Context: #NewspaperUSBrdshtThePhiladelphiaInquirer "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was gifted a hand-cut snowflake at a book-tour stop in Iowa last week. He posed with the artist who made it, grinning. But upon closer look, the paper snowflake had a word embedded within it: 'fascist.'
A photo from the exchange has gone viral on social media, but the artist says she's been doing this to politicians for years.
Julie Ross, a volunteer English teacher based in Davenport, Iowa, who raises monarch butterflies on the side, began attending the Iowa Straw Poll and other local political events in 2012. A self-described progressive, Ross made it a goal to hear both Democrat and Republican candidates speak as often as possible and to ask them questions. In return for their time, she'd leave them with a little souvenir." https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/ron-desantis-fascist-snowflake-gift-artist-iowa-20230314.html #ToponymAmericaNorthUSIowa #PoliticsFascism
"007 LICENSE TO BANKRUPT James Bond books will have prejudiced terms removed in new edition" #IRLActorSeanConnery #HandleInstagramTheeWineDiver
#IRLHistoricalFigureCharlesDarwin
"At some stage, the Human Species will divide. Whilst most will continue to evolve, a minority of those lacking the intellectual capacity of thought, will develop as a sub-species. Being easily lead, form into Packs attempting to control the majority. They will deny biology, attempt to undo the centuries of human development by re-writing history, and gradually revert to their Primate Origins. They will expect all to conform to their point of view without question." #OtheringOutGroupGangMob #MetaphorTransformationEvolution
Context: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/mar/22/viral-image/no-this-isnt-a-real-charles-darwin-quote-about-wha/
Supplementary: #IRLScientistBiologistStevenRose "Darwin was, after all, a man of his time, class and society. True, he was committed to a monogenic, rather than the prevailing polygenic, view of human origins, but he still divided humanity into distinct races according to differences in skin, eye or hair colour. He was also convinced that evolution was progressive, and that the white races--especially the Europeans--were evolutionarily more advanced than the black races, thus establishing race differences and a racial hierarchy. Darwin's views on gender, too, were utterly conventional. He stated that the result of sexual selection is for men to be, 'more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman [with] a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger [...] the formation of her skull is said to be intermediate between the child and the man' (Darwin 1871). Although female choice explains sexual selection, it is the males who evolve in order to meet the chosen criteria of strength and power; such nineteenth century differentiation between the sexes was crucial in providing an alleged biological basis for the superiority of the male." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672903/
Rose S. 'Darwin, Race and Gender'. EMBO Rep. 2009 Apr;10(4):297-8. doi: 10.1038/embor.2009.40. PMID: 19337295; PMCID: PMC2672903. #EDUUKUniversityOpenOU #TheoryChemicalPhlogiston [wikipedia] #TheoryChemicalPhlogistonDephlogisticate #TheoryBiogeographicalAncestryBGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YCTGyNA6_I #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity
Context: #IRLJournalistCharlieRose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1_13OZhh0 https://charlierose.com/videos/5894 #MetaphorWarfareBattleFight #CauseFeminism #IRLAuthorNaomiWolf #IRLAuthorKatieRoiphe #IRLWriterTadFriend #IRLWriterRebeccaWalker #IRLPrivateCitizenLorenaBobbitt [wikipedia] #1994_
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC
Context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQVNi2gGCV4
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cries-while-hearing-story-of-child-who-died-after-being-held-by-ice-2019-07-10/
"WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 10: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wipes a tear during a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing discussing migrant detention centers' treatment of children on Capitol Hill on July 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Yazmin Juarez, whose 19-month-old daughter Mariee died after detention by ICE testified." https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wipes-a-tear-during-a-house-news-photo/1154984200
#OrgUSFedGovImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE
#PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker
#ToponymAmericaCentralGuatemala
#2019_
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia
Supplementary: "Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march through central London on July 10, 2016" https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/demonstrators-from-the-black-lives-matter-movement-march-news-photo/545831580 And https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/vincent-chapters-black-lives-matter-march-london-130716 #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2016_BLMMarchLondon
#PlatformSMTwitterTWTRReinstated
Supplementary: #WebsitePolitico #WebsitePoliticoAndrewMcDonald and #WebsitePoliticoMasonBoycottOwen "On July 29, Southport -- a seaside town just outside Liverpool -- was rocked by unimaginable tragedy.
