How to cancel “cancel culture”

[BidenPresident]

His book, “The Identity Trap”, explains why many on the left abandoned “universalism”. He summarises the “woke” left’s logic as follows: “to ensure that each ethnic, religious or sexual community enjoys a proportionate share of income and wealth…both private actors and public institutions must make the way they treat people depend on the groups to which they belong.”

Most of the people who espouse this view aspire to improve the world, and many of the injustices they rail against are real. But the policies they advocate “are likely to create a society…of warring tribes rather than co-operating compatriots”.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/19/how-to-cancel-cancel-culture

 

[BidenPresident]

We used to call this stuff ethnocentrism.
Notice how debates about Israel are always about ethnocentrism and identity politics.

 

[Hawkeye10]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726012243349758123

I have been talking about this.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

His book, “The Identity Trap”, explains why many on the left abandoned “universalism”. He summarises the “woke” left’s logic as follows: “to ensure that each ethnic, religious or sexual community enjoys a proportionate share of income and wealth…both private actors and public institutions must make the way they treat people depend on the groups to which they belong.”

Most of the people who espouse this view aspire to improve the world, and many of the injustices they rail against are real. But the policies they advocate “are likely to create a society…of warring tribes rather than co-operating compatriots”.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/19/how-to-cancel-cancel-culture

I call that Socialism a failed economic and social system that can't fucking work. It is also very much racist, religiously intolerant, heterophobic, anti-individualist, and pretty much robbery on the economic side.

The guy is correct in that it creates warring tribes rather than compatriots. True Socialism and Communism always do.

 

[Lionfish]

His book, “The Identity Trap”, explains why many on the left abandoned “universalism”. He summarises the “woke” left’s logic as follows: “to ensure that each ethnic, religious or sexual community enjoys a proportionate share of income and wealth…both private actors and public institutions must make the way they treat people depend on the groups to which they belong.”

Most of the people who espouse this view aspire to improve the world, and many of the injustices they rail against are real. But the policies they advocate “are likely to create a society…of warring tribes rather than co-operating compatriots”.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/19/how-to-cancel-cancel-culture

Groan

 

[Lionfish]

We used to call this stuff ethnocentrism.
Notice how debates about Israel are always about ethnocentrism and identity politics.

Groan

 

[NiftyNiblick]

. But the policies they advocate “are likely to create a society…of warring tribes rather than co-operating compatriots”.

I'm one of the least woke hard leftists on this forum, but I won't blame them for creating a society of warring tribes.

The latter has been the best description for this republic throughout its entire existence.

Perhaps that's the honest and realistic choice--
overbearing totalitarianism or warring tribes.

Hard to see one as being better than the other.