it's not unconnected! the writer at the Atlantic just blocks, mutes, or ignores the guy calling them the n-word, they engage with the annoying grad student communist, and people write about what they know.
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Michael Hobbes
One of the things that has always bugged me about the ‘wokeness’ discourse is that rank and file right-wingers are far more odious and anti-democratic than rank and file lefties.
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Hot take: having a phd doesn't mean you're necessarily intelligent
It's like how a white lib is never going to chide a Black rap fan for homophobia.
I don't know whether it's true, but my own bias is such that i'd *like* to believe that we (palm-colored folks) would let Black communities handle homophobia/transphobia/etc internally, instead of us trying to lecture them
And, like the Byrds, they dislike the Klan. Not because they disagree. But because the poors should stay quiet and keep their couth.
Same reason bahn mi appropriation is an appealing topic. It just...doesn't matter but it's novel.
They all pick targets they feel comfortable attacking.
1) the people being called centrist are left of center and would like approval from the left more than the right
2) leftists actually do gang on center left people much more than they do right wingers
But that's the fun bit. We're all so busy blaming each other that we don't fight the real enemy.
The far right usually can't go more than three posts before they ask if you're Jewish.
and started the genre of Left Punching as status anxiety / but also created the Contrarian Slate Pitch (Michael Kinsley who founded Slate *was* an Editor for TNR)
And while Marty did not do the sexual harassment, several people men and women came to Marty that one
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But to circle around, yes Marty Peretz is one of the reasons why we got think pieces that normalized gay marriage as a neutral perhaps even a conservative project…