That Alex Witt "correction" of the correspondent -- "We call them 'undocumented immigrants'," as opposed to "illegal aliens" is a fine example of what Helen Dale and Lorenzo Warby call a "piety display." Here's the relevant passage from their Substack essay:
"The prestige opinion/luxury belief/linguistic taboos pattern of ostentatious verbal sensitivity is much better described as piety display than virtue signalling. First, because it lacks the character or effort implied by virtue. Second, it lacks the cost element implied by signal, as biologists or economists use the term. On the contrary, the social cost often comes from not engaging in such display. What we are dealing with is control of the legitimacy of discourse based on a mixture of required affirmations and not noticings."
The correspondent paid the cost of not signaling her in-group loyalty to a group -- elite liberals -- that uses illegal aliens as "moral mascots."
Moral Mascots is a good term, it's like having anonymous, remote stepchildren. These people are a lot like those unfit mothers who always defend their shitty kid when they are misbehaving, like Cartmans mother on South Park. You're the bad guy for pointing it out, especially if you use not-so-nice (but accurate) terms, because the worst crime you can do is try and pierce their veil of denial and ignorance. They prefer to fight imaginary villains who don't fight back instead of grappling with the real evil that is in huge parts their responsibility.
Seems to me like there still isn't a coherent strategy against Trump. Call him a Nazi, call him a child, call him a Putin lover, call him other names, not even the message discipline is there. And of course they're LARPing as the resistance, stolen valor to the max.
Susan Glasser who complains about the removal of the portrait of a living, treasonous general seems to have no problem with removing confederate statues, people dug up an earlier tweet.
Wow, a double dose of Joy!......Gurri is fantastic as always! And the mayor of Chicago I was going to say something, but just the brutal fact that he is indeed the mayor.....
I am a native NYer like Megan McKaren (though I did not grow up with her wealth or attend a leafy upscale private HS like she did) and got to experience both the grimy and sketchy 70s/80s and the much safer 1990s—to say something as stupid as "urban crime isn’t a big deal to people who know how to live in a city" means either she was insulated from street realities or just personally didn't get mugged or assaulted—believe me it's a big deal to get punched on the street and robbed, as I witnessed many times in my youth.
I am absolutely no advocate of violence of any kind, but I'm starting to think there's no other hope for the AWFL class, they have absolutely no skin in the game and are completely shielded from the consequences of their sentimental utopian poses. Maybe meeting a hard fist of reality might knock some sense into them, however doubtful.
Also, someone needs to tell this AWFL that the people who are sick of street crime aren't the ones who need to be" fetch[ed] back to Ohio" as these are mosty white hipsters who live in the safe parts of upscale Brooklyn—they are poorer immigrant familes who often run or work at small businesses and are the ones on the front lines of social chaos. But AWFLs don't know any working people except for their servants and don't know any immigrants unless they've also been processed through upscale elite universities.
AWFLs are both the greatest beneficiaries of civilization and among its worst enemies.
I think that affluence is under threat since a lot of these women are either directly or indirectly working for the government, either in public sector jobs, working for an NGO grifting off the government or working a job that only exists as an extension of government, e.g. HR.
Also, it's hilarious to see all those old hags and frumpy journos hating on Karoline Leavitt. Some women just can't help hating on women who are more attractive.
I can already see it, whole battalions of Waffen-SS surrendering after a particularly clever tweet, taking off their swastika armbands and turning them into face masks.
I've started to get a perverse enjoyment reading boilerplate liberals compare current moment goings-on to WW2, the Holocaust, Nazis, etc. It's like their entire knowledge of history comes from watching TV movies of the week from the seventies and eighties. I'd love to get drunk with AOC and just let her rant about it all.
Once again, thanks for listening so we don't have to!
That Alex Witt "correction" of the correspondent -- "We call them 'undocumented immigrants'," as opposed to "illegal aliens" is a fine example of what Helen Dale and Lorenzo Warby call a "piety display." Here's the relevant passage from their Substack essay:
"The prestige opinion/luxury belief/linguistic taboos pattern of ostentatious verbal sensitivity is much better described as piety display than virtue signalling. First, because it lacks the character or effort implied by virtue. Second, it lacks the cost element implied by signal, as biologists or economists use the term. On the contrary, the social cost often comes from not engaging in such display. What we are dealing with is control of the legitimacy of discourse based on a mixture of required affirmations and not noticings."
