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I truly struggle to understand what happened here. Perhaps well-intentioned people on the left simply overlooked too much for too long, and when their concerns finally overcame good faith the environment had already shifted such that they would only be eaten if they spoke up.https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1227936160258969600 …
A frankly stronger explanation — painful as it is — is that "free speech," "anti-censorship" and "tolerance of differing opinions" ALWAYS belong to the cultural underdog — once you begin to "win," your allegiance to those values declines almost as a function of your success
I think ultimately it's turned to equal opportunity vs. equal outcome. The left decided the former wasn't a path to the latter - so brute force.
"left-wing" was the set of values associated with academic tribe, formerly a tiny and relatively powerless slice of society. Post-WWII economic boom, and GI Bill, ballooned their numbers, power, influence. 2 generations of middle-class managerial types absorbed these values...
...on a tribal, superficial level, while also becoming a valuable market to be served by consumer corps. In post-scarcity society, advertising and brand management isn't about actual need for a product but about emotional suggestions/associations.
I feel like it’s the same mindset that some on the regressive left have today with the 90s (or even today) Religious right. A group of intolerant people that have just adopted a set of ideas but with a divergence point could have been swayed the other way.
Those are important values when you are the underdog.
When status is more important than morality, morality is used for status.
Something I'd like to know, but have never seen data on, is what fraction of people who were adults 15+ years ago - before the "strange inversion" Zuby describes - have swapped sides, either by changing the party they vote for, or by changing how they politically self-label.
I definitely radically switched sides. But I now feel that the positions I had 15-20 years ago were unreasonable/bad even back then. I just had not realized yet that I was part of the problem.
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