when i do it, it's gentlemanly debate. when my vile clamoring foes do it it is politics, and distinctly unseemly
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the idea that there is a neat division where politics, not in the specific electoral sense but in the broader meaning, ends, and that polite folks should not speak of it but instead leave it to the political class we have assigned it to, is antidemocratic and frankly white supremacist in its effect
awfulness of the whole thing
@triz moreover with the implied stance that “the political class” will work for their privileges as usual