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| What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world by Thomas Frank
A couple of days ago, I noticed this repost of an article written by political analyst- Thomas Frank (What's The Matter With Kansas) on a phenomena he discerned from all the bafflegab about politicians and celebrity sexual harassment and assault scandals. According to Tom Frank, a lot of wealthy high profile liberals...especially in Hollywood, are posing as great defenders of women and minority rights/as they grab their bags of loot from whatever business or investment ventures they own, while flagrantly committing abuses on employees or actors looking for work. Kicking it off was Harvey Weinstein...the now disgraced Hollywood movie mogul who used to be the toast of the town until a whole lot of women rose up against him. Take it away Thomas Frank: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-liberal-world Quote:
The problem is that when rich liberals are considered to be the left boundary of acceptable political discourse, we end up with many people having no understanding of economic class interests, so every social issue is fought along lines of group identities: race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation etc.. This works for rich liberals and rich conservatives, but what about the rest of us? How do people of different backgrounds and identity groups come together for common cause to address economic inequality? It doesn't happen! Because the leaders of liberalism want to keep everyone in their identity boxes and may want to collect them together when it's time to vote for the right candidates, but that's the limits they have placed on activism until the present day. A few weeks ago, when Thomas Frank was a guest on Lee Camp's weekly comedy show on RT- Redacted Tonight, Lee asked him how many times he was on Rachel Maddow's show after he wrote "What's The Matter With Kansas?" Frank answered '11 times in total.' 'And how many times were you on her show after writing "Listen Liberal"'...his critique of the Democratic Party that was intended as a wakeup call prior to the 2016 Elections: Zero! And that pretty well sums up how much the establishment liberals are willing to listen to criticism..even when it's intended as helpful information. Last edited by right to left; January 8th, 2018 at 09:11 PM. | |
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| Another "friend" of feminism told to turn over his #timesup pin
I don't see anything about the latest twitter flareup - friend of feminism James Franco being called out by a few women who've known him in the past and jumped on his twitter account demanding to know why he is such a hypocrite to show up at the Golden Globes wearing a "Times Up" pin to show his solidarity to women victimized by sexual harassment. So, why not just add him to a list with Harvey Weinstein and any other manipulative hypocrite supporters of feminist causes as noted in Thomas Frank's article about Weinstein. James Franco accused of inappropriate sexual behavior - NY Daily News Quote:
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Perhaps a word or two of advice, R2L: Less is more.
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| Maybe, but I like to cover the bases so those who want to read the background stories don't have to click on other links. Many times here, people start arguing facts on a range of issues they would already know about if they had read the links first.
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The Token Black Guy Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: MD
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Your class analysis is flawed imo, even if most of what you say here is true. The bourgeoisie aren't a monolith anymore than the proletariat are. Not only that, but identities like race, gender, etc. are very real sociological constructs that affect ppl's lives. Even if they are actually meaningless. Last edited by Gordy; January 10th, 2018 at 01:05 PM. |
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I never said identities aren't real! My point is that identity is used as a wedge to prevent the working majority from cooperating with each other by the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie...if you want to stick with the marxist terminology here. But, this is not the point I'm making about Hollywood assholes like Weinstein and Franco anyway! What these lowlifes are doing is wrapping themselves in causes like women's rights and freedom from harassment, while violating everything they stand for! Even if Weinstein wasn't a rapist...or Franco seems to be close to the same thing, wearing pins and holding celebrity fundraisers to "raise awareness" on these issues isn't the same thing as trying to help find practical solutions. When it comes to sexual harassment itself, the liberal mega-elite want all the attention focused at the top...on stories about celebrities rather than on the women who are never talked about/but suffer the greatest amounts of sexual abuse - the women doing those menial jobs like #1-farm workers and then the hotel and restaurant workers who are preyed upon by lowlife employers and patrons who know they can get away with it. But big money liberals don't want to make structural changes to the system that produces and reward evil, they just want to "raise awareness about it." | |
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The Token Black Guy Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: MD
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I mean if the bourgeoisie have common class interests then how do you explain someone like Donald Trump who, despite being backed and supported by a certain segment of the bourgeoisie, is opposed by other segments at least on principles? Quote:
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