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I don't know who calls Pelosi racist (or why) but Biden supported racialist policies and hasn't apologised for doing so, so is in fact a racist. It is possible he lied about supporting them, perhaps to further his career. In any case, are you implying democrat politicians cannot be racist?Yeah what's next, calling Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi racists as well or at least "enabling the racist system"....?jupiviv wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:50 am It's about whether Ben Shapiro holds racist views despite being the target of racist accusations. Shapiro being the target of racist insults/accusations does not erase or vindicate Shapiro's own demonstrable racist views.
The charge of racism may not apply to the average conservative globally but it does to a significant minority of them in the US, i.e. much of the Trumptopian base, which is also the mainstream Republican base. It applies overwhelmingly to internet-obsessed conservatives/rightists.
Racism can coincide with many worldviews, and can be justified in many different ways. How is the acknowledgment of that fact destructive or nihilistic?And so, yes, in any hysterical or deranged system, the next level can be predicted easily, since there's no well defined starting place, the process is driven by simple power dynamics and underneath that, like all power dynamics, the will to destroy as much as to create, control or dominate. In the current state of things, the racial charging is a destructive, nihilistic act, one which has infected political discourse for the simple reason the political discourse, and ideologies, have been rotting for decades.
Transgender issues may be irrelevant but not Islamophobia within a western context, for reasons already stated. More to the point, I rewatched the interview linked by David. Ben Shapiro's version of Islamophobia is quite evidently racist.This was about the points made in the article, not just about Shapiro. Although it's still a mystery to me on what exactly the racist charges are based on. Let alone "alt-right". Perhaps I don't know enough about this guy beyond being Islamophobic (like many conservative Jews) and opinionated with regards the transgender issue, which are all other things, so I really wouldn't know what you're referring to here.
I wouldn't say it's all we need to realise but the causation is either willfully ignored or distorted to fit various (mostly right wing) agendas in both main and alt public discourse. Instead there is a fixation on "really bad" people, religions, ideas etc., albeit within different partisan contexts.That's all we need to realize, really and apply it thoroughly on what is written and said these days by all too many in the public discourse.... for growing numbers of people politics can no longer convincingly attach itself to increases in prosperity/living conditions (because they aren't happening). Some of them fear losing what they have, some have actually lost something and most will remain with nothing in the future.
Be that as it may, it is precisely a genuine Marxist/materialist analysis which reveals how silly all of this obtuse posturing about the dangerous erasure of barriers between various points in political spectra really is. The alt-rightist is a far cry from the typical 21st c "family values but also women with bikinis and careers unlike those Muslim barbarians regardless of skin colour" cuckservative only if one is primarily concerned with the fuzzy emotional associations each approach evokes. As opposed to the material reality of human lives. An 8chan or killstream manosphere white supremacist is ultimately just Mill, Bernays, Buchanan, Buckley, McCain, Maher & Cheney being thoroughly honest with themselves.
A politics which is supposed to remain humane, moderate and respectful whilst preserving the intersecting (sorry) structures of domination which rip resources from the earth and labor from the oppressed and pile up their fruits in the coffers of the elite was *always* deeply contradictory. In a world where Western labor aristocracies are being immiserated and ever-more-expensive resource acquisition spurs a panicky and ruthless imperialism, those contradictions can no longer hold. The Prince of mainstream Conservatism is quite naturally starting to resemble the Frog.
Jupithustra's vision of 2020:But insight in what "follows next" is key, as it's where the prophet and the power can be found, if so desired: to be on top of that.
Bernie: OK guys I've won. Time to implement my plan to break up every major financial institution into smaller banks. Trump's election has proven that right wing pariah POTUSes can be elected by "the people" and then defy de rigueur unspoken codes of conduct to get his way and offend teh liberals. Obviously that also applies to slightly centre-left, somewhat genuinely well-intentioned POTUSes like me. After all, the SJW deep-state hates both left and right -wing populism. Anyway, I'll just pass this bill through congress.
Congress: Yes, we will quickly pass this bill. We may not all be fans of yours but we definitely agree we should take on the combined might of US finance capital.
Wall St: Well, the bill passed, and I think we've all learned a valuable lesson about democracy and not privileging the 0.000000001% over the "working class" who all share the same interests, for the most part. Socialism is coming back folks, whether we like it or not. Oh, we lost trillions in investments? Well, that's life. Fortunately our indefinite debt-fuelled economic expansion is not what has kept the economy from crashing since 2008. The democratic will of the people says that we should reconfigure the system to be less phony, ruthless and unfair for everyone, so we can and will do so.
Insurance Companies: Oh look he has socialised health insurance now. Our entire industry is closing down. But we are just useless parasites and not really connected to the rest of the economy in any meaningful way. By the way, we'll have to make the transition as easy as possible for patients, since it's the right thing to do.
Doctors: The government directly employs us now, which is great since we went into this profession to heal the sick, not make millions tightening women's neck skin.
democratic socialists of america: wow its great to be wallowing in nostalgic 50s usa white leftism instead of 80s usa reaganism all we needed to do was reject nonsense identity politics about black lesbian ceos racism wouldn't exist if people had more free stuff you cant have a functioning economy without free stuff because of 2008 banks quantitative easing and also look at those nice countries in urop anyway lets move on to diverting the military budget towards more free stuff because it is useless and doesnt in any way maintain americas privileged position in the world kk thx bye
And so here we are. If wisdom doesn't suffer at the hands of the world it becomes feckless and senile, a tasteless parody of itself. What is eternally young in us is also that which suffers eternally. It is born anew and experiences anew the agony of birth in every moment, but it cannot live. It is the old, not the young, who desire more life.