Jason Whitlock: The Explication 2.0

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this is just trash, blatantly misrepresenting the facts to make a terrible point. pre-1964, the democratic party did actually have both conservative and liberal members. this was when the republicans were actually the more progressive party (supported civil rights and more government), and the democrats were composed of two factions, one who were democrats only because lincoln was a republican (racist white southerners) and the other who were interested in helping the lower class (FDR-era progressive democrats, fairly similar to the republicans of the day in terms of goals). black dems were part of this second faction, and it was obvious that a split needed to happen. in 1964 the democrat LBJ passed the civil rights act, which made the southern cac dems (dixiecrats) angry. since they were a huge chunk of the population, they defected to the republican party, took control of it and ran a candidate for president who opposed the civil rights act... this led the progressive republicans coming over to the democratic party and basically created the current political landscape.

so yeah, the democratic party once housed conservatives (racist cacs) and liberals (progressives and minorities)... sounds like shytlock would like to go back to that era. :scusthov:

so he basically on that Stephen A, tommy sotomayor shyt
*keeping it real 35%
*keeping it c00n 65%

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Jason Whitlock considers himself to be a really influential person. I love that he takes shots at Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is ten times the thinker and writer that Whitlock is.

Apparently black people aren't really liberals, either :ohhh:

I also liked when he vaguely called out other people for supporting neo-liberalism

That's generous to Whitlock.
 

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Jason Whitlock considers himself to be a really influential person. I love that he takes shots at Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is ten times the thinker and writer that Whitlock is.

Apparently black people aren't really liberals, either :ohhh:

I also liked when he vaguely called out other people for supporting neo-liberalism

He's 100 times the writer, and a thousand times the thinker.
 

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I read the entire piece this morning. He really has over estimated his level of importance in the grand scheme of things. His shots at liberals, Black atheists and white hipsters were like a breath of fresh air though...

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I agree. Can't stand Whitlock, but didn't know about Coates being an atheist. Puts a lot into perspective.
 

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Whatever he says about Deadspin is cool with me. they are sensationalist and don't care about the truth. they ain't touched this story SINCE this headline, because it's a non-story...

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if he fries them and scores some points against them...COOL!!! i hate that site.
 

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what perspective?
I enjoy his writing, but a lot of atheists, black or white, can come across as if they are on some higher level of thinking than the common man. Not saying he's an example of this, but it can sometimes leak out in his writing. It's more of an interesting point than anything.
 
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