"People are being mean on social media" is increasingly the preferred centrist way of delegitimizing people for expressing anodyne sentiments like "full employment is good" or "bombing children to smithereens is not good."
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And what it did to Hollywood!
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Better explain that to Glenn Greenwald who has been misusing the term McCarthyism for the last 5 yrs.
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For sure Glenn will listen. He always does ....
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Killing Ethel Rosenburg was how the State dealt with its growing need for intellectuals and their perpensity for independent thinking
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Seems like today’s “sociology of Econ” Twitter discourse recreates Econ discourse. (anecdotal & theoretical orthodoxy vs. empirical iconoclasm)
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I think you could make an excellent case that the hard right turn economics took in the 70s & 80s could be attributable to the purging of leftist economists in the 50s & 60s, both in terms of which economists were still in the profession & the scare it put into those remaining.
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Yep. Lorie Tarshis's Keynesian textbook got cancelled and caused Paul Samuelson to smuggle his Keynesian past the McCarthyism by calling it "neoclassical synthesis" which is word salad nonsense.
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The clear upshot being that academia was the home of neoliberal austerity politics and your bleating about Democrats is utterly removed from the causal mechanisms that you claim to believe in.
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How do people (not referring to Jeet here) who rant about left wing influence of academia with the impact of the Chicago school of economics or entities like Hoover Institute or—closer to home—David Koch being on MIT's board and the influence of big donors overall?
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