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  1. Éstos son los progres, los wokes, los social justice warriors, los posmos, los interseccionales y demás nombres inexactos o despectivos que han puesto a quienes tienen el principio cardinal de que la liberación de los grupos oprimidos es un imperativo moral, que nadie será libre hasta que lo seamos todos.

    #woke #antiwoke #justiciasocial #pensamientocritico #politica #ideologias

    maikciveira.com/2025/06/imagin

  2. Éstos son los progres, los wokes, los social justice warriors, los posmos, los interseccionales y demás nombres inexactos o despectivos que han puesto a quienes tienen el principio cardinal de que la liberación de los grupos oprimidos es un imperativo moral, que nadie será libre hasta que lo seamos todos.

    #woke #antiwoke #justiciasocial #pensamientocritico #politica #ideologias

    maikciveira.com/2025/06/imagin

  3. Muchas de esas historias son falsas o exageradas, y sirven para predisponer a la gente en contra de la justicia social, o peor aún, para que la ultraderecha reclute incautos que sienten que “el feminismo está arruinándolo todo” y cosas así.

    #woke #culturapop #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2020/07/y-ahor

  4. Muchas de esas historias son falsas o exageradas, y sirven para predisponer a la gente en contra de la justicia social, o peor aún, para que la ultraderecha reclute incautos que sienten que “el feminismo está arruinándolo todo” y cosas así.

    #woke #culturapop #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2020/07/y-ahor

  5. Se asume que los valores, las costumbres, las creencias y estándares de la propia sociedad y cultura son lo normal, lo natural, lo de sentido común, las cosas como siempre han sido o, por lo menos, como deberían ser. Y, en contraste, todo lo que se desvía de esa normalidad o la pone en entredicho es “ideología, propaganda y adoctrinamiento”.

    #culturapop #woke #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2022/08/inclus

  6. Se asume que los valores, las costumbres, las creencias y estándares de la propia sociedad y cultura son lo normal, lo natural, lo de sentido común, las cosas como siempre han sido o, por lo menos, como deberían ser. Y, en contraste, todo lo que se desvía de esa normalidad o la pone en entredicho es “ideología, propaganda y adoctrinamiento”.

    #culturapop #woke #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2022/08/inclus

  7. En cada ocasión las redes se llenan de discusiones bizantinas y se repiten las mismas cantaletas: inclusión forzada, ideología de género, propaganda progre, marxismo cultural y corrección política. Y, tarde o temprano, habrá algunas voces que alerten que esto implica la destrucción del Occidente masculino, blanco y cristiano.

    #culturapop #woke #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2022/08/inclus

  8. En cada ocasión las redes se llenan de discusiones bizantinas y se repiten las mismas cantaletas: inclusión forzada, ideología de género, propaganda progre, marxismo cultural y corrección política. Y, tarde o temprano, habrá algunas voces que alerten que esto implica la destrucción del Occidente masculino, blanco y cristiano.

    #culturapop #woke #antiwoke

    maikciveira.com/2022/08/inclus

  9. #Labor #Secretary Lori #Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump’s #Cabinet after #abuse of power allegations

    source: apnews.com/article/lori-chavez…

    Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of #President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the White House said Monday, after multiple allegations of abusing her position’s power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.

    And I always thought those were the requirements for even being allowed to be part of the cabinet? But I am surprised that it’s always the #women who get targeted and not the equally unqualified, #crazy #men.

    #news #politics #whitehouse #government #trump #usa #problem #feminism #solidarity #fail #qualification #future #equality #gender #antiwoke #maga #conspiracy #qanon #ethics #humanrights #democracy #mad

  10. #Labor #Secretary Lori #Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump’s #Cabinet after #abuse of power allegations

    source: apnews.com/article/lori-chavez…

    Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of #President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the White House said Monday, after multiple allegations of abusing her position’s power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.

    And I always thought those were the requirements for even being allowed to be part of the cabinet? But I am surprised that it’s always the #women who get targeted and not the equally unqualified, #crazy #men.

