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Truly we live in strange times when Jacobin is promoting a book written by a senior fellow from the Brookings Institution.
by ch4s3 3y ago
Truly we live in strange times when Jacobin is promoting a book written by a senior fellow from the Brookings Institution.
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- PaulHoule 3y agoIt’s a sign of how bad the problem is, that tendency we have to “drive by looking in the rear view mirror” as McLuhan said, and the reality that the left has become polarized and painted itself into a corner on issues of sex and gender.
- ch4s3 3y ago[flagged]
- PaulHoule 3y agoOther topics are a lot worse but I see where you are coming from.
- ch4s3 3y agoYeah, that's surely the case but I know better and don't comment on those.
- danjoredd 3y agoAre the crazies those that you disagree with or don't like? That kind of language is exactly what is polarizing America.
- ch4s3 3y agoNo I mean the people who jump to conclusions about what you do or don't agree with. The wacky MRA types, the anti-MRA folks who go so far in the opposite direction that they basically espouse misandry. The bizarre replies about porn that seem to have been deleted by the mods. I'm actually quite interested in a nuanced conversation. That's the source of my comment about strange times when Jacobin and Brookings agree. That usually signals a real problem.
- ipnon 3y agoWe are all centrists in denial. It is extremely difficult to enact any truly leftist or rightist policy in the United States (relative to the American definition of the center). I believe it has been critically referred to as the “extreme center,” but it clearly has beneficial moderating effects as well, as we can see from the strange bedfellows responsible for this article being published.