Carter devoted herself to several social causes in the course of her public life, including programs that supported health care resources, human rights, social justice and the needs of elderly people.
Not long after Ronald Reagan, with enormous help from the Christian Right, won the election against Jimmy Carter, Barbara Walters asked Rosalynn Carter what it would do to the country.
“I think the President makes us comfortable with our prejudices,” she said. How prescient.
Statements like that in a modern context clearly are extremely timid. We don’t need people giving subtle insults to make themselves sound smart. We need people openly, honestly and directly calling out the fascism and possible genocide and treating it for what it is.
This is not about her or looking better. This is about the future of the country and in a very real way, humanity. It’s bigger than a battle of egos.
I’m looking at it from a modern, or rather post modern, context where it’s really fucking obvious that this was the beginning of the rise of the fascist right in the U.S.
We’re a year, two years at most, away from a civil war. This is not the time to circlejerk over petty thinly disguised insults. Her doing that in no way benefitted anyone back then or anyone now.
In fact, it’s makes the problem worse by letting the Democrats feel like they’ve won something while the right entrenches more political power and preps to commit mass murder on a scale that will leave a dark mark on human history.
You’d take the situation more seriously if you gave a shit, but you clearly don’t.
I “give a shit” just fine but this isn’t a modern comment, and to speak as you wish she would have would be completely inappropriate for her in that moment. She was sufficiently cutting, for those with the intelligence to recognize it.
Not long after Ronald Reagan, with enormous help from the Christian Right, won the election against Jimmy Carter, Barbara Walters asked Rosalynn Carter what it would do to the country.
“I think the President makes us comfortable with our prejudices,” she said. How prescient.
Man what a solid gold reply from her.
It’s both self acknowledging (as her husband had been a president)
And it’s cutting (suggesting Reagan surfaced new prejudices)
All without being obviously rude
I argue that kind of timidity only enabled the right wing to get worse and only continues to make our problems worse.
There’s a big difference between being polite but clever, and being timid
Statements like that in a modern context clearly are extremely timid. We don’t need people giving subtle insults to make themselves sound smart. We need people openly, honestly and directly calling out the fascism and possible genocide and treating it for what it is.
This is not about her or looking better. This is about the future of the country and in a very real way, humanity. It’s bigger than a battle of egos.
Lost in the sauce.
This was from a different era by someone with different goals.
You are missing the point of the interaction this occurred in.
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I’m looking at it from a modern, or rather post modern, context where it’s really fucking obvious that this was the beginning of the rise of the fascist right in the U.S.
We’re a year, two years at most, away from a civil war. This is not the time to circlejerk over petty thinly disguised insults. Her doing that in no way benefitted anyone back then or anyone now.
In fact, it’s makes the problem worse by letting the Democrats feel like they’ve won something while the right entrenches more political power and preps to commit mass murder on a scale that will leave a dark mark on human history.
You’d take the situation more seriously if you gave a shit, but you clearly don’t.
I “give a shit” just fine but this isn’t a modern comment, and to speak as you wish she would have would be completely inappropriate for her in that moment. She was sufficiently cutting, for those with the intelligence to recognize it.
I’m done here cya.