5503

A truly vile woman. It’s good she was probably pressured to withdraw.

5504

This alt right piece of kapo shit has been running fake news stories on antifa and anti-Trump and anti-racism causes for a while now, part of those alt right ****s who run Quillette.

5505

Sick piece of trash.

5506

I had a few messages with Quillette when they appeared and purported to be left/centrist view with focus on identity politics with regards to publishing some articles I had but then Trump/Brexit happened and I did a 180. They went full fash within 6 months so glad my name isnt to anything.

5507

Shame, I was really looking forwared to your detailed analysis on the “very real differences” between phrenology and craniometry ;)

5508

Just a reminder that all politics are identity based and the term identity politics is used mostly to legitimize one group’s politics 100% of the time and to try and dismiss other groups’ politics whenever someone feels like it.

5509

No one was writing about privilege theory in 1987 because it wasnt until the following year that…

In 1988, American feminist and anti-racism activist Peggy McIntosh published “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies”. Here, McIntosh documented forty-six privileges which she, as a white person, experienced in the United States. As an example, “I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me”, and “I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection”. McIntosh described white privilege as an “invisible package of unearned assets” which white people do not want to acknowledge, and which leads to them being confident, comfortable, and oblivious about racial issues, while non-white people become unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated.[11] McIntosh’s essay has been credited for stimulating academic interest in privilege, which has been extensively studied in the decades since.

It is these modern sociological concepts that people refer to when talking about Identity Politics.

5510

Identity politics is not a term that should be used. It is simply a means to legitimatize some politics while dismissing others.

5511

Willie Horton ad was also 1988.

5512

Alt-Right/Neo-Nazi infiltration of Right Wing media - starting with the Daily Caller (Tucker Carlson’s virtual rag, whoda thunk it?):

Both Social Matter and Bennett’s public-facing career at the Caller soon got in the way of personal blogging. Bennett fell in deeper with D.C.’s underground far-right a bit over a year after he started at the Caller. In fall 2015, he attended the white nationalist, white supremacist National Policy Institute’s conference for Social Matter . “It was great to catch up with old friends and put names to faces for some of the folks I haven’t had the chance to meet in person yet,” Bennett observed in a snippet of the article republished at the white supremacist forum Stormfront. (Social Matter has, as of this writing, been taken off the web, and even when it was live it almost religiously purged its archive.) The event, which was held in the heart of Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club, attracted somewhere between 100–200 participants for a full day of talks from prominent white supremacists. A hefty discount for those attendees under 30 guaranteed the room was packed with young, curious racists like Bennett.

And Bennett was a frequent participant in the “Morning Hate” thread, which proved a safe space for budding young conservative journalists of a certain bent, even though it constituted just a small portion of D.C.’s underground white nationalist scene. Anti-Semitism was plentiful and crude. “Take a shower, Jew Boy,” read the subject line of one of Elliott’s emails

5513

That’s an excellent article.

5514
5515

This is comical. But why would Wohl do this? Because he can’t help but lie?

5516

He’s just really dumb, like Trump.

5517

Also a complete fraud, like Trump.

5518

I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever worn black face. I don’t think so. But hey, I’m not a government official, so who really cares?

Ivey last week apologized after a 1967 college radio interview surfaced of her then-fiance Ben LaRavia describing her wearing “black paint all over her face” in a skit called “Cigar Butts” at skit night at the Baptist Student Union.

“I was shocked to hear the tape. I didn’t remember being at the Baptist Student Union in any kind of skit like that for sure. But I’ve apologized for it. I should not have done that. I know it’s important to apologize to the people of Alabama,” Ivey said Tuesday.

“The NAACP believes Governor Ivey needs to do the right thing and resign as Governor and let someone lead the people of Alabama into a brighter and more inclusive future, not the status quo,” Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama NAACP, said in a written statement.

5519

mmm 1967 might not be… I mean it’s not the 80s.

5520

I’ll be honest - a single horribly racist thing done over 50 years ago is bad, but I don’t consider it “you need to resign immediately” bad. Surely there’s other awful things to dig up that are more recent? And given this is Alabama we’re talking about: if that’s the worst that people can dig up, maybe this is the least bad option to run the place.

5521

I kinda agree? Plus she, unlike many, says that she was wrong to do so. So yay?

5522

This is a misstep by the Alabama NAACP. I assume they have other reasons they want her out of there; they should focus on that and do it via voting not this.