As I almost always find myself saying when one of these drops, sucks but it could be seen coming for a couple years at this point.
No one is surprised. Everyone saw this coming like 6 years ago when she’d go on unhinged anti homeless rants
This person claimed to be white passing for being Armenian. Rephrasing, this person claimed to be passing for Caucasian because she was from the actual caucus.
Depends on just how long the fash fire has been burning. There always needs to be an outgroup that has to burn next.
I really wouldn't use very old racist typologies. If you were, you'd say she was of the Armenoid sub-race.
Some Nazi thoughts on the "armenoid" sub-race
In his works, Hans F.K. Günther portrayed the Jewish people as a specifically non-European racial mixture comprising Armenoid, Semitic, and Negroid elements.
The German physical anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt characterized the Jews as a racial mixture that is primarily of the Armenoid type.
According to Croatian fascist Ustaše ideologists, only 5% of Croats, but 35% of Serbs were of the Armenoid race.
They described the race as being "characterized by a dark complexion and a personality prone to trickery, fawning and cheating".
In the early 1900s in the US:
Armenians were also vilified for being stereotypically thievish and dishonest. Adults and children alike regularly faced racial invectives such as “dirty black Armenian,” “low-class Jew,” and – most commonly – “Fresno Indian.”
I think Armenians are generally seen as white in anglo countries, but it's not a stable category.
I don’t know what my political identity or label is
You might wanna figure that out if you're going to opine about politics
It's liberal.
You're a fucking liberal.
That's just not fun to write an attention seeking essay about, because you're just another dumbshit liberal trying to seem unique and redeemable.
She knows. She's playing the "nonpolitical" card like so many reactionaries before her.
Said it before and I’ll say it again. Reactionaries see themselves as the absence of politics, not a political idea.
Being political is anything that questions the status quo
Accepting the status quo requires no action and is therefore “non-political”
Fish not seeing the water around them basically
Ever meet a fundie who said "I don't belong to any religion; I just have a personal relationship with God" or something like that? Similar energy.
I hear this all the time and I absolutely hate it. You go to church once a week, go to bible study/cell groups, you follow all the traditionally conservative rules around protestant Christianity. You are part of a religion. Just because you believe you can personally communicate with God and don't need to go through the priests, it doesn't change the fact that you are still very much part of a religion.
It's a different but related gripe when someone asks "are you Catholic or Christian?"
Cuz politics, to them, is anything intrusive and obstructive to them, that brings discomfort to power
As expected, going the way of Bill Maher and Destiny. Being a reactionary liberal who hates the Republicans while increasingly agreeing with them. Also known as a scratched liberal.
Once again proving TYT are fucking morons and I feel vindicated about never liking any of them.
I'm so glad i figured out these guys were performative hacks when I was like 14 lmao.
The best one was Hasan and he got fired or whatever proving that they were never committed to having good opinions
Okay so I'm just gonna say some stuff and I haven't really thought about this too much so I'm shooting from the hip here but it seams like being a TERF takes vastly more effort than not being a TERF. Like it's way more work than being a bog standard misogynist. So the issue isn't that they are lazy, per se, it's that they've chosen to die on this very frustrating reactionary hill. So you can't even kinda defend them by calling it ignorance. No, they had to do work to get here, and they still concluded the worst fucking things.
I try to be nice to people and be patient and tolerant because, partly, I can. That's a privilege I have as a cis man. Somebody saying "I hate trans people" isn't a direct threat to me. I still condemn it, I tell them to shut the fuck up, but I can afford to try to talk them down from those rhetorical ledges because I'm not in the cross hairs, if you know what I am saying. I can try to interrogate them and be a little more objective about it because I'm not having to defend my right to exist. Like it's one of those fucked up ways where you can use their bigotry to shut down a bigot and I'm willing to use any tool I can to combat that stuff. Again, it's how I can use my privilege. Privilege doesn't go away because I pretend it doesn't exist so I should use it tactically.
The point I'm trying to make here is that I don't extend that to TERFs because they've clearly thought about it! They've rehearsed talking points and stuck their heads in sand. So they should be bullied into oblivion.
:mental-gymnastics-1: Trans women are women, trans men are men.
:mental-gymnastics-2: insert just about any JKR toot here
I feel like I've never heard of most of these former left grifters till after they come out as former left grifters.
One exception being that annoying podcaster who was pretending to date Adam Friedland so people wouldn't think he's homo.
Are there not any fucking right wingers in the US that see both parties pretending to cater directly to them or more specifically any more upper-class dipshits that actually are getting pandered to, who are like "hell yeah, i'm winning right now, i'm the bell of the ball right now" or is everyone trying to out-soy each other in how they're the most persecuted and misunderstood?
everyone trying to out-soy each other in how they’re the most persecuted and misunderstood
I'm still baking this hypothesis, but I think that the way that the American civil religion metabolized the Civil Rights movement gave half the people in this country a persecution fetish. Even the richest, privilegedest, most winningest people feel like they're being persecuted all the time because they are actively projecting themselves into the almost saintlike role of the prosecuted minority.
