George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Glyph
M Schommer
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@musevg @glyph @georgetakei @petrillic
obama is arguing for effective action against fascists
how do you read that as bowing to fascists?
@benroyce @musevg @georgetakei @petrillic personally I would not read this as either “bowing” or “effective advice” but rather offering the same terrible analysis that has lead to a steeply declining popularity of the democratic party. what makes it ironic here is that the putative advice here is that you shouldn’t use mean language to criticize the right; one such “scold” might be to accurately call their concentration camps “concentration camps” for example
@glyph @musevg @georgetakei @petrillic
well said and agreed
i read it as obama asking for no infighting, because the problem with the left is we shoot at each other and we don't shoot at the right
but perhaps i read that wrong and obama is asking people not to scold the right, which is indeed terrible advice
by the same token, nobody fucking cares about the democratic party. we just take it over with real leftists. in such a way, the entire topic of "the democratic party" is a red herring
@benroyce @musevg @georgetakei @petrillic this is not even necessarily to throw Obama under the bus specifically. For full context, the clip that CNN is citing here is about 2 minutes from a BTC interview that Obama gave which touched on a lot of things. The way he's arguing for compassion and grace on the level of individual discussions is… fine. Perhaps not where the emphasis should be at this particular moment but he didn't really *put* the emphasis there, he just talked about it a little bit
@benroyce @musevg @georgetakei @petrillic the broader point is that the turbo-centrists at CNN, along with the broader media establishment, are desperate to craft a "everyone has to tack to the center" or "progressives are unelectable" argument, constantly doing horse-race "democrats in disarray" stories that serve power and prevent any real political change. so they cherry pick this one quote and put it in the chyron. false equivalence masquerading as nuance, constantly, even now
@glyph @musevg @georgetakei @petrillic
oh yeah zero argument
obama is a centrist from another time saying shit out of touch where people are today, and fuck CNN regardless of anything else
but we're now far away from my point above
obama is not fucking bowing to fascists
you don't have to support obama to have a problem with stupid deranged shit