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reading the Canceling of the American Mind and the intro outlines how both the political left + right have built rhetorical defenses that avoid actual debate. the left’s: complex, layering personal attacks to block any criticism the right’s: simpler, dismissing experts, journalists and Trump critics both rely on what the authors dub "The Great Untruth of Ad Hominem,” which is that “bad people only have bad opinions.” we see this happening across the board with the H1B debate: calling someone a billionaire, big tech, indian, white, MAGA, second generation, etc. to refute their points. society as a whole argues for power and status using identity politics. seemingly everyone is guilty.
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This post presents an untraceable social problem *if* one forgets that liberals are centrists (and further right every day), not the left. "The Left" is popular discourse is a strawman made of tropes from centrist proglibs and politically irrelevant Twitter commies and socdems. There's no representation of the actual Left in media, which means there's no representation of logic, material analysis and post-capitalist economics. It's a false binary meant to produce the echo chamber you describe, and silence any deviation from the status quo which doesn't serve the owning class.
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*intractable - fuck you autocorrect
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