If I thought for a second brexit was animated by leftist concerns I would indulge this criticismhttps://twitter.com/greg_palast/status/746855602094149634 …
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
I don't understand why people are refusing to separate the forces which gave rise to Brexit from the result of Brexit
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
Whatever happened to consequentialism?
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
OK, give me a few tweets to explain. The main reason people tend to cite as why Brexit can't possibly be a victory for
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
the Left is because the campaign was largely driven by xenophobes and elements unsavory. There's truth to that. But people
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
seem too wrapped up in the relatively transient concern of which actors did what over the course of the campaign itself
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
if the outcome has desirous effects, then the factors which gave rise to that outcome shld be secondary or tertiary concerns
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
Does that mean you condone xenophobia? No. It just means that xenophobic elements which might be temporarily vindicated...
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Replying to @mtracey @adamjohnsonNYC
... don't need to dictate the final calculus as to whether Brexit will bring desirable effects.
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If xenophobes are vindicated, that's an undesirable, but short-term problem. Brexit outcome arguably good in the long-term.
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Replying to @mtracey
well, intent matters. And while the act itself may be good in theory it can't be divorced from forces that brought it about
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