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One of the reasons I am a liberal and not a leftist is that leftist morality is about power, not rights. Good actions reduce power imbalances, bad actions exacerbate them. Murder, theft, and discrimination can all be justified if they harm a “powerful” person or group. Liberals condemn these actions because they violate individual rights and dignity. Liberalism seeks equal rights, leftism seeks equal power.

it’s either that or you believe anti-blackness is spiritual (in both divine and idealist terms) and therefore everything, both faith and reason, must go.

I understand why black people are religious because where do you find faith to keep going in a world that’s been made to hate you? A world that tries to restrict your very being and then tries to punish you for finding a way every time.

The concept of being hot and going on vacation but not having sex with locals because Twitter will say you’re participating in sex tourism

The whole para is such a hit: "Freud's coldness, which expels every fictitious immediacy between doctor and patient, and openly admits the professionally mediated nature of the therapy, does more honor to the idea of humanity by unrelentingly eliminating its appearance than ...

Only Gerald Horne could bring Marvin Gaye and V.I. Lenin together

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx.