Category Archives: Comment of the Week

More like comment of whenever-we-feel-like-it. We should do this weekly.

Comment of the Week: "Race and Racism – Why Joan Walsh Doesn't Get It" – A Salon Commenter [Bonus ABL rant included]

Joan Walsh and David Sirota will *never* get it, and I am giving up.

 This week’s comment of the week comes not from this blog, but from Salon.com.  It was submitted in response to Joan Walsh’s meandering and defensive article on Melissa Harris-Perry’s suggestion that maybe — just maybe — race is a factor in the seemingly relentless (and often fact-deficient) criticism of President Obama.

Salon commenter Jcwtts1 writes:

Let me begin in the simplest way. Race and Racism are two different things. What happens in discourse, especially internet discourse, is that those two issues become conflated.

This is dangerous for both sides. On the one hand, you have the dismissive white response that is typical. “Just because I criticize the president doesn’t make me a racist.”

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Comment of the Week: "You're a Bunch of Quitters" – Vent Casey III

This week’s Comment of the Week comes to you from Vent Casey III aka @vcthree:

Oh, stop it. What you are is a bunch of quitters. Those progressives have done nothing but kneecap their own progress and quit for well past 30 years now–over the course of my entire lifetime–and they’re set to fold and quit again. You guys don’t fight; you lay down your arms, then whine when you get ran over, and then blame everybody else for your failure to do.

In 2000, I saw how you did your own hero, Vice President Gore, with much of the same undercutting and whining you’re doing now. I could get into how you failed to get all the toppings on your pizza by not working Congress, but seeing as you quitters don’t think Congress exists, and you’ve bought into that Imperial Presidency bullshit you were selling from 2005-2008, why waste the time?

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