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The responses to Zohran Mamdani’s showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        41·
        19 hours ago

        I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

        -Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

        This is what you sound like right now. Because it got the people in power’s knickers in a twist, you’d rather have someone who didn’t upset the establishment so much by… *checks notes… promising to really help people?

      • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
        8·
        19 hours ago

        Anyone literally would. But we aren’t in normal times and this win has the old fucks panties in a bunch which is a good thing. Fuck the status quo.

      • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        19 hours ago

        The current administration is using chaos for wealth and power. But many see chaos as a necessary step to rescue the country from the grip of whatever the USA is and has become more of.

        The very definition of chaos means nobody can control it. It rattles around and produces outcomes which surprise many, it wrecks things many depend. And never builds what people need

          • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
            81·
            18 hours ago

            OP: The establishment being upset about Mamdani’s victory is a good thing.

            You: I’d prefer if it didn’t happen.

            That’s how I, and most other people, are reading the exchange. You failed to provide any additional context.

            Now, after seeing your responses, I think what you meant was more along the lines of, “I wish things never got so awful in the first place” but that was not at all clear at all.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            61·
            18 hours ago

            Hey, pro-tip, when literally everyone is misunderstanding what you said, it might help to clarify instead of doubling down on “I don’t understand why people don’t understand.”

            You literally replied to a comment that implied that the establishment losing their minds was chaotic and a good thing. When you say you prefer stability over chaos in response to such a comment, it’s easy to see why people might misconstrue what you’re saying.

            Anyway, bottom line it’s not everyone else’s job to figure out what the fuck you’re talking about. If you want people to understand, use your fucking words to clarify what you meant instead of this pompous fucking “I don’t get why you don’t get it.” Are you really so far up your own ass?

            People misunderstand sometimes, and when everyone around you misunderstands, it’s on you not them to make clear what you meant. Even if you don’t understand how it’s misconstrued it obviously was, by a lot of people.

            • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              13·
              17 hours ago

              I sorta on OP’s side; he said a sentence that could be interpreted hundreds of ways, and everyone assumed the worse and started attacking his character. And it’s very hard to nicely restate one’s position without some mild anger after that.

              Then people attack even more. It’s a feeding frenzy.

              I unblocked this community just this week; I even commented here. But this entire thing is just too much. I’m blocking politics again , and hopefully world politics changes for the better when test it out in a few months

              • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                3·
                17 hours ago

                I don’t know man, I’ve been wildly misinterpreted, and I try to clarify what I meant, because it’s my fault for not being more clear. I don’t get pissed off about it and choose not to explain it replying to a bunch of people how they’ve got it wrong.

                Like, consider you go into public social a situation with a minority group you support, and you’re not part of that minority group. You accidentally say something that sounds off-color and unhelpful to the group in question, the people you ostensibly support. Now everyone is giving you dirty looks and raised eyebrows and wondering if you actually support them or if they should tell you to get lost. Getting mad at them because you are being misunderstood is never, ever going to make them think you actually support them.

                On the other hand, it’s valid to be upset if you’ve taken the time to clarify and people are still willfully misinterpreting what you have said. OP didn’t even try to explain what they meant more clearly in any responses.