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episodenull's avatar

The great irony is that the loudest proponents of social justice politics are usually the same people who insist that everything, absolutely everything, from your taste in art to where you buy tires to the smell of your farts, is political. Of course that claim is mostly deployed against political opponents (in the circles I move in, it's the go-to counterargument whenever anyone even slightly conservative grumbles about TV and movies being too "political"). When it comes to their own views, social justice politics types snidely insist that anything they want is just politeness, and what kind of monster would disagree with politeness? No politics here! Not at all, and doesn't it prove how dumb and stupid anyone who disagrees with them is? Sneer, sneer, sneer, mutual high-fives and back-slappings abound.

...I've had a lot of bad experiences with this. Can you tell?

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HL's avatar

Social justice politics are doomed. The woke make no effort to convert anyone to their causes, they don’t pivot to meet the moment and their heroes are primarily assholes. They insist that Chesa Boudin lost because of right wing activists. They think Gavin Newsom would be an excellent presidential candidate (read that this morning), they see nothing wrong with the leaders of BLM spending a little money on themselves, and they have zero problem with death threats against Supreme Court justices and their families. They never admit error, they just shriek louder.

Meanwhile, we’re spending an extra $500 a month on gas, our children haven’t been ok in two years, and violence is suddenly everywhere. But please, tell me how the Washington Post is oppressing you over a bad joke.

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