Three girls -- Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine -- were fatally stabbed while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance event. The attack also injured 10 others, some critically.
A 17-year-old male was arrested, and he was later revealed to be born in Cardiff to parents from Rwanda. He has no known links to Islam.
As is usual under British law for suspects aged under 18, the police did not initially name him. Within hours, social media was awash with false rumors about his background -- including that there was an Islamist connection to the killings and that the attacker was an asylum seeker, both of which the police later said weren't true.
A vigil for the victims last Tuesday was hijacked by people that police said were linked to the far-right English Defense League, a now-defunct organization. They tore bricks from residential properties to throw at police and Southport's mosque, which said it was also hit with petrol bombs. In the days that followed the Southport riot, further disorder flared up across England and in Northern Ireland. ... According to the Daily Mail [ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13709389/who-riots-britain-far-right-influencers-thugs-streets.html ], Robinson is currently in a hotel in Cyprus, from where he has been posting a flurry of videos to social media. Each post has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, and shared by right-wing figures across the world including United States InfoWars founder Alex Jones." (6 August 2024). https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-far-right-britain-lawyer-keir-starmer-violence-liverpool-muslims-cardiff/ #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #2024_UKRiotsSouthport #ToponymEuropeUKMerseysideSeftonSouthport #ToponymEuropeUKWalesCardiff #ToponymAfricaRwanda #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKEnglishDefenseLeagueEDL #OrgClassifPPUKBritishNationalPartyBNP #BeliefTheismIslamismMosque #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #PhenomnImmigrationRefugeeAsylumSeeker #WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones #AdvocacyUKHopeNotHate #ToponymEastMiddleCyprus #OrgClassifPPUKReclaimParty #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLPrivateCitizenDanielThomasAKADannyTommo #OrgSyndicateHateGroupUKPatrioticAlternative
#NMQAAlJazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CeTHitW-s8
Also: https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/08/woman-first-shared-fake-southport-suspect-rumour-sparked-riots-arrested-21389346/
And #NMUKBBCPanoramaDanielDeSimone "One possible conclusion to be drawn from the burst of violence this summer is that far-right narratives are now more mainstream than many would like to think. Is there now a far-right culture that is more prevalent in society and which transcends the need to organise in political groups? If so, activists may feel emboldened by what's happened over these past weeks and the risk of violence potentially could be even greater.
When reflecting this week, I thought back to a cold day in Preston in early January 2018. I was in court watching a defendant called Jack Renshaw, who was giving evidence in a trial that saw him convicted of stirring up racial hatred in antisemitic speeches. By the end of that year - and two further trials - he was also convicted of sexually grooming young boys and planning to kill his local MP with a machete in a neo-Nazi terror attack.
I checked my notes and, yes, my memory had been correct. Renshaw, an admitted neo-Nazi and former member of the BNP and National Action, was asked why he engaged in racist activism. In response, he said it helped change politics for everyone.
'It makes mainstream politics more right wing,' he told the court.
The reaction of the public, police and courts to the riots has shown how most people do not share the violent hatreds and fantasies of the far and extreme right.
But many others will feel a UK of far-right flash mobs is more scary, unpredictable and racist than they believed and wonder what the future holds.
This remains a dangerous moment." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74lwnxxxzjo #OrgUKTerroristAtomwaffenDivisionSonnenkriegDivision [wikipedia] #ToponymEuropeUKLancashirePreston #2018_ #OrgUKTerroristNationalActionNAJackRenshaw #OrgClassifPPUKLabourRosieCooper #PowerControlViolationPaedophilia
#2022_TheWalkIn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w796Cix2RXM #AdvocacyUKHopeNotHateMatthewCollins #NMUKRadioTimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskjZYM75Ug #MagazineUKSearchlight [wikipedia] #WebsiteJoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKKRbXPreU #OrgUKTerroristNationalActionNARobbieMullen #2017_ManchesterArenaBombing #PhenomnTerrorismJihadificationWhiteJihad
#WebsiteTheConversationSaraWilford "The radicalisation of middle-aged people is an emerging but overlooked phenomenon that has been brought to the fore by these riots, potentially because of the apparent link to the spread of misinformation online. As my ongoing research is finding, this group is vulnerable to being misled by fake news and conspiracy theories.
