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Unbelievably unacceptable but thank you for letting us know who you are.
Someone asked me why someone "would ever like a monster like Louis Farrakhan?" I provided this as context that in one bubble he's a monster, but in another bubble he's a lifesaver.
"while it's true for many of you that Louis Farrakhan represents bigotry" is knowingly terrible framework. A person who is hateful is hateful. What's more, every single bigot has people in their life who will tell you how the bigot helped them, saved their life.
To respond to someone saying "why would anyone like him" you cannot parse that SOME people think he's a bigot but OTHERS think... Unless you are one of the "others," which is 100% how your tweet reads. Otherwise you'd say "he is a bigot, but there are those who ignore that"
I hear that. My intent is a little different. It is to show that in our bubbles people see each other in radically different ways. And that when we ignore what goes on in those bubbles we misunderstand a great deal of how the world works.
Do you want me to go through racists, Islamaphobes, misogynists and even anti-semites I've known in my life and tell you the time they were nice to me? Or how they lent someone money or volunteer at hospitals, etc? Is that worthwhile to do & decontextualize them from their hate?
I'm really not sure why you think that's useful. Of course there are those that know bigots. Some admire them b/c they don't know of the bigotry. Some admire them despite the bigotry. It's worthwhile to find out the difference & inform the former and take caution with the latter
and to be clear, your tweet makes it very hard to believe you're not the latter.
Osama Bin Laden, Al Capone, John Wayne Gacy all had families who loved them, gave a lot of time and money to charity and inspired young men to join them. They were monsters in one bubble (a very big bubble) and life-savers in others. Your logic is not helping you here.
If someone loved David Duke, and claimed it had nothing to do with bigotry, would you present that in the same context?
I get what you're trying to do, and yes, we contain multitudes -- but you can't separate this from Farrakhan's antisemitism. Saving someone's life w antisemitism doesn't make it better; it calls the ethics of the saved into question. This is a really bizarre hill to die on.
Farrakhan's cult appeal is one response to racism in the US but that doesn't make it good. He's a self aggrandizing charlatan.
so I guess those of us who hear Farrakhan call Hitler a “great man” and consider that monstrous are actually in a “bubble.” good god what an incredible thing for a civil rights activist to say.
And you can’t argue with results. Brother Ben X is not the only man who claims Farrakhan saved his life. This is demonstrable. When liberals earn a track record, then they can speak with moral authority. When a bigot is DOING more good than you are time to check yourself.
I mean sure, Mussolini was a fascist monster in some bubbles, but in other bubbles he made the trains run on time!
why are we prioritizing a cis black man’s experience? It doesnt speak for everyones.
In that same context, we have to understand why people love Trump, then. They don't see him as a monster... therefore, it doesn't matter if he's a monster.
At first cult leaders seem like life savers to their followers. But if white people deserve better so do Black people You ARE condescending
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