In a way, politics is about achieving the best result for your ingroup. At some fundamental level, I perceive all conscious beings as my ingroup. This universalism is what I used to understand as leftism; rightism defines a much smaller ingroup and pits them against others.
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The woke notion of privilege is almost entirely orthogonal to economic status and social class, and so much more compatible with establishment. You can be a multimillionaire with Ivy league degree and yet less privileged than a homeless person if you have a marginalized identity.
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hmm, this is an interesting observation. perhaps relatedly - intersectionalism, at least in my naive understanding, opens up a wide range of dimensions and their combinatorics. applied inconsistently or in bad faith, it's a kind of meta bigotry
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my guess would be that naturally emerged from perverse incentives and bullshit tolerance normalized by ad funded media, an illusory "marketplace of ideas" & dominated by rent seeking has distorted how we value information, and the internet catalyzes and amplifies exponentially.
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sorry, exponentially faster, not exponential amplification... though it's still slow enough to not be that noticeable
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