In Defense of Punching Left

I'm a liberal. I've always been a liberal...

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"Don't punch left" is the core tenet of Solidarity, a new book by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. In a laudatory interview with the Washington Post, Hunt-Hendrix said the book was aimed not only at progressives in general but also specifically at liberals who criticize the left, naming me and newsletter author Matthew Yglesias as "falling into the right's divide-and-conquer strategy."

I read a couple more paragraphs and I had to stop. I forgot what a terrible writer he is. The article is like reading a textbook that lectures you.

r/neoliberal thread

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I'd much rather liberals talk to the left with open hostility rather than their usual smug "civility" tbh. Make it abundantly clear to all that if you have any empathy for others at all, you belong on the left, not with the liberals.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      You might have seen it alreay but a few days ago I started a George Takei related thread that I can't get out of my head - A lib "how to" on talking about Gaza - Hexbear

      Most of it was exactly what I expected. But a surprising word stuck in my craw - "dealbreaker". As if there can be a "deal" made on morality. And - of course - the "deal" is we must change 100% and see things the lib way while they don't change an iota. Quite a deal!

      That was 3 days ago and "dealbreaker" still really annoys me.