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The whole talk is worth watching, but I'll just point to Lionel Shriver's segment, where she beautifully sums up, what most people – especially in the underclas
by woodpanel 7y ago
The whole talk is worth watching, but I'll just point to Lionel Shriver's segment, where she beautifully sums up, what most people – especially in the underclass – know already: https://youtu.be/ddBKQIomyYI?t=2200 https://youtu.be/ddBKQIomyYI?t=2200
Today's western progressivism is taken hostage by the elite.
Disturbing as it is for itself, it is even more freightening what this might lead to. What happens if the bottom 50% effectively looses any political say, because their choices by whom to be represented become completely blurred. If you are like me and considered to yourself to be under-/working class, none of today's "leftist" ballot options are even remotely relatable, the more radical their representatives are, the more they reak of privilege.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoYou can see this beginning in roughly 2011 when the Occupy Wallstreet protests start to fracture. This was when Starbucks began advocating for anti-racist policy (why? they make money selling permutations of coffee and milk) and a bunch of other corporations chimed in. The 99% movement quickly splintered off into anti-racist memes and whirled into Third Wave Feminism + needs for "inclusion" and "intersectionality" and whatever terms the Wallstreet-backed Left felt best to appease the working poor and working lower-middle class of academics and journalists (who are basically working poor now, but would not like to admit it). So when you say: >Today's western progressivism is taken hostage by the elite. I agree. In fact, there is likely evidence that it was manufactured by the elite. This discussion is heading to the territory of Hypernormalisation[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y], a film I recommend.