The view of the #1619Project that baffles me most is the idea that it is a project intended for (and intended to enrage/spur) white liberals, as if black Americans — the heart of the project — are somehow invisible.
There are numerous pieces in The Federalist and other right-leaning outlets that seem to argue that the history of slavery is “divisive” and will only raise the ire of audiences, without contemplating that that history is the history of millions of Americans.
In all seriousness, isn’t this what the whole “easily offended” and “whoa triggered” thing was about? People letting their feelings get in the way of… facts, shall we say?
I’m just saying, some “free speech” proponents sure seem a little… snowflakey about this effort.
So per this piece, I've been seeing a lot of what I would call "evenhanded antisemitism" in publications that would call themselves "conservative" or "traditional" lately.
"Evenhanded antisemitism" is what I would call treating outright antisemitism as a normal viewpoint anyone could have.
Here's an example. Evie Magazine is a right-leaning publication aimed at women. And I have noticed a real tendency for it to do 'evenhanded antisemitism." In a recent article about Michael Jackson, we get this.
Oh they did? They just ended up dead? Huh. What a wild turn of events. What an absolutely wild and crazy turn of events that is absolutely fucking nonsense.
Maybe there were some hints as to where this was going.
Weirdo Christian Twitter is not a good lens onto how most Christians do things but it is funny how many men on here are told by God that they should have a hot wife who doesn’t work but also never asks for anything and is always sexually available, what a weirdly specific thing for God to tell so many men
It’s so odd how God appears to tell so many people to do things they wanted to do anyway
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son but God now is sticking to telling some dudes that their desire for a sexy woman who is always barefoot and pregnant is also His desire, wild
It is incredibly tempting to be a doomer. Doomerism feels accurate (it isn’t) and people who aren’t doomers online sometimes get screamed at. But you absolutely do not have to give in to either performative doomerism or the kind of doomerism that’s just projected depression (a thing I’ve done.)
There are people on here who are deeply enmeshed in doomerism and they will glom onto anyone expressing any optimism whatsoever. Some of that is because doomerism gets rewarded. Some of that is (I theorize) depression is a motherfucker and will tell you that your doomerism is good and accurate and I think more people are dealing with depression than we know.
My most doomer tendencies coincided with my most depressed time in my life, and the doomerism and depression fed on one another because depression is always able to find evidence to continue itself.
Like the entire argument certain people made against someone being able to have an abortion in cases like this one was “well how would we be able to punish her rapist” and it turns out they just … don’t
Funnily enough the 1945 Nazi film “Kolberg” (a fictionalized account of the Napoleonic Wars) actually did use frontline Nazi troops because Joseph Goebbels was an evil moron
Again, they were doing this during like, the Invasion of Normandy.
These dorks pulled 5,000 troops out of the Eastern Front to appear in a film that got released two weeks before the city that it premiered in was liberated by the Allies