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Here's a voice many people hoped had disappeared from left discourse.

jacobinmag.com/2018/08/its-ok…
And you have to love someone for whom the blame for any problem is always "LIBERALS!"
I so fondly remember the time that I was having dinner with friends and all of a sudden, Connor Kilpatrick launched a Twitter attack against for something totally random and uncalled for that was joined by Glenn Greenwald, Doug Henwood, and Corey Robin.
It was like every asshole dudebro on the nominal left (the definition of which only means LIBERALS SUCK and that includes me because I write for LGM) decided to come after me at once. Made me laugh, tell you the truth.
I think what the left needs now is definitely more white dudes whose lesson from 2016 was that being a dick leads to clicks. Speaking of which, I wonder how much money the Chapo bros spend on coke this week.
I also love Connor's column here. "Let's create some strawmen about how liberals hate children. I can't wait to knock that down. Damn you Hillary! Damn you!"
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This Day in Labor History: January 4, 1977. California congressman Augustus Hawkins introduces what became the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which initially was a government employment guarantee. Let's talk about why we need this today!
As late as the mid-1970s, liberals believed another era of left-leaning government was around the corner. When Ted Kennedy fought to kill Richard Nixon’s milquetoast national health care plan, it was under the assumption that something much better would come soon.
While the recession and oil shocks that began in 1973 put a damper on this, liberals did not believe the fundamental equation of American politics had changed. They had a lot more they wanted to do. One goal was to move toward full employment.
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If I could have every Twitter follower read one book, it would be Charles Cobb's This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed. There is so much mythology about nonviolence that feeds into white liberal ideas about change.

amazon.com/This-Nonviolen…
Cobb gets into how guns were central to the whole civil rights movement, as armed self-defense was necessary for survival. Ideas of non-violence were in fact backed with the potential for lethal force. This truth challenges easy notions of what activism should look like.
The nonviolent-industrial complex has taken over so much of the air on proper paths of activism. And while I certainly have no problem with nonviolent activism, there are many paths and that must remain so.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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Here’s what so many people don’t understand about tolerance.

Criticizing someone, refusing to engage with somebody’s ideas or debate them—that isn’t intolerance.

This is intolerance.
No conservative who ever whined about liberal intolerance has ever experienced actual intolerance.

They've perhaps experienced criticism, distaste, anger, disgust, even hate.

All these as a result of ideas they've expressed or promoted or supported.
But what pharmacists refuse to give conservatives meds *because* they're conservative?

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Or to nullify their marriages?

Or to block them from adoption?

Or to enshrine discrimination as a protected religious practice?

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