In the end race and gender are just heads of the identity hydra. We can't kill it by severing heads, but by filling the concept with objectivity, achievement, and meritocracy.
"Increasingly, it seems that identity exists to project responsibility for one's assumed shortcomings and limitations externally."
Identity and The Incentivization of Weakness
Yes, obviously Jeff Bezos didn't purchase the major newspaper in the nation's capitol to influence the discourse or politics, he did it because newspapers are currently super profitable. Everyone knows that.
Imagine teaching hungry kindergarteners. I support
@BernieSanders
because that should be dystopic speculative fiction and not a common feature of our education system.
#myberniestory
Whew! Thank god Bernie finally issued a tweet on Bolivia. Without that I'd have no idea how he felt from his long history against US interference and imperialism.
You know what we don't talk about enough? The way that all of Elizabeth Warren's work as a lawyer was for large corporations against the interests of consumers. Wonder why 'journalists; don't ask her about it.
So we're really going to do this again? Portray the most diverse supporter base of any candidate as racist on behalf of the candidate who faked being Native American for decades whose support is 71% white.
Late breaking scoop: dozens of black progressive leaders have signed onto a draft letter condemning Bernie supporters for “violent and racist” online attacks, “white terror” after WFP’s Warren endorsement
The "Bernie should've been more like Trump" meme misses that Trump's 'earned' media was part of a strategy to benefit HRC that backfired, he was the capstone on 40 years of 'liberal media bias, and dem voters are much more institutional simps than Republicans.
@historic_ly
@Morgan_Harris17
to teach his course with material he knows well enough to give students the intellectual rigor to apply inquiry to books not in the curriculum
Exactly! The best thing is to push a candidate with no black and white photos because her support didn't exist until digital photography was pervasive and support of gay marriage was a political necessity.
It’s 2019. If every time your candidate is criticized for their record with women, lgbtq, and black people; you start posting vintage black & white photos of them attending events—that doesn’t help your point. It just says they’ve been out of touch for the last several decades.💁🏽♀️
Not to mention his org weaponizing accusations of racism to obscure the lack of transparency in the vote on behalf of you despite the decades pretending to be Native American not somehow causing an irony induce black hole to consume us all. That's kinda cool.
So grateful to have had
@MauriceWFP
with me at our Washington Square Park event.
@WorkingFamilies
has been on the front line of the fight for racial and economic justice, and I'm honored to have their support. We're going to build this grassroots movement together.
@franklinleonard
The ex Republican who falsely chained to be a Native American for personal gain never put the words Black and people together until running the the presidency.
You know what we don't talk about enough? The fact that Warren was a loan shark for her family.
Obviously, if she treated her family this way, you know she's on your side.
So the Warren campaign is revising its climate plans to impact an endorsement? I'd suggest generally what a candidate promotes while running is meaningless absent prior advocacy. What they offer for an endorsement is worth even less.
How many of the ppl who have problems w Rogan have actually listened to his show? My first exposure was the Bernie interview followed by his convo w
@CornelWest
where they shared their love for Richard Pryor. In both I was struck by his level of respect.
It's tiring AF that people act like we live in racial vacuum bubbles and the forces behind "white deaths of despair" or "young black male violence" are different to make it easier to explain away their obvious apathy towards all those deaths.
A group of 100 Black "activists" organized themselves JUST to endorse a racially cynical rich white woman who claimed to be a racial minority for personal gain.
So tempted to look through their profiles to see how they talked abt Rachel Dolezal, who worked in the community.
Black Womxn For—an organizing collective of Black women leaders, activists, thought partners, & political strategist —“enthusiastically & wholeheartedly” endorsed Warren as President:
In my latest I examine the ways in which the media seems incapable of seeing its own influence in the coverage of Bernie and Warren.
h/t
@aimeeterese
&
@whatisleftpod
This is just bad propaganda for uninformed white people. It's pretty clear to Black ppl that Russia has nothing to do with cratered wealth, unpunished police murderers or the legacy of slavery.
NYT: "The voter suppression effort was focused particularly on Sanders supporters and African-Americans, urging them to shun Mrs. Clinton in the general election and either vote for Ms. Stein or stay home."
@Gigi_Peterkin
@jess_mc
It's both funny and telling that being an independent from a state that likes independents pushing New Deal policies is more problematic than voting for Reagan
I'm feeling temporarily overwhelmed by the irony of a gay white man calling me self-hating for not supporting Warren while he supports a woman who has only evolved aesthetically since supporting Reagan. I guess all it takes is a rainbow boa muppet dance for some
I honestly love that the Warren campaign is now banking on the possibility that anyone would consider she might be more honest than Bernie. That's genuinely funny.
Apparently there are a lot of people who still think you can choose between varieties of identity politics like Coke, as a counter rather than reinforcement of white identity politics in a country 60% white.
