• Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    It’s like that “meta/optics” analysis you see news commentators do. They completely ignore the actual content of the topic, and obsess over which person had a more powerful stance or talk about which person’s suit had better big dick energy.

    A liberal told me a while back they didn’t like Parenti, and when I asked why, they said they hated the style of the writing. He’s not writing fiction lol, the content is what matters.

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            7 months ago

            Yeah, all the talk about him being “loud” and “always yelling” was really gross antisemitic tropes. Then those same people would dismissively call him an “old white man” and negate his experience as part of a minority in America so he couldn’t win either way.

            He was way to fucking nice in the face of all that bullshit.

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      I think when they say things like that, what they mean is “This content is challenging my pre-concieved notions, but I can’t handle that, so I’ll find some excuse to dismiss this book out of hand.”