Cornel West Goes After RFK Jr.: 'Needs to Really Get Off the Crack Pipe'

People's Party Presidential candidate Cornel West criticized Robert Kennedy Jr. on Thursday while speaking about the Democratic presidential candidate's stance on Israel and Palestine and said, "He needs to really get off the crack pipe."

"You want a presidential candidate, and I think you just want this in any human being, to have backbone, to have integrity, to have consistency, not to check what you deeply believe after you've had some dialogue or discourse with a group of people or community that's going to be shaping and molding how you perceive the world," West said while speaking on the Bad Faith Pod. "If he [Kennedy Jr.] thinks somehow that each [Palestinian] baby who was killed somehow was never in any way, intentional, deliberate, they didn't know what they were doing...he needs to really get off the crack pipe."

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Vid. It has 1970s-ish funk music in the background because of course it does.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I am not a fan. He's a grifter. I'll leave this here.

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    TIL - Cornel West is a grifter. See self text.

    Alaskaball's comments...

    Dude was always a grifter. He's an anti-marxist Utopian 'socialist' sheepdog of the democrat party who acted alongside Jesse Jackson to capture and coopt the work of the black panther party and defuse the revolutionary proletarian energy from the movement until it became another limb of bourgeoise establishment politics.

    Look at what they did to Fred Hampton's work building the foundations of a proletarian rainbow coalition - they stripped the class elements, needless to say they stripped its revolutionary elements as well, and used its desiccated message of hope for a better future as a means to further entrench Capitalism. This is to say that unlike Fred Hampton who said you fight Fire with water as an allegory to fighting Capitalism with Socialism, they decided to fight fire with more fire.

    I shouldn't have quoted the site that I did in the selftext - it's lib crap. Here's an archive.today link for the source WSJ article...

    archive.today • DeSantis's Revolutionary Defense of the Classics - WSJ

    By Cornel West and Jeremy Wayne Tate

    Gov. Ron DeSantis just gave a welcome boost to the classical-education movement. He signed legislation allowing high-school students to qualify for Bright Futures scholarships, a state fund for college education, by submitting scores from the Classic Learning Test instead of the SAT alone.

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    Mr. West holds a chair at Union Theological Seminary and serves on the board of academic advisers of the Classic Learning Test. Mr. Tate is founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for that. I was thinking to myself that I really like the words coming out of his mouth in this video, but I seem to remember him being very npr friendly, and I wouldn't expect that from someone with coherent politics.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        When I was a liberal - I used to sort of hate watch Real Time. Maher always seemed very obnoxious and arrogant. But I used to nod my head when he had guest like West on. Years later I finally realized people like West are performative. He's quite a performer and he knows how to amp up his genuine charisma to much higher level. He's like a "radical" in a Sorkin story.