I think this column, which uses the death of Biden’s dog to muse on the death of Biden’s son, is in really bad taste. nationalreview.com/corner/the-sha…
The casual cruelty here is appalling. The man’s dog just died. What part of your galactic-level brain is telling you, ‘hey, it might be a good idea to use this tragedy to suggest that, for Biden, the *wrong son* got to live.”
I don’t know if Dan would put it this way, but the tweet/article strike me as suggesting that the tragedy of Biden losing his *good* dog while the *bad* one gets to live is kind of like the “tragedy” of how his good son died while the bad son is the one that got to keep going.
This guy’s endorsement is actually confirmation of everything people have been saying about the piece.
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Whether you are privately a conservative or not is immaterial.
If someone wanted to build an online conservative persona monomaniacally obsessed with, and fanatically antagonistic toward, all things progressivism, it would look indistinguishable from your Twitter account.
This is not a knock against conservatism. It's a plea for being forthright about what our discourse commitments are. MFer tells us he's an independent when it's been literal years since he's taken a single position that any Democrat would take.
You want to know what's it's like to be an independent? To be an antitribalist? It means a followership that likes every *other* tweet of yours, or every third tweet of yours, because in the in-between ones inexorably offend or bother them.
This is what some mean when they complain about the harmfulness of "identity politics": Omar was dinged for placing the U.S. and the Taliban on a par, and rather than defend that implicit claim of equivalence, the response offered here is a phantom invocation of "anti-blackness."
Speaking for myself and—I'm confident—many others, I would've offered the same criticism if the equivalence was made by a disembodied artificial consciousness from the planet L9LZRUG.
Omar's "blackness" had nothing to do with it.
“Stop Islamophobically policing our wholesome attempts to draw equivalencies between terrorist networks and the United States”
One frustration “anti-woke” critics have with a thread like this is that its central complaint is fundamentally about the problem of mislabeling, about linguistic imprecision, rather than about the propriety of the various initiatives being described as “CRT”
It is obviously important to journalistically check rhetorical maneuvers by activists against the facts. It's equally obvious that this classificatory move shouldn't be the main focus of our concern.