darq

… capitalism is the ideology that lets the 1% be the 1%.

This is like the one fight that isn’t part of the culture war.

I mean. This is true. But there are two ways of using this statement.

1. Ignoring the plight of minorities, not fighting for their rights, and insisting they put their suffering aside because “no war but class war”.
2. Uniting in support of people with minoritised identities, forming stronger alliances, and refusing to infight because “no war but class war”.

I hope you mean the second one.

Racism doesn’t require malice. Something can still be racist in effect, without intention.

But also the Tweet is probably tongue-in-cheek.

I have never met a self-described centrist who was doing any critical thinking. And I say that as a former centrist who was not engaging in critical thinking.

It’s almost always “there are two sides to this issue, and because there are two sides there must be some merit to both, so thinking that one side is right or wrong is bad, and so anybody holding particularly strong convictions one way or another must not be thinking critically”. Which if you noticed, is a line of reasoning that doesn’t actually engage with reality or the nuances of the situation at all. It’s just a thought-terminating cliche that leads to not thinking about an issue, but then concluding that one is more enlightened than people who hold strong beliefs.

The second I actually started getting informed and thinking critically, I shifted drastically in my politics.

Only because the term has mostly fallen out of use. If you still use “gay” as an insult, it absolutely is still homophobic.

I mean, no, the definitions are not disconnected at all. Gay was used as an insult because it meant homosexual.