New York Times Editor: My Goodness, These Progressive Marches Sure Are Embracing a Lot of Extremism, Hatred, and Racism

You don't say.

Here's something you don't see every day. An editor at the NY Times has written an opinion piece criticizing the leaders of the Women's March. Author Bari Weiss is the staff editor of the NY Times Opinion section. She writes as someone who supported the Women's March and its four leaders but who also finds their extremism troubling...

[O]ver time Weiss became disturbed by some of the "chilling ideas and associations" each of the leaders of the Women's March was advocating...

Ms. Mallory, in addition to applauding Assata Shakur as a feminist emblem, also admires Fidel Castro, who sheltered Ms. Shakur in Cuba. She put up a flurry of posts when Mr. Castro died last year. "R.I.P. Comandante! Your legacy lives on!" she wrote in one. She does not have similar respect for American police officers. "When you throw a brick in a pile of hogs, the one that hollers is the one you hit," she posted on Nov. 20.

Ms. Perez also expressed her admiration for a Black Panther convicted of trying to kill six police officers: "Love learning from and sharing space with Baba Sekou Odinga."

Weiss spends the next several paragraphs describing Mallory and Perez's love for anti-Semitic (and anti-white) racist Louis Farrakhan.

And of course Linda Sarsour's open calls for "jihad" and sharia.

There is absolutely no unifying force behind the left except for hatred and demonization of its tribal enemies. Nothing unites the very poor/chronically unemployed and the very rich/lesiure class except their shared hatred of the work-a-day stiffs who actually suckers enough to exchange their time and effort for a wage. Nothing unites the various racial and gender blocks except their pathological racist, sexist, heterophobic hated of the straight, the white, and the male.

People ask why Hillary Clinton ran on no real platform except for identity politics.

I always ask in return: What else could she have run on? What else does the Democrat Party have?

Can anyone propose an alternative theory, even as a Devil's Advocate experiment?

What unites the self-called "Party of Love" except its virulent hate?

posted by Ace at 03:02 PM

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