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Sarah Haider 👾
@SarahTheHaider
I've spent half a decade being gaslit by "good, decent liberals" every time I bring up the insanity in progressive organizations, and my conclusion now is that they will never see what they don't want to see.
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Wesley Yang
@wesyang
Today's guest post at Year Zero, by a public schoolteacher in a Blue city, documents the bizarre and destructive policies being implemented under the guise of "racial equity" that are doing harm to the very people they are claimed to help wesleyyang.substack.com/p/yes-things-a
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Sarah Haider 👾
@SarahTheHaider
The second a right-winger is able to weaponize the problems in progressive/allied spaces, the "good liberal" presumes that the account is exaggerated, which creates a cycle no one can break out of.
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Darin L. Rummel
@DarinLRummel
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@SarahTheHaider
I like Fareed's take, tho! Don't you? Not that everyone has to take the same track, of course. And on your point that he got slammed for it... Don't you 'get slammed' for saying what you say? There'll be critics, fair and unfair, no matter what. It just comes with the territory.
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Torgue
@Torguey
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@SarahTheHaider
That's because a great deal of leftwing philosophy was captured by people who want to use it as a pretense for narcissistic indulgences. A certain subset of the human population have a certain kind of mental disorder where they're very intelligent and want to derive emotional sat
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Earl Browder II
@travelliberally
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@SarahTheHaider
If I remember correctly he supported invaded Iraq. Wrong then, wrong now. Can you imagine on Pakistani TV there would be American or UK pundits even if they spoke Urdu giving advice from colonialist how to run Pakistan. Then there's Yasha Mounk telling Ds what we should do.
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