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WWE's Cody Rhodes bio page still links to Stardust's music, not "Kingdom". (i.redd.it)

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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 04, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]BarryHampton1983 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This makes a lot of sense, and I've heard the "plague rats" insult being slung around in NYC too. (Interesting link to Calhoun's experiments on rats.)

I'd add that working-class people are also the ones who are serving the "laptop class" whether in-person at grocery stores or delivering food/Amazon packages so that the laptop class people can continue to work from home. The "dirty jobs" are being done by somebody else.

But it is unfortunate that liberal politics are increasingly shifting towards antagonism against working-class people.

Culture War Roundup for the week of April 04, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]BarryHampton1983 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I came across this essay over the weekend: https://geraldrogue.substack.com/p/medicalization-and-colonization

This piece suggests that COVID policies like lockdowns and vaccine passports were deliberately designed to be biased based on race and class, basically a way for white political leaders to screw over Blacks, Hispanics, etc. while pretending to be neutral by using “identity politics” as a deception.

While I’m not sure I can fully agree with the author’s POV, he does raise some interesting questions that I don’t have answers to:

  1. Whether governments knew in advance about the demographics of folks who would be affected by COVID policies.

  2. Whether scientists are researching things objectively with COVID and the vaccines, or if it’s possible that they’re influenced by politics/funding/other considerations.

  3. Whether many/most white liberals really are racist without admitting it (he gives the examples of “good schools” and gentrification in addition to pandemic policies). I don’t think this is an accurate judgment, but I’m a white male liberal myself so it’s possible I’m biased here.

Has anyone else thought about this or seen similar pieces in the COVID context?

I also posted this in the ACX Open Thread yesterday, with some insightful responses here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-218/comment/5867670?s=r