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Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti and Chris Hedges) (scheerpost.com)

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where were you when class politics was kill

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

would not be surprising, christian encourages leftists to go beyond stale boring theory and get some interesting and exciting ideas from the far right

‘this admitted racist who wants to get rid of the civil rights act actually makes some good points’, ‘the woke student mob radicalised my dad and got him fired’

I think that’s where a lot of the left is at these days, that it is cutting itself off for more interesting ideas. And it’s one of the ways that the right has gotten a kind of cultural upward hand on the left by, perhaps cynically, but entertaining ideas. And people are, all people, I think, are intellectually hungry. They might not seem intellectually hungry, I’m not saying that everybody wants to read esoteric theory, no. But people have ideas about stuff. People have ideas about reality. I mean, the number of people in this country who are interested in things is enormous, right? And if the left is just offering a set of kind of, “just so” stories and prefabricated pat answers, it becomes intellectually boring and people will turn away. So that’s another problem with all this stuff that in shutting down and policing thought and policing speech and policing thought and turning away from the unclean authors and ideas, the left is painting itself into a corner.

‘leftists these days need to get some far-right intellectual stimulation from the cynically entertaining ideas of south park’

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

cynically entertaining ideas of south park

South Park is the mental equivalent of habit-forming junk food, with messaging like "caring about things is STUPID" and "apathy makes you SMART." It doesn't even look like a political message to the treat hogs absorbing it as they have for roughly thirty years now.