Honestly, the fact that what the Spanish have been doing recently in Catalonia has the legal blessing of the EU scares me.
Absolutely agreed. It's appalling.
. 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.
Absolutely.
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).
Idk - I'm very doubtful that the Democrats would've won with a candidate who wasn't a WOC myself, but I don't think saying they would have is necessarily blaming it on Harris. Trump has clearly benefited from and used to his advantage sexism and racism. But yeah obvs it becomes part of the same old "she isn't electable" thing for some people.
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Date: 2024-12-11 07:45 pm (UTC)Absolutely agreed. It's appalling.
. 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.
Absolutely.
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).
Idk - I'm very doubtful that the Democrats would've won with a candidate who wasn't a WOC myself, but I don't think saying they would have is necessarily blaming it on Harris. Trump has clearly benefited from and used to his advantage sexism and racism. But yeah obvs it becomes part of the same old "she isn't electable" thing for some people.