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Are those two events connected? They both happened in the same decade and received some press. That's all I can come up with. And both things you mention -- LGB
by jawarner 4y ago
Are those two events connected? They both happened in the same decade and received some press. That's all I can come up with. And both things you mention -- LGBT rights and class consciousness -- have been around for a while.
- soundnote 4y agohttps://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great-racial-awakening https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great... These arew for racism, but similar hockeysticks with the exact same timing exist for other social justice topics. Media, as one, started harping on identity politics and never let their foot off the gas.
- jawarner 4y agoIsn’t that because of the BLM movement? I’m not seeing how any of these events are connected.
- soundnote 4y ago2010: Fuck the banks Occupy gets sunk. 201x: Rainbow floats sponsored by J.P. Morgan, Angela Davis talks sponsored by Shell Corp.
- jawarner 4y agoIf you're just saying that rainbow capitalism is in alignment with capitalists' interests, and anti-capitalism movements are not, then that makes sense.
- soundnote 4y agoYes. Social justice movements are perfect channels for champagne socialism. The activists get to fight and fight and fight and the problem never goes away. They get to feel like they're such good people and have no need to concern themselves with whether their methods work. (Their allegiance is to their methods first, ostensible causes decidedly second)
- jawarner 4y agoI don’t know if it’s fair to say that revolutionary wealth redistribution movements, like Occupy, are failing because everybody is distracted with social justice movements. The Left is a coalition for social justice and also for wealth redistribution, to varying degrees. That’s why I’m saying that I’m not seeing a direct connection where a success in one area subtracts from progress in another.