I didn’t respond for a few days because, while I really like and agree with Kisin, it bores me to think about ideas with which I already agree.
Finally, however, I found a quote from Kisin with which I disagree. It’s an excerpt from a longer piece where he’s talking about the so-called “Woke Right”, agreeing that the term is clumsy and providing the following description:
The fringe of the Right which replicates every key aspect of wokeness:
– thinking the West is bad and siding with its enemies
– playing identity politics on the basis that their group is oppressed by a secret invisible force controlled by another group/groups
– having an obsession with group-based victimhood and grievance
– seeking to revise and pervert history to fit its ideological narrative
– reacting to disagreement with name-calling, ostracism and bullying
– creating a culture of fear among more centre-leaning people on their side to prevent criticism (you should see how many people message me privately to say they agree about the Woke Right but don’t want to say anything).https://x.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1865824554737676465?t=CkrY8uGUG2plcNQkUVc_Lg&s=19
Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Candace Owens – Kisin means that kind of “the Right.” What these people invariably have in common is that they used to be on the Left and have now brought the foundational beliefs and intellectual habits of the Berkeley Left to the Right.
That’s why I don’t call them “Woke Right.” I call them “the Left.” Because that’s what they are, whether they are intellectually sophisticated enough to know it.
I don’t believe in self-ID in any sphere of life.
Kisin gives a long definition of such people but I find all of the points on his list superfluous except for the first one. The main, central, number one characteristic of the Left at every point in history is it’s hatred of the Western civilization and efforts to champion whoever the enemy of the West is at any given time.
Bullying, schmullying, culture of fear – that’s all vapor. The real problem with Tucker and Candace is that they despise the West and shit on its greatest achievements. Everything else stems from that underlying, visceral contempt for the Western civilization. People who don’t notice the shocking similarities between Tulsi and the campus “Queers for Palestine” groups simply haven’t been around such groups enough. I live surrounded by them, so I notice.
So yes, Kisin is great. And Candace is a leftist who is probably too dumb to know it about herself.
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