Middle-aged people are often bundled in with the 'over 50s' as a group, which includes the very old - a demographic with whom they have little in common. The middle aged are not 'digital natives' but they are online. And, crucially, they may actually be less informed about the dangers of online misinformation than younger people because they have not been the target of education in the same way. These days, significant effort is put in to educating young people about how to navigate the online world safely, but middle aged people missed the boat.
The middle-aged were introduced to the internet as adults and their understanding of the online sphere is largely self-taught and self-regulated. As a result, they can be poor decision makers when it comes to what to consume and what to believe. This exposure may lead people to make significant decisions, such as heading out to take part in violent unrest or attacking a mosque or a hotel housing asylum seekers, based on flawed or dishonest information that they have gathered on the internet." https://theconversation.com/middle-aged-radicalisation-why-are-so-many-of-britains-rioters-in-their-40s-and-50s-236263 And https://www.smidgeproject.eu/about-smidge #MetaphorGenerationTheOlder #PhenomnRadicalisation #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDigital
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJoshHalliday "In a written judgment published on Tuesday, the appeal court judge Lord Justice Holroyde said: 'There is no arguable basis on which it could be said that the sentence imposed by the judge was manifestly excessive. The application for leave to appeal against sentence therefore fails and is refused.'
He said the principal ground for appeal 'was substantially based on a version of events put forward by the applicant which we have rejected'." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/20/jailed-wife-of-ex-tory-councillor-loses-sentence-appeal-over-southport-tweet
#1987_FullMetalJacket #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #BehaviourInjuryFeelings #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationVegan #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
Context: #PhenomnTrendTidePodChallenge appears to be a coded, pejorative reference to #MetaphorGenerationMillennials [wikipedia] And #WebsiteTheConversationHarryDyer: "Due in no small part to the press coverage, trends like these are quickly blown out of proportion. As with the creepy clown sightings of 2016/17, or the Kylie Jenner lip challenge of 2015, the mainstream media seems to add to the hysteria surrounding these fads, which only serves to extend their relatively short shelf life.
Some such coverage mourns the decline of younger generations - as though millennials and Gen Z-ers have a monopoly on stupidity. But as the brilliant Pessimists Archive podcast has shown, hand-wringing over the state of younger generations is nothing new, and there's no evidence to suggest that today's young people are inherently more reckless than previous generations.
What is different about today's young people, though, is that they have the technology to record their stupidity for posterity, as well as a desire to push boundaries and attract viewers to the content they post online. This is the 'attention economy' in action, whereby attention is an increasingly scarce resource, which users are desperate to gain as ever greater amounts of content are put online.
At their core, these trends are born and driven by what people do when others might be looking. The attention economy can help to explain the powerful effects of being watched on the way humans understand, conform to, and deviate from what's 'normal'. And this, in turn, gives us a way to make sense of the Tide Pod challenge and other internet phenomena..." https://theconversation.com/tide-pod-challenge-blaming-stupid-millennials-is-the-easy-way-out-90606 #MetaphorHandWringing and the #TheoryAttentionEconomy with #IRLAuthorJamesWilliams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyRf3hfRXg https://pessimistsarchive.org/about
Supplementary: #TheorySynopticon i.e. MATHIESEN, THOMAS. (1997) 'The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault's `Panopticon' Revisited', Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480697001002003. And #TheoryOmniopticon: "There are three main types of social surveillance, based on whether the space that is being watched is somewhere local, global or a cyberspace. The first type of surveillance is considered a Panopticon emerged with modernism, where a small group of people watches over a larger group of people. The second one is the Synopticon where the many watch over the few. Emerged especially with the growth of the mass media, the Synopticon is the product of a more globalized world when compared to the concept of Panopticon. The third type of surveillance is the Omnipticon, where both Panopticon and Synopticon are applied simultaneously. While the globalization has stripped a minority of the privilege of watching and conferred it on the whole of society, surveillance has gradually begun to evolve from a mean of psychological pressure into an alluring psychological desire. As the world becomes more globalized, the grip of social control becomes firmer and stronger than thought even though the physical local pressures on the individual seem to have been diminished. While it might seem liberating at first sight, the globalization also leads to an anti-emancipatory world." Sarıgül, Fatma. (2018). 'The Changing Types of Social Surveillance Through Globalization.' PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences 4: 200-211. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326510599_THE_CHANGING_TYPES_OF_SOCIAL_SURVEILLANCE_THROUGH_GLOBALIZATION
#TauntMAGAt IDed?
