David Dante Troutt is professor of law at Rutgers Law School and director of the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity.
Posted on 01/22/2018 11:47:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For years, Harvey Weinstein’s and Donald Trump’s private audiences could be divided into two types of (often) men: his vocal supporters and his silent endorsers.
The outspoken supporters — whether casual misogynists or white supremacists — are henchmen who helped take down women’s careers or allies in Congress who are themselves proponents of a white nationalist agenda. Most critics of both Weinstein and Trump consider this “base” group the real problem. For they are the fringe who have somehow become the norm.
But the people who really sustain misogyny and white supremacy are the quiet endorsers. Because they have the power to denounce the words, to reject the assumptions and, if necessary, to walk out of the room. They were the first to know and could have rallied — or become — the opposition.
And because so many of us have acted like quiet endorsers, Weinstein and Trump have the power they have (or, in Weinstein’s case, had).
The president of the United States cannot be a white supremacist.
One way for each of us to achieve this is to act on the difference between opposition and criticism. The former is active and bold. It offers an alternative vision of power relationships, wrapped in specific goals, and meets them. Criticism, on the other hand, is witty, cerebral and insightful — but has all the staying power of a wave. Facebook outrages have their place, but true opposition is organized.
Time’s up. We have to choose the republic we believe in.
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David Dante Troutt is professor of law at Rutgers Law School and director of the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity.
How are we going to clear the morons out of our universities?
Dear Left: Please try to stick to Trump policies and actions, not YOUR judgment of his words.
If by his ACTIONS you can prove your cartoonish super-villain caricature of Trump, then do it.
How are we going to clear the morons out of our universities?
NBC = Nothing But Counterfeit; Nothing But Crap
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. Why not post the TRUTH about the lies? You don't have to use the liar as the source to post a headline that alerts readers to a published lie. Use yourself as the source or a reasonably reliable source that addresses what the Lying Leftist source is saying. That way you have a headline and a source that your readers can reasonably rely on and they go away more informed about the lie AND the truth. You done the Patriotic Right a service. Much better than the mindless repetition of lying sources and their lying headlines.
IMO, if a poster can't be bothered to do that, then they shouldn't post. If they're going to be bothered to post, do it right. We're on a mission here.
What planet does this guy think he lives on? White people have been subjected to reverse discrimination for decades, while blacks have increasingly become their own worst enemies.
That would be those promoting sex without consequences and reliance on government handouts over education and hard work.
Time for more walls. I think it is too late to clear them out.
Couldn’t tell you, but it has to be done.
I’d recommend a federal lawsuit demanding equality on university campuses.
90/10 doesn’t quite cut it when tax dollars are going to support these places.
Seems like the Department of Justice could declare it unbalanced to the point of students not having access to a balanced education.
I wonder if a blue eyed octaroon would agree that the African countries should be ruled by black people only, making them black supremacists.
Oddly I think he would.
So now keeping quiet isn’t enough for these zealots. You have to join in the denouncements. This is exactly what a totalitarian wants.
You are guilty of Crimethink! All of you!
The Ministry of Truth will be visiting you soon.
Well then I guess its a good thing he isn't one.
No different than the PRC or North Korea.
And yet there are pictures of Hillary all over the place with Weinstein. What world is this guy living in?
Meanwhile over at Newsweek, they’re suggesting Trump may be the Anti-Christ.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3624919/posts
I was just trying to research campaign finance laws, because the MSM is so anti-Trump, anti-Republican and pro-Democrat that they seem like PACS that should have to register with the government. They might try to counter with Fox News, but conservative media has nowhere near all the outlets they have that are blatantly pro-Democrat. They control virtually the entire major media.
“For starters, we can get rid of the misandrists.”
Okay, but how, specifically? If it must be done, then what must we do?
As in the UK, Canada and Europe....
Rule 303?
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