#409

[@vicpso1]

It's all about the fight for status as a corruption of access to value. The corruption is that status brings people success rather than CREATING VALUE as prosperity and success. Their faulty system needs theft and legitimizing the theft.

[@StratumPress]

Exactly. Cancel culture is a feminine way for low-status people to gain leverage over higher status people--thus eliminating them from competition--without creating value in the marketplace themselves or having the means to directly compete with people for status, employment, .etc.

[@KW-hk2jd]

I have found most "progressives" to be emotionally immature. The more I see them and hear them speak the more centrist I become.

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

Why not join the crowd and go full right wing?

[@KW-hk2jd]

@@nigelralphmurphy2852 Because right wingers are intellectually immature lol. But seriously, both the too far left and too far right are damaged, the center is where anyone with critical thinking skills and some humility sit, imo.

[@JohnSmith-rv6nf]

Whiteness and white identity as a concept was and still is America’s main political identity and hence the most important factor in creating identity politics.

[@madderanger7838]

That's nice professor, but a better measure would be to follow the money.

[@Curkofsky]

I agree w your comment. The intense irony of ‘Woke’ is that it is hugely dependent upon corporate (largely WallStreet) funding through non-profit organisations and the academy. This is the neoliberal elites’ desperate attempt to forestall economic & political reform

[@annebronte4]

the dude has talked 40 minutes and said nothing like most Pomo ideologues.

[@bsmithhammer]

I tried listening to it, and only made it about 20 minutes in before having to turn it off. More academic navel-gazing that means nothing in the real world.

[@KW-hk2jd]

You're so predictable.

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

"Pomo"?

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

America is deeply deeply conservative and the people who follow this belief make up some 95% of the population. In small pockets on the east and west coasts there are some decent people, but they are very small in numbers and constantly under threat. America is therefore a theological autocracy.