🤔Anti-woke guy starts a crusade against plagiarism, not realizing that this would destroy his wife's academic reputation.
🤔Anti-woke guy starts an inquiry into Walz not going on deployment, not anticipating that this re-opens the conversation on his running mate's draft dodging and insulting gold star families and POWs.
🤔 Anti-woke guy starts an investigation into crowd sizes, not anticipating that people will point to his many empty stands.
They're genuinely surprised by equal treatment.🤷🏿♂️
I'm not even talking about the fact that all three attacks were bad faith. That's too obvious.
I'm talking about the failure to think even one step ahead, and realize that the next step after their feeble attack, is a knockout counterpunch.
This is like those courtroom dramas where a lawyer gets a cocky witness to slip and introduce a key piece of evidence that opens a door to a line of questioning that turns the case.
It's almost amusing. Literally 0 comprehension of repercussions. Anti-woke seems to be the political version of "hold my beer".
1. Better media literacy. As in, the typical Dem voter now knows that the NYT, and WaPo print nonsense half the time. 🤔 Maybe more than half the time...
2. Better counter-punching strategy. "When they go low, we go high," doesn't work. That's a great way to lose. And just pointing out the hypocrisy was also a losing strategy. What Harris-Walz does is much better.
@mekkaokereke @raph 3. Their convention has already been held & they assumed the ticket would continue to be Biden/Harris. Thus, lost the national airtime to agitate on the issue. It also matters that Walz is both only the VP candidate & much more likeable than Kerry. Kerry pinned a lot of his identity at the Dem convention on his military service, while Walz emphasizes his teaching & governing.
Both very worthy candidates, but Walz has some advantages Kerry did not.
@mekkaokereke Not exactly a courtroom drama but it immediately made me think of that scene from My Cousin Vinny where the prosecution tried to disqualify Mona Lisa Vito with the trick question. He didn't realize that when she called his bluff, he made her more credible to the jury.
If launching your attack and failing makes the opposition look better, you might want to second guess it. 🤷
@mekkaokereke @jwill SO very good. I just rewatched the provided clip and another one in the sidebar of her busting the case due to the tire marks.
From her tossing the prosecutor's sexist presumptions in their face to her and Vinny practically turning her testimony into campy foreplay...what a delight.
@mekkaokereke They are used to getting their way in silence...
Meaning until now no one has opened their mouth and made them think (one/two punch) so they don't know how to do it lol 🙃
Yup.
I'm talking about that 3 month period when the same far-right agitator that invented the whole CRT panic, said out loud, "Now watch. I'm going to turn the whole country, including gullible liberals, against DEI!" And then he did it. By going on the attack against Black women in academia, tech, and business. And practically no one said anything about it.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111622169550049574
And people like Ackman piled onto it. And the president of Harvard lost her job over it.
Attached: 2 images Remember when we let one far-right dude make up the whole critical race theory panic, and then reactionaries passed "anti-CRT" laws that were really anti-diversity laws, so that teachers were afraid to even teach about civil rights and the Holocaust, and then US students' knowledge of the Holocaust dropped precipitously? And it dropped the most where those anti-CRT laws were passed? Well, what if we let *the same dude* make up a whole plagiarism inquisition against the Harvard president?
How anybody would proudly wear the anti-woke label is beyond me. Maybe they're so anti-woke that they don't comprehend how insulting that would be in reality.
Yup.
DEI programs still haven't recovered. Organizations used the bad faith attacks as air cover to end any program that was designed to provide equity or fair treatment to Black women.
It's always "Black women will save us!" and never "We will save Black women!"
makes me think of that frank wilhoit quote
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
@mekkaokereke I've said it so many times, autocorrect now completes it, but...
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