Why I Want Kamala to WinChris Cutrone1 November 2024Presented on October 30, 2024, for the panel discussion "The Left and the 2024 election" with Eddie Liger Smith (American Communist Party) and Jorge Mujica (Morena), hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Chicago. Video available online. I don’t want to be a target.If Trump wins, “cis-gender straight white males” will be blamed — perhaps also “gay” ones like me. We have had 8 years of attempted reeducation of the populat

It’s not what you would expect.

  • Hmm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Haven’t gotten around to trying to really read this article in full but it looks like you’ve got a pretty serious misquote.

    That last paragraph you quote, which is at the end of the article, is followed by a single sentence given its own paragraph. So it actually reads as follows:

    The promise of an end to the drama might be enough to elect Kamala. I want it to be true.

    But it is a lie.

    Emphasis mine.

    So he’s not saying it’ll actually happen. Of all things he’s rejecting the “40k Ork logic” that you’re trying to pin on him. It sounds more like he’s lamenting that ‘If Democrats weren’t lying, maybe Kamala Harris winning would lead to better circumstances, but they are lying.’

    Cutrone has had some completely garbage takes (e.g. Palestine) but we don’t need to stoop to the level of misreading him so carelessly. That benefits no one.

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      17 days ago

      That’s a fair point, but that’s the article as I understand it. Maybe I read it wrong, but he spends the entire time acknowledging it to be a lie, that’s why I said he admits Kamala is lying. He is at one step rejecting it, and the other embracing it. I think the issue here is a disconnect on what I meant and how you interpreted it, I probably could have worded my point better. Thank you for pointing that out.

      So he’s not saying it’ll actually happen. Of all things he’s rejecting the “40k Ork logic” that you’re trying to pin on him. It sounds more like he’s lamenting that ‘If Democrats weren’t lying, maybe Kamala Harris winning would lead to better circumstances, but they are lying.’

      Emphasis mine.

      This is more or less what I’m saying. He writes this as he wishes it to be, he says he wants Kamala to win so he’s no longer a target and hopes everything gets better, even if he knows better. That’s the 40k Ork logic at work.

      That being said, I’ll add the final “but it is a lie.” I left it out because I believed it to be redundant, but for transparency I’ll include it.