AnarchoNinaWrites
It is virtually impossible for me to call someone an anti-racist if they supported neoliberalism, deregulation, American imperialism, consolidation of state power, and capitalist extraction; all of which have inherently racialized components as a result of being power processes founded in inherently racialized hierarchies in a country built on slavery and genocide.
The best you can really say is "well he meant well" and that's a subjective value judgment. The dude gave us the Taliban ffs.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Y'all needa get a damn library card and stop deluding yourselves about power. Saying "this is bad" is not enough when you have the power to make it better and instead choose to buttress and expand the very systems making the bad thing.
Joe Biden is REALLY good at saying "this makes me sad" while doing objectively fascist shit and I don't hear anyone with a brain calling him "a fundamentally decent man."
AnarchoNinaWrites
Carter was a pretty terrible president who did a lot to expand American imperialism, create the geopolitical climate that gave you the Taliban and Bin Laden, usher in neoliberalism, empower American oligarchy, and hand the country over to Reagan on a silver platter. Those are just the facts man.
I'm trying to bite my tongue because for some reason you folks need heroes and narratives; but fuck man, pick better heroes and narratives because reality don't stop being real if you feel a way.
Yakyu Night Owl
@AnarchoNinaWrites When your house is full of dead rats, the dead mouse smells the least offensive.
AnarchoNinaWrites
@salad_bar_breath No, Carter. And like I can SEE the argument; it's just that accepting it requires me to ignore virtually everything he did while he was in power. And just focus on what he SAID, primarily AFTER leaving office.
Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass
@AnarchoNinaWrites there are really people out here saying Jim Crow Joe is anti-racist? Lolol
AnarchoNinaWrites
@inquiline yeah; I mean my post was about why Carter isn't even the Carter these folks are pretending he is; but Joe Biden is several trophic levels away from being even Jimmy Carter.
inquiline
@AnarchoNinaWrites I saw a take via another website wherein someone said Biden will be recognized/remembered in time the way Carter is now, calling him humble, moral, and decent, who governed for the good of America, and I nearly flipped over in my chair
AnthonyJK-Admin
@AnarchoNinaWrites @salad_bar_breath
It's similar to the worship of still alive Al Gore, Junior; everybody riffs on his environmentalism and his crusades against global warming, yet conveniently forgets that as Bill Clinton's VP, he oversaw a commission dedicated to privatizing government functions and allowing multinational corps to game the federal systems for profits.
Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass
@AnarchoNinaWrites oh, that makes more sense but yeah, it's still really laughable. Carter is a war criminal that was on the wrong side of every struggle against apartheid states whether people like it or not 🤷♀️
inquiline
@AnarchoNinaWrites Democrat-brain is a helluva drug, I guess
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