Post by robeiae on Apr 28, 2021 8:54:24 GMT -5
An interview with Carville at Vox: www.vox.com/platform/amp/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days
It is--imo--nothing special on its surface at all. The Vox writer--Sean Illing--asks Carville about Biden's first 100 days and Carville, being Carville, basically goes where he wants to go, which is to criticize the Dems for screwing things up in the name of "wokeness":
I mean, there's nothing all that controversial here, imo. He's noting some obvious things, things that are absolutely supported by data, by polling. Yet Illing--the "journalist" doing the interview--seems perplexed that Carville is being critical of Dems, as opposed to lauding their greatness and lashing out at Repubs. Of the two of them, the journalist is far ans away the most partisan one. That's my takeaway here.
It is--imo--nothing special on its surface at all. The Vox writer--Sean Illing--asks Carville about Biden's first 100 days and Carville, being Carville, basically goes where he wants to go, which is to criticize the Dems for screwing things up in the name of "wokeness":
You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in ... neighborhoods.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you’re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it’s not.
[snip]
Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud.
[snip]
We won the White House against a world-historical buffoon. And we came within 42,000 votes of losing. We lost congressional seats. We didn’t pick up state legislatures. So let’s not have an argument about whether or not we’re off-key in our messaging. We are. And we’re off because there’s too much jargon and there’s too much esoterica and it turns people off.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you’re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it’s not.
[snip]
Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud.
[snip]
We won the White House against a world-historical buffoon. And we came within 42,000 votes of losing. We lost congressional seats. We didn’t pick up state legislatures. So let’s not have an argument about whether or not we’re off-key in our messaging. We are. And we’re off because there’s too much jargon and there’s too much esoterica and it turns people off.
