06-25-2021, 03:50 PM
This quote has some has some truth to it but is misleading:
There clearly is more of this "meanness" on the Trumplican side but this quote gives the impression that there is an equal share of the blame. False equivalence. And I don't get this "cancel culture" "identity politics" tactics "now picked up by the right". WTF. Like those things (maybe under different guises) haven't had a constant presence in our politics probably since the beginning.
The left shares the blame, with its cancel culture, group-think stridency and identity politics — tactics now picked up by the right. (See the canceled Liz Cheney, party fealty to the falsity that Trump won.)
There clearly is more of this "meanness" on the Trumplican side but this quote gives the impression that there is an equal share of the blame. False equivalence. And I don't get this "cancel culture" "identity politics" tactics "now picked up by the right". WTF. Like those things (maybe under different guises) haven't had a constant presence in our politics probably since the beginning.