Remember when Joan Walsh of
non-tokenist Salon.com kicked off an intra-progressive Twitter war after
writing:
“I deeply resent people who insist that white progressives who criticize Obama are deluding themselves that they’re his ‘base,’ when his ‘base’ is actually not white progressives, but people of color.”
Sure you do,
Dem Base Fractures Into Twitter War And Charges Of Racism Against Professional Left:
https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/55783212164718592
http://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/55841811423436800
http://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/55795875955478528
Nothing brings out the popcorn faster at LI than intra-progressive racial grievances.
And this past week possibly was the largest bucket of popcorn ever seen upon the face of the Earth, with the hashtag
#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen.
The guy they're talking about, Hugo Schwyzer, also is known as the Pasadena Porn Professor, who we have covered at
College Insurrection, and you can read more about at
The Other McCain. (By this point you're thinking, this is the weirdest Saturday Night Card Game post ever.)
However it started, as convoluted as it was, the result was pure hysteria (via
Al Jazeera)(click on the date of each tweet to see responses to it, some of which were more "interesting" than the tweet itself):
