Linsay ellis gets cancelled. (aka nostalgia chick)

"She noted she has more respect for the Alt-Right"

Annnnnnnnnd she lost me.

Like, I get what she's trying to say here, but there's a way of saying "the left sometimes uses bludgeons when a scapel is needed" without uplifting the Alt-Right.

And BTW I watched Raya and other than both series being set in Asian-inspired locales, I saw very little similarities between it and ATLA.

From all the side tangent discussions that popped out, a lotta AAPI folks were generally sick of a show created by two white dudes, however revolutionary to children's TV that it was, being held up as the gold star for how *their* culture is depicted. I can't say I blame them.

Exactly. It's kind of a genuine mask off moment, too. If you can respect NAZIS more than you can respect the left because the left doesn't moderate their tone (the left is very blunt: stop murdering black people, quit using other cultures solely for your entertainment, don't be a dick, et al), then you sympathize with white supremacists because they're willing to protect your feelings as a white person. That's not allyship, that's woke performativity, and it's empty and worthless.

You've not seen my porn collection....

Though I doubt it'd change your opinion or conclusion, it may be worth at least watching that part of her vid in the likelihood I less than eloquently summarized what she said about the alt-right (it's the last bit of the long section).

@Shirogayne @Amaris

I watched much of the vid, but not all of it, I just don't have that kind of time to dedicate to it, but you seem to have summed it up correctly.

It's actually endemic of a problem that seems to happen in white circles among the progressives and leftward. On Twitter, we had a bunch of leftists say we needed to invite ex-Nazis into spaces where black, Jewish, LGBTQ+ people, and so on interacted with one another. There was a pushback against it (myself included) because it doesn't matter if someone is an ex-Nazi (and I mean Nazi as in "yeah, killing Jews is good, actually," kind of Nazi), they do not have to be accepted as forgiven, not by those vulnerable groups.

It's like when some Democrats try to rehabilitate G.W. Bush, it's like "do you people even remember what he did?!"

Short memories, we white folks have.


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Until I can find a way to watch without monetizing, imma give it a pass

It's like when people say "he fought for what he believed in" as if that's something universally praiseworthy.

Nope ... if what you believe in is shitty, you get no points for fighting for it.

Though usually that was Trump-related, in the form of "Christ, this guy even makes Dubya look good by comparison."

Maybe so, but Trump's gone, and they're still rehabilitating Bush:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/politics/george-w-bush-immigration-congress/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-called-george-w-bush-122849374.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...w-bush-immigration-portraits-out-of-many-one/
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...its-a-problem-that-americans-are-so-polarized

Dubya was at least concerned enough about the possibility of a pandemic to set up a planning committee when we realized how utterly unprepared we were. That, and his protection of huge amounts of ocean are the only things I'll give him credit for.

But two wrongs don't make a right and his idiocy is a big reason why Trump was able to win. He can take a seat, and so can every centralist shill propping him up.