understanding the left
genuinely curious about how liberalism has changed, new progressive movement, woke culture, and more
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understanding the left
To my Western leftist friends, from your leftist Israeli friend
yuval-idan.medium.com
If you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
trying to understand what ihappened to the left
So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
While Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.
one thing the left has certainly accomplished this past half-century is to associate moral superiority with the underdog.
The "Left" is really "BOTTOM" vs TOP, underdog vs incumbent
support + sympathies of the Left go to any group (identity: sexuality, skin color, gender, ethnicity, resources) that has LESS perceived power or leverage over dominant power on TOP
True historically in US of
-women vs Men
-black vs White
-poor vs Rich
-queer vs Straight
-musli... See more