This guy can write.
Pete Buttigeg is a lying MF
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Tweet from @JohnHMcWhorter: Buttigieg is neither a liar nor a motherf-----r, despite that hideous attack on him the other day from The Root, and plenty of black people know it. I write here, for them. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/attack-mayor-pete/602755/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Civil-rights leaders of the recent past would be baffled by the pique here, as, I’m sure, would Americans who don’t spend most of their waking hours on social media.
It’s been widely noted of late that “woke” white people are “woker” than most black people. It is also true that “woke” black people in academia and media are “woker” than a great many black people who don’t have the privilege of a byline.
Harriot is assuming that Buttigieg must have meant that the lack of role models is due simply to some pathology among black people, when actually, almost anyone who publicly talks of role models in this way intends, via implication, that the lack of role models is due to larger societal factors.
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Harriot says Pete sucks and McWhorter says Pete is great. We have two black people disagreeing, but I have been told you should always listen to black people and accept whatever they say at face value or you are racist. But we have two different narratives!! Who do I listen to?!?!?!!
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Listen to the ones that called you a twat. They were correct.
Harriot says Pete sucks and McWhorter says Pete is great. We have two black people disagreeing, but I have been told you should always listen to black people and accept whatever they say at face value or you are racist. But we have two different narratives!! Who do I listen to?!?!?!!