response to #NMAUSkyNewsAustralia tweet promoting #IRLBroadcasterPiersMorgan talking about #TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety about #PhenomnComedy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ty5qn i.e. #IRLComedianCraigCampbell of #IRLComedianMichaelMcIntyre's Comedy Roadshow #PoliticallyCorrectPC
#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
Context: #MemeTheyBrainwashedYou: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TauntBrainwashed #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #BeliefTheismIslamism #PhenomnMaskWearing #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #OrgUSPlannedParenthood #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #CauseFeminism #NMUSCNN #NMUSFOXFNC #BeliefMysticismCartomancyTarotCards #TauntBigTech #TechServiceGoogle #PlatformSMYouTube #BrandMetaFacebook #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #PlatformSMTumblr #BeliefSpiritualityDaoism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/ #BeliefTheismDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal ? #PoliticsNationalismConservative #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #BeliefTheismChristianity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
#MemeSmallBrainYellingAtBigBrain
used to signify #OtheringCaricatureTriggered / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics / #TauntWokeMilitant Versus #PhenomnRealityObjective
#MetaphorBrain https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-brain-man-screaming-at-big-brain-man
Supplementary: the following #PhenomnParody created by the website co-founded by #WebsiteNewzyJustinHart https://newzy.com/dont-cry-cryo-%f0%9f%98%82-need-a-break-from-trumps-term-freeze-yourself-for-4-years/ And #NMUSRealAmericasVoice [tweet] was seemingly generated using #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative: #2024_DontCryCryo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6gvZ7OrZQ
The clip reframes legitimate concern about the outcome of the recent #2024_USPresidentialElection and the success of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump / #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJDVance in purely affective terms i.e. #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic, where such criticism must necessarily be a sign of #CharacterisationWeakness_ that such people are innately weak i.e. #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake.s this is despite Trump's #PoliticsAuthoritarianism on show at his recent #2024_TrumpMadisonSquareGardenRally and the #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracy and #PoliticsFascismTechno promised by #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationProject2025
The parody presents a characterisation of supposed #TauntLiberalTears, which by inference designates those who are unconcerned about the outcome - logically, #PleaMAGA conservatives are thereby necessarily #PleaBraveryCourage.ous
The parody using the concept of such #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle being chosen to wait out Trump's second term through choosing to be #LiteralFieldSciencePhysicsCryogenic frozen - waking to be told by #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk (who is now captain of a #BrandSpaceX #ToponymSpaceSolarSystemMars transporter) that #IRLBusinesspersonDonaldTrumpJr (with seemingly, #IRLSportspersonNickBosa https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/09/nick-bosa-maga-hat-fined-san-francisco-49ers as his VP) has just been elected as the new president on #ToponymAmericaNorthUS
#CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNSEvFmmaE0 ill informed #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic / #OtheringHateHomophobia #CharacterisationRant about #IdentityLGBTQIATrans people that refers to the film #1980_DressedToKill
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit [wikipedia] #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#VlogVoiceOfReasonAlexBelfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=venhJ6Bv-Yw #TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesJacobReesMogg #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMargaretThatcher #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBorisJohnson #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #PoliticsNationalismBritish #BrandMetaInstagram #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #ToponymEuropeUKNottinghamshireNottingham #IRLConsultantMayaForstater #AdvocacyUSCentreForGlobalDevelopmentCGD #LegislationUKGenderRecognitionActGRA #OtheringHateTransphobia #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringHateSpeech #IRLDogmatistLisaKeogh #EDUUKUniversityOfAbertay #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #TauntLefty #EDUUKUniversityOfOxfordMagdalenCollege https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-57409743 #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHQueenElizabethII #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #IRLHistoricalFigureCecilRhodes #PhenomnColonialism #TheoryRevisionismHistorical
#IRLSingerSongwriterTomMacDonald #2021_TomMacDonaldSnowflakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMwlorNEZk #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage #OtheringCaricatureTriggered #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #BeliefTheismChristianity #BehaviourToleranceIn #TauntWokeInsincerity #PleaRespect #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #PoliticsNationalismConservative #CharacterisationOversimplification #PleaOrderStableSocial #NarrativeStableMorality #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsDemocracy #PoliticsPatriotism #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #PoliticsFascismNazi #PhenomnWomensSport #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #BrandStarbucksCorporation #BrandAppleiPhone #TauntBigPharma #NarrativeTruthAssaultOn
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #MetaphorVersusHardSoft
Addendum: the comment suggests that they're referring to #ToponymEuropeFranceNormandyOmahaBeach D-Day casualties https://www.nationalww2museum.org/media/press-releases/d-day-fact-sheet-0
#IRLActivistGretaThunberg and #CauseRenewableGreenEnergy versus #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #PhenomnMiningCobalt i.e. an #ReasoningFallacyStrawman (or perhaps #ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack ?) #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: "The use of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where nearly 60% of the world's cobalt is currently produced, is certainly a major issue that deserves the attention of consumers, corporations, and governments. However, some media outlets and social media users have distorted the issue into a rallying cry against the use of electric cars and clean energy." [fact-checked]
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesZacGoldsmith "Their 'brilliant team of researchers' can't be that brilliant none of these are. employed by GB News.
