If Mort Divine ruled the world

[rms]

Apparently West bullied Coates straight off of Twitter.

I think it was the general public, but not sure

 

[viewerfromnihil]

I wouldn't quite call it the general public. He got mobbed by a strange alliance of feminists, Bernie bros, and white nationalists. The internet is a strange place.

 

[rms]

sounds like the general public of twitter to me

 

[Einherjar86]

The West/Coates debate is a microcosmic reflection of the larger disagreements between hardcore Marxists and identity politics.

West's work ostensibly focuses on race, but he's a Marxist at heart--a member of the old guard, along with other staunchers like Jameson and Zizek. For him, the contemporary geography of race is dependent on the history of economic disenfranchisement and class hierarchy. Whether capitalism is important or not for Coates, I won't speculate (I'm not super familiar with his longer work, only his shorter articles); but it's true that he doesn't focus on it. This is why West labels him the "neoliberal" face of black struggle.

Personally, the debate itself is more interesting than whether one side is correct.

 

[Dak]

At least West is an intellectual, even if I consider him to be ridiculously wrong. Coates is worthy of all the scorn West can heap on him, and only as the appetizer at that. He's not a good thinker or a good writer, and either a cynical shill shilling for shillings or a rather malevolent personality. If his act is to be believed, I wouldn't want to be locked in a room with him.

 

[CiG]

Is this a dry joke?

No I'm being 100% serious.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

well I'm familiar with a very different type of Mennonite then. The mennonites I know of are christian pacifists. Ive deployed with a couple and got my dog as puppy on one of their farms

 

[CiG]

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

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so it was sarcastic?

 

[CiG]

I was going to continue mocking you over how dense you're being right now, but its feeling like an endless game. Yes, I was being sarcastic, I don't literally think the car attack was done by a radical Mennonite from Afghanistan.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

tbh I didn't realize mennonites existed until I moved to Virginia and thought they were just a regional thing like the amish. Thought maybe you were referring some different type of mennonite like how aryan can be used for Iranians or Nazis. Also, I'm dense but the bitches just say girth-y

 

[CiG]

 

[Dak]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson

"100 Racist things"

 

[The Ozzman]

#70

 

[Dak]

$200 and 3 days for a non-research related event? Ain't nobody(but the most privileged) got time fo that!

 

[rms]

https://billypenn.com/2017/12/14/ph...s-councilwoman-cindy-bass/?platform=hootsuite

I didn't think the removal of agency would go this far. (black/brown) individual uses/abuses booze/drugs, let's legally bully (from what I can tell) the store owners to fix the problems of said individuals. so goofy

 

[Dak]

http://quillette.com/2017/12/16/romanticizing-hunter-gatherer/

For as long as humans have been around, people the world over have faced similar struggles: getting enough to eat, navigating social relationships, dealing with parasites and disease, raising their young. It’s a nice idea to believe that somewhere deep in the past, or still today in a more remote part of the world, there existed or exists a society that has figured it all out; where everyone is healthy and happy and equal, untouched by the difficulties of modern living. But even if violence, inequality, discrimination, and other social problems are universal and part of human nature, that doesn’t mean their prevalence can’t be reduced. They can and recent trends make this abundantly clear. Denying the scope of the problem, pretending that these social issues are uniquely modern or uniquely Western, or the product of agriculture or capitalism, does not help to fix our contemporary social ills. Instead it leaves us more confused about the causes of these problems, and, consequently, less equipped to solve them.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

https://billypenn.com/2017/12/14/ph...s-councilwoman-cindy-bass/?platform=hootsuite

I didn't think the removal of agency would go this far. (black/brown) individual uses/abuses booze/drugs, let's legally bully (from what I can tell) the store owners to fix the problems of said individuals. so goofy

Shocking that Vietnamese vote Republican more than any other Asian ethnic group. Almost as if some groups commit gun homicide at disproportionate rates, and that others are disproportionately victimized.

Wonder how she's set up for security at her home. Hopefully a stray bullet decides to test it.

 

[CiG]

“I saw it. I never said that,” Bass said of calling the windows racist. “And the first thing about it is I could care less what these people think. They don’t vote for me. They don’t live in my district. They’re not from these communities. They’re not plagued by stop-and-gos.”

 

[HamburgerBoy]

According to her, 90% of those Asian stores are actually fronts for drug dealing. I'd therefore estimate that 900% of black people shoot store owners.