The Judean People's Front

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Been there a couple of times too. In one of the initiatives I joined nothing was done because not everyone from the group agreed that they were horrific racists basically. Didn't matter that people never did anything racist, never had racist thoughts and spent their time and money actually trying to fight racism, they were still KKK via unconscious bias or something and their unwillingness to admit it was just the proof of it. So before anything could have been done we had to understand and get this horrific racism among us under control somehow, which was hard because we could never even get aware of our own racism. Also, actually doing something is dangerous because we might somehow micro aggress white people of colour or trans or some other community (in a way we can never understand). So instead of doing shit we just purged the group of everyone and died. Yeah, that will show them.

Originally posted by eyelid at The Judean People's Front

Oh man, leftists. The circular firing squad of the last few days is so painful to watch. At this point, if you wear a safety pin you are racist, and if you don't you are also racist. Also, you just are racist, there is literally no difference between you and Steve Bannon. Especially if you have the temerity to be a white woman, but also if you are not, don't worry! Also, everything is your fault, and fuck your feelings.

This is how we are treating one another. Can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to be part of this!

The lawyers of the left group I'm in, which was formed to do volunteer legal work for defense against Trump, is asking that somehow, in doing our volunteer legal work, we... make sure that diverse attorney voices are heard. ??! And is also proposing to kick all attorneys out of the group who work in The Wrong Jobs, like prosecution or government-side immigration or big business.

The only thing saving me here is my sense of humor. I've gotten to cite Life of Brian and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today. The left is imitating art.

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[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

People need to stop with the naming everyone a racists who has an opposing view. 

I blame the media for a lot of this nonsense though.  They create the fear in people. 

Athena

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[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm not entirely convinced that Bannon is any more racist than any other white American male in his 60s. Which is to say, if he heard the slogan, "Black lives matter!", he'd snort and declaim, "White lives matter, too!"

In this particular interview, Bannon doesn't sound all that different from Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren except he inserts the phrase "Judeo-Christian" into every other sentence. (Possibly because he's speaking at the Vatican?) He almost sounds like a Marxist when he talks about how the Tea Party was a reaction to crony capitalism. These words are the most interesting in view of his emergence as the alt.right white nationalist poster boy: ... there’s always elements who turn up at these things, whether it’s militia guys or whatever. Some that are fringe organizations. My point is that over time it all gets kind of washed out, right? People understand what pulls them together, and the people on the margins I think get marginalized more and more.

[found-world.livejournal.com]

I found this thing, but maybe this is par for many white 60s American males, too.

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/11/16/2331221/steve-bannon-suggests-having-too-many-asian-tech-ceos-undermines-civic-society?sbsrc=md

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Well, H-1B visas have long been a subject of contention. Basically because it's not at all clear that the companies who are hiring these people are doing the due diligence to find out that there aren't American citizens who are qualified to do the jobs.

So, I'm not convinced that this necessarily qualifies as racism.

[bichoose.livejournal.com]

Winnie the Poo...will always bring a calm thought to your frontal lobes, in winter you can sit inside him and he will keep you warm...in summer he loves to throw Poo sticks standing on the bridge over the river of life oh yes lets not forget the honey....in the mean time hang in there....