CantTrip [she/her]
On NPR early on, they talked to two ‘experts’ who were medical doctors, a listener-submitted question was about the efficacy of masks. Both said the droplets carrying the virus would escape through the gaps around the nose, rendering them useless. In Asian countries, you see a lot of masks, that’s more of a cultural thing, one said.
A couple weeks later masks were being recommended by the CDC but of course NPR never publicized a redaction, just pretended that of course they were saying it all along - they are the bastion of Good Information, bestowed upon them by God, immune to the failings that non-liberal journalism can suffer.
Your personal experience is that you think Jimmy Dore has some sort of positive impact on leftist discourse or exposure and shouldn’t be disregarded out of hand.
That’s fine, that’s an opinion, and I’m sure people would be interested to hear you out on it.
The rest was your guess at other people’s personal experiences and painting your opinion as the “Black-approved” one, which is then equated with the correct leftist view.
We see that tactic all the time when white liberals defend Bill Clinton.
This comment is a textbook example of using PoC’s preferences (as you estimate them) as a stand- in for legitimacy in your reasoning.
And is the ultimate “white college educated middle class” thing to do.
A lot of Black women are inspired to be politically engaged by Neera Tanden. Does that mean Neera Tanden is good?
This line of rhetoric is very patronizing at best, objectifying at worse.
I actually know people who are most affected by neoliberal capitalism in real life - working class POCs
“Before I make my argument, let me just say, I have lots of Black friends…”
Oh fuck comrade I’m sorry. I was arrested long after getting clean on the bullshit ‘we found something suspicious in your car’ which they searched because dogs signaled, who were brought because I “seemed nervous.” It was a weekend morning. My boyfriend was sleeping in so I took the car to get donuts and run by the dollar store - it was rare for me to go off alone at that time. $300 to get the car out.
So my boyfriend was you.
We also went through a post-traumatic phase where we both preferred I not go anywhere alone. I felt - and still feel - that if I get pulled over, it’s game over. They see the history of addiction and find a way to find “something.” It’s stressful to always go together, stressful to worry when you’re apart.
But at least my history is something I made some choices to create - your gf being trans is just an inherent quality of who she is.
Fuck all of that. I hope things get better. Know that PTSD, stress, anxiety, anger, is 100% a common and reasonable reaction and may last a long time. Talk to each other about how you’re feeling (as soon as you can). You guys are tough, your gf is hella tough with the things she’s been through.
Things get better the longer you get from being totally justice non- involved. One thing that helps is even though we’re poor, we save to an emergency fund, so if I get fucked over again the financial element can’t be held over us. That’s empowering and stress relieving.
Did you try to find a new home on Reddit after the ban? What’s the scene there for ex-CTH posters? I’ve noticed r/blackwolffeed has a lot more activity now, full on conversations that expand beyond the posted episode.
Anyway I’m glad you found your way here!
The list of issues that directly affect cis women and not trans women is pretty short: abortion access, menstruation needs, OBGYN/childbirth services, etc. My trans comrades have always had my back on those issues.
So we know Arielle’s opinions are about “safety in locker rooms” and other issues that - if they were good faith - directly affect trans women, too. But they’re not in good faith, they’re transphobic garbage.
You can’t point to an example of a feminist talking about negligent, for-profit childbirth centers and getting called a TERF for it. I’ve never seen that.
The War on Drugs is in many ways the root of exploding police budgets…
Pedantic point, maybe, but the real root of those things was a mix of racism and a desire to violently oppress poor people to benefit the wealthy. The War on Drugs was a powerful means to do this, but without it, there would have been something else.
“The War on Bad Childhoods,” where Black and/or poor parents are surveilled/incarcerated/beaten/shook down for “yelling” at their kids, perhaps?
OMG this was my experience too.
“Doesn’t stuff like this happen all the time?” I had an anxious mother, and I was (surprise!) an anxious child.
I was oddly comforted that this was seen as uniquely bad - thankfully it didn’t make me more anxious… quite the opposite.
Really cool to hear someone else shared this reaction.