I know what they say about wrestling with pigs, or tweets, or tweets by pigs, but maybe we can just poke at some of them with a stick a little bit:
The dominant image on display tonight: The American Experiment is dead. Killed by the collective knee of white power, white privilege, and white ownership of property/wealth/wage-slave labor. America the Beautiful? We never repented for our Original Sins of slavery & genocide.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 31, 2020
Sounds good. How can we help?
So-called White leaders calling for peace? You’re too late. Where were you for the past 401 yrs?
If u want to be helpful, demand reparations, end the racist mass incarceration by releasing from prison all black & brown ppl (with very few exceptions), raise the min wage to $25/hr— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 31, 2020
Not tone-deaf at all, no. A winning platform if I ever heard one. You have some foam on your chin. Any cringeworthy Noble Savagism to add?
Good citizens burning down the evil police precinct in MN after all police were out & safe. All police should go home. No violence please. Police HQ must be demolished by the city tomorrow as a show of contrition to black America. Rebuild PD with decent kind ppl aka ppl of color
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 29, 2020
Speaking of sin and repentance, John McWhorter just said that his new book is going to be about his recurring theme of anti-racism as progressive religion. If he’s taking notes at the moment, he might be able to have the thing finished by the weekend.
De Blasio believes that anti-racism is the only true religion deserving the protections of the state. https://t.co/HRvG9gXowK
— Jacob Siegel (@Jacob__Siegel) June 2, 2020
You absolutely cannot convince me this is anything other than a quasi-sexual humiliation fetish. It’s obscene pic.twitter.com/ydcCzCBHdU
— Conor Fitzgerald (@fitzfromdublin) June 2, 2020
i realize i’m repeating myself, but impossible to overemphasized the religious nature of these people. not only is she policing what you can or can’t say, she’s declaring herself an arbiter of morality. she’s urging you to forgo material attachments, etc. https://t.co/7nPALtTLZL
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) June 2, 2020
“To use the same language to describe those two things is not moral.”
“Arson is not violence” has a natural counterpart in “speech is violence”
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) June 3, 2020
Orwell prepared us for this, though some used it as a guidebook https://t.co/92NeMYSRtE
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) June 3, 2020
Sitting with the Lady of the House, listening to the herd of independent minds in her feed advertising their identical progressive bona fides, wondering how I’ve come to be acquainted with so many lunatics:
It’s funny how I’ve been told constantly that the doctrines of critical race theory are restricted to a few, irrelevant campuses, and I shouldn’t bother. And yet almost every liberal I see is regurgitating every single doctrine of this ideology as self-evident.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 2, 2020
People are making fun of this, but I personally found it sweet that China granted Nike, Apple, and all their other pet brands permission to express political opinions again after being sent to timeout over Hong Kong.
New heights of stunning and brave. pic.twitter.com/ZEEPbkRH3Q
— neontaster (@neontaster) June 3, 2020
Plus, if pasting black boxes on a social media feed is what it takes to keep simpletons from sharing their emotional incontinence in more depth, I suppose I’m all for it.
My mentions are filled with white liberals defending this unhelpful white guilt nonsense. Some of you are exhausting…maybe the black boxes weren’t such a bad idea after all. https://t.co/uCj2EOTQIp
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 3, 2020
And finally:
Nothing about this year is going to make me more cynical than how instantly coronavirus stopped being a thing. Nothing matters.
— neontaster (@neontaster) June 2, 2020