It's actually been going on well before this. I think in some respects it's dangerous to frame it in this way. Better examples, in my view, lie in the realm of political violence. In the immediate postwar era (World War I) up through 1931 or so, the Weimar government always felt the Left presented the greater political threat and focused…
It's actually been going on well before this. I think in some respects it's dangerous to frame it in this way. Better examples, in my view, lie in the realm of political violence. In the immediate postwar era (World War I) up through 1931 or so, the Weimar government always felt the Left presented the greater political threat and focused their efforts in that direction. Even prominent Social Democrats within the Berlin police establishment viewed the German Communist Party as a greater threat to peace and stability than the National Socialists. We see to some extent a mirror image of that now, with things like the CHAZ disappearing in the rear view mirror. The Weimar government missed the salient fact that political violence is political violence regardless of the rhetoric it's wrapped in.
Cancelling people based on identity reasons (be it an artificial racial construct or some kind of gender-based criteria) was happening well before COVID. All COVID did was add another reason to cancel and vilify.
Political violence has been a hallmark of the left in the US for a couple of decades. It is hilarious to earth thr handwringing over Twitter by people who cheerfully ignored explicit open death threats against their political opponents as long as they controlled the forum.
It's actually been going on well before this. I think in some respects it's dangerous to frame it in this way. Better examples, in my view, lie in the realm of political violence. In the immediate postwar era (World War I) up through 1931 or so, the Weimar government always felt the Left presented the greater political threat and focused their efforts in that direction. Even prominent Social Democrats within the Berlin police establishment viewed the German Communist Party as a greater threat to peace and stability than the National Socialists. We see to some extent a mirror image of that now, with things like the CHAZ disappearing in the rear view mirror. The Weimar government missed the salient fact that political violence is political violence regardless of the rhetoric it's wrapped in.
Cancelling people based on identity reasons (be it an artificial racial construct or some kind of gender-based criteria) was happening well before COVID. All COVID did was add another reason to cancel and vilify.
Political violence has been a hallmark of the left in the US for a couple of decades. It is hilarious to earth thr handwringing over Twitter by people who cheerfully ignored explicit open death threats against their political opponents as long as they controlled the forum.