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Karl Straub's avatar

If and when the wrongheaded thinking of today’s progressives gets beveled away and leaves something healthier, it will have been helped along by sensitive humanist critiques like yours. The problem for the left is that they’ve been so unwilling to listen to voices like yours, they’ve allowed themselves to be typecast by the right. The stereotyping of woke progressives by the right is largely in bad faith, I think, but THAT accusation isn’t one I can really back up. And even if the right IS in bad faith, the DeSantis kind of policy response was earned by the left.

Until there’s acceptance of that, Trumpism will never go away.

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I actually audiobooked Mein Kampf just a couple weeks ago. One day I was like, why am I so irritated right now? Then I realized it was cuz I had just listened to like 6 hours of that trash book.

I also read another book recently called, Cracker Culture. It was recommended by Thomas Sowell at some point, I think in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals. I don't really think the South is any more racist than the North today. But those books are interesting. They discuss the Scots-Irish cultural influence on America, including on black people. I think I read somewhere that over 40% of African-Americans have some Irish ancestry.

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