"The relatively harmless tweeting of today certainly leaves fewer human casualties behind. But it is still based on a common impulse–the expression of total contempt for one's own society expressed through progressive language. In this internal psychodrama the oppressed appear as purely symbolic, rather than as real people for whom one is trying to generate real material gains. It is difficult to think of any positive political movement past or present that has changed the lives of human beings for the better based on misanthropy and radical performances of self-hatred."
In a 2017 Current Affairs article, Angela Nagle criticizes "Self-Flagellating Politics."
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