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and so the liberal backlash and attempt at correcting his apostasy has reached its current pinnacle with a lengthy personal attack on him in the new republic an establishment liberal rag.

Cornel West’s rage against President Barack Obama evokes that kind of venom. He has accused Obama of political minstrelsy, calling him a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface”; taunted him as a “brown-faced Clinton”; and derided him as a “neoliberal opportunist (THE GALL! -aernote).”



the man for the job this time is some georgetown hack named michael dyson

No matter how vehemently I disagree with Obama, I respect him as a man wrestling with an incredibly difficult opportunity to shape history. West looked into my eyes, sighed, and said: “Well, I guess that’s the difference between me and you. I don’t respect the brother at all.”



that anecdote is suppose to make me like west less i guess? anyway, cornel west has been suffering this liberal onslaught for awhile now ever since he realized back in 2008/2009 that wait a second maybe obama isn't the progressive he's portraying himself as. we all make mistakes. LF circa that time period was a shameful chapter of our history.

the basic form these articles take involves the liberal commentator ignoring all of the accurate leftist criticisms west makes about obama's wars, drones, center-right neoliberal policies by dismissing it as ego-driven personal animus after being jilted by progressive paragon Obama.

personal ego and access, i'm sure has nothing to do with their own take on the matter.



anyway, thanks for reading my manic Liberal Said a Thing in 2015 thread so as a reward here's a quote you'll like

I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist capitalist dogs like Ronald Reagan, who come right out and let you know where they’re coming from. And on the opposite end, you have the left, who are supposed to be committed to justice, equality, and human rights. And somewhere between those two points is the liberal.

As far as I’m concerned, ‘liberal’ is the most meaningless word in the dictionary.

-Fred Durst, singer of Limb Bizkit and suspected of murdering three people

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No matter how vehemently I disagree with Hitler, I respect him as a man wrestling with an incredibly difficult opportunity to shape history.
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Obama needs to turn his cap around and pull his pants up.
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Cornell West pokes his head into frame at the state of the Union, smiles and leaves. He's becoming so mature and self aware...
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did any of you guys watch that thing he did with bob avakian recently? i tried too for a minute but the rcp lady's introduction where she seemed to be hiding her disappointment at the turnout and convincing herself as much as the audience that what was happening was 'important' made me sad and i turned it off.
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this is all well and good i guess, but does cornel west uphold the universality of protracted people's war?
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lol, dude who wrote this is also the one wrecked by amiri baraka in this interview:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/19/manning_marables_controversial_new_biography_refuels

is he just the go-to Establishment Black these days?
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i used to think cornell west was a nickname for stanford university because its about equivalent to a second-tier ivy and its in califronia
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John Reed in his eyewitness report, Ten Days That Shook the World, describing the Bolshevik Revolution in Petrograd in 1917, proclaimed Leon Trotsky to be “the greatest Jew since Jesus.” Over the last hundred years, Einstein has displaced Trotsky as the second-brightest star of the Jewish pantheon.
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my favorite black radical burn on obama:
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postposting posted:

did any of you guys watch that thing he did with bob avakian recently? i tried too for a minute but the rcp lady's introduction where she seemed to be hiding her disappointment at the turnout and convincing herself as much as the audience that what was happening was 'important' made me sad and i turned it off.

i never found the full thing i only heard a bit of it that was played on Black Agenda Report, you got a link??

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looks like they got it up here:

http://revcom.us/film/

seems it's been jazzed up with some editing since when i saw it before and it was just a raw static shot
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c_man posted:

my favorite black radical burn on obama:


nnot to race police or anything but im pretty sure thats a picture of steve albini

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postposting posted:

looks like they got it up here:

http://revcom.us/film/

seems it's been jazzed up with some editing since when i saw it before and it was just a raw static shot

Cheers

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Always saw Dr. West moving up and primarily admired his faith in a ruff world of atheist academia.
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in a similar vein, apparently playboy is pushing a campaign to get meghan murphy fired
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in a similar vein, apparently playboy is pushing a campaign to get meghan murphy fired



http://www.adweek.com/prnewser/miss-piggy-is-getting-a-feminist-icon-award/113574

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postposting posted:

c_man posted:

in a similar vein, apparently playboy is pushing a campaign to get meghan murphy fired

http://www.adweek.com/prnewser/miss-piggy-is-getting-a-feminist-icon-award/113574

In selecting Miss Piggy, Sackler said, “Anita Hill has become a symbol. Miss Piggy has, too, the same way Gloria Steinem has.”

Calling Miss Piggy gritty and tenacious, Sackler added that she “has all of the qualities that…women need to have to face the world as it is, and she gives us a good smile on top of it all.”



Its true, though. Gloria Steinem was a CIA pig

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people on twitter are mad at Sarkeesian for "standing up for a transphobe" who i guess is Murphy? idk much, haven't been following it. i've never seen evidence of transphobia from her, so it sounds like a brilliant smear job. accuse her of bigotry that has nothing to do w/ the issue at hand.
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long-time champion of women's rights, playboy magazine, is bravely taking a stand against murphy's anti-choice opinion-violence. welcome to hell-earth, 2015
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c_man, could you post a link to where playboy factors into this whole thing?

bah, nm found it.

https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/591697397127847937
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i guess (falsely) portraying abolitionists as "white feminists" has been a thing for a while now.
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Mike Nelson here.
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why the FUCK are people attacking my fellow canadians
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murphy's response was real good too.
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its weird as hell seeing people on twitter like yakov/sushigoat who will go to bad for the DPRK fall in line behind playboy liberalism
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discipline posted:

How do I not hang myself out of complete despair every single day https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/591697712547909632


lmao

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tbh i was thinking about linking him one of the 9001 porn threads we've had here