Hi, I'm the OP and wanted to say that Quillette is a right-wing magazine portraying itself as an lbertarian centrarian magazine. If Jordan Peterson was a magazine, this would be it.
Yet, with this article they managed to shot themselves in the foot. Quillette sees itself as an intellectual post for intellectuals, yet the only intellectualism they manage to bring on is the one described by Steven Pinker: anti-progressive.
Before posting it here, I posted it on a facebook group and the reactions were instant: some making fun of the people waiting to get offended and a great majority getting offended only when seeing it was from Quillette or simply by reading the title.
Even though Quillette managed to self-describe itself without pointing obvious fingers but knowing their history, it was to be addressed to left wing media, the article is humorously accurately describing both extremes of the same narrow American spectrum of politics and social life. If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.
> getting offended only when seeing it was from Quillette or simply by reading the title.
I tried reading Quilette when it started coming out a few years ago. At first it sounded interesting but draping itself in intellectual-sounding rhetoric didn't make it any less misogynistic/racist. I gave it a try with a dozen articles over the months, but they were all so disconnected from reality (written by scholars from their ivory towers) and so reactionary (really opposed to any form of social equality) that i don't even bother anymore. Quilette is mental masturbation for neo-nazis. Nothing more to see there.
> If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.
You're assuming there's only two boxes "left" and "right". This axis is valid for economic concerns (collectivism vs property) though really misrepresented by the media: the democrats are really right-wing, except for the DSA or Bernie Sanders who are center-left (for a modest redistribution of wealth) but there is no mainstream left ideas/parties in the media in the USA. Left meaning strongly opposed to private property (as opposed to property of usage).
But then there's more axis to consider. Are you for social control and State surveillance/repression (authoritarianism, whether justified for "social progress" as in USSR or for "social peace" as in the west doesn't matter) or for freedom and autonomy of individuals and communities? etc...
In the end the whole concepts of political parties and parliaments ("representative democracy") were invented by the bourgeoisie and enlightened intellectuals of the 18th century to prevent any form of social progress and oppose democracy they saw as a threat to their privilege. Democracy is when people are divided by ideas, not by party. Democracy is when people decide, not when others decide for them.
« Anarchism is democracy taken seriously » as the quote goes.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.0 ms ] threadYet, with this article they managed to shot themselves in the foot. Quillette sees itself as an intellectual post for intellectuals, yet the only intellectualism they manage to bring on is the one described by Steven Pinker: anti-progressive.
Before posting it here, I posted it on a facebook group and the reactions were instant: some making fun of the people waiting to get offended and a great majority getting offended only when seeing it was from Quillette or simply by reading the title.
Even though Quillette managed to self-describe itself without pointing obvious fingers but knowing their history, it was to be addressed to left wing media, the article is humorously accurately describing both extremes of the same narrow American spectrum of politics and social life. If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.
I tried reading Quilette when it started coming out a few years ago. At first it sounded interesting but draping itself in intellectual-sounding rhetoric didn't make it any less misogynistic/racist. I gave it a try with a dozen articles over the months, but they were all so disconnected from reality (written by scholars from their ivory towers) and so reactionary (really opposed to any form of social equality) that i don't even bother anymore. Quilette is mental masturbation for neo-nazis. Nothing more to see there.
> If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.
You're assuming there's only two boxes "left" and "right". This axis is valid for economic concerns (collectivism vs property) though really misrepresented by the media: the democrats are really right-wing, except for the DSA or Bernie Sanders who are center-left (for a modest redistribution of wealth) but there is no mainstream left ideas/parties in the media in the USA. Left meaning strongly opposed to private property (as opposed to property of usage).
But then there's more axis to consider. Are you for social control and State surveillance/repression (authoritarianism, whether justified for "social progress" as in USSR or for "social peace" as in the west doesn't matter) or for freedom and autonomy of individuals and communities? etc...
In the end the whole concepts of political parties and parliaments ("representative democracy") were invented by the bourgeoisie and enlightened intellectuals of the 18th century to prevent any form of social progress and oppose democracy they saw as a threat to their privilege. Democracy is when people are divided by ideas, not by party. Democracy is when people decide, not when others decide for them.
« Anarchism is democracy taken seriously » as the quote goes.