    #news #politics #whitehouse #government #trump #usa #problem #feminism #solidarity #fail #qualification #future #equality #gender #antiwoke #maga #conspiracy #qanon #ethics #humanrights #democracy #mad

  11. #Labor #Secretary Lori #Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump’s #Cabinet after #abuse of power allegations

    source: apnews.com/article/lori-chavez…

    Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of #President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the White House said Monday, after multiple allegations of abusing her position’s power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.

    And I always thought those were the requirements for even being allowed to be part of the cabinet? But I am surprised that it’s always the #women who get targeted and not the equally unqualified, #crazy #men.

    #news #politics #whitehouse #government #trump #usa #problem #feminism #solidarity #fail #qualification #future #equality #gender #antiwoke #maga #conspiracy #qanon #ethics #humanrights #democracy #mad

  12. 🧵 2/3

    bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/b

    The authors of the Unherd article, both British academics, have published a book with a scholarly press that looks as if it is worth reading.

    #EdmundKing #ThomasProsser #Woke #Antiwoke

  13. 🧵 2/3

    bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/b

    The authors of the Unherd article, both British academics, have published a book with a scholarly press that looks as if it is worth reading.

    #EdmundKing #ThomasProsser #Woke #Antiwoke

  14. 🧵 2/3

    bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/b

    The authors of the Unherd article, both British academics, have published a book with a scholarly press that looks as if it is worth reading.

    #EdmundKing #ThomasProsser #Woke #Antiwoke

  15. 🧵 2/3

    bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/b

    The authors of the Unherd article, both British academics, have published a book with a scholarly press that looks as if it is worth reading.

    #EdmundKing #ThomasProsser #Woke #Antiwoke

  16. 🧵 2/3

    bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/b

    The authors of the Unherd article, both British academics, have published a book with a scholarly press that looks as if it is worth reading.

    #EdmundKing #ThomasProsser #Woke #Antiwoke

  17. The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.

    Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?

    What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?

    #woke #antiwoke #fascism #enjoyment #QualityOfLife

  18. The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.

    Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?

    What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?

    #woke #antiwoke #fascism #enjoyment #QualityOfLife

  19. The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.

    Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?

    What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?

    #woke #antiwoke #fascism #enjoyment #QualityOfLife

  20. The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.

    Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?

    What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?

    #woke #antiwoke #fascism #enjoyment #QualityOfLife

  21. The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.

    Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?

    What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?

    #woke #antiwoke #fascism #enjoyment #QualityOfLife

  22. „Was das konkret für Erkenntnisse sind, weiß Weimers Behörde laut einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) selbst nicht.“
    Der parteilose #Weimer (und engster Bruder im Geiste von #merz) lügt so vor sich hin, lässt ehrwürdiges entehren - die #spd und #cdu stellen sich erwartungsgemäß hinter diese low Performance eines Staatsministers.

    #Kultusministeriumgefährdet #kultur #buchladen #Preisverleihung #antiwoke #antifa #kulturkampf #konservative #meinungsfreiheit #literatur #Bucherverbrennung

    t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc

  23. „Was das konkret für Erkenntnisse sind, weiß Weimers Behörde laut einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) selbst nicht.“
    Der parteilose #Weimer (und engster Bruder im Geiste von #merz) lügt so vor sich hin, lässt ehrwürdiges entehren - die #spd und #cdu stellen sich erwartungsgemäß hinter diese low Performance eines Staatsministers.

    #Kultusministeriumgefährdet #kultur #buchladen #Preisverleihung #antiwoke #antifa #kulturkampf #konservative #meinungsfreiheit #literatur #Bucherverbrennung

    t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc

  24. „Was das konkret für Erkenntnisse sind, weiß Weimers Behörde laut einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) selbst nicht.“
    Der parteilose #Weimer (und engster Bruder im Geiste von #merz) lügt so vor sich hin, lässt ehrwürdiges entehren - die #spd und #cdu stellen sich erwartungsgemäß hinter diese low Performance eines Staatsministers.

