Revisiting the poem by Martin Niemöller as the framework for understanding the descent of America (and elsewhere) into fascism, Cory Doctorow introduces to an unsympathetic and insightful corollary in Wilhoit’s Law (misattributed to Drake university political science professor but actually formulated by an Ohio composer called Frank Wilhoit in a blog post):Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law bind but does not protect.
The succinct post from 2018 speaks to our long present of wage-theft and corporate welfare, freedom of speech maximalism—and the entire gamut of “me but not for thee” double standards that MAGA has enveloped with conservatism.
synchronoptica
one year ago: assorted links worth revisiting (with synchronopticæ) plus correspondence from the complaints department
thirteen years ago: taking a job in Wiesbaden
fourteen years ago: senior citizens taking up street art plus meteorological terrorism
fifteen years ago: a souvenir from a medical scare