Oh I’m so shocked by this I tell yah! But according to Brits and Canadians who love come on Kinja a talk about how backwards the US is in terms of race relations, they’re above racism and are living in 3018 and not 2018! Fix it Meghan!
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Oh, I am most certainly not defending Lilla. I am not even saying there are many (any) white liberals who should be embraced as paragons of anything. But, Damon seemed to be positioning Lilla’s article as a pretty good summary of where white liberals stand, when in fact Lilla’s piece was pretty contentious, and made…
Am I about to #NotAllWhiteLiberals this? I think I am. But Lilla doesn’t speak for all of us; Lilla’s piece met with a degree of condemnation among white liberals. Certainly not ENOUGH condemnation, but neither did we all say, “this guy has the right ideas”.
Nina Turner supported Jill Stein in the general. And yes, I lump West and Turner in with Omarosa and Carson. If you’re a leg humping token I don’t care whether you’re on the left or right.
I like how they act as if they hadn’t arrived at that attitude a long time ago. They want to blame black people for “pushing” them to that attitude. But in reality “the calls have been coming from inside the house” for a long time.
Sure I do. Those are your Nina Turners, Cornel Wests, Omarosas and Ben Carsons. All our skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.
2017 was the year I looked back at a lifetime of being defined as an “Oreo” by people and finally realized a lot of the white people who I used to hang out with and even be best friends with were kind of trash.
He is adept at tethering the modern version of white supremacy to America’s long legacy of racism.
Exactly this. If West’s breakdown of neoliberalism is accurate, then I’m not sure who the fuck is a neoliberal. Everyone I know that wants to privatize schools is a goddamn dyed in the wool conservative.
Bernie is as problematic as his supporters, dude. Here’s some receipts:
I think Dr. West illustrates well the devolution into uselessness the word “neoliberal” has taken.
Andrew Sullivan is a classic Republican in that his politics is only defined by how it affects him (and as a privileged white male, very little does). His hypocrisy and navel-gazing have rendered him impossible to read or to take seriously.
I’m pretty sick of Dr. West basically calling Coates and Obama neoliberal Uncle Toms. Also, fuck Andrew Sullivan for using “Between the World and Me” as an excuse to play the angry black man card.
For all their faults, the one thing the Germans did was look back on their history and owned the ugly parts of it. Even in the light of being labeled potential Nazis at every heated argument, they didn’t go the route of trying to gloss over WWII or minimize anyone’s part in it. They accept that there were those that…
“I believed that white people would never accept the inherent evil of white supremacy without it being tied to the macro-political reality of free-market economics.”
I feel like Obama got handed centuries of hatred, the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, two wars that were left ignored for years, and all the other usual problems that come with being President and people were like, “You’ve got about four months to fix it all.”
That’s exactly what they’re doing. They call everyone a neoliberal. Did Hillary Clinton want to privatize schools? Does Coates? Did Obama? No. It’s nonsense.
I really appreciate the deep-dive this week on the West vs. Coates fight. I haven’t read either closely enough to feel confident in giving an opinion, but the general gist reminds me of grad school debates over the “pure” ideology and the nasty business of implementing an ideology. Good executives (like Obama) are…
There’s a bit of a conflation of several eras in this writeup. Early soviets, having only seen blacks in the form of race records and minstrel products, held the stereotype of musicality and expected black people to look like blackface. After the second world war, they started bringing in African foreign/exchange…