See, this is exactly what I mean when I talk about people being stupid on purpose. This user obviously read the post with idiotic intentions, otherwise he would have seen it already addresses his first alleged objections by stating "Sure the NAACP still nominally exists, but it's a complete shell of what it used to be and the power it used to wield." Instead, he's trying to tell you with a straight face that the Big Six still exists in a meaningfully powerful manner. Does he know the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters literally doesn't exist because it merged with the Transportation Communications Union in the 1970s? Does he know SNCC dissolved in 1970? Does he know that CORE has been defunct in all but name since at least the 1990s, according to James Farmer? But yes, the SCLC is still going strong with its *checks notes* 60 staff members and infighting for leadership between the King children. Does he care that he's demonstrably wrong? I doubt it. Because he's not posting in good faith.
This poster has zero understanding of the tradition or history of black political thought and activism because he's chosen to extricate himself from the intellectual lineage of blackness. He can't point to a single icon of black political history that supports his points because his black identity was formed completely wholesale in the distinctly anti-black thresher of late 20th century transactional capitalism. Why be black when I can get a new car every 3 years?
The pompous, long-winded routine might feel clever, but it's transparent. You're not addressing the actual issue, you're deflecting with a smug attempt to reframe the conversation as some kind of intellectual inquiry. Flipping the table? No, you just can't reconcile someone not falling for your tricks and arguing on your terms. What's really happening here is that your original point was so off-base and disconnected from reality that all the condescension and verbose hand-waving in the world can't cover it up. And that burns you up. You think you can worm your way out of it by being smarmy, but it's not working.
Trump ran the most explicitly pro-black campaign in modern Republican history.
Not falling for my tricks? What the hell are you talking about? This isn't a fukking magic show, either engage with the words and points being presented to you or keep it moving.The pompous, long-winded routine might feel clever, but it's transparent. You're not addressing the actual issue, you're deflecting with a smug attempt to reframe the conversation as some kind of intellectual inquiry. Flipping the table? No, you just can't reconcile someone not falling for your tricks and arguing on your terms. What's really happening here is that your original point was so off-base and disconnected from reality that all the condescension and verbose hand-waving in the world can't cover it up. And that burns you up. You think you can worm your way out of it by being smarmy, but it's not working.
And come one now, your accusing others of being dishonest brokers is just a lazy way of trying to project your own desperation.
I don't think it's that you're too stupid to understand when I say that Republicans are a blight on the health of this nation that didn't start with Donald Trump, I think your ideological priors as a former Republican who says things like "the far left and far right are virtually indistinguishable" and who voted for Romney over Obama and turned into a Resistance Lib Democrat for the first time when Trump entered the political scene limits your ability to engage clearly with non-centrist ideological arguments. It's very difficult for you to understand that Bush was worse than Trump because you were voting for his party and political program. You're just basically running the Adam Kinzinger playbook.
Here's the new narrative. "Civil rights protections weren't shyt anyway. Who cares if Trump rescinds them!"
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Ironically he’s trying to shyt on you for voting for Romney but at least Romney protested with Black Lives Matter in 2020 while Trump wanted to roll out the tank on them.I was in a cult that made me afraid I was going to hell if I voted for Obama, you fücking dolt. (This isn't the first time I've mentioned this to you, either.)
It was a mistake. Not entirely my fault since I was young and impressionable, but I should have known better.
You're pretending as if I carefully weighed their arguments and felt that Romney had the better ideology at the time. Like I was donating to Bush and Romney's campaigns in the early 2000's (what what fücking money??
Right. Right...the cult you were in that made you afraid of going to hell if you voted for Obama.I was in a cult that made me afraid I was going to hell if I voted for Obama, you fücking dolt. (This isn't the first time I've mentioned this to you, either.)
It was a mistake. Not entirely my fault since I was young and impressionable, but I should have known better.
You're pretending as if I carefully weighed their arguments and felt that Romney had the better ideology at the time. Like I was donating to Bush and Romney's campaigns in the early 2000's (what what fücking money??
