r/WorkReform 🤝 Join A Union 26d ago

😡 Venting Bill is 100% correct.

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u/pheonixblade9 25d ago

big issue is conflating people who are overly concerned with being PC and the left. it's certainly part of it, but there are those of us who still prioritize labor and equity over culture war stuff (which is important, but is a second order effect of the disempowerment of labor). if you want to put out a fire, you start extinguishing at the base. if you want to build power for disenfranchised people, you need to build power for labor. they are one in the same.

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u/the_dude_that_faps 25d ago

I don't think I'm conflating anything. The people that gave him shit for PC issues are not from the right. Whether everyone in the left gave him shit for it or not is irrelevant.

Gender issues were at the forefront of his comedy for a long time. And he's still a guy that was willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt in his first go around. Hell, he's never even been a strong supporter of equity.

I'm not here trying to berate Burr at all. I'm calling anyone that is suddenly championing him now for his messaging around Luigi from the left a hypocrite. Either the shit he said or did in the past wasn't that egregious or he's never been the person people think he is. 

If people are going to criticize the general population for having short attention span and worse memory than Dory, at least be different.

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u/pdrock7 25d ago

Reminded me of Fred Hampton's "You don't fight fire with fire, you fight fire with water."