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Super thread of threads on the impotence of liberalism & it’s unfortunate influence on leftism.
A thread I just did on legalism & so on. It’s relatively lengthy, but if you don’t need examples the first few tweets should suffice https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1317196895656226828
I link to this thread in the other one. I discuss how legitimate concepts in settler colonial studies end up bowdlerized by liberalism & a certain kind of leftist https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1316472444169920518
On Chomsky & Voting: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1316053479673257990
A more in depth play by play write up of the above https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1316053479673257990
On the replacement of old school academic or ‘organic intellectual’ leftist ‘public intellectuals ‘ by journalists, pundits, media celebs & professional activists https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1309599399186755584
This is the first recent super thread I did on this same topic. As such it contains many of the links i will list here too but it’s also an argument rather than a reference https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1310686566575214593
On the self importance & convenience for power of the narrative that academic & cultural boycott ended apartheid in South Africa https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1306691217892220938
This thread is focused on the myth of a ‘sex trafficking epidemic’, discusses its declining rate, the reality of labor trafficking before finally delving into the idea of moral panics in general https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1304871426307043328
On the concept of sacred evils https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1313636219608334342
On legitimate rebuttals to my critique of the ‘left’ label & why I do not think they save it https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1313943470277566469
