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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2. Spiked-Online just published this article celebrating the Anti-Woke Left (a.k.a. dirtbag left). I think that's telling because there are signs that dirtbag left will follow trajectory of Spiked (left to right): https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/04/meet-the-anti-woke-left/ …
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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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5. The guys on the right are becoming Red Scare curious.pic.twitter.com/Z3641ptVgH
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Replying to @philnelson
The guy whose tweet I screen-saved. He's editor of a right-wing magazine, First Things.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I see. But isn’t Spiked a billionaire sludgepump too?
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Yep -- and there are other examples. It's a trend!
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Replying to @HeerJeet @philnelson
Isn’t that a good thing if right wing guys are becoming interested in left wing politics?
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No
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