#Liberalism

Akshay Alladi

akshayalladi

Two different things often get conflated by both RW and liberals in India: 1. We SHOULD have a small-l, liberal democratic state- that is laws should be adopted based on

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The Woke are awesome problem detectors, tbh, though with lots of false positives. You just have to be able to decode the insanity. Like, their take on respectability politics is

Chad Parenti, PhD

UnpaidComintern

The concept of liberalism is a funny thing right now. ML's tend to use the term to refer to anyone who isn't a Communist or a reactionary, or as say,

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

The left is correct when they tell you that western society was never free. That patriarchy and all variety of “normativities” were always present to control you. The rules of

Wesley Yang

wesyang

What increasingly becomes clear in both the rhetoric and conceptual framing of recent activism around race is that the goal is to revoke and replace the race neutrality written into

Uriah

crimkadid

The NYT doxxing Scott Alexander for no real reason was wrong, but most of the defenses of SSC that I've read recently disgust me about as much as the original

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

iyad_elbaghdadi

A Libyan activist was shot dead in the street. She was a lawyer and a women's rights advocate. She was shot after criticizing violations by Haftar, who happens to Macron's

Paolo Gerbaudo

paologerbaudo

Rise of post-neoliberal neo-statism as new meta-ideological horizon in post-Covid times key to understand contemporary ideology. Many continue to focus on familiar theoretical punchball of neoliberalism. But it's like beating

Aren R. LeBrun

proustmalone

Despising the people in a lower socioeconomic class than you is a form of bigotry that goes almost entirely unrecognized in the mainstream US orthodoxy despite being fundamental to both

Dave Rubin

RubinReport

"Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place."This is the reverse of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We guarantee equality under the law, not equality

Dan McDaid!

danmcdaid

Garth makes a cogent arguement - as you'd expect - but there are problems with it. Whether we like it or not, the Punisher is emblematic of far right concerns:

Patrick Deneen

PatrickDeneen

Ivy-league institutions are unembarassed and even proud of their limitations on academic freedom and a culture shaping a faculty to reflect its dominant worldview, while avoiding inclusion of those who

joeldavis

Dick71224996

[Thread time]The biggest whitepill I know is the ontological antagonism between the internal strategic logics of Capital and Geopolitics. Units of Capitalist power accumulation are parasitically abstracted from Statist geometry,

Ludovico Brigante

lulubrigante

Two weeks into the Biden administration, the call for a Third Reconstruction appeared again — this time in its proper place — from a voice of establishment liberalism.https://twitter.com/lulubrigante/status/1320375245245734913 The expec

Yes, You're Racist

YesYoureRacist

Thread on the end of #TheMandalorian Chapter 14 and what it says about the restoration of liberal democracy under the New Republic (no major plot spoilers, but you should

Carus Eóghan

CarusEoghan

NRx 101: If your enemy makes the rules you don't play their game. Start a new game. NRx 101: If you think the Cathedral can be destroyed by playing politics,

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