I'm not a fan Twitter mobbing, really, but it is amusingly gratifying to watch a bunch of (mainly) British women taking down woke American intellectual types, almost always beardy men, after they tweet something asinine about "transphobia" for cookies & kudos.
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They take down plenty of UK wankers too. There seems to be an unlimited supply of these assholes globally.
UK wankers are aping their American compadres. That's an oversimplification, of course, but there is something to the idea that the current obsession with identity has its roots in American neoliberalism.
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Realise you were simplifying but *slightly* unfair given Reagan & Thatcher were simultaneous and eg Hayek was Austrian & British as much as American. 'The Road to Serfdom' was v popular in Britain pre-Thatcher. We have that tradition but also luckily more of a counter-tradition.
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We don't have the same Puritan inheritance in the UK, plus our industrial history (cf E P Thompson) makes class much more culturally significant. Emergence of new Right in UK was seen as aberrant (the end of the postwar consensus).
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