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Being "aggressively centrist" as Matthew McConaughey claims to be is to be aggressively privileged. It is to pick no sides, therefore living in purgatory of action. A straight, rich white dude who is sheltered from many of the reasons why people on the "far left" are passionate.
I need rich white dudes to not call people "patronizing" for feeling that the political is personal, esp when the other side is wants to deny women's rights to their own bodies, put kids in cages and allow the killing of innocent people at the whims of police. TF, Matthew??
You can sit at your ranch in Texas and say people are being "divisive" when the damaging laws that happen as a result of that election and the people in power won't affect your day to day, @McConaughey. That is privilege.
I've had more than enough of people saying those on the left are being "divisive" because we aren't w/the bullshit of the half of the country that is anti-civil rights. That "be nice to the people who hate you" rhetoric is counterproductive, dangerous and cowardly.
The audacity of caucasity is a straight, rich white man admitting to being "aggressively centrist" as if that's a good thing, and scolding anyone who dares to pick a side, when what he's claiming to be is the grayscale version of humaning, standing for nothing.
You can be centrist, fine. It's your choice to fence straddle human rights. But to then judge folks who are DEEPLY affected by the laws, therefore far left in their beliefs is to take some sort of moral high ground for your neutral beliefs, which can be complicity.
The unmitigated gall. We're going to keep hearing takes like this, that shame us for our anger at the half of the country that truly does not want anyone else but them to have liberties. Often, these takes will come from self-proclaimed "liberals" or "centrists." They are trash.
I do not owe anyone who wants me bound up and caged niceness. I do not owe them civility. I sure in the hell do not own them kindness.
And you don't get to scold us for that. Direct that ire to them for being horrific people, not us, for wanting freedom.
And you don't get to scold us for that. Direct that ire to them for being horrific people, not us, for wanting freedom.
These words, from Rev. King, could not be more apt.
