Is it just me, or is Ben Dreyfuss leaning into the heel turn?
I saw his tweet pining for the days when college students could get drunk with their profs, and was going to respond, and then I read the rest of the thread, and was like, "Ah. Okay."
Has anyone written anything specifically about the anti-cancel-culture spiral so many (mostly) white (mostly) guys dive into? Feels ripe for a longform unpacking.
(Autocorrect was pretty insistent that "longform" should be "longford" there, and I haven't loved autocorrect that hard in a very long time. Sheer perfection.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pak…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pak…
Anyway, it feels like a really important part of The Current Discourse to me. The whole "if you're not gonna like me, I'm gonna make you REALLY hate me" thing.
And yes, sometimes it's a dollars-and-cents strategy, and sometimes it's about finding a new group of friends to replace your old ones, and assimilating yourself to their mores. But sometimes it feels like raw destructive id.
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