1. One big problem with the @douthat column is it conflates two separate discourses about political correctness (Trump's & academic)
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Indeed white complacency and indifferent avarice is as big a negative narrative force as outright racism. It's all exploitive.
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I think there is plenty such "satire" coming from the right, it's just dull, clumsy, bileful, and forgettable.
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Some of that 60s "social liberalism" that Douthat notes upset folks was the Civil Rights movement.
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Think of DJT fans as mostly Neo-Confederates whose main problem w/PC is interference w/making racist comments w/impunity.
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9. Trump is not a Lenny Bruce or a Richard Pryor, needling liberal hypocrisy. He's an insult comedian, a Jackie Mason or Andrew Dice Clay
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And that's a generous assessment of what he's doing.
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men who deserve their venerated status, but their transgressions against gentility doubled as assertions of patriarchal privilege.
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50 Years later, with struggle lines shifted, it is less useful to distinguish noble vs ignoble boorishness
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