Oligarchically Correct

Longtime readers know how much I despise the term “political correctness” for being a loaded insult that is only ever lobbed in one direction, ignoring the many orthodoxies and laughable euphemisms of the right. It’s a form of name-calling that’s often sloppily used to denigrate all positive social change. Now we’ve entered a era of repression worse than anything I imagined possible in my lifetime. Ideas unpalatable to the billionaire class and would-be dictators are being methodically purged from mainstream discourse. The most annoying scolds on the internet are the bros and broligarchs constantly screeching about diversity initiatives (they are actually blaming the LA wildfires on the fact that the fire chief is a woman, among other conspiracy theories). And yet a kind of conventional wisdom still holds that these are the freethinkers, not monstrous threats to the freedom of others. The lack of concern about Hungary-style crackdowns on academia also strikes me as bizarre.

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