DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agoIt’s Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USA – Caitlin Johnstonecaitlinjohnstone.com.auexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down12
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkIt’s Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USA – Caitlin Johnstonecaitlinjohnstone.com.auDivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareOptimusSubprime [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-24 months agoIt’s because of her nuclear take of an article advocating for what’s essentially a red-brown alliance: https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/lefties-need-to-stop-being-shy-about-working-with-the-anti-establishment-right-40c27a9dc98e That’s a hell-fucking-no around here. EDIT: To add, there’s been fallout resulting from the article in question. https://www.mintpressnews.com/opposing-views-controversy-caitlin-johnstone/230355/ Caused a few struggle sessions here I think
minus-squareCyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 months agoLooks like that article was posted July 2017, two months before Charlottesville and around the time of the infamous r/Chapotrphouse “Native Americans are ethno-nationalists” struggle sessions Has she rescinded the take and apologized since?
minus-squareOptimusSubprime [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-24 months agoI haven’t seen a retraction from her. Might be buried in her archive, giving her benefit of the doubt. EDIT: Found it. She did not post a retraction. She in fact had doubled down on her position: https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/a-year-ago-i-wrote-about-cross-ideological-collaboration-heres-how-it-s-been-going-97aeab8cd87f
minus-squareRashav3rak [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoah, well that is good to know. i’ll take that into consideration when I encounter her takes in the future
It’s because of her nuclear take of an article advocating for what’s essentially a red-brown alliance: https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/lefties-need-to-stop-being-shy-about-working-with-the-anti-establishment-right-40c27a9dc98e
That’s a hell-fucking-no around here.
EDIT: To add, there’s been fallout resulting from the article in question. https://www.mintpressnews.com/opposing-views-controversy-caitlin-johnstone/230355/ Caused a few struggle sessions here I think
Looks like that article was posted July 2017, two months before Charlottesville and around the time of the infamous r/Chapotrphouse “Native Americans are ethno-nationalists” struggle sessions
Has she rescinded the take and apologized since?
I haven’t seen a retraction from her. Might be buried in her archive, giving her benefit of the doubt.
EDIT: Found it. She did not post a retraction. She in fact had doubled down on her position: https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/a-year-ago-i-wrote-about-cross-ideological-collaboration-heres-how-it-s-been-going-97aeab8cd87f
Oh lmao there it is
ah, well that is good to know. i’ll take that into consideration when I encounter her takes in the future