This is a racist title. Racism is wrong, whether it’s against black, hispanic, asian you name it. Or white people. White people being racist in the past doesn’t mean it’s suddenly ok to be racist towards white people today. Sins of the fathers, etc.
This whole post is incredibly inappropriate. But I support free speech. So I’m leaving this comment using my own.
Anyone focusing on race/gender/sexuality/etc. when this is 100% a distraction tactic is making themselves into a useful idiot in the service of the wealthy psychopaths who think they own us all. I’m tired of talking about DEI, immigrants, or what bathroom people are using; I want to talk about roofs over our head, food in our bellies, healthcare and education, unionization etc…
Right now, anything else is either bad prioritization or wrecker shit.
yet another criticism of the right based on wrong assumptions. their problem with DEI is not about qualifications. they just don’t want minorities around.
What does being white have to do with it? Can you cunts not see how you keep on managing to alienate people that should be on your side? FFS.
If that alienates you then you have a lot of shit to deal with
I mean, fuck any race we don’t like, right?! As long as enough people say it it isn’t racism. /s
I do have a lot of shit to deal with. I have all you racist wankers to deal with. I mean, how many fucking times have you read racists attaching the actions of a few to whole, and you think “Wow, what a bunch of pricks!”. And yet, here you lot are. Linking being rich and a cunt to being white. Do you also link being poor and a drug dealer to being black? Bet you dont, cos that would be racist.
Its not “MEN”, its not “WHITE”, its not “STRAIGHT”. Its that these cunts, are cunts. Thats it. Thats the end of the list. Being white doesnt matter. They could be black, they could be women, they could be gay. But that wouldnt make being a black, gay woman part of the fucking problem, you spoon eating prat.
I don’t really disagree with you but I believe the point of the post is that no black person would be able to occupy those offices with such condemnable offenses.
It’s “shut up about DEI” because there is clearly already preferential selection of white people.But yeah, small-scale righteousness has done lots of harm to the left. Especially in policing what is politically correct. Sure, somebody might be “in the wrong”, but it’s better to have that person on your side than against you.
I think the point is not about black people and DEI but what issues are being discussed. Americans are currently focused on DEI instead of focusing on the corrupt government itself.
It’s of course very obvious that the government needs to create a bigger enemy than themselves so they can remain in power and gain more power.
OP does not seem to get that it is precisely BECAUSE of all these criminals and incompetents that Black People and DEI are in jeapoardy. This was the literal strategy.
And people are wondering why the Epstein files are not released… Because they are ALL in it. 😅
I know all these things (and more) but to read them concentrated like that is still shocking.
a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end
Eliot Weinberger did a few essays in this style for the London Review of Books in the first term. It’s exhausting.
This is from 2024, before he took office: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/eliot-weinberger/incoming
The fundamental problem conservatives have with DEI is that it highlights how comically nepotistic and corrupt the system has grown under white exclusive administration.
The people getting fired under anti-DEI provisions are inevitably some of the most qualified members of the organization.
The word is “kakistocracy”
In case anyone else had to look it up.
Government by the least qualified, most stupid members
As an addict myself I don’t like the heroin addict jab. Many of us seen fucked up shit that lead us to self medicate and by some miracle made it out.
Most of us come out of that with more empathy than before because we can relate to a lot of people. It’s just a few that turn out to be crackpots or sociopaths.
Definitely hear where you’re coming from.
But I think it is relevant here as it communicates immense privilege.
By virtue of being from a well known political family he is able to shake the baggage of his prior drug use off easily. He’s even spoken openly on the fact he used it to self medicate.
But most persons who have suffered addiction do not have that privilege and carry this baggage lifelong.
Its important to call out the hypocrisy of the ruling class. They will simultaneously ignore drug use among their contemporaries while murdering and imprisoning ‘lessers’ involved in the trade or consumption of drugs.
The empire that birthed this nation formally flooded the Chinese market with opium to enrich themselves and went to war twice when they met resistance. The rich and powerful are always talking out of both sides of their mouths.
This is why the moral outrage around drugs, coming from the ruling class, as a justification for dehumanization must be questioned. Especially when they seek to use drug addiction, a universal and timeless human hardship, as a tool to justify violence upon ‘outgroups’ on behalf of the ‘ingroup’.
I totally get how it made you feel. I have a feeling that mentionning that had more to do with how it is often used to justify racism towards colored people. Because in that guy’s case it does not seem to matter to republicans, but it was enough of a reason to justify George Floyd’s death. I may give too much credit to OOP though, it is still tone deaf.
He’s also got the sexual assault, fwiw
And may or may not be directly connected to at least one murder.
Yeah and a massive dose of dunning Kruger.
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Because straight-edge Donald Trump is better?
