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Prickly Bear's avatar

Short step from the "Judeo-Bolshevism" of old to modern accusations of "Cultural Marxism". Seeded by nuts in the Lyndon LaRouche right, now it's not unusual for mainstream rightwing figures to talk about the insidious, far-fetched influences of The Frankfurt School.

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John Ganz's avatar

Yeah true, I shouldve gotten into this

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Bernard Kraus's avatar

Really great. You've asked online what folks like best about The Blog, and I thought this was a pretty neat example of why I appreciate it: taking up discourse that's pervasive but not reckoned with, and then taking the reader through a serious explanation of what might otherwise be taken as a rhetorical dispute ("This is anti-semitism!" No it's not!"). I'd actually be interested in an even deeper dive into the connections between deployments of "Wokeness," "Cancel Culture," and anti-semitism/racism (perhaps particularly as it pertains to the same characters' -- Tucker, Lindsay, and Hawley -- misrepresentation/scapegoating of "Critical Race Theory."

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Nick's avatar

Great post. Do you see the same structure of antisemitism at play in the QAnon stuff? It seems different from what Tucker Carlson or the "anti-wokes" are up to, but maybe it's just a more deranged version.

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John Ganz's avatar

Absolutely

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Gerald Fnord's avatar

Starting with the 'Tea Party', I often sense in writers and speakers a lack of focus born of not saying 'The Jews'—not because they were necessarily anti-Semitic (though some certainly seemed so) but because their focal substitutes just don't have the fundamental power.

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John Salvati's avatar

Superb piece

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