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I just thought it was funny that the very embodiment of "cultural elite" talking head (Robert Reich) is the one in the news today warning us about just how fascist today's Republican party has become. I mean, he's not wrong and my "clever wording" might get some who would never read such an article to actually read it.
Maybe the wording is more clever than you thought? 🤫
The kinds of people who think that "the cultural elite" (Jewish people living in blue states, let's be honest about that dog whistle, it never seems to apply to Rush Limbaugh or Trump or Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk or Kanye West even though Robert's main claim to fame is being a Labor Secretary for four years in the nineties) control anything are also the kinds of people who take biased headlines as gospel and don't bother reading anything further.
"Cultural Elite" is not a dog whistle for Jewish people. That's an actual term that academics and historians use to describe people like doctors, lawyers, judges, professors, famous artists, and similar.
"George Soros" is the current right wing dog whistle for, "Jewish people".
Unfortunately there are many dog whistles and they're constantly shifting. Again, Joe Rogan is measurably more culturally powerful than Robert Reich, yet such terms never get applied to him. Instead they're used for C-list media personalities of a certain demographic, implying that they're controlling everything from behind the scenes, which is itself the dog whistle.
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/cosmopolitan-elite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=203831
He's just an everyman, like Trump!
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