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left illiberalism (aka cancel culture) is a pretty powerless force compared to right illiberalism, but gets a lot of attention here precisely because it’s confined to small elite spheres (journalism, academia)
I don’t think NYT should dox that guy but trump just suspended H1B visas, there is really no reason to both sides the illiberal threats
I’ll even concede that as an academic, I’m more likely to be impacted by cancel culture on an immediate level than anything trump does. But as a threat to global democracy, give me a break
true also https://twitter.com/jmurtazashvili/status/1275627959357972481?s=21 https://twitter.com/jmurtazashvili/status/1275627959357972481
this to me seems largely right, though maybe unsatisfactory to some https://twitter.com/itaisher/status/1275632810473263106?s=21 https://twitter.com/itaisher/status/1275632810473263106
people reflexively bring up the Soviet example, but there are so many better parallels closer to home, from the witch trials to mccarthy https://twitter.com/kungaoblast/status/1275678732909510657?s=20
but none of those are examples of illiberalism from the left, so they don't work for Bari Weiss et al, who'd rather race across the ocean for analogies https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1273296438739558401?s=20
