Belligerent Savant » Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:18 pm wrote:Belligerent Savant » Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:16 pm wrote:.
Excellent piece. Thorough and germane to this thread.
The New Authoritarians
Woke professionals acting as the indentured servants of a fearful oligarchy have become everything we were told to fear from Trumpism
BY
ALEX GUTENTAG
MARCH 29, 2022
Tablet Magazine
...
It is also the inevitable outcome of a discourse that allows some of the most powerful people to depict themselves as helpless and persecuted. When The New York Times editorial board recently decried the culture of “social silencing” that has permeated most American institutions, some prominent progressives were incensed. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (whose election to Congress was powered by the most gentrified neighborhoods in her district) argued that only the left is subject to real censorship, and that concerns about cancel culture are merely “about protecting bigots from feeling embarrassed in public.” Ocasio-Cortez seemed to forget that she has explicitly advocated for censorship herself on more than one occasion. In 2019, she called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “take down lies,” and in 2021 she pressured Apple and Google to remove Parler, a social media service popular among conservatives, from their app stores after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t think she’s calling for real censorship because she believes that the entire political opposition is composed of violent domestic terrorists bent on killing her. (She was not in the Capitol building on Jan. 6.) It is precisely her self-image as a perpetual victim that allows her to justify a tyrannical approach.
...
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... oritarians
Anyone here still buying the AOC brand?
The answer to this question offers keen insight into the extent a given individual continues to passively/actively accept fanciful tales otherwise known as contemporary/dominant programming.