You know she was patting herself on the back for such a clever line. 🙄
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CNN & Corporate Dems Whitewashing Impeachment.
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You know she was patting herself on the back for such a clever line. 🙄
I feel like I'm the only person here that's glad that they waited for something like this before starting the impeachment process. I can't fault these people for "fence sitting" then moving forward when the circumstances and evidence presented itself. I wouldn't call them leaders of the impeachment process, but leaders for the moderate members in this process. It's a game of numbers and it seems they made a big difference.
And hey, I'm also glad it's highlighting women here.
And hey, I'm also glad it's highlighting women here.
I cannot even with this.
How someone could think to themselves "You know what AOC definitely hasn't gotten enough of? Media attention. Fuck these white people that I've never heard of for getting a single news story about them." is beyond me.
Like how blatantly anti-white are we gonna go here?
How someone could think to themselves "You know what AOC definitely hasn't gotten enough of? Media attention. Fuck these white people that I've never heard of for getting a single news story about them." is beyond me.
Like how blatantly anti-white are we gonna go here?
Would you classify someone you've never heard about as a leader?
Well my biggest problem is that a lot of the media coverage AOC gets is bad. I have nothing against the women presented here though, but AOC has been taking an unfair media beating for mostly being right on this subject.
It has nothing to do with being anti-white. If it were a white legislator who was bravely going out and saying "This President has zero credibility!" and calling for his impeachment when his first slate of crimes rolled out. If it were a white legislator who was denigrated by this President as being "low IQ," and had everything from her district to her wigs mocked by right ring media, but never wavered in her convictions. If it were a white legislator that was speaking truth to power while the rest of her party ran scared and ducked behind polls, all while death threats were being sent to her office. If it were a white legislator doing that, I'd gladly sing their praises.
But it wasn't. It's wasn't AOC, either.
It was Maxine Waters. Lifelong public servant, Patriot, and leader on the impeachment of Donald Trump.
I've never heard of them because the media never covers them.
Acting like the media is biased against AOC and the squad when the article coverage is about 10,000:1 in her favor is something else.
Apparently fear isn't the only thing you're lacking.
The media probably never covers them because they haven't been leaders in a movement.
This is extremely fucking embarrassing. Jesus, get a grip.
The irony of minority women being pushed aside in favor of moderate white women for their bravery against Trump (who is mega racist and referred to the former as savages) and half the people in this thread are all "who cares who gets the glory" as long as he gets impeached.
On the other hand, the more voices we highlight against Trump the better. I'd hope no one is getting pushed away from the credit they deserve, but many voices should be highlighted here. Whatever the most effective means of removing him is is what should be done.
It's the type of headline that happens when your newsroom is as white as a Kanye West album release party.
It really is sad there is something we can agree with Trump because he's genuinely right.
When you sit around and do nothing what is the media supposed to cover?
Please explain to me how.
The squad has done some great things and due to that has gotten almost universal praise and constant media coverage for 2 years. These white ladies get one ounce of positive press and we're gonna act like AOC and company are victims and are being "pushed aside?"
Naw fam, they're gonna be fine.
The positive attention they're getting is that they're being framed as leaders of the impeachment movement. It's literally in the title of the piece.
That's the context you're leaving out/ignoring.
It's fine for white people to get positive attention when they do positive things. It's not fine for them to be centered or written in such a way that seems to overstate their importance in comparison to the work being done by people of color alongside them.
aka, whitewashing.
And also the media that AOC and other minority women get is.....not good. In fact they're more often than not shit upon in an attempt by our media to boost that "dems in disarray" narrative. It's where all the Maureen Dowds, Jake Tappers, and Chuck Todds gather around and dump on them.
So that's another point of why this framing of impeachment is garbage.
So that's another point of why this framing of impeachment is garbage.
It's hard not to notice how the array of people this article chooses to present as "leaders" on impeachment does not include any of the people of color who have been openly and consistently advocating impeachment since they were elected.
The U.S. is a lot more white and moderate than some people think: it is newsworthy when "the center" gets on board because that's when things tend to change.