    #Kultusministeriumgefährdet #kultur #buchladen #Preisverleihung #antiwoke #antifa #kulturkampf #konservative #meinungsfreiheit #literatur #Bucherverbrennung

    t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc

  25. „Was das konkret für Erkenntnisse sind, weiß Weimers Behörde laut einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) selbst nicht.“
    Der parteilose #Weimer (und engster Bruder im Geiste von #merz) lügt so vor sich hin, lässt ehrwürdiges entehren - die #spd und #cdu stellen sich erwartungsgemäß hinter diese low Performance eines Staatsministers.

    #Kultusministeriumgefährdet #kultur #buchladen #Preisverleihung #antiwoke #antifa #kulturkampf #konservative #meinungsfreiheit #literatur #Bucherverbrennung

    t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc

  26. „Was das konkret für Erkenntnisse sind, weiß Weimers Behörde laut einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) selbst nicht.“
    Der parteilose #Weimer (und engster Bruder im Geiste von #merz) lügt so vor sich hin, lässt ehrwürdiges entehren - die #spd und #cdu stellen sich erwartungsgemäß hinter diese low Performance eines Staatsministers.

    #Kultusministeriumgefährdet #kultur #buchladen #Preisverleihung #antiwoke #antifa #kulturkampf #konservative #meinungsfreiheit #literatur #Bucherverbrennung

    t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc

  27. #Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

    by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

    "The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

    "In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

    "Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

    "While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

    "U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

    "It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

    Source:
    itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-ta

    #USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

  28. #Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

    by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

    "The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

    "In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

    "Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

    "While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

    "U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

    "It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

    Source:
    itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-ta

    #USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

  29. #Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

    by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

    "The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

    "In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

    "Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

    "While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

    "U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

    "It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

    Source:
    itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-ta

    #USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

  30. #Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

    by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

    "The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

    "In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

    "Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

    "While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

    "U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

    "It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

    Source:
    itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-ta

    #USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

  31. #Palantir Pays Zero Federal #IncomeTax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to #Trump Tax Law

    by Matthew Gardner, February 17, 2026

    "The CEO of Palantir, the tech company known for equipping #ICE with #AITools that hack into people’s phones, recently said he runs 'the first company to be completely #AntiWoke.' This week, we learned that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

    "In its recent earnings call summarizing fiscal year 2025, a Palantir exec crowed that the company’s explosive growth and profitability for the year was 'one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance.' But the company neglected to mention one weird trick that also fueled its 2025 growth: this is the third straight year that a profitable Palantir has avoided paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings.

    "Palantir’s annual financial report, released this week, shows the company enjoyed $1.5 billion of U.S. income and paid exactly zero federal income tax. At the 21 percent federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, Palantir should have paid $330 million.

    "While the company used a variety of tax breaks to achieve this, the most obvious is the new tax break enacted by Congress at the behest of President Trump last summer. The 'One #BigBeautifulBill' allows companies to (retroactively) immediately deduct their research expenses, rather than writing them off gradually over time in line with the income generated from that research. Palantir reduced its taxes by over $400 million using this provision.

    "U.S. #taxpayers are paying multiple times for the services provided by Palantir, which the Trump administration finds so valuable. First, we pay the bill for the government contracts signed with the company, for example, the deal signed in April for Palantir to provide ICE with a system to track immigrants. Then we pay again with subsidies provided through the tax code, including the $400 million for the 'research' the company has done to create these innovations in government surveillance.

    "It’s not news that helping the Trump administration with its policy goals can be enormously profitable. But it’s important to recognize that Palantir’s recent success has been helped substantially by a far more pedestrian tool: handouts from American taxpayers."

    Source:
    itep.org/palantir-pays-zero-ta

    #USPol #WorldPol #WarMachines #Spying #SpyMachines #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #PayYourTaxes #TaxTheWarMachines #AbolishPalantir #NoWar #TaxTheRich #TaxCorporations #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

  32. "Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

    Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke

  33. "Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

    Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke

  34. "Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

    Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke

  35. "Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

    Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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  36. "Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.

    Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke