#IRLHistoricalFigureMaximilienRobespierre i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre

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Supplementary: #EDUUSUniversityVirginiaTechMattGabriele https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3kn6qyoo5tq2w "Those claims by the Right, however, seem at first glance to not make sense. They state that they represent the will of the people and want to terrorize those they consider 'tyrants.' And yet, they themselves have tried to overturn a legitimate election and more recently enacted sweeping voter suppression laws across several states in order to cement their own hold on power. In addition, the Right and their enablers rush to stake out absolutist positions related to 'religious liberty' or 'freedom of speech' but then cheer on (or directly use) state power to limit just those liberties and freedoms they purport to support. For example, they assert 'liberty' to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community, and assert 'freedom' to legislate against mask-wearing during a global pandemic or to ban the teaching of history they don't agree with. ...
Over the course of 1792-94, the avatars of the 'will of the people' continued to narrow. It was no longer the legislature as a whole, composed of hundreds of delegates that embodied the 'will of the people,' but it specifically became the Committee of Public Safety led by Robespierre. He vocalized the public will and embodied the public good so that those who disagreed became existential enemies of France herself who needed to be eliminated. Hence, we wind up with the Terror -- denunciations and mass executions of perceived enemies both at home and abroad. The Terror, Furet argued, was only ended when Robespierre lost control of the discourse and no longer embodied the public will, so he himself became a threat and was executed.
Contemporary America hasn't, of course, reached its own Terror. But the parallels between the modes of discourse in the late eighteenth- and early twenty-first centuries are striking. The Right has adopted an authoritarian mode of discourse because they think they embody the will of the people, the nation itself, and so are the only legitimate political actors." https://prof-gabriele.medium.com/on-guillotines-and-the-american-right-de0343b72341 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety #WebsiteFiveThirtyEightNateSilver "'But I have a theory about how they missed the Trump train,' he continued. 'They don't hang out with regular folks like us who like to hunt and fish and pray and actually work for a living. Heck, I don't even know that they know how to talk to people from middle America.' #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC #IRLPersonalityTelevisionWillieRobertson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gg2dTFu2sc&t=105s #CatchcryTrumpTrain #OtheringElitesMedia
There's been a lot of this talk at the RNC, about 'real' Americans and 'regular' Americans and how they're the ones who make America great. ...
These politicians, implicitly and often explicitly, usually have certain people in mind when they refer to 'real Americans.' They often mean white people without college degrees -- the so-called 'white working class.' They usually mean practicing Christians. Their examples usually refer to people in the South or the Midwest -- not East Coast elites or West Coast hippies." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-20-percent-of-voters-are-real-americans/ #OtheringLegitimacyRealAmericans #EpistemologyAgnotologyBased #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #IRLPhilanthropistBillGates #IRLPoliceBettyShelby i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Terence_Crutcher #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaTulsa #IRLDeceasedTerenceCrutcher #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBernieSanders #LiteralFirefighter i.e. #MetaphorWarfareHero + #PoliticsPatriotism #IRLActivistJacobTobia i.e. #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #IRLActivistDavidHogg i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hogg #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoysHenryTarrioAKAEnriqueTarrio i.e. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085201623/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-arrested-indicted-jan-6 #2020_CapitolSiege #IRLComedianAmySchumer #NMUSCNNBrianStelter #IRLStudentNicholasSandmann + #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC #2020_ #PleaMAGA #MemeIslamicRageBoy #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #2020_Cuties #SymbolHijabNiqabBurqa #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #MemeJessicaStarrAKALukeCrywalker #PolicyCulturalIntegrationEnrichment i.e. #2006_CrisisInTimorLeste #PleaLawAndOrder #PleaVandalism #IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany

#IRLComedianJimmyDore

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#VlogThroughConversations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XqdeviKLg https://throughconversations.com/ #IRLScholarNoamChomsky #TauntCultureCancel #IRLConspiracistDavidDuke #CampaignStrategySouthernStrategy i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

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Context: #MagazineHarpersBazaar "Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion--which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won't defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn't expect the public or the state to defend it for us" (7 July #2020_). https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

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Supplementary: #EDUUSUniversityOfCaliforniaUCLABerkeleyJohnPowell "These strategies, combined called the 'Southern Strategy', was designed to create a national Republican majority, built, in part, on white resentment.
The dog whistle worked because it was heard and understood by the conservative white base, yet not by more moderate and northern whites. It meant activating racial resentment for one part of the population while denying that fact to the rest. The Southern Strategy married the conservative politics antipathy to marginal tax rates and civil rights, labor, and environmental regulations of corporate elites with culturally conservative antipathy towards civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights." https://belonging.berkeley.edu/new-southern-strategy #IRLCommentatorKevinPhillips and #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC Chairman #IRLHistoricalFigureLeeAtwater #MetaphorDogWhistle