Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your prison owning donors depend on
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welp;
Actual quote, in context:
“I believe that we should make community college free. We should have debt-free college if you got to a public college or university. You should not have to borrow a dime to pay tuition… I disagree with free college for everybody. I don’t think taxpayers should be paying to send Donald Trump’s kids to college.“ [video link]
Don’t spread misinformation just to fit a narrative, Clinton is advocating for there to be a cap on who gets free college so that the government doesn’t have to subsidize the education of people with enough disposable income to pay for it themselves. The plan she’s proposing would have a better chance of being passed, is more cost-effective, and still opens up higher education to low-income individuals who previously couldn’t afford it.
the op lagonegirl literally ended up being a russian psyop im losing my mind
Reblogging this as an example of what the Russian interference here on tumblr was. I have seen some people in the past days casting doubts on Tumblr because the blogs that were banned had social justice content.
But that was the point exactly. They posted some real things and a lot of half-truths that would appeal to the kind of politics on here and therefore spread disinformation to discourage us from participating in stopping Trump through the only option we had. I’m glad tumblr left these posts up so we could see for ourselves.
I don’t know if it actually worked on anyone, I hope we all remember to check our sources before making our decisions, but life is short and maybe some people didn’t. There are plenty of real social justice blogs available still, so I hope we will follow those instead.
Reblogging this now. Because some of you think that a leftist space can be trusted. They can’t. Lagonegirl posted content that had nothing to do with politics, it made her seem like a real person.
She was not. There were SO many posts by her that got big numbers and most of them were fine. That was an illusion so that when she posted things like this it might not click like it would if it were loudly pro- Trump.
You see a blog that is leftist but only critical of the more “safe bet” cookie cutter candidate and has very little to say about the obviously right wing, objectively worse for everything you stand for candidate?
Be on guard.
I reblogged a few of these posts. I found them kind of creepy and odd at the time, but the whole psyop was these people pretending to be black.
Im white.
In a lot of leftist circles, there’s a whole thing where you’re told to “uplift marginalized voices.” If marginalized people say something you aren’t sure about, you’re told to “stay in your lane.”
For me, and i can’t say for sure but probably for others too, this leads to a predisposition not to question the views of people (supposedly) more marginalized than me.
Which meant that even when I felt they weren’t quite right, I sometimes reblogged anyway, on the theory that we should all be exposed to marginalized groups’ views, even if they make us a bit uneasy.
The whole psyop was to get you to have trouble telling the difference between “I’m uneasy because this viewpoint is new to me, but once I consider it I’ll settle down because I will have formed an opinion” and “I’m uneasy because I can tell that’s incorrect, but I’m not sure yet what smells fishy here.”
Leftism is VERY fertile ground for this kind of con, precisely because we already worry our bullshit detectors may be miscalibrated because we have privilege of various kinds.
The only solution I’ve found is to remember that I don’t need permission to vehemently disagree with someone who’s marginalized in a way I’m not.
It might be a good idea to think about why they see things differently. I might learn something. But the mere fact my response was “lol no wtf?” That’s not something to feel guilty or concerned about.
That’s just having an opinion, and we all have those.
Which means if someone is lying about being in those groups, I’ll be more inclined to catch it because I won’t be worried about who I need to “uplift” to prove “allies aren’t garbage,” etc.