Like literally this same day with the same fucking network:
I am NOT letting you motherfuckers on this board rewrite not only the past but the ongoing present. Not today Satan.
I am NOT letting you motherfuckers on this board rewrite not only the past but the ongoing present. Not today Satan.
ERA is hyper-aware of how white and moderate the US is.
Oh so this is the praise that TheManWithoutFear was talking about
But Donald snitched on himself and finally moderates were forced to do something
I don't know why people are pretending to be obtuse. These women aren't leaders, we can agree on that. The article unnecessarily throws shade at The Squad though and flirts with racist tone policing at some points. Fuck CNN (again).
The increasingly unchecked hostility on this forum towards moderate democrats gets really tiresome. That there's been no effort to curb this behavior by the moderation team is the real disappointment.
The uncomfortable truth ResetEra will have to accept one day is that the progressive firebrands of the world aren't the one's responsible for the current Democratic majority in the House, it's those "fence sitting, corporate dems". As they're the one's most vulnerable to losing their seats in the next election cycle, it was their support for impeachment that drove Nancy Pelosi to make the formal announcement of the inquiry. No one's denying that the AOCs of the world have been beating the drums of impeachment for months, but they're in a position where they can be comfortable enough to do that without losing their seat.
The uncomfortable truth ResetEra will have to accept one day is that the progressive firebrands of the world aren't the one's responsible for the current Democratic majority in the House, it's those "fence sitting, corporate dems". As they're the one's most vulnerable to losing their seats in the next election cycle, it was their support for impeachment that drove Nancy Pelosi to make the formal announcement of the inquiry. No one's denying that the AOCs of the world have been beating the drums of impeachment for months, but they're in a position where they can be comfortable enough to do that without losing their seat.
Getting death threats and openly mocked by the right and some colleagues for years is a lot harder than whatever these homicidal white ladies are getting credit for doing.
They're 100% using this as a wedge to legitimize democrats not within the establishment orbit by trying to take away the credit and credibility they're due for pushing impeachment before it was the default and more broadly for being generally the moral leaders of american politics.
CNN is not your friend.
CNN is not your friend.
As some point in the near future, moderates and progressives will have to go against each other. For now we're on the same team.
The media has been doing this since January where they'll cover Sherrill, Spanberger, Slotkin, Luria, etc. in a piece and ALWAYS ask them about AOC or the Squad to try to draw a comparison between the two groups. In this article, they leave out the men who penned the opinion article on impeachment with them and then make sure to devote an entire section to asking the women about the Squad and making sure to mention Spanberger and company aren't "divisive" and don't get in Twitter fights.
It's incredibly obvious what the media is doing.
It's incredibly obvious what the media is doing.
Wow what the heck? I need to look into this but wow, not looking good. Maybe they were doing silent work that was more effective, I don't know, but I'm not buying it at face value.
Not even giving the others any recognition for being very vocal and up front even challenging Pelosi though? Jackie Chan What.jpg
Not even giving the others any recognition for being very vocal and up front even challenging Pelosi though? Jackie Chan What.jpg
Because she didn't gain any traction by saying it. Progressives and most moral people have wanted to impeach since day 1. That's no surprise. It's the rest of the country that needs to get on board now. There is a real chance to get some Republican rats to jump ship and go against Trump. I don't think it's a good chance, but it could happen.
100% this.
Clapping back at people on Twitter is great for making the front page of Reddit but you usually aren't convincing anyone that isn't already on your side. You need the firebrands but you also need moderates to fight the battle in the trenches because the middle is where the court of public opinion is won.
BOTH OF THESE GROUPS ARE LEADERS. Without both of them, you don't get anywhere. Freaking out because white women got one article's worth of credit is NOT PRODUCTIVE.
You didn't read the article or see the clip. Your post doesn't address the shade thrown at the Squad. It's blatant what CNN is doing, that's what people are beefing with.
You can praise these women without trotting out racist tropes but that was too hard a task for CNN.
You've responded to that but ignored the multiple posts refuting your patently false claims that the squad and vocal progressives have received unanimous praise.