Grease Trap: 18 June 2021
Added 2021-06-18 22:59:01 +0000 UTCThe guys talk about Weird Al, class reductionism, direct action, and more.
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Racism is hating people for being different than you (with a color scheme thrown in for stereotyping). If people have common ground they will be more similar, thus dissolving the idea X people are different, thus dissolving racism. TJ is putting the racist cart before the common ground horse.
T Chess
2021-06-25 22:57:26 +0000 UTC“Actually” TJ, the term Barbarian was a racial slur used by the Romans for the ~Germans/French. The world has always been racist and will always be racist. Paul is absolutely right this time, find a common ground. That is de way.
T Chess
2021-06-25 22:11:17 +0000 UTCI generally agree with Paul's vision of a labor movevement to advance leftist policies. The sad thing is, however, is that you can not have one overarching labor movement. Such a movement would sooner than later become an apparatus for its leaders and their cronies to enrich themselves and gain power and influence (plain old corruption). You can not have unions that are too big and powerful (just take a look at police unions e.g) just as you can not have companies or corporations that are too big to fail.
Matti Czuba
2021-06-21 00:31:31 +0000 UTCOk, try saying nigger to a black guy and see how well he takes it. To me there's nothing wrong with using language that doesn't pointlessly make people feel like subhuman dogshit. This pearl-clutching attitude is way more moronic and destructive of a slippery slope than not saying hateful shit for no benefit. It's essentially "Oh no, I can't be a complete cunt now without any recourse :( ". It's not like some important ideas are being censored, it's called consideration for others and not being socially retarded. A baffling concept to some DFF fans as the subreddit makes clear, but still.
DoomKid
2021-06-20 10:47:37 +0000 UTC"I've been trying to excise certain words from my vocabulary." What does this accomplish? This post-structuralist attack on language is precisely why the new left is dangerous. Say what you want about economic issues and race issues and class consciousness, curtailing language is the most effective way to control people, and it all stems from (predominately French) post-WWII academia and "intellectuals", people who have almost zero connection to the real world, who exist in a metaphysical world of "is and oughts" and "the television watches you". What's so funny about what Paul said is that is what neoliberalism is. It is soft-racism and bigotry, saying that "I'm a privileged white man and to acknowledge my superior status I'm going patronize you and say 'n-word' but you know I'm really saying nigger because I don't want to upset the privative black man's feelings." It's why the has a MLK jr. day and not a Malcolm X day, because MLK jr. is safe and marketable. So fuck this moral grandstanding Paul and other neolibs do.
Daniel
2021-06-19 22:47:39 +0000 UTC
