One of the smartest leftists I've interacted with on here had a take that amounted to a restating of a right wing position while pointing and sputtering. We're approaching a leftist singularity.
The leftist response to this observation would very likely be a "no true Scotsman," which is what all their "I'm a leftist, not a liberal" pleading ultimately amounts to.
This is most stark when you look at an internally consistent "leftist" like Greenwald or Aimee. The distance between them and a Jim Lindsey is quite consistent, whereas the majority of the left is lately a scattered mess.
Everyone is fired up over this, even typically even keeled mutuals. What's happening (ignore the specifics for a moment), is that this gentleman is insulted, but the insult is *imperceptible* to many (most?).
Her tone is flat to joking, and she's phrased her insult with sufficient plausible deniability that it's possible that she herself does not perceive the insult.
"I always found it funny when other people consider themselves members of a noble lineage, while I live in their ancestral seat and am therefore queen" is an insult. It's basically the straw man for "cultural appropriation" being bad.
@shadowcat_mst@0x49fa98@arguablywrong@logicbot3000@hradzka The thing that is most difficult to understand and accept about wokeness is that it is only new in the aesthetic sense. It is an old instinct best articulated as "deterritorialized idolatry." It morphs and mutates and is difficult to slow and impossible to destroy.
@shadowcat_mst@0x49fa98@arguablywrong@logicbot3000@hradzka The two challenges it presents are 1) it is fluid, and ensnares those who try to fight it by bogging them in layers of specifics that ultimately don't matter but directionally, and 2) it is faith based, which triggers cognitive dissonance.
@shadowcat_mst@0x49fa98@arguablywrong@logicbot3000@hradzka When this iconoclastic impulse is in balance with the conservative instinct, you get relatively slow social change (not necessarily technological change, though). When there's too much of the iconoclastic urge, you get what we have now (defending arithmetic).