Founder of notable white-supremacy-laundering publication is shocked shocked to discover the anti-racism-discourse activist she’s been supporting is now peddling unfiltered nazism.
I encountered the unique disingenuous toxicity of shambling racist grifter James Lindsay last year, and it was as unpleasant as it was educational about the tactics and intentions of anti-woke movement.
All Claire Lehmann wanted to do was (under the auspices of promoting free speech) to shut down discussions of racism embedded into legal and societal structures, and now one of her allies is sliding effortlessly into nazi talk? oh no however could she have seen that coming.
The simple truth offends white American conservatives in a way that Trump’s thousand lies a day never would, in a way the chants and slogans of white supremacist tiki torch nazis never did, in a way that daily report of police brutality and mass shooting never has.
I feel as if the same people who in early 2020 were angrily scolding me that Biden was the only choice because only he could make deals with Republicans will angrily tell be Biden is blameless here because Republicans cannot be moved.
For example, among many others, Joe Biden told me that.
Look: I voted for Biden. I’m glad he’s president instead of fascist shit-for-brains. But his whole thing was that he’d bring Republicans around, that they’d come to their senses as soon as Trump left. Now he needs to deliver on that plan, or change plans to deliver another way.
A Dozen Very Normal People Who Do Not Follow Me With Accounts Entirely Dedicated To Unsolicited Defenses Of Woody Allen:
He’s made terrible movies and great ones and terrible ones people think are great. But he’s an abusive creep at best, and I think people dedicated to his defense in this manner have suspect motives.
When we learn unsavory things about artists, for some people the immediate mission becomes renewing their own license to enjoy a completely uncomplicated relationship with the artist’s work, and they will ANNOUNCE themselves to people with less selfish priorities.