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In our current climate, being blocked and ostracized has lost all meaning. Look at the Lt. Governor race in Virginia last night. Black woman, ex-marine, homeles
by busymom0 5y ago
In our current climate, being blocked and ostracized has lost all meaning. Look at the Lt. Governor race in Virginia last night. Black woman, ex-marine, homeless shelter operator ran as GOP and won. Twitter mob and media blames it on "racism" as usual.
> "When you overuse an accusation and everyone can see it's just a cynical and self-serving weapon of character assassination rather than an actual conviction, you trivialize it and drain it of its potency for when it's merited, so that nobody cares any longer when it's hurled." - Glenn Greenwald
- vmception 5y agoIts nice to see it play out. It wasn't clear what the outcome of this idea would be, in LA and NYC (parts of the country I frequent) it is very common to see people with very prideful exclusionary rhetoric in favor of left goals. In person, on twitter, directly on their profile on dating apps, at comedy clubs vilifying moderates and independents in their routines. So it is interesting to see these election results reported as a consequence from elected officials attempting to actually go further left. Regarding your observation about the Lt. Gov, it is nice to see more independent and random amalgamations of American ideals within black American candidates, as people have overly discounted the possibility of any minority objectively prioritizing a political goal above physical attributes they were born with, which is an extremely discriminatory assumption that people are still comfortable making.