If “virtue signaling” is a push, there is also a corresponding pull: the demand that all personal preferences be understood as moral expressions of character, and thus rightfully subject to public shaming campaigns to bring them into line.https://twitter.com/BBC_dip/status/1169021919997452289 …
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“The personal is political” is another way of saying that “the personal” does not really exist in those terms; it is rather public property, contested ground over which the righteous alone have special claim, and to which the individual is no more than a tactical object.
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What "X is inherently political" actually means is "I am entitled and indeed obligated to start a struggle in this space." No place is safe, every knee must bend.
"Why did you piss all over the floor in here?" "McDonald's is inherently political, always has been!"
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