Chapter 2: Becoming Deplorable. Excerpt from Springtime for Snowflakes
Chapter 2: Becoming Deplorable, excerpted from Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage.
Criticism of political correctness was supposed to be the exclusive province of the rightwing. For most observers, it was almost inconceivable that an anti-P.C. critic could come from another political quarter. Unsurprisingly, then, the majority of people who discovered my case, including some reporters, simply assumed that I was a conservative. As one Twitter troll put it: ‘You’re anti-P.C.? You must be a rightwing nut-job.’ But as I explained in numerous interviews and essays, I was not a Trump supporter; I was never a right-winger, or an alt-right-winger; I was never a conservative of any variety. Hell, I wasn’t even a classical John Stuart Mill liberal.
In fact, for several years, I had identified as a left communist. My politics were to the left (and considerably critical of the authoritarianism) of Bolshevism!” Read full chapter here.