The Politics of Inconspicuousness

Sally Kohn: My dad is not a normy socialist, he's a lifelong anarchist. He had been schooled in this political tradition where even if you're an anarchist actually, you try not to make yourself look kind of, you know, really strikingly different from other people. So I remember in the 70s, like he had a suit, he was a social worker, my dad, and when he worked, and he only ever wore a suit for two purposes. And so there was a big turn towards, sort of, class dragal anarchism, and that was definitely a turn towards looking normal, basically, a turn away from the countercultural. But it isn't,