i call this poison pilling, very fancy. They also take a word that has positive connotations and then they slip in a poison idea to trick you into swallowing it. That way, the popular ideas get delegitimized and destroyed by being associated with the negative idea. A historical example of both poison pilling and sugar pilling can be found in the use and abuse of the word socialism by capital regimes and communist regimes in the twentieth century. In the capitalist countries, they poisoned, pilled, the word socialism by associating it with the idea of dictatorship... which are things most people hate.
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The terms “cancel culture” and “political correctness” are used to delegitimize ideas like gender equality and racial equality by conflating them with toxic dominance behaviour practiced by up-and-coming elites who disguise their power plays in egalitarian social justice language.
In this segment, by seeking to properly define these terms, we look at:
The Class Filter: how ideas that are a threat to power historically get mutated into tools of power once they pass through elite institutions, in this case Ivy League universities, and corporate HR departments.
The Interloper Left: how elites and aspiring elites (who by definition are right-wing actors) will disguise dominance behaviour in egalitarian language in order to gain legitimacy and prestige in democratic societies.
Poison/Sugar Pilling: how elites will de-legitimize popular ideas which are a threat to power by conflating them with unpopular ideas, and how they will convince people to accept things they don’t like by associating them with popular terms.
How egalitarian language and ill conceived “anti-racism” trainings like “White Fragility” are being used in the corporate world to divide workers and prevent them from banding together in defence of their rights.
How to spot some of the red flags that distinguish movements rooted in equality and solidarity from toxic “cancel culture” and “political correctness” power plays.
