Key point on how this would need to be different than “cancel culture”
> Now, I’m sure some readers will object that the McCarthyism of the left already happened: what was “woke” and “cancel culture?” Well, I don’t often criticize those things because their critics are a dime a dozen, but the way I see it was that there were two deviations from the correct line. On the one hand, the discourse of white supremacy did not differentiate properly between the center and the far right, and viewed racism as so endemic to the American experience that virtually everyone was culpable if they were not actively “anti-racist” in just the right way, that is to say, echoed the correct shibboleths. One might argue that recent events vindicate this account of total depravity, but in practical politics, it had the deleterious effect of not properly isolating the real threat. The other deviation was left-wing anti-anti-fascism, which spent an enormous amount of time and energy denying something that was right in front of our faces.
surreptitioussloth on
Even beyond being a bad person, mccarthy wasn’t a competent or effective person
Why do people always think that bad people were also competent?
ShelterOk1535 on
Didn’t know Marat came back and started writing substacks from his bathtub
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Key point on how this would need to be different than “cancel culture”
> Now, I’m sure some readers will object that the McCarthyism of the left already happened: what was “woke” and “cancel culture?” Well, I don’t often criticize those things because their critics are a dime a dozen, but the way I see it was that there were two deviations from the correct line. On the one hand, the discourse of white supremacy did not differentiate properly between the center and the far right, and viewed racism as so endemic to the American experience that virtually everyone was culpable if they were not actively “anti-racist” in just the right way, that is to say, echoed the correct shibboleths. One might argue that recent events vindicate this account of total depravity, but in practical politics, it had the deleterious effect of not properly isolating the real threat. The other deviation was left-wing anti-anti-fascism, which spent an enormous amount of time and energy denying something that was right in front of our faces.
Even beyond being a bad person, mccarthy wasn’t a competent or effective person
Why do people always think that bad people were also competent?
Didn’t know Marat came back and started writing substacks from his bathtub