More to the point, the fact they're launching a campaign against a channel that hasn't even begun broadcasting gives the game away this 'anti hate group is nothing of the sort"
#CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake
#CauseStopFundingHate "StopFundingHate has had a 'lot of requests to help identify any companies advertising on GB News. We have a brilliant team of research volunteers ready to go, and will be sharing advertiser info under the DontFundGBNews hashtag when the channel launches"
#NMUKGBNews
"Maybe direct that at your unelected colleague in the House of Lords as its from his newspaper you special genius."
#OrgUKGovHouseOfLords
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/roger-daltrey-woke-generation-creating-miserable-world #OrgSyndicateMusicUKTheWhoRogerDaltrey #BrandAppleMusicZaneLowe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ONJ8UuvhU&t=1922s #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #CatchcryCancelCulture #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #OtheringCaricatureTriggered #TauntHypocrisyLiberal #TheoryDeclinism
Supplementary: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-who-the-sell-out-interview/pl.ac896a4442cf4eb2b1c7a693c7f7f4ff
#WebsiteSmashCulturalMarxism https://twitter.com/SmashCM79 #ConspiracyTheoryCulturalMarxism #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR
Supplementary: https://dasversteckspiel.de/die-symbolwelt/verschwoerungsmythen/kulturmarxismus-337.html i.e. #PhenomnFrankfurtSchool, #IRLFinancierGeorgeSoros, #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight, #IRLMurdererAndersBreivikAKAFjotolfHansen And https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/cultural-marxism-anti-semitism.html https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315727257-12/cultural-marxism-british-national-party-john-richardson And https://www.diggitmagazine.com/articles/exploring-breivik-lone-wolf-s-war-against-cultural-marxism And [wikipedia] And [wikipedia] And #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardJudeoBolshevism ? #IRLScholarRichardWeiner: "attributes the actual term 'cultural Marxism' to Trent Schroyer in the latter's 1973 book, The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory (Weiner, Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology, p. 36)." https://theconversation.com/cultural-marxism-and-our-current-culture-wars-part-1-45299 #IRLScholarTrentSchroyer
Addendum: #PoliticsFascismUltraPalingenetic [wikipedia] ?
"American paratroopers proudly display a Nazi flag captured after a successful landing made behind German lines on the Normandy coast of France, June 9, 1944." #OrgUSFedAFMArmy [wikipedia] #ToponymEuropeFranceNormandy #1944_ #NarrativeWarWWII #PoliticsFascismNaziPartySwastika
#IdentityClassBlueCollar + #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #TheoryDeclinism (wistfulness yearning) #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #CharacterisationWeaknessCupcake [slang] [wiktionary] such as #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake, #CharacterisationWeaknessCuck #PleaNostalgiaRetrospection
Supplementary: Maynard, Steven. (1989). 'Rough Work and Rugged Men: The Social Construction of Masculinity in Working-Class History.' Labour / Le Travail 23: 159-169. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25143139
#TheoryDeclinism (wistfulness yearning) #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
Addendum: it's interesting the way that this metaphor works i.e. while there's something to be said for the #CharacterisationStrengthRobustness of early mobile phones, the reality is they weren't 'smart' (and have even been referred to as 'dumb' - making this conversation one where a 'dumb phone' lectures their 'smart' children about why it's better to be strong and stupid). It is the idea of being 'basic' and therefore, more #PleaAuthenticity.ic - unencumbered by the weight of 'culture' i.e. #MetaphorVersusCultureNature).
