• rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I respect the sentiment, but I recently read “Exiting the Vampire Castle” by Mark Fisher and he makes some good points for why callout culture is, shall we say, “less than productive” in some situations.

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      5 months ago

      calling out actually bigoted shit and the purity cult that fisher described in the essay are two different things

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        5 months ago

        Really? Are you saying this in reference to the essay of his that starts with:

        ‘Left-wing’ Twitter can often be a miserable, dispiriting zone. Earlier this year, there were some high-profile twitterstorms, in which particular left-identifying figures were ‘called out’ and condemned. What these figures had said was sometimes objectionable; but nevertheless, the way in which they were personally vilified and hounded left a horrible residue: the stench of bad conscience and witch-hunting moralism.

        Because if you are, then I guess you didn’t read the article, huh?