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everybody knows deep down that "we need to give all perspectives a hearing" did not mean we should expect Dan Rather to interview swamp Maoists, and also that the claim the far right has to the table of decency in the US was bought, in this century as in the previous ones, with dollars and bullets
the people who have these ideas are very rich and very violent and they've been able to spread them to an extremely well armed minority of people in this country, and to buy or intimidate everyone else.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
other than a connection to this political economic reality, there is no further sense in which "mass deportation is my answer to the problems of the housing market" is recognizable as serious contributions to a conversation between adults, much less to a democratic political culture
November 17, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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some of you find yourselves obliged by occupation or circumstance to pretend otherwise, and I pray for your strength and health. but the vast majority of us have no reason of this sort to play 'the floor is lava' with fascism and you should stop trying to recruit those of us who walk normally
how those of you insisting on giving the far right a hearing square this behavior with being a thinking, functioning, minimally decent moral adult may be indirectly my problem but it is sure as hell not my business
was, uh, not expecting to launch "re-educate Dan Rather" discourse
one more: I meant "expect" in the predictive, not normative sense. As in "we know Dan Rather is unlikely to interview the swamp Maoists", not "Dan Rather ought not interview the swamp Maoists"
Again way more Dan Rather talk than I was expecting
LOL, could be nostalgia factor here-those were better days maybe?
