Honestly, the fact that what the Spanish have been doing recently in Catalonia has the legal blessing of the EU scares me.
"they all congratulated each other on being able to have a civil conversation about politics. They were white, and wealthy enough for a holiday in London. Of course they were able to be civil. They can afford healthcare and a flight somewhere for an abortion."
THIS. SO MUCH THIS. (And not only USians, obv.)
Anyone who doesn't want to hear my honest opinion on US politics and western Nice Middle Class Liberals in general should scroll past this.... I didn't know any African Americans who believed Trump would lose on either occasion (and interestingly everyone in my local bus queue, with an extremely different demographic - voiced similar opinions, albeit for different reasons). So the outcome was no surprise to me. Also, as someone in touch with western left of centre politics I'm very aware that Nice Middle-Class Liberals relentlessly sabotage precisely those groups who have historically proved effective against the rise of fascism (with small edge-case exceptions for some Nice White feminisms), while wailing and wringing their hands ineffectively about the aforementioned rise of fascism. And I don't think the Democrats would've won if their candidate hadn't been a WoC either, that's merely the standard Nice Middle-Class Liberal racist backlash (the same MM-CL racism that blamed Trump's initial win on Obama being Black which wasn't true either - at least blame Obama for what he actually did and failed to do). /scrolling is freeeeeeeeeee
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Date: 2024-12-11 05:47 pm (UTC)"they all congratulated each other on being able to have a civil conversation about politics. They were white, and wealthy enough for a holiday in London. Of course they were able to be civil. They can afford healthcare and a flight somewhere for an abortion."
THIS. SO MUCH THIS. (And not only USians, obv.)
Anyone who doesn't want to hear my honest opinion on US politics and western Nice Middle Class Liberals in general should scroll past this....
I didn't know any African Americans who believed Trump would lose on either occasion (and interestingly everyone in my local bus queue, with an extremely different demographic - voiced similar opinions, albeit for different reasons). So the outcome was no surprise to me. Also, as someone in touch with western left of centre politics I'm very aware that Nice Middle-Class Liberals relentlessly sabotage precisely those groups who have historically proved effective against the rise of fascism (with small edge-case exceptions for some Nice White feminisms), while wailing and wringing their hands ineffectively about the aforementioned rise of fascism. And I don't think the Democrats would've won if their candidate hadn't been a WoC either, that's merely the standard Nice Middle-Class Liberal racist backlash (the same MM-CL racism that blamed Trump's initial win on Obama being Black which wasn't true either - at least blame Obama for what he actually did and failed to do).
/scrolling is freeeeeeeeeee