LOL leave it to the New York Times to look at a nation where tens of millions of poor/working class people of color are organizing mutual aid, prison abolition, police defunding, debt cancellation—ie, SOCIALISM—and to say, “But how can frame socialism via a prism of socialites?”
https://twitter.com/jnjoiner/status/1332733209218486274
In the history of lazy and ill-conceived Times “trend” stories, the rich kids of socialism trend story stands out—and that says something nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fas…
Make no mistake, framing criticism of capitalism as coming from the rich kids who want to tear it down is framing them as hypocrites from the onset & making it seem like any criticism of the system can only come from hypocrites & thus all criticism is illegitimate
I assure you, in the past, present & future of those who want to "tear down socialism," the "rich kids" are not the major story, NYT, except maybe to your advertisers, who wanna dismiss any criticism of capitalism.
https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1332919260277051395?s=20
This is a great example of how @BenHCarrington taught me to look out for Marx's theory of false consciousness in mass media—how the ruling class makes the lower classes understand themselves not thru their actual conditions but thru the filter of the ruling class
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