I think Cooke puts his finger on something very important. Even Auerbach and de Boer, two of the most sensible analyists on the scene...
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@St_Rev stuff like cancel colbert has been happening for years, to various levels of prog. detriment. I'm SJW-esque and it has been (1/n) -
@St_Rev clear to me for years that the excesses of the academic socjus movement are harmful to progressive goals. (2/2) -
@rossleh Stuff *like* it has been happening as far back as the divestment movement in the 80s, but it blew up bigtime c. 2009. -
@rossleh That was the year SocJus broke out of the college towns and started openly conquering subcultures on a global scale. -
@St_Rev really? You may be right, but my anecdata from the mid 2000's suggests it was roughly the same ten years ago. What happened? -
@rossleh I suspect economic crash of 2008 created class of overeducated writers who felt forced into new-media jobs & hated their audience. -
@rossleh Add in networking + epistemic bubbles enabled by the net--growing since c. 1990, accelerated w/rise of sites like LiveJournal. -
@St_Rev Interesting theory, I'll adjust my priors a bit.
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