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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
They aren't willfully ignorant- they're overtly dismissive.
They know full well what both lunatic fringes are trying to say (on the right and left), they just find it utterly absurd. And yes, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two extremely bright, talented satirists. Just because their chosen medium is comedy rather than pithy single-pane comics in New Yorker doesn't mean substance is worth dismissing.
Your position requires such an ivory tower approach. You act as though anyone that disagrees with you is just not educated or intelligent enough to see why you're right. I went to a friggen liberal arts school for undergrad - I was immersed in the stuff. I read at least a few of the same books you've read that have led you to the conclusion that calling a black person 'articulate' is racist. I've actively rejected that bit of loaded nonsense because it's entirely too simplistic. It's base-level, dog-whistle horseshit that lazy people use because they don't feel like actually speaking to substance.
But again, that's progressive dogma. A person does a bad thing with guns - the 99% of those that would not do said bad thing shouldn't have guns. A person does a racist thing on a college campus - said college campus should institute a racial sensitivity course to make sure that nobody ever says a racist thing again (both comically overly broad and nowhere near narrowly tailored enough to be effective, but I digress).
It absolutely is Orwellian and it's not my fault that your chosen platform so neatly adheres to a label that makes you cringe. Now you've not made it all the way to "Some people are just more equal than others" by man oh man are you getting there and frankly, 1950 very clearly made it there already.
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There's not much in this post that I actually disagree with, but your last sentence strikes me as far battier than anything Concerned Student 1950 has said or asked for.