Posted on 07/24/2020 9:43:43 AM PDT by rktman
If there is one non-conservative writer who you should read right now, it's Matt Taibbi. The Rolling Stone editor has been a surgeon in dissecting the Left's uncontrollable descent into insanity. Even if you disagree with most of his work, which I'm sure you will, his analysis of the Left's "woke" awakening is spot on and devastating. Taibbi torched these clowns for their historically illiterate and unhinged tantrum over Independence Day. Now, he's going off on the institutional Left's latest craze: fawning over Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility," a cacophony of intersectionality nonsense that appears to have driven Taibbi crazy just reading it.
It's everything you'd expect to hear if you were forced to sit in some lecture about race quarterbacked by a "woke" lefty. You'd learn nothing about how to solve America's race issues, only that racism can never be eradicated, and that further entrenching racial divisions is the only remedy because unity doesn't appear to be the goal here. That's not an accident. From Martin Luther King to Jackie Robinson, the book appears to do well to pervert any notion of racial progress. There cannot be within this ethos. Taibbi nukes this book from orbit, calling it possibly the dumbest thing ever written, but also notes why it's no shock that it has caught on with lefty audiences, who are obsessed with race.
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This guy has obviously grown tired of drawing a paycheck.
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It’s even dumber than Mein Kampf. But maybe “dumb” is not the right word.
Matt Tiabbi has been on fire recently. I think the scales dropped from his hippie, leftist eyes, and the effects of the Matrix blue pill are wearing off.
It sees the human being as locked into one of three categories: members of oppressed groups, allies, and white oppressors.
Yes, it does, and the price of refuge in the moral sanctum sanctorum of "ally" is abject and incessant groveling. This is truly ugly stuff - it is precisely the sort of hate propaganda that pervaded 1930's Germany, and the Jews found out that all "ally" could and would be retracted at will in favor of a gas chamber queue. Every single day passing gets us deeper into Aryan race theory in blackface and it isn't slowing down. Qui bono? Race agitators and seminar charlatans are making a killing, pun not necessarily intended. The money's in corporations and academic institutions, and they fall for this sort of stuff like dominoes on a paint shaker. White Fragility is making its author a very wealthy woman. And you will purchase it, citizen, and you will attend the seminars or you'll be fired.
Interesting, as Rolling Stone has been a part of the problem for a long time, a few P.J. O’Rourke columns notwithstanding.
When you buy into the premise, you’re kind of forced to follow it to its conclusions. An insane premise will lead inevitably to insane results. So it’s no wonder some of these liberals are conflicted.
Something that has been on my mind since I first heard of “white fragility”. If “whitey fragility” exists, then by reason “black fragility” must exist as well. How else can you explain the over the top tantrum blacks throw when ever someone throws real facts out about where the real racism in the country exists.
We ought to pray for him!
Waking up lefties is kind of a hobby of mine.
It’s a Spiritual Battle at the root however.
I’ve heard good thing about Taibbi, but that said, I’m not clicking on a Rolling Stone link ever since “A Rape On Campus”. If he has any self-respect, and if he truly is a good journalist, he should quit and work for a legitimate organization.
Yeah, I agree. I think it’s important to draw a distinction between people who merely have left of center views, and people who are radicalized. If they’re radicalized, then there really isn’t much that you can do. Show them all the facts that you want, and they’ll dismiss it as racist or some other -ist, or some Critical Theory bullshit on how there is no truth or something. But for people who just maybe want more social programs, ok, I personally disagree, but maybe we can find some common ground on areas like not having pro-crime DAs.
The conclusion of leftist environmentalism was obvious—they should save the Earth by killing themselves.
The conclusion of leftist white guilt is equally obvious—the white leftist can only redress racial wrongs by killing themselves.
Racism is evil.
Whites are racists.
Whites must die.
You (white lefty) are evil.
You must die.
Easy peasy.
Leftist is a death cult.
The conclusion of leftist environmentalism was obvious—they should save the Earth by killing themselves.
The conclusion of leftist white guilt is equally obvious—the white leftist can only redress racial wrongs by killing themselves.
Racism is evil.
Whites are racists.
Whites must die.
You (white lefty) are evil.
You must die.
Easy peasy.
Leftist is a death cult.
Funny you mention “Mein Kampf’’. For the first time in my life, (I’m 64) and have studied the history of Hitler and the Nazi Party for decades about a year ago I tried reading the thing. “Mein Kampf’’ that is. Holy Smokes what an incomprehensible, incoherent , turgid pile of bs! After a few chapters I had to put it down. The bloody thing gave me a headache.
Matt Tiabbi has been writing some very conservatives articles lately-last several years to be exact.
Wonder what changed him.
Well, he still lobs several insults at conservatives, Republicans, and Trump along the way. The guy still needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
It was one of those books that every German had to have around the house but probably never read.
I’ve actually read many of his writings over the last 6-7 years. He’s always been the Bill Maher type: able to see the truth on some issues, and more open-minded than the usual leftist.
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