1. Since people were asking about this subtweet, let me un pack it a little. There used to be a magazine called Living Marxism which morphed in 1990s into Spiked and now Spiked-Online. They take money from Koch Bros & specialize in Climate Change denial & other rightwing causeshttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1147169748410609670 …
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3. I'll add that the problem with the dirtbag left is not that it's offensive but that it's lazy. I mean, the sort of shock humor it specializes in is a pretty low grade of comedy, one that's common to c-list stand-up.
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4. Comedy is based on social discomfort, the saying of the unsayable. So easy to get a laugh by using slur based on race, gender, sexual identity. The trick is to go beyond that easy laugh & explore the discomfort, as say Pryor did. But dirtbag humor is mostly at easy level
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There is a much more broad section of people who are socially moderate but hate big business and the GOP squeezing everyone into a cruel paycheck-to-paycheck life, but they don’t identify with some kind of hipster movement.
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In conclusion: horseshoe theory
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Don’t be hysterical
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Hard endorse lol
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You're conflating too many factions and trends, some of which overlap, some of which co-exist, and some of which are hostile to one another.
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Even within Chapo alone (which hardly captures the full spectrum of the trend) you have a range. Amber coining the term obviously complicates the matter but it & esp the phenomenon it describes include who many who loathe Red Scare for ex.
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