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I saw a take where someone was asking why ppl dislike Liz Bruenig so much when she& #39;s one of the very few left op ed writers with a real platform in mainstream media.
The question is the answer I think. 1
The question is the answer I think. 1
there& #39;d be a lot less concern about her shaky positions on abortion and LGBT issues, etc, if she were not so often in a position of representing the left in mainstream discourse.
I think I& #39;ve said this before, but if you& #39;ve got one voice really representing "the left" and that person is not onboard with defending reproductive rights, people with some reason feel like they& #39;re being deliberately shat upon.
there& #39;s all this talk by the right about how they don& #39;t get represented in mainstream media. but there just are not that many left voices who have the platform Bruenig does, and there are issues where she& #39;s really untrustworthy
...and people understandably wonder if that& #39;s why she gets those gigs.
it doesn& #39;t help that Matt is just super unpleasant and cruel to people all the time, and that she defends him...but there& #39;s also just the fact that she& #39;s got this platform, and people with better politics on major issues don& #39;t, and if you care about those issues, it& #39;s a problem.
I don& #39;t think this last tweet/take re the religious left is as catastrophic as some folks did...I think it was clumsy and insufficiently nuanced rather than actively malevolent, I guess, but...
