everyone has needs they would like to see addressed, especially in this time where our government is configured to cater only to the rich! How about instead of *anyone* dismissing people for having priorities that…

LOL. If anything, it’s the establishment Dems that are the least popular and least able to garner votes. What you’re saying about “the far left” is simply an unexamined and baseless belief that you hold which you presume to be correct. It is not correct. Independents are the real “center” and right now they clearly…

Yes, the scale of the problem is precisely ludicrous.