{"id":5057,"date":"2021-09-04T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2021-09-04T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T22:34:37","slug":"how-capitalism-drives-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/how-capitalism-drives-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ArticleLegacyHtml_root__3ONhH ArticleLegacyHtml_standard__1jFeZ\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image_root__J8Wlz ArticleLeadArt_image__M6-k6 ArticleLeadArt_featureMedia__3JJKy alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/original.jpg?resize=625%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The delete button over a tumbrel\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From a year ago, and excellent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"ArticleLegacyHtml_root__3ONhH ArticleLegacyHtml_standard__1jFeZ\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">I<span class=\"smallcaps\">f this is a moment<\/span> for power structures to be challenged, and old orthodoxies to be overturned, then understanding the difference between <i>economic <\/i>radicalism and <i>social <\/i>radicalism is vital. This could also be described as the difference between identity and class. That is not to dismiss the former: Many groups face discrimination on both measures. Women might not be hired because \u201cMath isn\u2019t for girls\u201d or because an employer doesn\u2019t want to pay for maternity leave. An employer may not see the worth of a minority applicant, because they don\u2019t speak the way the interviewer expects, or that applicant might be a second-generation immigrant whose parents can\u2019t subsidize them through several years of earning less than a living wage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleLegacyHtml_root__3ONhH ArticleLegacyHtml_standard__1jFeZ\">\n<p>All this I\u2019ve learned from feminism, where the contrast between economic and social radicalism is very apparent. Equal pay is economically radical. Hiring a female or minority CEO for the first time is socially radical. Diversity training is socially radical, at best. Providing social-housing tenants with homes not covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/jun\/19\/only-fraction-of-pound-600m-pot-to-fix-grenfell-style-cladding-spent-so-far\">flammable cladding<\/a> is economically radical. Changing the name of a building <a href=\"http:\/\/view.connect.princeton.edu\/view_email.aspx?qs=6a0564156558d3bb68e764879a9f98ace9652db3d14bcd86ab71cf61f01cd889c27e361ce7fb90bfac0b2b78d027606d1bad8c39615aedffc0af73d051d6f1726af386f06cf0a1d8ff57ad691d66d8e9\">at a university<\/a> is socially radical; improving on its <a href=\"https:\/\/datausa.io\/profile\/university\/princeton-university%23:~:text=Enrollment%2520by%2520Race%2520%2526%2520Ethnicity&amp;text=The%2520enrolled%2520student%2520population%2520at%2520Princeton%2520University%2520is%252039.5%2525%2520White,American%2520Indian%2520or%2520Alaska%2520Native.\">5 percent enrollment<\/a> rate for Black students\u2014perhaps by smashing up the crazy system of legacy admissions\u2014would be economically radical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2020\/07\/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism\/614086\/\">How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a year ago, and excellent. If this is a moment for power structures to be challenged, and old orthodoxies to be overturned, then understanding the difference between economic radicalism and social radicalism is vital. This could also be described as the difference between identity and class. That is not to dismiss the former: Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}