#IRLActorAnthonyHopkins (and not #IRLActorHenryCele who played #IRLHistoricalFigureShakaZulu in the #1986_ #TVShakaZulu [imdb] mini series). #PleaAuthenticity #ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
This tweeter is #_Riled
#LiteralSourcePrintMedia #1978_Grease #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #PowerControlViolationRape #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PhenomnSlutShaming #OtheringHateHomophobia #PowerControlMicrofascismBullying #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9106979/Grease-racist-rapey-homophobic-slut-shaming-say-woke-snowflakes.html
Supplementary: #IRLYouTuberOfeliaCarbonellTorrents [wikipedia] "We live in the age of performativity: what we say we are is as important or more important than what we actually are, because half of the things we do we publish online, shouting it to the four winds. The networks do not explain who you are, but who you want to be....
I grew up with the internet: blogs, memes, kittens and 'The Fall of Edgar'. I experienced the boom of the fourth wave feminist movement first hand, wading through the bottomless pit that was Tumblr at the time, land of the 'social justice warriors' who laid the foundations of today's cancel culture. The concept of MeToo was simple but terribly powerful. Speaking out about everything that until then we didn't say for fear of being the only ones and finding ourselves alone against the world....
The culture war has helped define spaces, to put the focus on issues that we used to avoid. This obsession with identity has made us have to choose sides: sexist or feminist? Woke or incel ? This game, this clash, having to take sides and position ourselves as if our choice interests someone, has made society move towards a more feminist future, yes. Moving towards the extremes puts the problem at the centre, and although it is childish and simplistic to talk about good and bad, being able to openly say that you are a feminist makes it clear who prefers to remain sexist." https://elmondedema.cat/de-precious-snowflakes-al-woke/ #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #CauseFeminism #TVTheSimpsonsLisa #MetaphorWarfareCulture #TheoryPerformativity #TheoryPerformativeActivism #CauseMeToo #TheoryDeclinism #PhenomnPolarisation #TheoryModelBinaryDichotomy
#PleaNostalgia
#TheoryDeclinism (golden age thinking / rosy retrospection / wistfulness yearning / reminiscence)
#CharacterisationWeaknessHypersensitivity
#CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake
#PolicyUSFarmSecurityAdministrationFSA [wikipedia]
(versus
#PhenomnAgricultureFarmingFactory?)
#PleaAuthenticity #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #PleaNostalgiaRetrospection
Context: #IRLScholarTimothySnyder's #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8&t=367s
Supplementary: #WebsiteInternetEncyclopediaOfPhilosophyAshleyWoodward "For Lyotard change is life affirming, whereas the stable structures that inhibit change are nihilistic and life denying. However, Lyotard does not simply assert libidinal intensity as an affirmative 'other' to nihilism. For Lyotard, there is no affirmative region, no pure outside to nihilism. Lyotard does not propose that we champion affects, singularities, intensities and libidinal energy over systems, structures, theory, concepts and representation. This is because the only way libidinal energies can exist is within structures. Lyotard does not advocate a simple liberation of desire and does not attempt to set up a place beyond representation which would be immune to the effects of nihilism. Lyotard presents us, rather, with a metaphysical system in which intensities and structures are both essential elements of the libidinal economy." https://iep.utm.edu/lyotard/
Addendum: #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard's #TheoryPhilosophyLibidinal clearly contrasts with #PleaOrderNaturalEquilibrium as per a #PoliticsLiberalismClassical perspective (evoked above).
"Douglas Bader had no legs, so he couldn't take a knee... but he did used to have a gin and tonic and book his squash court before shooting down a few Germans!
THIS IS A TRUE BRITISH HERO!"
#SymbolTakeAKneeGenuflectionKneeling
#MetaphorWarfareHero
#PoliticsNationalismBritish
#TheoryDeclinism
#AdvocacyUKLeaveEU
Context: #IRLHistoricalFigureDouglasBader
#CatchcryBeliefsArentFacts #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute
Addendum: This feels like it's motivated by either of the following:
1). the uncertainty felt by social-conservatives when facts change because of new insight.
2). frustration that mistruths benefitting social-conservatives have been corrected.
blindsided by patriotic fervour and the simplicity of nationalistic symbols #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #PoliticsPatriotism identity
#PoliticsNationalismBritish's blindness to manipulation.
