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No. The memo says: "The same compassion for those seen as weak creates political correctness[11], which constrains discourse and is complacent to the extremely
by Udik 9y ago
No. The memo says:
"The same compassion for those seen as weak creates political correctness[11], which constrains discourse and is complacent to the extremely sensitive PC-authoritarians that use violence and shaming to advance their cause."
So it's not that "leftists are violent", it's PC that's complacent to violent PC-authoritarians that use violence and shaming. A bit different.
Again, I have the impression that parts of this debate could be avoided by accepting some of the caveats and distinctions already made in the memo.
Edit: replaced angry outburst with more civilized one.
- bjl 9y agoHe explicitly mentions 'cultural marxism', which is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory from the 60s.
- Udik 9y agoDon't know where, certainly not in the memo.
- msla 9y agoThe concept and term "cultural marxism" has been grabbed by such a huge swath of people, most of whom have absolutely no idea it is or could be anti-Semitic (because you have to be pretty out there to associate Marxism with Jews to begin with), that claiming all or most uses of it are anti-Semitic is wrong. There's just no way to paint that huge of a group with that brush unless you think it's so double-secret subconscious that the majority of the people using it don't even know they're anti-Semites.
- bjl 9y agoCultural Marxism has been explicitly anti-Semitic from the beginning, and early adherents argued that it was necessarily anti-Semitic. So people who believe in the conspiracy now are either anti-Semitic themselves, or profoundly ignorant. Neither one is a good look.
- msla 9y agoOr they've taken the term, misunderstanding it, perhaps, and redefined it to express ideas they actually have. Whether those are good ideas is another topic.
- generic_user 9y agoThis is a particularly ridiculous straw man because a good portion of the critics of cultural marxism are Jews.
- dang 9y agoWould you please stop engaging in ideological flamewar on HN? I realize there has been a lot of this lately and it's not always clear where to draw the line, but you're definitely on the wrong side of it here. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021984 and marked it off-topic.