That’s a little hypocritical of you to call this “widespread, infectious binary thinking” when I was pointing this out in your comment, not advocating for it.
You’re faulting liberals for stifling class warfare through engaging in identity politics, when you said so yourself that it doesn’t have to be either or.
Identity politics isn’t the enemy of class warfare, it’s corporate interests, lobbying, and billionaires, and they want you to do exactly what you are doing now, which is to get liberals to gatekeep each other while they laugh at low tax rates.
That’s a little hypocritical of you to call this “widespread, infectious binary thinking” when I was pointing this out in your comment, not advocating for it.
I was saying that you pointing it out in my comment was the binary, black and white attitude. I say: “We on the left have been tackling this problem wrong, most American’s don’t care about the issues we keep hitting them with.” To which Lefty Clone #409687 says “How can you hate marginalized people so much you’re willing to turn your back on them???”
It sounds exactly the same to me as “You want to help children in Gaza? How can you empower anti-semitism???” In that, one has nothing to do with the other. It’s an artificial binary used to keep us from getting anywhere. Yah, we did too much scolding and identity politics and abstract worries that people don’t see… Covid should have been our wake-up call that people’s minds have changed or melted out their ears, we should have focused on issues that average americans actually care about, we should have leveraged their selfish worries and used their fear to fight the system that wants to send us all to camps. Then we could have done better and pushed our desires for a just and equitable world back on stage and got that shit protected… we were even making progress on it for a little while. Then everyone started falling for the same distractions.
That’s a little hypocritical of you to call this “widespread, infectious binary thinking” when I was pointing this out in your comment, not advocating for it.
You’re faulting liberals for stifling class warfare through engaging in identity politics, when you said so yourself that it doesn’t have to be either or.
Identity politics isn’t the enemy of class warfare, it’s corporate interests, lobbying, and billionaires, and they want you to do exactly what you are doing now, which is to get liberals to gatekeep each other while they laugh at low tax rates.
I was saying that you pointing it out in my comment was the binary, black and white attitude. I say: “We on the left have been tackling this problem wrong, most American’s don’t care about the issues we keep hitting them with.” To which Lefty Clone #409687 says “How can you hate marginalized people so much you’re willing to turn your back on them???”
It sounds exactly the same to me as “You want to help children in Gaza? How can you empower anti-semitism???” In that, one has nothing to do with the other. It’s an artificial binary used to keep us from getting anywhere. Yah, we did too much scolding and identity politics and abstract worries that people don’t see… Covid should have been our wake-up call that people’s minds have changed or melted out their ears, we should have focused on issues that average americans actually care about, we should have leveraged their selfish worries and used their fear to fight the system that wants to send us all to camps. Then we could have done better and pushed our desires for a just and equitable world back on stage and got that shit protected… we were even making progress on it for a little while. Then everyone started falling for the same distractions.