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Katie Halper @kthalps
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Guide to #PseudoWoke #CentristCreeps: they never engage in political or substantive discussions bc their politics are horrible and nobody wants to say let's not raise the minimum wage. So they pretend universal programs are racist/sexist even tho they disproportionately help...
women & poc. If the person to their Left is white & arguing with a Black person or straight and arguing with an LGBTQ person, accuse them of being racist and/or homophobic/ transphobic. But they employ this totally opportunistically & inconsistently. If the Leftist is the...
person of color or LGBTQ person & suggests that the white or straight person is being racist/homo/transphobic, then the #centristCreeps say "how dare you use identity politics as a shield. This has nothing to do with the identity of the people arguing. Can't you engage in...
debate?" In other words they speak out against the very weaponization & hijacking of identity politics in which they regularly engage. See, for example, the way people tweet about Glenn Greenwald as a white man versus the way they respond to Greenwald when he uses the same...
reductive & simplistic logic and equally unsupported allegations but relates it to his being gay or Jewish. All of a sudden, the people who reduce every interaction to racism & sexism & homophobia are upset that someone would ever reduce something to anti-semitism or...
homophobia. Another thing they do is call other people self-loathing and then act like that concept doesn't exist when they're accused of it. For example, when Glenn Greenwald, who is gay, says some trope is homophobic, a person who's perpetuating that trope tweets "i'm gay,"...
as if being gay and internalizing homophobia were impossible. The same person accuses two straight women of having internalized misogyny & basing their politics on what will get them approval from men. In other words, the same person who thinks it's preposterous to suggest a...
gay person could be homophobic openly asserts a woman is sexist. Just pick a narrative. that's probably the worst thing about these people. Though it's hard to pick bc there are so many. They harass people to their Left and if the Leftist responds & has more followers than...
the #centristcreep, they claim the Leftist, who is responding to, not starting the attack, is accused of sic-ing their followers on someone. Terms like "white nationalist," "white supremacist," "violence," "harassment," are thrown around without any proof whatsoever. Terms...
like violence, safety, danger, unsafe do also. They're totally trivialized & weaponized. They attack and then pretend to be the victim. They gaslight and then pretend to be gaslit. They're also incredibly unfunny & usually not that smart.
lol. what did i say about trustfund? And unfunny? And not smart? #1. I have no trust fund. #2. But even if I did, if we're going to base people's cred on biography, it might not turn out so well for #centristCreeps. #3. Yes. I grew up on the Upper West Side. I'm not sure if...
these very, very funny geniuses get that I was being self-deprecating when i said "mean streets," but I was. These are people, by the way, who are never from New York City. They will go so personal and every now and then they realize that they're showing themselves to be awful...
human beings and do a 1/2 assed apology. And don't get me started on how sexist some of the men are and how these so-called feminists cape for them. I've brought up this #centristcreep telling me to go fuck myself with cenk uygar's dick. I've asked hillary "feminists," to...
condemn these comments, especially bc they often demand we condemn comments from people who we have no relationship to, we've never RTd etc. Exactly one of the women I asked addressed what the #centristCreep #misogynist had said to me. The way she addressed it was by, I kid...
you not, saying something critical about Cenk Uygur. As if that's at all relevant. I pointed out that justifying a guy telling a woman to go fuck herself with someone's dick bc you don't like the person to whom the dick belongs is what we might call problematic. To her...
credit she finally did condemn the comments. That's one and only one person. They're all trash people. Not hillary feminists. I have friends who are hillary feminists who don't claim sanders is the devil & that his supporters are all white dudes or jezebels.
At least the time these loser trolls spend attacking me is time they're not engaging with other people. Some of them are paid. Some are just true believers who take breaks from working on Hillary gifs or shrines and voodoo dolls of Sanders to something dumb. I don't know which...
is worse, honestly. I think the latter is sadder. Oh, another thing these people love doing is when they're white women write about white women as if they're not in the group they're referencing & as if the imperative statements they're making don't apply to themselves...
It's some Rachel Dolezal shit. "White women: get it together!" It would be like if I wrote a piece that said, "Lefty secular Jews: get it together!"
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