Jacobin representative Bhaskar Sunkara says white supremacy isn't as much of a problem as capitalism

[Berniewood Hogan]

There's a real discussion to be had about what Bhashkar is saying and the point he's making, but the OP mischaracterized it and missed the point. The actual article is a takedown of identity politics used without any actual substance to back it up...I understand why that got some people on tilt, but the thread title is just poisoning the well.

Nap getting shytted on.

But that doesn’t fit OP’s agenda.

Nap getting shytted on.

OP comes from the modern day journalism school that editorializes the fukk out of a headline and tells the reader what they are supposed to think before they read it.

"Gender fluid transexuals are teaching 5 year old schools kids how to twerk and...Thats a good thing/is what we need/ any number YAS GIRL white wine mom co-opting of black american women vernacular to describe why from the jump you better agree with this article or you're cancelled.

I read what you posted and its much better than how the OP is painting it and I agree with him. The idea of "Fighting racism" and being "allies of POC" in the mainstream right now is empty and shallow and exactly what politicians who often by their nature rely on empty and shallow rhetoric love. Its also loved by corporate organizations these days. This includes empty slogans "The future is woman" "Love Trumps Hate" and any number of glib woke point fishing statements that sound good but does nothing of substance to change the actual inequalities that exist. The extreme focus on how many labels a person have mean jack shyt for nothing. It's not important when it comes to policy making or what policies are going to make people's live better. Like he said, its great AOC is Latina but at least she came to the table with substance and I don't even think about her being Latina, I think about the ideas she espouses.

Corporations and politicians have realized how much people like OP and the people he stans and reposts from twitter respond to this type of empty meaningless rhetoric while maintaining the system that caused the inequalities they barely touch upon in the first place. Its like when one of these big tech companies hires some queer black woman to head their "Diversity outreach" program but their year to year data barely shows any chance in the hiring of black people in major aspects of their companies and even worse they just act as cover to maintain the inequality in the first place.

This type of political discussion is a joke and its rampant on places like twitter and mainstream political discussion. People like OP perpetuate it further. Tbh, its why I've kind of disconnected from a lot of politics over the past year. Pointless babble.

Nap getting shytted on.

 

[storyteller]

OP comes from the modern day journalism school that editorializes the fukk out of a headline and tells the reader what they are supposed to think before they read it.

"Gender fluid transexuals are teaching 5 year old schools kids how to twerk and...Thats a good thing/is what we need/ any number YAS GIRL white wine mom co-opting of black american women vernacular to describe why from the jump you better agree with this article or you're cancelled.

I read what you posted and its much better than how the OP is painting it and I agree with him. The idea of "Fighting racism" and being "allies of POC" in the mainstream right now is empty and shallow and exactly what politicians who often by their nature rely on empty and shallow rhetoric love. Its also loved by corporate organizations these days. This includes empty slogans "The future is woman" "Love Trumps Hate" and any number of glib woke point fishing statements that sound good but does nothing of substance to change the actual inequalities that exist. The extreme focus on how many labels a person have mean jack shyt for nothing. It's not important when it comes to policy making or what policies are going to make people's live better. Like he said, its great AOC is Latina but at least she came to the table with substance and I don't even think about her being Latina, I think about the ideas she espouses.

Corporations and politicians have realized how much people like OP and the people he stans and reposts from twitter respond to this type of empty meaningless rhetoric while maintaining the system that caused the inequalities they barely touch upon in the first place. Its like when one of these big tech companies hires some queer black woman to head their "Diversity outreach" program but their year to year data barely shows any chance in the hiring of black people in major aspects of their companies and even worse they just act as cover to maintain the inequality in the first place.

This type of political discussion is a joke and its rampant on places like twitter and mainstream political discussion. People like OP perpetuate it further. Tbh, its why I've kind of disconnected from a lot of politics over the past year. Pointless babble.

That bold is on point as hell fam. It's a lot easier for these political figures and brands in general to condemn racism, but that can't be all that they do. There needs to be action beneath it that leads to results. You can get by as a poser for so long before you get exposed, everyone is talking the talk right now but that's not gonna improve the situation without concrete action. Bhashkar just picked out one of the most obvious ways that we can see the vapid nature of some so-called allies.

A chunk of blue checkmark twitter types posed the question "why would the Squad endorse an old white man instead of a woman or a person of color" but they're not actually interested in why... the why is kind of obvious and the timing of the endorsements is a big knock against the rationalizations that I figure they'd normally fall back on.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Obama endorsed Trudeau, a cac who did blackface seven hundred times. And he didn't endorse him before that shyt came out, he endorsed him like a week after it was a huge headline.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

holy shyt

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[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Obama endorsed Trudeau, a cac who did blackface seven hundred times. And he didn't endorse him before that shyt came out, he endorsed him like a week after it was a huge headline.

YOU ARE A SELF ADMITTED CAC

STFU pacspit:

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

YOU ARE A SELF ADMITTED CAC

you admitted you are not black

should've thought that one through before you hit post, Mr. Patel

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

you admitted you are not black

should've thought that one through before you hit post, Mr. Patel

I've proven I'm black fukk boy

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

I've proven I'm black fukk boy

honestly, i've told you this before, but you really haven't

every proof pic was conceivably an indian guy

 

[johnedwarduado]

i have been warning you idiots about bernie sanders and how vile his supporters are, they have no issue with being friends and working with white supremacists to them the democrats are more of an issue than white supremacists. This is why bernie should not win, he will make racism acceptable and mainstream on the left. despicable man

 

[Homer Simpson]

Pretty disgusting thread. And good job ignoring the people that called you out for it.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

i have been warning you idiots about bernie sanders and how vile his supporters are, they have no issue with being friends and working with white supremacists to them the democrats are more of an issue than white supremacists. This is why bernie should not win, he will make racism acceptable and mainstream on the left. despicable man

 

[NZA]

i generally dont get my american social discourse from indian trinis anyway. that particular guy is really bad on this stuff as many socialists and communists are because of their singleminded focus on class and often inadequate understanding of american culture; but he is right about how the centrists use identity as a way to seem progressive without making real structural changes in society. we are trained to expect symbolic gestures instead of concrete solutions. if a democrat cares about latinos and muslims, they would get the CIA out of their countries, instead they virtue signal about how much they love them while backing new budgets for more neocolonialism. you hate to see it.