The correspondent paid the cost of not signaling her in-group loyalty to a group -- elite liberals -- that uses illegal aliens as "moral mascots."
they been killin it over there lately
Moral Mascots is a good term, it's like having anonymous, remote stepchildren. These people are a lot like those unfit mothers who always defend their shitty kid when they are misbehaving, like Cartmans mother on South Park. You're the bad guy for pointing it out, especially if you use not-so-nice (but accurate) terms, because the worst crime you can do is try and pierce their veil of denial and ignorance. They prefer to fight imaginary villains who don't fight back instead of grappling with the real evil that is in huge parts their responsibility.
Do these unhinged people really believe what they say or is it just schtick? Can they really be that unbelievably idiotic?
For the non-sociopaths it's just method acting. They slowly become the character they play on TV. The sociopaths just enjoy the manipulation.
It's been ZERO hours since Democrats last humiliated themselves.
Seems to me like there still isn't a coherent strategy against Trump. Call him a Nazi, call him a child, call him a Putin lover, call him other names, not even the message discipline is there. And of course they're LARPing as the resistance, stolen valor to the max.
Susan Glasser who complains about the removal of the portrait of a living, treasonous general seems to have no problem with removing confederate statues, people dug up an earlier tweet.
I was worried Joy Reid was going to be left out again.
I should have more faith in her abilities
Wow, a double dose of Joy!......Gurri is fantastic as always! And the mayor of Chicago I was going to say something, but just the brutal fact that he is indeed the mayor.....
Who’s Tim Walz?
I am a native NYer like Megan McKaren (though I did not grow up with her wealth or attend a leafy upscale private HS like she did) and got to experience both the grimy and sketchy 70s/80s and the much safer 1990s—to say something as stupid as "urban crime isn’t a big deal to people who know how to live in a city" means either she was insulated from street realities or just personally didn't get mugged or assaulted—believe me it's a big deal to get punched on the street and robbed, as I witnessed many times in my youth.
I am absolutely no advocate of violence of any kind, but I'm starting to think there's no other hope for the AWFL class, they have absolutely no skin in the game and are completely shielded from the consequences of their sentimental utopian poses. Maybe meeting a hard fist of reality might knock some sense into them, however doubtful.
Also, someone needs to tell this AWFL that the people who are sick of street crime aren't the ones who need to be" fetch[ed] back to Ohio" as these are mosty white hipsters who live in the safe parts of upscale Brooklyn—they are poorer immigrant familes who often run or work at small businesses and are the ones on the front lines of social chaos. But AWFLs don't know any working people except for their servants and don't know any immigrants unless they've also been processed through upscale elite universities.
AWFLs are both the greatest beneficiaries of civilization and among its worst enemies.
I think that affluence is under threat since a lot of these women are either directly or indirectly working for the government, either in public sector jobs, working for an NGO grifting off the government or working a job that only exists as an extension of government, e.g. HR.
Stephen King is branching from horror to comedy. Stephen, don’t quit your day job.
Also, it's hilarious to see all those old hags and frumpy journos hating on Karoline Leavitt. Some women just can't help hating on women who are more attractive.
AOC forgets the Banderites (Nazis) we support .
"One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground."
She should get the lead in the next Indian Jones movie. You know, the sequel no one wants, yet we all deserve.
I can already see it, whole battalions of Waffen-SS surrendering after a particularly clever tweet, taking off their swastika armbands and turning them into face masks.
If there was a legitimate SNL show, that would make a great skit!
I wouldn't be surprised if the Babylon Bee actually made a skit like that.
I've started to get a perverse enjoyment reading boilerplate liberals compare current moment goings-on to WW2, the Holocaust, Nazis, etc. It's like their entire knowledge of history comes from watching TV movies of the week from the seventies and eighties. I'd love to get drunk with AOC and just let her rant about it all.