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Jared Yates Sexton

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22 Jan

Here’s how we deal with blatant GOP hypocrisy. Don’t share the post, screenshot it and explain the purpose of deception.

“McConnell is now trying to change discourse around majority rule in the Senate to slow legislation after years of gleefully steamrolling the minority.”

Sharing the post gives the liar impressions, fries their reach, possibly even helps the lie trend.

Refuting the lie and providing context takes out the venom and might even help people who don’t know what’s happening understand the situation.

We have to start rethinking social media, messaging, and our relationship with this poison. Bad faith Right Wing messaging has an effect, as does sharing op-eds and articles by major outlets designed explicitly to outrage the Left and profit off their hate-sharing.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

21 Jan

Been thinking a lot this morning about bad faith on the Right and how it’s already in full bloom from its media and politicians.

It’s time to change the way we handle this, the way we experience it, the way it makes us feel and how it effects us.

For those who spent the early aughts watching The Daily Show it became a study in those bad faith tactics, how the Right was engaged in malleable ideology, nihilistic power grabs, and outright gaslighting.

It’s an incredible weapon and it’s time to disarm it.

We all know the Right has become a principleless, antidemocratic, fascistic movement dedicated only to power and profit. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise and allowing these snipes and bad faith efforts to have any oxygen whatsoever. They’re not a surprise, at all.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

19 Jan

You know, forgiving student debt isn’t just about erasing debt.

It’s admitting college, a necessary function of open society, has been captured for perverse profit and opening the door to reform.

It’s a massive, desperately needed, stimulus that costs literally nothing.

Forgiving college debt is the first step in a needed confession that the economic changes of globalism created a captive class who were held hostage by profiteers and that did real and lasting damage to not just the debtors but the people who didn’t go and the country as a whole.

One of the steps to fixing this fascistic crisis is to reckon with the intentional divide between the college educated and those who couldn’t afford it. We need to vanquish this debt, admit it was a massive profit scheme, and begin the process of opening up education.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

19 Jan

If you want to understand the purpose of this 1776 Project garbage, I’ve already had it emailed to me a handful of times by people either threatening me or asking when I’ll publicly apologize for my book American Rule.

It’s a war on reality for people who want to war on reality.

When Trump pushed “patriotic education” he was being used as a puppet by people who wanted to cement exploitation and keep people under the sway of propaganda. It’s knowingly and malevolently twisting history into a weapon of white supremacy.

The 1776 Project is white supremacist propaganda seeking to inject poison into the educational system. It’s ugly and gross and just unbelievably, embarrassingly shoddy to boot.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

18 Jan

The putsch at the Capitol wasn’t the end of something, but a beginning.

Whether this situation today is a false alarm or just a called-in, passing threat, we cannot live in denial any longer that we have a crisis on our hands and it demands addressing.

First things first, the Inauguration needs to be from a secure location. Stop playing around with this thing and take the attack on the transfer of power seriously. After that, we have to address the conditions and individuals that created this crisis.

If we get past January 20th without a massive tragedy we should consider ourselves incredibly lucky but also understand that this crisis doesn’t have an expiration date and that it is much larger, much more complicated, and much more threatening that most want to believe.

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Jared Yates Sexton

@JYSexton

17 Jan

Man. Alive.

Even a CONVERSATION about paying a living wage is causing a lot of people to reveal how much they secretly love exploitation.

I’m all for this and this is why the political debate needs to include aspirational discourse. There are so many people who, like corporations, understand they have to pay lipservice to human dignity and progressive ideals in order to continue in power.

Let’s find out who’s who.

Let’s talk about living wages and universal healthcare and student debt forgiveness and free education.

Let’s see who believes in a better world and who has made it part of their personal brand to seem progressive while undermining reform at every turn.

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