Three days ago I posted a blog about Bari Weiss’s op-ed piece in the New York Times. In it, Ms. Weiss, a supporter of January’s “Women’s March” on Washington D.C., expressed second thoughts, based the terrorist-supporting, Jew-hating positions of its leaders.
Well, one of those leaders, Bob Bland (a woman, despite that name), has written a letter to the New York Times responding to Ms. Weiss’s comments.
Here are a few excerpts – in rust, with my comments in blue:
To the Editor:
“When Progressives Embrace Hate,” by Bari Weiss (Opinion, nytimes.com, Aug. 1), perpetuates a flawed narrative that is dangerous for many reasons, most fundamentally because it threatens to divide and distract progressives at a time when we need to stand united. OK, there’s your set-up. Now let’s see the flaws.
It frames challenging discussions that our movement must continue to embrace — conversations about struggle and liberation, about inclusion and understanding — as hateful or taboo. Ms. Weiss is endorsing a sensational alt-right attack that aims to discredit the Women’s March movement and its leaders and to derail the progress we have made since January. Uh….Ms. Weiss’s problem is that leaders of this movement avidly support the convicted murderer joanne chesimard (aka assata shakur), castro’s cuba and the White-hating, Jew-hating louis farrakhan. Are you saying that this is what your movement is about? Are you saying that to be against these people is a far-right position? Evidently you are.
Her article is a distraction at a critical moment when rights are being stripped from vulnerable communities every day. I see. We’re supposed to pretend these people and their positions do not exist.
The Women’s March has always been about coming together for one another’s collective liberation and not just showing up for issues that directly affect us. We are a movement made up of many people with different opinions, ideas and experiences. So “collective liberation” includes tolerance for racial hatred and religious intolerance. Wow.
We are a movement grounded in love for all people, but especially for the vulnerable, the oppressed and the marginalized. Love for all people….except the ones your leaders hate. Double wow.
For now, critics like Ms. Weiss are just critics from their seats. Until they get up, listen and do the work to understand those whose feelings have been shaped by injustices, they will remain apologists for the status quo, racist ideology and the white nationalist patriarchy. Translation: to be against hatred, you must be a hater. Make that triple wow.
BOB BLAND, NEW YORK
Incidentally, in case you’ve never heard of her, Bob Bland is a woman’s fashion designer (aren’t people who objectivize women the enemy of this movement) who is making a fortune on her “Nasty Girl” T-shirt line (shades of Al Gore and climate change).
If any of this makes sense to you, please take two aspirin and repeat to yourself “I have lost my powers of logic and common sense”…
I’ll stop there. You probably can figure out the remaining 98 iterations.
I heard a similar line of argument from 4 year olds in a sandbox.
“She is a poo-poo head. And her brother gave her cooties. We are smart and she is a dum-dum meany. Don’t play with her ”
Sculpting ad hominem attacks somehow is perceived as cogent logic by the Alt[tered]-Left.
“when rights are being stripped from vulnerable communities every day.”
We hear this over and over from these lunatics on the left. Why don’t they ever tell us whose “rights are being stripped away”? Just like the claim “institutional racism” and all the other jingoistic oppression phrases they use, they never point to any examples.
It’s because they don’t have any examples and they are just using these terms to shut down debate.