The definition of “smug”: When liberals trot out the same rosy, halcyon portrait of “MLK, The Patron Saint of Anti-Capitalism” like clockwork for the past 20 years, and pretend we’re all having this same conversation brand new for the first time ever, as if they must have misspoken or clearly no one was listening properly the last 19 times.1
Pro-tip, fam: Racial capitalism, or whatever the hell you want to call it, took decades to get rolling, and 500+ years to get to where it is today. Just because the world hasn’t completely remade itself in the last 20, or even the last 60 since MLK died, doesn’t excuse your lack of patience with the matter.
Have some freaking humility. Even Dr. King was pretty clear-eyed that his struggle was generational, not a mere hop, skip, and a filibuster away from being fixed.RE the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69B buyout: I don’t think I’ve ever met another group besides liberals and gamers who were so whiny and fatalistic about every single business megadeal that gets announced.
If you’re hearing it from gamers, this is basically going to be the death knell of anything ever being pro-gamer ever again in the industry. The buyout/merger will give Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo enough market power to start a content war with each other, and there will never be cross-platform games again. Gamers will get gouged for AAA games that aren’t all that good anyways. Waah waah waah.
The reality is, Microsoft has been a decent steward of its studio properties lately, and literally nothing in life is ever as black-and-white as the rest of these dire predictions make it out to be.
It’s like a schoolmarm clearing her throat and repeating the previous instruction, even though she knows damn well the class heard her the first time and simply didn’t like it. Except this is all happening in the schoolmarm’s head; in reality, homeroom hasn’t even started yet, and currently kids of all different grades are bouncing around the cafeteria eating breakfast, while she’s mistaken the handful of sophomores in her anti-capitalist fan club sitting at one of the tables listening raptly to her poorly-timed little lecture as an invitation by the whole room to deliver a morning sermon, then getting angry that they’re not sitting quietly in the pews like an obedient congregation.
Like I said, smug.