#067 - On "Leaving The Left"

The real title of the episode is: On On-Line Leftist Responding to People "Leaving the Left."

The excellent critique the gang seems to have been constructing is the trap of the on-line performance of signifiers by people who: 1) dunk on others in order to shore up social capital 2) dunk in such a way to demonstrate that those one disagrees with deserves absolute derision because they must be essentially bad; 3) This process inoculates one from hearing valid critiques of one's subculture/ideology; 4) and leads to the bullying and alienating of people who could be allies.

If this is the critique, I don't know how the mode of the culture of "Breadtube" dunking on reactionaries is any different from the cultural mode of Low Society dunking on (pseudo?)leftists dunking on reactionaries. It seems like just a new market for accumulating attention. It's hard to not feel they want to throw a lot of leftists into the pizza cave.

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