The endpoint of the recent trend towards mocking neoliberalism by tying it to social justice-y rhetoric? That Left Forum panel.
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Like, "neoliberalism = your boss asks your preferred gender pronouns," is only a few steps removed from the premise of that panel.
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And treating transgender existence as a conspiracy of capital is also neatly tied into how feminism, etc., is seen as "bourgeois."
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(The latter is an irony lost on TERFs who otherwise gleefully make themselves handmaidens to this sort of rubbish.)
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This scapegoating, though, stokes peoples' resentment, up to a point where "trans people are a Big Pharma conspiracy" makes sense.
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It makes sense in a political cosmology where "identity politics" is just so much tinsel used by the bourgeoisie to divide the workers.
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Pushing this line hard enough is how you end up on the tradcath left arguing that abortion is neoliberal
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And eventually, to Black Lives Matter is a distraction from the real class struggle.
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