I actually got a belly laugh out of this one. For the people who think us curmudgeons were lying when we said they want you and your job and your life to be dependent on their shitty tech and rent you a remote access box, like here you go man he said it

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Worst of all was the scarcity mindset, the competitive aspect of asserting that your voice was the most important one in the conversation. Everyone who didn't agree with you was white or Western or bourgeois or colonial, and if they were not they had "internalized" it.

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It became easy to pick up language that forefronts what you, personally, know and what you, personally, care about. Frameworks like "privilege" encouraged people to prove their lack of it; people learned how to critique more than they learned how to uplift or how to best show solidarity.

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As I read more and more books and papers and discussions of feminism and solidarity and movement politics, it becomes clear that the didactic energy of the 2010s was effectively neutered by people treating learning about oppression as personal improvement, self-help, and a kind of branding.

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The "what happened with Labour cannot happen to the Democrats" line would be more convincing to me if I hadn't spent my entire time on this website watching British trans women get yelled at with exactly the same arguments I see for the US now

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