You could not be more wrong (which is fine) but your lazy attempt to smear people like me as anti-gay misogynists is just sad at this point. "Libs going to brunch" is quite obviously code for affluent detachment from the life and death politics of the marginalized.
"Back to bunch" describes for how certain segments of the Democratic party are ready to ignore politics completely once Trump is gone, as he is primarily a personal irritant. If they can just reset the clock to 2013, they will be happy.
People who had problems in 2013 and will continue to have problems after 2020 rightly ridicule this attitude. And brunch is a convenient cultural shorthand because it has always been connected to wealth and gentrification. So when these signs became common, it was a natural link.
A few days ago, I used this phrase to refer to Mark Hamill, who is neither queer or a woman, but is certainly quite affluent. I didn't say it because I think brunch is gay.
And every time one of these bourgeois kiss-ups deflects valid criticism by falsely labelling it as bigotry, it further hamstrings the cause of actual anti-bigotry.
This kind of disingenuous weaponization of identity in service of the bourgeois is exactly the kind of thing all those anti-idpol vultures feast on.
It makes it more difficult to enact actual policies to address racial justice, identity equality, and egalitarian pluralism when opponents can frame the whole thing as a sham because Twitter bluechecks say you're a bigot for telling Luke Skywalker not to go back to brunch.
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Tim Pool saw Shell Oil post a black square on Instagram and now he thinks they actually give a fuck about racial justice because he is waaaaaay dumber than you.
Being punk is about respecting the cops and absolutely never throwing a brick through a window under any circumstances.
Being punk is about getting on a bus with a bunch of militia freaks in Call of Duty costumes, driving to a city you don't live in, attacking someone with mace, and getting shot in the face.
THREAD: If you are one of these hand-wringing intellectuals who believe Gavin McInnes' attempts to distance the Proud Boys from Unite the Right, Richard Spencer, VDARE, etc., was based on ideology rather than aesthetics and strategy, then you are a sucker.
Gavin McInnes, a smart man, understood that a successful American white supremacist organization cannot have an all-white membership and cannot be overt about being a white supremacist organization. It sure as hell can't march around chanting blood and soil.
So like a lot of white nationalists in the wake of Heather Heyer's death, McInnes dressed up his bigotry in the fancy clothes of "Western Chauvinism." For example, McInnes said:
Hey @RexChapman, can you do us a favor and not use your million-follower account to promote one of the most vile, bigoted, and abusive trolls on this website? If you don’t know the story of Bianca Delarosa, aka Bravenak, I’ve got a few tweets to share with you in this thread...
Nazi-level anti-Semitism is a theme with Delarosa. This is the person you are promoting: “I did not know jews hated us blacks so much. Good to know. I will return it in kind. There are so few of them it’s a wonder they have the gall to think about being racist against blacks.”
And on top of everything in that thread, what is this? You’re not going to mention the video shows the Patriot Prayer member spraying mace at the person before he was shot?
Ah yes, the conflict began because “the counterprotestors confronted a number of the vehicles” driven by these Christian small government advocates, recklessly plowing through intersections while indiscriminately shooting mace and paintballs. Good work enabling this nightmare.
Too bad the Lincoln Project ads are only seen by Twitter liberals who donate money which is spent on Lincoln Project board members and their associated companies instead of ad buys and voter contact.
The Lincoln Project is the theft of money which could be used to defeat Trump.
Some people worry the Lincoln Project folks would try to gain influence post-election in the Biden White House, and that's a legit concern, but it has always been about separating liberals from their money.
Under increased scrutiny, they have made some large ad buys recently, but their production costs and "operating expenditures" remain through the roof. And they use subcontractor relationships to hide a lot of these payments.