Tom Ritchford
1 min readJul 19, 2020

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As a long-time far-left progressive, doesn't America have much bigger problems to worry about?

Armed gangs compensated by the government and indemnified against their crimes because they are called "police" kill the people at whim and suffer no consequences.

Right now as I write, there is an ongoing genocide through disease that will kill easily one hundred thousand people of color if not a lot more horribly and needlessly, as well as the death of probably 80% of Black-owned businesses.

And it seems increasingly likely that the upcoming election will be a shitshow of simply massive proportions, with violence, rampant voter suppression, and (God, please not, the people have suffered enough!) quite conceivably a stolen victory as the result.

Against that backdrop of historic events, you are lecturing to people about not using the phrase "black humor" - a phrase which has nothing to do with African-Americans, something you know perfectly well.

Get a sense of proportion. You make yourself and all of us on the left look ridiculous. You diminish the movement with your childish prattling. The enemy is literally on the ramparts, our very society and our brothers-in-arms are in mortal danger and you blather about minutia.

Get a sense of proportion!

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