Another good response to that bad Jeet Heer piece from @CarlBeijer http://www.carlbeijer.com/2017/07/liberalism-and-politics-of-passive.html …
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This critique might have more weight if I was ever someone who used terms like Bernie Bros & brocialist except ironically.
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And yet implicit in your piece was a logic similar to the kind invoked by people who do use exactly those terms in earnest
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No, implicit in my piece is that a socialist politics has to find expression in a rhetoric informed by egalitarianism not dominance
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Politics is about power and political power can underpin equality or inequality.
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If it's going to do the former, existing power has to be challenged and, well, dominated.
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The left can't build coalitions with the kinds of people Chapo tends to be mean to. They don't agree with the left or want us.
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Anyways, my earlier comment was in reference to how you treated the "bend the knee" remark
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Having raised it, you evaded taking a direct position about its meaning yourself and then quoted a bunch of people to make the case for you
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So, you may not be the kind of person who uses "Bernie Bro" in earnest but it seems you're more than happy to quote people who use it daily
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Quotes were designed to show that remarks were controversial -- before putting the remarks into context of show's aesthetics/politics.
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"Controversial" implies that the people outraged were outraged in good faith, which seems highly dubious to me
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To what extent do you think those same people invoked the "Bernie Bro" meme in good faith? This is what I'm getting at.
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