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There was a time not so long ago (maybe 12 months?) in which I might have nodded my head at a comment like this. After a solid year of being told that not voti
by StevePerkins 10y ago
There was a time not so long ago (maybe 12 months?) in which I might have nodded my head at a comment like this.
After a solid year of being told that not voting for Bernie makes me a pro-globalization racist, and being told that questioning the EU makes me an anti-globalization racist, I'm kinda burned out. I've just accepted that people on the Internet are going to call me racist no matter what.
Sadly, I just don't care anymore. I mean... on a substantive level I still do, and I still hold the same left-leaning principles that I held a year ago. But I no longer feel the same wince of recoil at hearing the word "racist" anymore. The current climate is pure histrionics, and people have cried wolf enough times to leave me numb.
Obviously, the commenter was referring to the "people" who live in the UK and voted yesterday. I mean... duh. Regardless of one's position on Brexit one way or the other, this retort was absurd.
- johncolanduoni 10y ago> voting for Bernie makes me a pro-globalization racist I "get" the racist part (as in I get the causal structure in other people's brains that makes them come up with this, not that I agree with it), but not the pro-globalization part. Bernie Sanders was pretty vocal about his voting record on free trade (NAFTA, etc.), which he was consistently against.
- StevePerkins 10y agonot voting for Bernie (Although there is no shortage of people who will say that Bernie voters were privileged and racist for their condescension toward the black vote too. The fact that you can include or omit the "not", and people don't notice, kinda underscores the point.)
- johncolanduoni 10y agoSorry, I misread! Depressingly enough people calling you racist for it remains believable.
- airesQ 10y agoI've been hearing this type of complaints recently. And it is funny how it sounds like a call for political correctness. From a point of the political spectrum that usually despises it.
- venomsnake 10y agoReading the op - it is not complaint, but - don't really give a fuck fatigue. Just shouting racism gets you nowhere in the discourse nowadays. You are also expected to provide arguments.
- Malician 10y agoThat poster doesn't seem to be calling for anyone to lose their job or have their life ruined by using the term they don't like. Instead, the poster is saying that they just aren't listening anymore.