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Rolling Stone Editor on Why ‘White Fragility’ May Be the ‘Dumbest Book Ever Written’
townhall.com ^ | 7/23/2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 07/24/2020 9:43:43 AM PDT by rktman

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Say what? So when will this denier be fired from the illustrious rollin' stoned mag? HOW DARE YOU!? Some funny excrement right there.
1 posted on 07/24/2020 9:43:43 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

This guy has obviously grown tired of drawing a paycheck.


2 posted on 07/24/2020 9:47:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: rktman

Bookmark


3 posted on 07/24/2020 9:51:51 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: rktman

It’s even dumber than Mein Kampf. But maybe “dumb” is not the right word.


4 posted on 07/24/2020 9:54:03 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: rktman

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.


5 posted on 07/24/2020 9:54:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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6 posted on 07/24/2020 9:59:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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I guessed the author in question from the headline. Matt Taibbi is "woke" all right, he woke up one morning and found the ideological tribe to which he'd subscribed for decades has become tiresome, vicious, hate-obsessed, anti-intellectual, and irredeemably racist.

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.

7 posted on 07/24/2020 10:03:51 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Interesting, as Rolling Stone has been a part of the problem for a long time, a few P.J. O’Rourke columns notwithstanding.


8 posted on 07/24/2020 10:05:23 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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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.


9 posted on 07/24/2020 10:05:48 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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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.


10 posted on 07/24/2020 10:08:02 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: PGR88

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.


11 posted on 07/24/2020 10:11:55 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: rktman

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.


12 posted on 07/24/2020 10:23:46 AM PDT by ksm1
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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.


13 posted on 07/24/2020 10:32:50 AM PDT by ksm1
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

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.


14 posted on 07/24/2020 10:33:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

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.


15 posted on 07/24/2020 10:33:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

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.


16 posted on 07/24/2020 11:30:03 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: rktman

Matt Tiabbi has been writing some very conservatives articles lately-last several years to be exact.

Wonder what changed him.


17 posted on 07/24/2020 11:39:40 AM PDT by setter
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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.


18 posted on 07/24/2020 11:45:18 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ― Yogi Berra)
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To: jmacusa

It was one of those books that every German had to have around the house but probably never read.


19 posted on 07/24/2020 11:47:02 AM PDT by xp38
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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.


20 posted on 07/24/2020 11:56:36 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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