@KnicksBeast He's be perfect for us since he's already got lots of experience in presiding over the slide into post-Thibs mediocrity.
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Walter Michaels
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The Knicks treating Mike Brown like a rebound relationship is WILD.
Evan Sidery@esidery
The Knicks and Magic could be potential destinations for Billy Donovan based off how they do in the playoffs, per @ShamsCharania. Orlando has long been linked to Donovan, but New York would be eye-opening after hiring Mike Brown. New York pursued Donovan before hiring Brown.
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@daniel_dsj2110 Yes, it's not about one's own racial identity but about the role race, racism and anti-racism play in capitalism now. And here's a brand new relevant discussion by one of the racial capitalism critics: versobooks.com/blogs/news/whi…
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Don't have much to say about the racial capitalism debate as I haven't read much of the lit. It does seem that ones judgement about it can't necessarily be linked to their own racial identity--from what I see on here there are Black critics/defenders and White critics/defenders.
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@blames_ The real truth, when you see those names, is that the roster was never as strong as management thought it was. Not unlike our current situation.
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@blames_ The aging Jimmy Butler? Bobby Portis? Mirotic? And Taj and Joachim were only 30. Not to mention Derek who although injured could still play some.
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@JCMacriNBA Exactly. The Bulls are the kings of managing a post-Thibs decline. And Donovan would be perfect for the extended mediocrity stage.
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I wonder if he’s a good collaborator.
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
BREAKING: Billy Donovan is exiting as head coach of the Chicago Bulls after six seasons, sources tell ESPN.
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@Left_Hegelian Also true of non-line leftist discourse. And for the same reason.
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The most characteristic feature of on-line leftist discourse is that it comes from a place of powerlessness.
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@BGeltzNBA There is no world in which Mike Brown is a better coach than Thibs. Unless you treat the front office’s imagination as a world.
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Mike Brown is a very good coach. But if you were sold that he’s a better coach than Tom Thibodeau, you’re not listening to the right people. With all due respect
Lance Roberson@lance_972
@BGeltzNBA Mike Brown was supposed to be a better coach than Thibs, but these Knicks don't look as focused as they did in the previous playoffs.
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@hbunsis @JLEdwardsIII Clarkson should be in the rotation over all three. (Hi Howard!)
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@JLEdwardsIII too many 3's - they are not a good 3-point shooting team, and should not take that many
Took much fewer in game 1;
get the ball inside to KAT
Shamet, Deuce, Alvarado: 0-7 with 5 turnovers
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Wow. Just a dreadful 4Q from the Knicks, who were the best fourth-quarter team, maybe, ever (according to net rating) during the season.
Atlanta will do its job, steal a game at MSG.
This loss is on everyone. Missed free throws, missed open shots and weird lineups/rotations.
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@BigKnickEnergy_ We need more of the demon Clarkson in the 4th quarter.
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I don’t think people understand how valuable a healthy Mitchell Robinson is for the Knicks.
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@vjoshuaadams @LarryRothfield There's a good article just out that actually talks about this question of interpretation in The Pound Era. shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-a… It's by Joseph Staten and it's in English -- "'The poem is not its language: Deconstruction, New Historicism and Hugh Kenner."
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@LarryRothfield It baffled me then too. I was looking for an interpretation.
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@vjoshuaadams I know. If 1972 didn't date it, "esteem" sure would.
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@podsekalnikov But the strongest arguments against racial capitalism have been written by Black people, e.g. nonsite.org/the-wrong-dure… Is he stoking white resentment? And why do his motives, as opposed to his reasons, matter anyway?
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Haselby, Harper, and Walsh are all a symptom of racial capitalism in that they stoke white resentment for the purposes of advancing their careers as "canceled" academics even though at least one of them chose to leave a great TT job.
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@TejNagaraja But that's part of the point: the commitment to diversity is connected to anti-racism in a way that unions (sadly) are not connected to socialism.
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@walterbenn Worth comparing!, apples to apples — race to labor — antiracist to union to socialist, etc
While GS had a Diversity Officer — GS is eliminating it? Don’t think GS had an anti-racism officer?
Big firms have affirmed labor/unions; if not socialism.
Many corporations have Labor
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Can argue — ‘class’-pol is *more* key to Elite Capture than ‘id’-pol.
SEE — Key unions & social democrats in McCarthyism & CIA — in Nixon/Trump culture war — in neoliberal shifts of pension funds, anti-M4A, shutdown 2025. Centrists are trying to co-opt Mamdani’s ‘affordability’.
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper
@samhaselby In other words I agree “elite capture” is a real thing but the concept is often deployed as a lazy explain-all. The thing is, some ideas are more amenable to elite capture than others: there’s obviously a reason left identity politics was captured rather than left class politics!
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@Tyler_A_Harper @samhaselby But this is actually why elite capture is almost completely empty -- the ideas in question are not threatening beasts that the elite need to control; they're pets, and when you house trained them you got DEI.
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@samhaselby In other words I agree “elite capture” is a real thing but the concept is often deployed as a lazy explain-all. The thing is, some ideas are more amenable to elite capture than others: there’s obviously a reason left identity politics was captured rather than left class politics!
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Taiwo's "elite capture" really captured the PMC imagination. Each time I point out "racial capitalism" is evidently a regressive class project, people get angry and respond, ok, sure, but "elite capture"! That's the old fashioned meaning of "begging the question."
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@MalteseSailor How racist is Cedric Johnson! nonsite.org/the-wrong-dure…
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It’s a great book because there are two general criticisms of the book and you can tell almost immediately how racist the person is by which criticism group they fall into.
donaldparkinson🇵🇸@donaldp1917
Cederic Robinson's Black Marxism was one of the most disappointing books I've ever read, I'm not gonna lie. Not sure why it has such a sacred status among leftists.
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@BigMeanInternet I understand that Cedric Robinson is Plato to racial capitalism theorists, but you may want to consider why no historians of Europe, antiquity, Africa, or really, almost anything but the 20th century US accept this theory.
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I don't read Greek either, and I don't even have a PhD in political science, but I still know this is one of the foundational pages in western thought.
Sam Haselby@samhaselby
The racial capitalism discourse is entirely a US phenomenon. It's based on nationalist claims of one 1970s American political scientist who didn't read any European or African languages and whom, afaik, no historian of antiquity or premodern Europe or Africa has ever cited. 🤷♂️
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@davidceisen @nkalamb Well, if you think the point of racial capitalism is that contemporary anti-racism is a ruling class project working to legitimate inequality, and that therefore the priority needs to be the "class struggle" (that Robinson thought was being "transcended"), we're good.
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@walterbenn @nkalamb Yes, theorists of racial capitalism have done an excellent job of highlighting that fact. Ie:
upress.umn.edu/9780816674251/…
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806740…
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Every part of this statement is nonsensical fabrication. Most salient: the neoliberal elite have for the most part never even heard of the term “racial capitalism.” Claiming otherwise is fundamentally disingenuous.
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