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Helen Andrews Profile picture
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Aug 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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I am begging Atlantic writers to consider another explanation for populism besides that the 21st century has had winners & losers and the winners pulled too far ahead. Trump voters don't resent your success. They resent the ways you actively harm them. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Believe me, populists aren't bothered by how bobos feel about them. It's what bobos do to them. Image
Brooks cites Robert Wuthnow’s “The Left Behind: Decline & Rage in Small Town America,” mainly to show that small towns are “not diverse” and don’t share bobos’ values of openness. But is that really the biggest takeaway from Wuthnow’s book? amazon.com/Left-Behind-De… Image
I guess you could say this woman is showing a lack of openness toward pornography. Or you could say that small towns used to be able to go after XXX shops and other social blights and then social liberals threw out centuries of obscenity law by judicial fiat, and now they can’t. Image
You could say these people show a lack of openness toward public housing. Or you could say the federal govt plopped a housing project on their town, with all its social ills, and despite living in a democracy there was nothing they could do to stop it or even register dissent. Image
Blue America sets whatever immigration policy it wants, red America has to live with it. Blue state experts swore opioids were safe, red state patients got addicted & died. On and on and on. Wuthnow's subjects have much bigger worries than David Brooks's concept of social status. Image
It’s always nice to think our enemies hate us for our virtues. David Brooks and George Packer both fall into that trap. But that’s not what’s happening. Everyone should read Wuthnow’s book—and maybe Brooks should re-read it. /END amazon.com/Left-Behind-De…
I did not expect the obscenity law part of this thread to be the most controversial but for the record I have a whole rant on the legal treatment of pornography in the book I wrote (p. 106–113): amazon.com/Boomers-Promis…

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Apr 13
Good piece with a simple thesis: The girlboss lifestyle would not exist if it were not massively subsidized.

Cheap immigrant labor to do their cooking, cleaning, and child care; student loans and the whole higher ed sector; email jobs that don’t need to exist; etc.
It’s really very simple. There are two claims here:

1. For a long time, America didn’t have a servant class. Its absence helped to define our unique postwar social order.

Mass immigration changed that. Now we do have a (racially distinct) servant class.

Bad, IMHO.
2. The have-it-all lifestyle of the modern career mom just wouldn’t be possible without that servant class—daycare, DoorDash, etc.

It’s not bad to use those services, but the only reason average middle class families can afford them is because mass immigration made them cheaper.
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Mar 28
The thing about decolonization is, every colony in Africa was unique: the white population was small or large, transient or settled; were schools built; was native labor exploited; etc.

Britain tailored independence plans to each specific case—yet the result was always the same.
All the complexities that were pondered in the run-up to independence—the moral claims of various parties, the colony’s unique history, the economic needs of the future state—collapsed before the simple Fanonist logic of white man bad.

Don’t overthink it, is what I’m saying.
“It’s not communism, and it’s not just
sheer racism. It’s race communism. It’s the merging of the two.”

Good podcast on this topic today, Lomez says some wise things:
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Mar 26
“Third Worldism” is a good term and I use it myself, but I prefer other names like “race communism” for two reasons.

1. Its enemy is not just the West but white people explicitly.

2. “Third Worldism” sounds foreign and it’s not. It’s the ideology of the American empire.
The American deep state was the best friend decolonization ever had. The Cold War in Africa was all about us outbidding the Soviets by being more pro-liberation than they were. Image
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It’s true that our Third World clients often paid lip service to colorblind liberalism: We invite white settlers to stay and build the new Kenya! “We shall not steal anything from them except our freedom.” And yet in not a single decolonized country did this multiracial democracy actually materialize. Odd.Image
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Mar 22
It’s an interesting question: Is anti-racism/critical race theory an American import? Both sides have good arguments but on balance I say yes. America invented this model and then spread it abroad.
Obviously “anti-racism” here doesn’t mean just the idea that racism is bad. It means the specific model of NGOs that (1) use anti-discrimination measures for lawfare; (2) lobby for infinity migrants; and (3) keep watchlists of “far-right” groups that spread “hate,” i.e. dissent from the above, and work with the deep state and other establishment organizations to weaponize those lists.Image
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There were anti-racist groups in France after WWII (MRAP, LICRA) but the first NGO on this model was SOS Racisme, founded in 1984. Below, we see SOS Racisme providing lawyers for African squatters to prevent them from being evicted and also “testing” for bias in landlords, employers, nightclub bouncers.Image
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Mar 17
The fact that the Penn Station puncher had no previous arrests makes the story more disturbing. He wasn’t a vagrant, just a normal guy who punched a stranger for bumping into him.

“‘Bruh I had a f—ing day … So the n***a I punched died bruh,’ Tate wrote on Instagram Sunday.”
A lady once bumped into my toddler getting off the train. I said, hey, watch it, and she went into a full-on meltdown (“Bitch you don’t know who you’re messing with”), following us around the station for ten minutes shouting. She harassed us on three subsequent occasions at the same stop.

Months later, she even pulled over her car when we were walking down the street in a different neighborhood, shouting at me and my children: “I know where you live now, you better watch out.” She was blocking traffic and other cars were honking, but she kept yelling.

So I have a deranged stalker and my son is afraid of “the bad lady,” all because I told this woman to please not step on my child.

It wasn’t some teen delinquent, either. She was a middle-aged lady with an office job. Her place of employment was on the name badge around her neck.

Public transit is stressful enough without having to worry that you might inadvertently “disrespect” the wrong person.
I have so many stories like this. A teenage boy saw me staring at him as he jumped the faregate, and he started approaching me: “What? What you looking at? Bitch I will throw that stroller in front of the train.” Then a middle-aged lady came to my rescue: “You’re not gonna do it. I’m a mother. I’m telling you, you’re not gonna touch that child.”

I stood there watching these two shouting at each other for several minutes. I got on a train going the wrong direction to escape.

I later saw the same boy jumping the faregate on multiple occasions, usually with the station manager looking on and doing nothing. Why don’t you stop him, I thought.
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Mar 10
The ruling ideology is just race communism. Taking stuff from the bad class and giving it to the good class is its central purpose as much as it was for the Soviets. Who gets board seats, jobs, college spots, loans, housing—it’s all about the allocation of resources by race.
“Wokeness” is a bad name for it because it sounds frivolous. It makes you think of diversity seminars and college professors. “Race communism” sounds like what it is: your telecommunications merger won’t be approved unless you give sufficient hand-outs to legally favored races. Image
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Communists believe the central story of mankind is the oppression and eventual liberation of the working class. Race communists think the same thing but about non-white people. It is the dominant theme of all human history and the basis of the regime’s moral legitimacy.
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