The Pitters' Place

So this happened on my facebook feed:

- a friend who's a woman of colour made an excited post about Oprah's Golden Globes speech and how it's so good to hear strong black female voices in the media

- random dude: "Oprah may be a woman, but she is not a spokesperson for women. She is an elite neoliberal thinker and an apologist for massive multinational corporations. Her beliefs (as with Obama and HRC) promote the continued oppression of women and minorities. I don't understand why you lament the lack of female voices for the sake of hearing a female voice. I listen to Susan Huckabee Sanders almost erryday! By that logic, you must miss Obama because he was black, ignoring the massive loss of black wealth during his presidency. I may be condescending, but Hillary, Obama, Oprah are not saviors for humanity. Indeed, they are responsible for the wars, the warming, and the income inequality, and oppression. However, there are plenty of great women doing wonderful organizing: Tarana Burke, Naomi Klein, Linda Sarsour!!"

lol

You're asking why someone would compliment Oprah, right?

idk, I haven't been keeping up with her. What's Oprah been up to lately, other than starting wars and global warming?

Acting in kind of "eh" movies like Lee Daniels' The Butler and Selma.

This is what people mean when they talk about liberals disparagingly.

Monk wrote:This is what people mean when they talk about liberals disparagingly.

Wut

Derived Absurdity wrote:

Monk wrote:This is what people mean when they talk about liberals disparagingly.

Wut

Ya

wut do you mean

Condescending in nature, vague references to "neoliberalism," and near-impossible standards. The type of people who think Hillary would have been just as bad as Trump.

Those aren't liberals though; those sort of people usually hate liberals, but they're often conflated with liberals anyway, so your statement was true in that sense.

Hillary would have been just as bad as Trump, possibly worse.

I miss the days when political terms actually meant something and words actually had meanings.

CashRules wrote:Hillary would have been just as bad as Trump, possibly worse.

^ liberal

Anakin McFly wrote:Those aren't liberals though; those sort of people usually hate liberals, but they're often conflated with liberals anyway, so your statement was true in that sense.

I suppose I should have just said "far left", even though I'm aware there is some overlap with other philosophies. The person quoted above is almost a facsimile of far left people I know or have encountered