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I think lib history professors love Weber. It’s like Marx minus Marx if that makes sense—examining the world (or at least Europe in the last few centuries...) economically but also through this mystical thing called “culture” which arises from nothing and cannot be resisted.
I had a history professor in college I loved as a lib. He was fond of Weber and Israel (although he never talked about Israel because I think he knew how gauche it looked). I took several classes with him and we got on well together but he screwed me on my final evaluation because (I believe) I publicly supported BDS. Many years later he posted a photo of himself standing within a few feet of Elizabeth Warren.
That's depressing. Also that Weber thing talking about culture sounds like some shit pulled out from some "right wing theorist" spewing bullshit about the superior culture etx
Yesterday I was listening to the Know Your Enemy podcast episode on Blue Collar Conservatives which features an interview with two former blue collar conservatives. So much of what they said about their youths (particularly an emphasis on self-help books) reminded me of my own youth, even though I grew up in a lib house. It can sometimes be difficult to disentangle liberalism from conservatism.
Oh, why would that be, huh?
Like really, the only clear differences are their treatment of brown, LGBT and non-christian people. All the rest is basically "murican civil religion" and McCarthyism with slightly different levels of zealotry but the lines are very blurred.
It’s slow polite fascism versus fast impolite fascism.
Libs however think that communists and fascists are the same.
Fascists think that libs and communists are also the same.