Give me an ex-addict who’s lived a life as a human any day thanks.
All hired by a president who was voted in by (amongst other groups) men who say things like, “You can’t even give a woman a COMPLIMENT anymore!”
It’s true though.
Just yesterday I elongated my face into the shape of a wolf and let out a loud whistle until my ears steamed and my head flapped open like a vent and she said “I have a boyfriend”, the nerve of the female.
The “compliment” in question: a literal rape threat.
It’s like DEI actually prevents people from being hired solely based on (being white) race.
DEI-opponents often say things like “there’s more to a job than the skill directly related to it”, and then call being white a “merit of trustworthiness”. At least their anti-disabled excuse “what if a big object needs to be moved?” is less obvious, other times they just think every invisible disability is “severe intellectual disability” (that’s why they’re thinking about autistic people).
I kinda wish they left race out of this post. This has nothing to do with them being white people.
Well yes and no.
It felt a bit shoehorned in at the end. But I see their point.
Do you think black Trump gets elected? I’m gonna hit doubt on that one.
I’d argue the fact that they’re white is central to why they are where they are today. They just happen to also be really really shitty people too.
Do you think black Trump gets elected?
We don’t even really have to ask. Herman Cain ran and lost.
At least he’ll be remembered for the award named after him
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
The post is about DEI. The first part is to get you to understand the facts without the context of DEI and the DEI comment at the end takes those facts and points them in the intended direction. It paints a quick and clear picture and gets the point across. It’s a social media post, not an essay, get over it.
Yeah, true. It just didn’t feel like the post had anything to do with race, until that comment.
Might have been more impactful if it started with one of the million comments these people have made about DEI along with all the firings of fully qualified people
The whole point is that it doesn’t give it up right away.
Worked for you, not for me
Fine, doesn’t make it the author’s fault or anyone’s problem but yours.
American political posts feel so weird because of this
I believe Anita Hill
I bet he wishes he could have left race out of it as well.
Sadly until the day racism is no longer an issue, it will have to be brought up by people who suffer from the racism (and also us who don’t, we can’t just be silent).
This has nothing to do with them being white people.
I wish that were true. But if RFK Jr had been from a poor black family, do you really think he’d be leading HHS? Do you think he’d be a free man, even? Or alive?
After all the shit he’s done to himself - serial substance abuse, reckless engagement, multiple self-inflicted life threatening medical conditions, sexual assault of numerous young women - who honestly believes he wouldn’t have gotten the Rodney King/Eric Garland treatment with any other surname or complexion?
Same with Trump. Ffs, Sean Combs is actually in jail right now. The parallels are undeniably. This is entirely about race.
Youre a racist, Harry…
Yeah, they are definitely only there cause they’re white men.
Rich white men, sure
Arguably it has everything to do with their whiteness; Trump is the country’s first white president.
But what if Eric Adams was part of the administration?
(It’s not white ppl it’s people in power abusing their power but yes they’re mostly white)
Heroin use and sexual assault are not even close to equivalent, what a gross thing to suggest
The hell are you talking about‽…they didn’t compare them, RFK jr was guilty of both
Substance use disorder is not something that should carry a stigma. That mentality prevents users from seeking help.
It’s about his hypocrisy
This guy should be running the DNC
Yeah he’s exactly the piece of shit that’s right for them, supports Kanye blaming the Jews for controlling the world and thinks bakeries should not have to serve gay people.
How about youse don’t get a hard-on for a religious nutter simply because he made one good Twitter comment? No wonder America is fucked, it’s all about cults of personality.
Oh man now I’m double-secret supporting this random twitter guy I care nothing about.
HA! Looks like your little plan backfired spectacularly!
So you support homophobia and legitimate antisemitism? Okay.
That’s not the own you think it is.
Bigly. As all right-thinking, good-hearted, big-bottomed people of the Überland do.
Nah, jk. Lighten up, Francis.
Sorry, I don’t take fascism and hate lightly.
Gonna be a long three more years, mate.
The only person who should be running the DNC is some mythical person that doesn’t exist but I deem them left enough not like that right-wing sellout AOC.
How low are your standards that even in a hypothetical scenario, you still defend choosing a bad choice? That’s weird.
Quite low.
Who would you like to see running the DNC?
I don’t know, I don’t have all the answers.
I’m sure there’s countless people who are qualified to run such an organization who aren’t ultra-religious and promote discrimination. It’s a pretty low bar.
Which is worst?
Defending a bad choice or not being able to make one at all?
Which is worse?
Defending a bad choice or refusing to make a different choice at all?
Because I can make a different choice, I said I don’t know who I would pick right this second without researching and informing myself.
Yeah and progressives can run as candidates in primaries and non-voters can decide to vote this time.
Geez if Ken Martin is AI, that explains a lot.