#PhenomnBrexit #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake
Addendum: this comment reminds me of the classic sketch performed by #OrgUKMontyPythonJohnCleese, #IRLComedianRonnieBarker & #IRLComedianRonnieCorbett about the British class system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34CsPPw5uM&t=27s where in this case, those most critical of Brexit i.e. the "liberals with their Spanish Villas" / #IdentityClassWhiteCollarMiddle are framed as enemies of those who are (supposedly, unanimously) most in favour i.e. #IdentityClassBlueCollar + #IdentityClassRuling. One wonders though, who actually benefits most?
#IRLEntertainerTomWalkerAKAJonathanPie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5TVLEaqqdI #OrgClassifPPUKLabourRebeccaLongBailey #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #TauntLeftThe #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheIndependent #CharacterisationRant #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #TauntLeftHardFar #MetaphorWarfareCulture #CharacterisationRightWing
#CatchcryCancelCulture #IRLEntertainerTomWalkerAKAJonathanPie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5TVLEaqqdI #OrgClassifPPUKLabourRebeccaLongBailey #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #TauntLeftThe #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheIndependent #CharacterisationRant #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #TauntLeftHardFar #MetaphorWarfareCulture #CharacterisationRightWing
#NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunSaschaOSullivan "Boss of UK's biggest teaching union tells 460k members to refuse to even talk about going back to class" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11606935/union-boss-teachers-return-school/ #OrgUKNtlEducationUnionNEUKevinCourtney (General Secretary)
#OrgUKNtlAssociationForHeadTeachersNAHTPaulWhiteman (General Secretary). #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity
"The loony left's ideological war against getting Britain moving continues apace!"
Supplementary: #TauntLeftLoony https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/21/conservatives-war-on-woke-loony-left-political-correctness And [wikipedia] And https://inews.co.uk/opinion/woke-want-make-the-world-fairer-loony-left-80s-1008384 And https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/culture-wars-urban-left/ #MetaphorWarfareCulture
#MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW, #PoliticallyCorrectPC, #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake i.e. "someone that thinks they are unique and special, but really are not" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowflake #PleaBoycott LigoSardines appears to be a local/Philippine issue i.e. "Ligo Vice President #IRLBusinesspersonMikkoLawrenceTung announced that the company will directly donate to the hospitals and NGOs leading the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019" https://philnews.ph/2020/04/04/boycottligosardines-trends-on-twitter-after-tung-announced-directly-donate-hospitals/
meme of #IRLActivistGretaThunberg at the #2019_UNClimateActionSummit with #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk's face - as a "cognitive metaphor" as per cognitive linguistics: http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3872
functional/utilitarian conception of #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #TauntBrainwashed #PleaUnlearning #CaricaturistAntonioBranco #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation
Supplementary: #NewspaperUSOnlineInsideHigherEdRobertWeisbuch "As a leading example, if extremist Muslims now selectively and reductively read the Koran to justify massacres, sexism, intolerance and slavery, our own extremist Christians now selectively and reductively scan the Hebrew and Christian Bibles in just the same way to promulgate just the same rationalizations of evil. Holy books present a full spectrum of attitudes, and international and national conflict today is fueled by choosing the most illiberal passages as the sole word of Allah/God. Millions of people now follow tyrants, justified, they believe, by their 'anger' -- the new euphemism for irrational hatred.
What's threatened by the new savagery is not just the college campus but also the Enlightenment in its most capacious sense: the values of skepticism, empiricism, scientific and philosophic rigor, and the tolerance that affords individual liberties. Even objections to Enlightenment values -- that they ignore the irrational or mask self-interest -- can be considered only in a setting established by those values. Such values -- the ones that our national founders signed onto in the Declaration of Independence and that undergird higher education as a guarantor of the republic and of human dignity -- are under a special intensity of attack while we academics seem preoccupied with the little stuff.
The biggest and worst surprise of my life has been this worldwide regression to bigoted ignorance and the gullibility or desperation that has enabled that ignorance such noxious success. Perhaps it was my own gullibility that had led me to assume the forward march of humanity toward a sunny spirit guided by reason. But all over the world they are turning out the lights." https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/05/values-liberal-arts-and-enlightenment-are-under-attack-essay #BeliefTheismIslamismQuran #BeliefTheismChristianityBible #IdentityJewishHebrew #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
