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They are a Tiktok person who made a video rant in response to people having doubts about Biden. Went viral for the raw condescension.
"Listen, kiddo, I get it. I don't like the two-party system. I think our country is corrupt and, quite frankly, I don't wanna vote for Biden; it feels like voting for a Republican, but I'm gonna do it. You wanna know why?
"Because the alternative is a fucking fascist! A fascist! It's a fascist. Maybe we can have the conversation about dismantling the two-party system when a fascist isn't running.
"Maybe we can do that later, kiddo! Champ! Chief! Maybe we can talk about it later!"
Remember last year after less than 3 months of protests and race discussions the term "Ally fatigue" came into mainstream use lol.
Those two orange lines tell two interesting stories:
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White "allies" are going back to brunch.
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Jesus look at that massive spike in "oppose" among white people immediately in the aftermath of the protests. At best half of white America is totally irredeemable.
Because they have no need to support BLM now. For them offer was always about getting the dang Cheeto out of the White House and getting people to :vote: blue. With no dRumpf around they don't see any use for BLM.
i thought these blm folks would be like [the whitewashed history book appearance of]
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but sometimes these protests just arnt peaceful enough, and i cant support that kind of violence!
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It basically says that white people should think of non-white people as some sort of special species.
I'm POC, fyi, but I tried reading my yt friend's copy of "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibrahim X Kendi last summer. This friend was just starting to develop some political consciousness as a result of the protests. I figured it had to be somewhat less cringe than White Fragility. The first page says, basically, "look, racism is systemic and I won't tell you how to fix that. But with practice, you can develop individual habits that will 'bubble up' into social change." Even if he wanted to (?) actually make a difference, you can't publish one of these white self-flagellation manuals if you address the capitalist elephant in the room.
Individual habits try to bubble up, but the ruling class just uses
event.stopPropagationon the parent element.The liberal conception of racism is that it is an individual moral failing that can only be restrained by constant self-restraint
I read “How to Be an Antiracist” too and credit where credit is due, Kendi does dedicate a chapter each to both imperialism and capitalism and how both have borne racist policies/instilled racist values. I mean, you won’t see him calling for the government to be overthrown, but he doesn’t not call for it lol. It was better than White Fragility for sure, which is just self-flagellation.
Word-i figured it wasn’t written with bad intentions. The author seems actually kinda good, just there’s an enforced limit to how much they can rock the boat.
America’s trust in law enforcement has risen. Sixty-nine percent of Americans, according to a USA Today/Ipsos survey from March, now trust local police and law enforcement to promote justice and equal treatment of all races versus 56 percent who felt the same way last June.
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This is absolutely it. A bunch of people saw a D back in power so since the Ds control the cops all the problems are gone now.
There's no possible way that a republican would get back into power and abuse the powers police have again.
A bunch of suburbanites got scared that protesters would burn down their favorite golf course
You joke but this is almost word-for-word what one of my friend's wealthier relatives said recently.
I don't even live in the US anymore but I have to go to Portland and Seattle for work-related things from time to time and people in my office are wondering if that will even resume post-pandemic because of the "riots"
I know back in my home town, protests were confined to the downtown areas or inner ring areas that were pretty diverse, and I think this is true for a lot of the protests. I've always been scared of what would happen to the protestors if they moved the protests into the lily-white suburbs. Like, that would be based on one hand but on the other I have no doubt folks in my racist-ass hometown suburbs would open fire on the protestors if that happened. Like, many dozens dead.
How do 60% think police killing black people is a problem but 70% think the police treat all races fairly? I realize these are numbers from two different pollsters but still.
Americans will just choose to believe multiple wildly contradictory things at the same time and never think twice about it.
cognitive dissonance was never a real thing.
they simply dont think about both of those things at the same time.
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Protests are disruptive and scary, material conditions are worsening, and social systems are falling apart. Through all this, police represent stability; normalcy. If you're not part of the communities actively under their boot heel - and hell, going by some folks in my own hometown, sometimes even if you are - then the idea of having police around is comforting.
"Well you know a deadly virus killed off half my family, I can't afford insulin unless I work three jobs, and those crazy Q people keep fighting with those crazier Antifas. Good thing Officer Joe is still patrolling the corner every morning! Makes me feel safe!"
I don't believe polling like that. Demographics allow for massive manipulation of polling data unless you're doing a full survey of like 90+% of the population.
No shit a gentrifier paper will be biased towards suburbanites.
Yeah there's no fucking way this number is accurate. They cooked the books on this one, 100%
Nothing's scarier than a united working class, and they'll do anything to convince people that isn't happening until every single person is united against them.
This reinforces further to me the notion that many people in this country lack object permanence.
More seriously, are you actually telling me that 13 or so percent of the country thinks that Joe's proposed weak ass reforms are actually going to do ANYTHING? The fuck is this??
If you were a cop that thought the institution of police had a systemic issue of murdering black people - surely you either resign or go serpico? Or, I guess, you just kinda say "Yeah, it's a problem" or worse think that it's a good thing.
Holy shit, imagine the inner mind of a person who routinely switches between supporting and opposing BLM.
"Ah fuck, the cops killed another black person, ACAB, black lives matter... What? A Walmart got burned down? they're the ones setting the wild fires? Screw BLM! ... Ah fuck, the cops killed another black person, ACAB, black lives matter..."
A lot of punks don't really have much in the way of concrete ideology. Source: I'm a punk
I think it's a mistake to read these kinds of polls like that. I mean I don't doubt there are a handful of weirdos like that, but there's a spectrum of opinion on any political question which discrete polling categories can't capture. In this case there's something like 14% of white americans who are either "unsure" or "neither support nor oppose," meaning some of them might support under some circumstances or presented with some information, and some might oppose.
I don't believe that many people are genuinely "on the fence" about BLM.
If you've seen Joe Rogan's show and read the comments under his videos you'll know humans can be much much dumber than that
That absolutely massive spike in "oppose" is the strength of the right wing media machine spinning up into full gear.
Completely unnatural.
Libs killed the protests and turned everyone against them. So frustrating that something good happens and they rush in and neuter it.
Prepare for this to happen every time. It's what liberals do. Instead of mourning it we must combat it.
[Insert factoid of most whites not supporting Civil Rights at the time here}
