Consumerland

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Clarissa

November 17, 2016

An op-ed in the NY TIMES suggests 12 steps for voter despair, one of which is the following:

I’ll do my part to support the society I’d like to see. I’ll eat Chobani yogurt because its owner has been subjected to racist attacks, etc.

The statement is followed by “I will support the Southern Poverty Law Center”, so it’s got to be serious. People have had their brain so devoured by consumerism that they don’t realize how deranged they sound.

Voters in despair will be better off realizing that this irreflective consumerism is the reason why our politics looks this pathetic.

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7 responses to “Consumerland”

AcademicLurker

November 17, 2016

Almost as depressing as the election itself has been the seemingly total refusal of “progressives” to learn anything from it.

A failure of this magnitude aught to be the occasion for some serious questioning of what you’ve been doing and how you’ve been doing it. But I’m not seeing it.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 17, 2016
  
  You are so right! I was hoping that at least this would be a wakeup call but no, there’s nothing.
  
  Republicans did no analysis of what had gone wrong after losing to Obama twice and ended up with Trump who wiped his feet on the party. Now the Democrats are doing the same. It’s maddening!
  
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Stringer Bell

November 17, 2016

Remember the safety pins we were supposed to wear in solidarity after the election?

This didn’t take long:

jesus people, come on (v @yourgirlhils) pic.twitter.com/00ryTzbynZ

— Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonCHI) November 17, 2016

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 17, 2016
  
  Idiocy breeds more idiocy.
  
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2. xykademiqz
  
  November 17, 2016
  
  Da fuk…
  
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Shakti

November 17, 2016

This editorial is so full of denial it trips on itself.
#3, #7 & #8 are contradictory.

This idiot really thinks engaging in moral equivalence is going to work in concert with pushing back on “degrading comments” & expanding a “diverse” friend circle with new friends who are Trump supporters & “minorities” or a “minority who is a Trump supporter” because he thinks eating Chobani is some act of moral solidarity, along with safety pins.

This is farcical. People can tell when you’re tolerating them and whether you’re a real friend or not. It’s condescending as hell. And seriously, I’m sure this idiot has a lot of tokens as “friends”, because you can’t seriously listen to me and then go around mouthing how people you only have one piece of information about that they voted for Trump are “good” people. This is as silly as assuming a Sanders or HRC supporter is a “good” person absent information. It’s logical garbage.

This idiot operates in a world where all of these differences are merely cosmetic and political discussions are merely exciting dinner entertainment. This is why half of why people think you’re full of hyperbolic shit when you go on about how “traumatized” you are by an election.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 17, 2016
  
  Yes, the whole article is dumb. The part about Chobani is just priceless, though. If he wants to support refugees, why not give directly to refugees or to relief organizations? Why take the tortuous part of buying yogurt.
  
  I can just imagine him proudly telling a refugee how much he did for him by buying yogurt.
  
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