Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
In any event, my point was that JORR often poses as a "hard" guy around here, but he seems legitimately intimidated by the MILFs, hippies, and senior citizens that frequent the Evanston Farmer's Market. I just found his whining about the "cruel" treatment he receives there kind of funny given the macho man persona he has cultivated on the board.
Why is "cruel" in quotes? Are you dishonestly trying to suggest that I said that? I can tell an Evanston dope to fuck off without thinking about it. That's hardly the point. It's the degradation of society where neighbors are eyeing each other with suspicion over something as silly as the failure to wear a face covering that is utterly useless against an airborne respiratory disease. Who wants to live like that?
You're dunking on Spaulding because you can get away with it. You would never tell highly privileged billionaire LeBron "Poor you, pal, you overheard the n-word."
The quotations for cruel were meant to be ironic. Obvious societal decline began long before COVID. Like Spaulding, you seem especially concerned about it now because you feel yourself to be on the wrong side of social scrutiny. I understand your point and think it's wrong, but I don't really believe you have suffered from it. In fact, I'd say you have derived perverse pleasure from it, as Spaulding most certainly has.
I am taking issue with Spaulding because she has a persecution complex and masquerades as an advocate for some kind of social justice when, as she has admitted, she has no social conscience beyond real or perceived injustices that personally impact her. She has no interest in something that might be called a social good; her only interest is self-interest. That she conflates personal harm to her with general social harm is a reflection of her narcissistic, disproportionate sense of victimization. I do believe it's likely Spaulding's children have been detrimentally impacted by COVID, particularly in their educational settings. Millions of children, including my own, have as well. That's certainly wrong, and a broad social strategy is needed to address this issue. It's interesting that Spaulding doesn't focus on this impact as frequently as she does others, like being "degraded, "ostracized", or "marginalized" due to her views. Focusing on her children would make her like a lot of other people; focusing on her purported and purportedly cruel social interactions allows her to make claims about her unique degree of victimization.
As for the use of racial slurs, I don't necessarily equate that with a form of social violence. You are really barking up the wrong tree here when it comes to your implications that I am an advocate of identity politics when I have commented extensively here for several years the extent to which the failed neoliberal social order has instrumentalized this form of social critique to maintain social power. Given the substance of these comments, your use of the LBJ example as some kind of challenge to my politics make you seem pretty shallow and silly.
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Antonio Gramsci wrote:
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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