tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post4016752192369056763..comments2024-03-29T05:05:01.273+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenshipLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-7298477406881789712020-07-10T22:11:31.399+10:002020-07-10T22:11:31.399+10:00That should be "Especially as cancel culture ...That should be "Especially as cancel culture ..."Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-60262735202515916072020-07-10T22:10:51.241+10:002020-07-10T22:10:51.241+10:00That is a sadly possible outcome. If, however, cen...That is a sadly possible outcome. If, however, centre-right politicians get a clue and start talking in the language of citizenship, that could do it. Establish as cancel culture is a series of conspiracies to deny people their civil rights and the law should treat it as such.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-73421713647821127002020-07-10T22:08:46.694+10:002020-07-10T22:08:46.694+10:00Creating mountains of legitimating bullshit out of...Creating mountains of legitimating bullshit out of molehills of truth has long been a speciality of wokeness and its predecessors. And building a sense of a common demos out of ethnically diverse societies is, indeed, hard. But I would not focus on race too much. The antebellum South has a whole structure of repression aimed at "poor whites". A system the plantation elite dusted off, intensified and racialised as Jim Crow, which was not invented to oppress African-Americans, it was adapted to do so. See Keri Leigh Merrit's revelatory book Masterless Men.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-52647808814579506352020-07-04T15:34:18.030+10:002020-07-04T15:34:18.030+10:00What the liberal left and right need to understand...What the liberal left and right need to understand is that many of the concerns of the woke left are exactly basic citizenship concerns. It's easy to speak of citizenship when you've never had to wait in line for hours just to cast a vote. And that this problem only ever occurs in racially diverse counties--not even the poorest of majority-white counties in America have ever had such an issue--ought to be telling. Citizenship for thee but not for me? I am wary of the woke left as much as you do, but let's not pretend their concerns are wholly illegitimate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-85394999337231760322020-07-03T22:11:28.246+10:002020-07-03T22:11:28.246+10:00What would you consider to be the most legitimate ...What would you consider to be the most legitimate way to push back against this? Given the cancel culture and real world consequences being given for statements like "all lives matter" people are being suppressed. Does it have to end in a violent correction to take back our rights?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com