Agree with this and am grateful to Linker for making explicit that the anti-"CRT" crowd and its centrist allies are carrying out a McCarthyite project.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1408797089950281734 …
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@DamonLinker praises Irving Kristol's comment: "There is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocably anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification."1 reply 6 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
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"McCarthyite." Right, Jeet. That's exactly what I expected you to say.
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Replying to @DamonLinker
You approvingly quoted Irving Kristol's 1952 pro-McCarthy statement!
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It was never a "pro-McCarthy" statement. It came in an essay that called McCarthy a "vulgar demagogue." (Compare that to Buckley's genuinely pro-McCarthy stance at the time.) His point then and mine now is that calling out McCarthy isn't enough.
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Criticism over manners is not the same as disagreement over principles. The upshot of essay was McCarthy's superiority to liberals
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Replying to @HeerJeet
This essay was aimed directly at you as much as anyone. I quoted IK specifically to goad you, so I don't expect you to like it. My takeaway point: No matter how bad the right is, liberal societies also have enemies to the left. "McCarthyism," then and now, isn't the only threat.
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I think part of the problem with the Cold War framing here is that it posits that the things lumped under CRT (basically performative anti-racism) are "left." But in fact they occupy liberal spaces (NY Times, elite universities) & have been criticized by left (Jacobin, Reed etc)
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And yet it is what the “progressive” left increasingly means and how it defines itself here and abroad. You can hold up another vision of the left if you want, but that reality will remain.
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Really? Biden is president & the candidate who came in second (Sanders) pretty bluntly had a class-first message. I really think this stuff is limited purchase in social life, mainly in upper-middle-class left.
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