@JonathanCohn
Yes, why would he go someplace where he can speak at length on his political views and goals and only get 2 million clicks in less than a day when he could go on being smeared/ignored by MSNBC and CNN?
I'm loving that all of this is on behalf of a woman who pretended to be Cherokee for decades, was a Reagan Republican during the AIDS crisis and never put the words Black woman together until she announced her candidacy for the presidency.
What binds many Sanders supporters and Trump supporters? A hatred of Black women. Add being trans to the mix and the hate quadruples. It’s been this way on Twitter for years.
Sending gratitude to the good sis
@angelicaross
. You deserve your space.
"I never said I don't support your universal policy, of course I do. I just think we need to add elements that are not universal to make the whole thing politically untenable. What's the problem?"
--every person calling ppl class reductionist
It's fascinating watching Black women act like material deprivation isn't the most defining element of systemic racism for the benefit of a wealthy white woman who claimed to be Native American for decades.
Such selective respect to this identity bullshit.
The civil rights movement was for the universal expansion of promised rights regardless of race. It's the opposite of identity based. Wonder if you're smart enough to understand why it might have appeared to be.
The fantasy left of anti-woke leftists never existed in America. The American Left has always been about identity politics. See the Civil Rights Movement
I'm not sure how this works, but the party dependent on Black and poc voters trolling those voters with a woman who pretended to be a racial minority for decades would be a big microaggression or is it just a straight up macroaggression?
Running to be president just because you want to be president has been disqualifying for Kamala, Beto, Swalwell, etc. Looking forward to it catching up to the sociopath who joined the military for political bona fides
@BreeNewsome
@jelani9
Actually, only Bernie wants everyone to have healthcare, every other candidate is fine maintaining a role for for profit insurance that makes its profit through denial of services and care.
So weird that Bernie would take time to increase the visibility of a community fight to stop the closure of an urban hospital while missing the opportunity to talk to ppl like Anoa Changa and Markos.
So
@BernieSanders
decides not to attend
#nn19
, and then the morning after it ends announces an afternoon rally at
#Hahnemann
hospital, which is a block from the convention center where
#nn19
was held
@HotSpotHotSpot
@tony_magoni
Imagine just wanting to do the thing that pays for your family to eat instead of getting pulled into the LARPing fantasies of trust fund kids.
If you're surprised by the Rove/Atwater playbook being used to defend Warren you just don't know who she is.
@aimeeterese
has researched Warren's history in contrast to the PR and purpose of her campaign and "the left" is catching up. 3 recent articles from that research THREAD
Do we have to spend the entire election season acting like it's tin foil hat material to suggest that billion dollar corporations might manipulate publicly available data to protect their profits like fossil fuel companies with climate change, or big tobacco with cancer?
The anti-racism of ppl like DiAngelo and Kendi has nothing to do with the material well being of anyone impacted by racism it's just abt being dedicated to the anti-racism of ppl like DiAngelo and Kendi.
@CharlesMBlow
@ewarren
It might have something to do with pivoting on every commitment that becomes inconvenient the moment it becomes inconvenient and what that says about all those plans for other commitments.
I should have started a thread of journalists who know Warren's pledge is meaningless but still pretend it's a substantive change vs an aesthetic pander.
Democratic establishment deeply unhappy with this
@ewarren
move, which will be confusing to people convinced she is the party of the Democratic establishment
Your entire thread is built on bullshit. Gore lost bc he couldn't carry his home state and at least 200,000 FL dems voted for Bush. Dems have spent three decades losing their base but it's always someone else's fault.
@GiovanniTorre
@MickieMo
@mattyglesias
let me clue you in on something. bernie's all or nothing attitude is not much dissimilar to nader's. the thing is. nader screwed over unions, by helping bush win. bernie further screwed over unions, by helping convincing ppl to stay home in 2010 giving repubs a rout of dems 1/
@rgay
@AndrewCicchett1
@ewarren
Her plan for universal healthcare doesn't exist, her plan to offer some kind of buy in which maintains for profit insurance probably is. She was he first to announce, has shitty plans for maternal mortality but not healthcare?
I've yet to see a post-mortem that offers even a good fantasy for what Bernie should have done in the face of the entire dem infrastructure coalescing behind Biden with a full media propaganda push.
In my latest I look at Elizabeth Warren's record of advocacy to determine that if the word 'progressive' is applied to her and Bernie, the word may lack meaning.
Examining Elizabeth Warren’s Political Identity: Is She Really a Rose?
This cynical bullshit over life and death matters just to keep from actually supporting the single payer healthcare she cosponsored. This woman has no values outside of feeding her ego.
Too often, Black moms feel ignored, terrified, and discriminated against while giving birth. All of this contributes to the Black maternal mortality crisis we face. It's time to tackle this crisis head-on, and I've got a plan for that.
