Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

You look at the capture of power in the right wing, the ascent of white nationalism, the concentration of wealth. You cannot really animate or concentrate a movement like that—you can’t coalesce it into functional political power—without a sense of persecution or victimhood. And that’s the role of this concept of cancel culture. It’s the speck of dust around which the raindrop must form in order to precipitate takeovers of school boards, pushing actual discourse out of the acceptable norms, like in terms of the 1619 Project or getting books banned from schools. They need the concept of cancel culture, of persecution, in order to justify, animate, and pursue a political program of takeover, or at least a constant further concentration of their own power.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an Insider Now?”

Mirrored from Under the Beret.

Comments

[frandroid]

They're will be no further left revolutions because we eat our young before they can become dangerous. Right-wingers make up controversies to organize; we make up controversies so we can destroy ourselves from within, just to satisfy some people with fragile egos in need of aggrandizement.

[sabotabby]

Co-signed.