Link to this fucking nerd: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1686818661204721664
So Ana Kasparian from TYT did the classic: ‘The left’s focus on identity issues divides us! I’m done with it!’ after being called out for being a TERF and repeating typical transphobic right-wing rhetoric, which she constantly doubles down on.
This TYT Having believes means absolutely nothing to these idiots. Liberals will gladly defend TERFs as long as they’re politically aligned with them.
It’s always the same shit with these types of assholes. Conservatives do their culture wars, spread false narratives and implement laws criminalizing trans people’s existence, and then when we defend ourselves and push back against the lies and bigotry that spreads even among supposed ‘allies’, all of a sudden we’re the ones responsible for the culture wars and being “identitarian”.
And yes, in that video Kasparian used the term “identitarian” he is, he doesn’t want to look in the mirror and admit he’s full of shit, and that his social progressivism is just performative bullshittery.
Every single day I lose more faith in these so called ‘allies’. Fucking useless.
My rant is over. Gonna grab some more ganja to relax.
I hate it when libs(chuds at this point really) give condescending descriptions on strategy from the left when it always boils down to ‘sacrifice the people of color and trans people! We can’t save everyone!’
How about we put the wealthy white people last in the conversation and tell them their concerns and safety can wait until the next election?
And it always seems to escape them that the strategy they advocate pretty much describes the status quo.
Ben is so fucking smug for someone who knows almost nothing but being an academic snob and pretending to be the logical adult in every room he somehow squeezes into.
Repurposing something I wrote earlier:
Ben Burgis is a hack. He, along with Douglas Lain, used to be apart of Zero Books and made Youtube videos for that publishing house’s channel. They’re both Left Coms who complain about cancel culture and political correctness (Burgis was even on Rogan). They even made a few videos bashing Michael Parenti that appear to have been deleted from the Zero Books channel. Even one of Lain’s videos is an interview with Glenn Greenwald with a thumbnail that says “Flashback: Glenn Greenwald is not your enemy”, while Burgis actually released a book with the title, “Canceling Comedians While The World Burns”.
“Identitarian” is literally a thing that nazis tried to rebrand themselves to. It was also a popular fascist community on Voat.
Anyone calling trans people identitarians for calling out transphobia is just doing “the lgbt people are the real fascists” in a crypto-nazi underhanded way.
emphasize universal material issues
There’s that muh materialism leftist-baiting totem word again. It’s like how uses “logic” “reason” and “facts” in a sloppy way that sounds authoritative but is misusing the words for petty and selfish ends.
I used to assume it was just an occasional Hexbear thing to defend treats, but I’m seeing it more often elsewhere now.
it’s what’s come to be known as “vulgar” materialism, basically people going into analysis half cocked because they only have a vague idea of what materialism is
There’s an even more vulgar materialism that has the stench of Justin Roiland and his fandom on it that usually involves edgy reductionistic statements about how consciousness/love/insert-concept-here doesn’t exist or “is just chemicals” which is implied to mean it is meaningless, unlike being a smug nihilistic asshole which apparently transcends such fetters.