"What we have to do is double down on a racialized notion of poverty that ignores the majority of impoverished people to assure it's such a useless culture war topic it goes no further than that"
Really Black man? Your parents never told you to keep your cool with police? Was it because they lacked knowledge of history or just concern for your well being?
@DarrinBellArt
Good for you, I guess. My father didn’t tell me anything like that. Nor did my mother or grandparents. And as I said, as has been proven in cases such as Philando Castile’s—we can say and do everything “correctly” and still end up dead. So I fail to grasp the point of your tweet.
Let's say Joe Rogan absolutely is a bigot. If him taking up a mission to address the dispro poverty of women, Black ppl, trans ppl, etc isn't enough, what is the actual goal?
Can anyone help me understand how ensuring that all Americans have healthcare and 40% of Black workers get a raise is supporting bigotry just bc the supposed bigots support it? Maybe too much focus on who you imagine ppl are instead of what they do.
@davidmfaris
@TheWeek
Because everyone in the media is completely unfamiliar with Manufacturing Consent, even though that's precisely what you're doing. You failed to note that Sanders' 'troubles' go hand in hand w media acting as Warren's PR.
The people who want to see a 'movement' or 'insurrection' happening ignore that the police serve a function. Discrete demands for police, none on behalf of workers or the unemployed; demands for payment forgotten, nothing abt underlying conditions.
"Black on Black" crime or as I like to call it, crime in Black neighborhoods that may result in death is a problem to the Black ppl in those neighborhoods. It, like policing, is a class issue. Is that why it's 'racist' to share a Black man talking about it?
There is a huge swath of white ppl, well off Black ppl and poc (let's call them PMCs) who think the most pressing aspect of 'racism' is how white ppl think of non-whites. This is the starting argument of everyone talking abt wokescolding.
the entire left spent yesterday canceling a podcast host named $ean McCarthy because he said workers make some jokes that will get you canceled on the left. Meagan Day gets up, sees how bad it is, and goes after me, Aimee Terese, and anybody willing to talk about it.
@neeratanden
@mattyglesias
Because obvi the smart and reasonable take is that a process run by an organization attached to HRC's campaign meant to produce a winner just naturally turned out the most historically detested dem nom ever capable of losing to a senile political incompetent.
Trans voters, parents, and their allies need to know they are supported without any doubt. A crime against a transgender person needs to be punished as a hate crime. Elizabeth Warren equivocated on this & she shouldn’t have.
#Warren2020
#LGBTQ
#TransRights
If it wasn't clear before, the Rogan episode should tell you that when you ask, "If it's both class and race what are we doing for the race part?" the only true answer is "stopping the class part."
Making the White Supremacist Argument in Blackface
@adamcbest
She only pledged against the appearance of big donor money by not attending events; doesn't preclude calls to donors to purchase databases for the campaign. It's basically the assumption that voters are stupid or not paying attention.
"Activism" has nothing to do with 'ending oppression' but calling ppl TERF or racist for not having the right thoughts, unless the oppression is the thoughts of others and making sure they're not expressed. It's about silencing irreligious voices.
Yeah I remember when the murals were of heroes and people celebrated for their contributions to society or the community. The kinds of people we wanted our children to see as role models. I guess I can see value in murals of someone we can use to cast black ppl as just victims.
If "the left" media were doing it's job it would be common knowledge that:
-Warren advocated deregulation in the 80s and 90s
-her family saying she was Cherokee applied to her husband, apparently, in Pow Wow Chow
-The CFPB is at heart a centrist/conservative institution
it's not
@meaganmday
@martymacmarty
@sunraysunray
@WorkingFamilies
No one has actually said, "Jacobin is the reason for Warren's rise." Do you not see the difference between that and "Jacobin and 'the left' media have been inadequate at inspecting Warren and consistently distinguishing between her and Bernie"?
@AshleeMPreston
@Datoism
Umm, reading names off a list is "showering" today? Is there even an inch of concrete advocacy from Warren that makes her muppet rainbow boa dance anything more than pandering?
Yes please listen to the white man who's entire schtick is dependent on conflating bias and systemic racism to focus on white bias as bad, bc it's like treating cancer by creating the conditions to create more cancer.
Bernie doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about here. He is clueless about racism except as the residual effect of the class system. This is ignorance. Trump didn't win bc of economic anxiety. Every study says that's BS.
Dave Chappelle in Ames with
@AndrewYang
: “You take a poll in Dayton and say what would you rather have, $12,000 a year or health insurance? Everyone’s taking the money. Health insurance is great, but groceries are necessary too.”
It's really weird that the Biden supporters want Bernie to drop out so badly. If Biden is the nominee he's going to need more practice arguing against someone to his left.
Oh God. Sanders could suspend now on a wave of good feeling and strongly influence the agenda. Instead he’s going to spend weeks sniping ineffectually at Biden, helping Trump and diminishing himself.