ME:: tl-dr-ing The hypocrisy of the dominant hegemony means it's OK to moan about cancellation, harmless pronouns and loss of prestige for public figures and also it's OK to not hold people accountable for imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy; Jamelle Bouie via Kottke:: The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

Discovered: Aug 15, 2026 15:15 (UTC) ME:: tl-dr-ing The hypocrisy of the dominant hegemony means it’s OK to moan about cancellation, harmless pronouns and loss of prestige for public figures and also it’s OK to not hold people accountable for imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy; Jamelle Bouie via Kottke:: The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

Oh and BTW BLM = Good; J6 = Bad (and the perpetrators including Дональд Трамп should be in prison like anybody who else breaks the law)

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Watch the whole 10 minute Jamelle Bouie video: The pundits have completely lost the plot
Michael Hobbes has been talking about this on Bluesky as well:

Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.

Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about “cancellation” for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about “free speech restrictions” and “educational indoctrination” while embarking on them every chance they got.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures.

The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That’s what needs reckoning