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have said it before and will say it again: would not be a wokescold anteefuh sjw tankie today if I didn't watch Jon Stewart in my youth.
or at least I would not have been nearly as politically educated and aligned, and would be the same person I am today but dumber, if that's possible
Yeah same. His show was what got 12 year old me to start caring about politics.
This is why ripping too hard on guys like this (or Bernie, or AOC) is so foolish: most people don't become leftists overnight. We should be constantly building and expanding the pipeline left, not blowing up the start of it once we're a little farther on the way ourselves.
We routinely recognize that prominent leftist figures can make major contributions in many areas while making major errors in others; they're "X% good/Y% bad" rather than all good or all bad. The same analysis should apply to figures who are useful for getting a ton of people started down the right path but drop the ball at some point.
(WPA-style poster titled "Building the Lib-to-Left Pipeline")