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- zarkonite2
In response to what Morning Star said earlier, and in the interest of having an intelligent discussion I think it's worth reading Matt Taibbi's take on the subject:
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
"We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing"
"... a story most everyone in media sees but no one is allowed to comment upon: that the political right and left in America have traded villainous cultural pathologies. Things we once despised about the right have been amplified a thousand-fold on the flip.
Conservatives once tried to legislate what went on in your bedroom; now it’s the left that obsesses over sexual codicils, not just for the bedroom but everywhere. Right-wingers from time to time made headlines campaigning against everything from The Last Temptation of Christ to “Fuck the Police,” though we laughed at the idea that Ice Cube made cops literally unsafe, and it was understood an artist had to do something fairly ambitious, like piss on a crucifix in public, to get conservative protesters off their couches.
Today Matt Yglesias signing a group letter with Noam Chomsky is considered threatening..."
I agree with pretty much everything that Taibbi brings forth, for me anyone who wants to supplant other people's thinking with their ideology, or that refuses to engage in discussion no matter their political leanings doesn't understand what makes North America such a unique place.
- But they just want equal rights and are anti discrimination! How is that a problem, nazi!Gnash
- Taibbi is a cuntallthethings
- i agree!********
- Whether you Agree or disagree, this is still a great article.********
- Huh. I dont even remember what I'm agreeing to. Also if u declare so ethi g great good to provide reason. U may be saying celery great********
- I disagree it tastes like shit********