Conservative/anti-woke liberals, columnists and the likes have this delusion that we can just overthrow status quo by getting everyone to “speak up”. Worst, they put their own efforts in such regards at the same level of "normie" types using their real name on social media. 🧵
As I pointed out before, this mainly because they fail to understand difference between themselves i.e. people engaged in content economy (or “intellectuals”) and the “average” person. There’s a reward structure built into the commentary industry that just isn't there for normies
If someone tries to “cancel” me (editor of publication with connections in industry), unless I say something totally indefensible, it could potentially be best thing that happens to me, professionally speaking. I’d get "bigger", attract more attention to our ideas, and so forth
But this isn’t the case for someone who is, either not interested in making a living with commentary, journalism, forms of public speaking, etc, or (worse) might not have the skills/intellect/opp to do it. To demand such and compare their circumstances to your own is unethical.
Best case scenario if average person speaks up is they get couple of headlines written and then are left jobless w rep ruined as world inevitably moves on to next controversy. No book deal, podcast invites, masthead. This is also what JP doesn’t understand
He says the only virtuous “anon" accounts (technically pseudonymous, see diff below) are the "whistleblowers" among them, because others concealing their identities must be cowards, since only fear of going through unpleasant attacks like he did stops them
It's not. Prob true in some cases, but most have families to feed w no real alternatives lined up if fired. Or maybe they just love their current job and have worked hard to get where they are & don't want to loose it. Or again, just unable to "spin cancellation into a book tour"
I won't even get into this idea all anons are incels living in their m.b., but I will say in case of JP it's ever worse. I could sympathize w person making similar arguments if he'd be barely struggling to stay relevant, but JP has become world-famous millionaire as a consequence
It's a form of disrespect towards the ppl you're speaking for not to acknowledge these fundamental differences in circumstances, as well as prob another form of laziness meant to justify not doing real hard work like Rufo's doing and just podcast instead
We don't have Gandhi-like leaders to lead peaceful revolutions. These centrist/classical liberals types who think discourse alone will save us if only enough people repeat their mantras is just a way to cast themselves as the heroes and everyone else as the problem. It's a grift.
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