The right wing doth project too much, episode 2342397. I saw this and I couldn't help but wonder is this bad faith or someone being so captured that they don't see what they are doing:
The comeback by WeatherWatcher430 is brilliant. But I want to take this seriously for a moment.
The idea here is that tweeter thinks that all left wing folks should support Jewish women and Black men regardless of the content of their ideas or, dare I say it, the content of their character. The right inverts MLK Jr's dictum, as they believe that the left does not believe in merit, that the left just supports people due to their identities. It apparently breaks their brains when the left folks can distinguish between Jewish women and Black men who have ideas and arguments that make sense to them and support their larger values and those Jewish women and Black men whose ideas are counter to the left's values.
Generalizing about an entire group, whether it is progressives having a unitary view about other people's identities or it is all women or Black americans or whatever, is actually really problematic and is the road to racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and the other horsepeople of hate. And, yes, I am guilty of generalizing about the right wing, but I think that makes more sense because the right wing tends to be authoritarian in nature, producing ultimately far greater message (and thought) discipline than the left. I will try harder in the future to distinguish those on the right who are not captured by hate, those who are not fans of autocracy, those who are not willing to go along with the autocratization of the US (or of Canada, as Pierre Poilievre is borrowing much of Trump's script, having learned nothing from the most recent election).
All I ask the right wing is: get your bad faith characterizations of the left consistent--either the left betrays their kind by not being sufficiently focused on identities uber all OR they are focused on identities uber alles. Choose a stereotype and stick with it, FFS.
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Along with manifest bad faith, the Right is also short on valid arguments. So ad hominem attacks and the fallacy of appeal to hypocrisy do a lot of the work. Bari Weiss is unqualified to run CBS News, having never worked in news. She's also a liar. I'm supposed to celebrate the success of a fraud if she's a woman/Jew/lesbian?
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