FD, outside of his analysis of black culture and leftist relations to black folk, is often weak and still pretty lib-coded. A decent part of that I think is lived experience over theoretical comprehension, e.g., my complaints in my other comment. Though it has been honestly a while since I’ve engaged with this type of YouTube content, so maybe I am misremembering. I found the video very good as a primer for white baby leftists on being careful in engaging with black people and mistakes to avoid. But his explanations were fairly lacking, but frankly, anyone who needs this message probably isn’t reading theory, notably black liberation theory, to the point of even properly engaging in the explanation, and obviously doesn’t have the lived experience to combat it.
I didn’t find his address of bernie to be particularly problematic, frankly, FD does attack revolutionary socialists, but in addressing electoralists, I think him drawing the distinction in any capacity, would cause the exact tuning out and lecturing he was talking about (further than has already happened in the comments of that vid lol). If we’re talking about tactics, I think leaving that unmentioned in a video this short with the purpose it serves is correct, considering the tendencies of the people he’s trying to address.
Though, the cynic in me thinks the primary effectiveness will derive from it hitting lib white guilt more than anything else. I don’t think this video was bad for what it was intended to be, but anyone who has engaged in the L of ML shouldn’t really need this video to begin with.
possible i missed this (im drunk rn i will admit).
I love analysis while drunk, so I relate. And no, you didn’t miss it. I think a part of it is him having the role of the Black Lorax. It’s something him and other cornbreadtubers (the name is ironic) riff on about him but I think he does take with some degree of seriousness and frankly a lot of “leftists” that haven’t found some sort of ideological coherence still heavily fuck with bernie. They’d click off faster than a gamer says a slur if he called Bernie an imperialist dog. Hell, we’re still catching shit for many leftists not voting for Kamala out of principle.
Besides, the same blind spot Bernie has, a lot of these leftists have frankly. Bernie’s fairly blatant imperialism works because of the class essentialism that is fairly prevalent in the Western left. Bernie does it as an imperial dog, but I think the reflection seen would lead to defensiveness and reactionary tendencies. JD is still actively playing the same role he was when I first found him. He’s a baby’s guide to The Black Question, and I think his idea is that by platforming others, he can give them the opportunity to pull a Luxembourg. I do agree he could lean a little further into the left regarding that, though, as he often has throwaway comments for other, much further left ideas in a way that pokes fun as well as generates interest. It likely is part of his blind spot, regardless of the tactical intent, though.
FD, outside of his analysis of black culture and leftist relations to black folk, is often weak and still pretty lib-coded. A decent part of that I think is lived experience over theoretical comprehension, e.g., my complaints in my other comment. Though it has been honestly a while since I’ve engaged with this type of YouTube content, so maybe I am misremembering. I found the video very good as a primer for white baby leftists on being careful in engaging with black people and mistakes to avoid. But his explanations were fairly lacking, but frankly, anyone who needs this message probably isn’t reading theory, notably black liberation theory, to the point of even properly engaging in the explanation, and obviously doesn’t have the lived experience to combat it.
I didn’t find his address of bernie to be particularly problematic, frankly, FD does attack revolutionary socialists, but in addressing electoralists, I think him drawing the distinction in any capacity, would cause the exact tuning out and lecturing he was talking about (further than has already happened in the comments of that vid lol). If we’re talking about tactics, I think leaving that unmentioned in a video this short with the purpose it serves is correct, considering the tendencies of the people he’s trying to address.
Though, the cynic in me thinks the primary effectiveness will derive from it hitting lib white guilt more than anything else. I don’t think this video was bad for what it was intended to be, but anyone who has engaged in the L of ML shouldn’t really need this video to begin with.
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I love analysis while drunk, so I relate. And no, you didn’t miss it. I think a part of it is him having the role of the Black Lorax. It’s something him and other cornbreadtubers (the name is ironic) riff on about him but I think he does take with some degree of seriousness and frankly a lot of “leftists” that haven’t found some sort of ideological coherence still heavily fuck with bernie. They’d click off faster than a gamer says a slur if he called Bernie an imperialist dog. Hell, we’re still catching shit for many leftists not voting for Kamala out of principle.
Besides, the same blind spot Bernie has, a lot of these leftists have frankly. Bernie’s fairly blatant imperialism works because of the class essentialism that is fairly prevalent in the Western left. Bernie does it as an imperial dog, but I think the reflection seen would lead to defensiveness and reactionary tendencies. JD is still actively playing the same role he was when I first found him. He’s a baby’s guide to The Black Question, and I think his idea is that by platforming others, he can give them the opportunity to pull a Luxembourg. I do agree he could lean a little further into the left regarding that, though, as he often has throwaway comments for other, much further left ideas in a way that pokes fun as well as generates interest. It likely is part of his blind spot, regardless of the tactical intent, though.
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