I’ve had one other exchange with you and this is exactly what you did last time. You had written your idiot’s take on the Bernie Sander’s “Rape Fantasy” essay. Your bio says you’re an english teacher. You should know better. Any literate person very wells knows the intent and context of that essay. It was a very 1970s essay about sublimated sexual anxieties in a repressed and violent society. In my other response I’d said that that essay was no more misogynist than anything Susan Sontag would’ve written in the 70s. Anyone with even the most basic ability to parse truth from bullshit knows it was it was not some morbid male fantasy published in an academic environment. To characterise it otherwise means you’re either illiterate or disingenuous. So which are you? So when you say “You know nothing about me,” this is untrue. From your writing I know that you’re disingenuous. I know that your intent is to try and paint current Leftists as animated by misogyny. The truth is the New Left is animated by what leftists have always been motivated by: actually being on the Left, as evidenced by what went down in Charlottesville: it was the same leftists that Hillary Clinton fanatics have been trying to smear as racists/misogynists Bernie Bros, and now the Alt Left, for two years now, that actually confronted racism, not the HRC crowd. If you wanna deny that, go ahead. I’m sure other HRC fans will be happy to support you in your delusion.
So of course when I responded to you before you laid your personal history on me; how you were maced at a protest and made “an honorary Black Panther.” Sorry, gagging at your stupid oblivion. Assuming any of this is actually true, it’s still silly. Notice how for you this is all about your personal identity? You distinguished yourself as a “progressive” back at the height of the 1960s culture war. You are practically a Black Panther or whatever and we are all just really “Bros” even though most of us are actually women. How about it doesn’t matter what happened to you when you were young. These days you’re not on the Left and have clearly devoted yourself to smearing those of us that are. And of course before you did the same thing: tried to lecture at me as if I were a child. You can try and pretend there aren’t distinctions, that I’m just identifying with a clique or something, but there are distinctions. Single Payer Healthcare. The fight for 15. An end to the Drug War. Free public Education. If you’re against these things then you’re not on the left. If you spend your time trying to muddy the waters with inane misrepresentations of the Left you’re not only not on the Left but are in fact an enemy of the Left. Hey white lady! It doesn’t matter that you think you’re a fucking Black Panther in your heart if your mission is to slander the very people most devoted to fighting for racial justice, and don’t kid yourself, again: it’s the Left who set the precedent to stand up against Nazis, not HRC liberals.
As for your line about how my “litmus test” is “authoritarian,” that’s so fuckin’ dumb I can’t even laugh at it. “If you actually have commitment to actual policies you’re the same as nazis.” Can you at least admit that characterizing an entire generation of Leftist as secretly racist/misogynist is bullshit? Can you at least do that much? Can you admit that maybe, just maybe the Left is actually what it says it is: the Left, and that the Democratic Party has become more to the Right than a huge swath of the voting population; rather than some bullshit about Bernie Bros and disingenuous readings of essays that talk about sex.
And just so you know what you’re dealing with, this is the consensus view of the Left. I dare you to listen. An just for the record, what you believe is that establishment Democrats are the true progressives and that the socialist left are all motivated by secret white privilege or whatever, even though most of us are women and we’ve tons of black leftists. That’s the thing you’re holding onto so you can keep clinging to HRC. I think even you know you’re full of shit and are tiring of this.
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