Beware of Caitlin Johnstone's DISGUSTING Anti-Working-Class 'Don't Talk about Politics at the Dinner Table' Video.
It's disgusting because it's anti-working-class, not because it's gruesome
Caitlin Johnstone has issued a profoundly DISGUSTING satirical video (see it below). It is not disgusting because it is gruesome but because it FALSELY portrays ordinary people as totally and horrifyingly immoral. This is in sharp contrast to the wonderful (and also very gruesome) famous satire written by Jonathan Swift—A Modest Proposal—that portrays the English upper class as totally immoral in its oppression of the Irish poor.
Caitlin Johnstone has a profoundly wrong view of ordinary people as being immoral and in need of her wagging finger to make them be moral. This is pure elitism. And though Caitlin Johnstone purports to be trying to build a movement against the oppressors of the world, her contempt for ordinary people undermines that effort.
One doesn’t build a movement by insulting the people you want to join it, duh! You build a movement by championing the positive values of people and helping them to learn that they are not alone in having those values so they will gain the confidence to do what it takes to shape all of society by those values (which is what egalitarian revolution means). Read here how YOU can help build the egalitarian revolutionary movement to mobilize the hundreds of millions of good and decent people to make our society be shaped by their good and decent values instead of the opposite horrible values of our ruling genocide-supporting plutocracy.
The reason I am so sharply critical of Caitlin Johnstone’s wrong and elitist view of ordinary people is this. This elitist view poisons any attempt to build a mass movement to remove the rich from power. And this elitist view is unfortunately all too prevalent among the kind of people who become anti-establishment activists. Such activists wonder how come they don’t gain a large following from ordinary non-activist people. Well, contempt for the people one is trying to influence guarantees failure. The CIA knows this, which is why it loves seeing people like Caitlin Johnstone equate being against the rich and powerful with having utter contempt for ordinary people.
We need to identify this poisonous elitism and consciously refute it whenever it rears its ugly head. If you find yourself enjoying elitist memes and assertions (like these [PDF]) then I strongly suggest—as I discuss in some detail here—that you reflect on whom such ideas and memes really serve—it’s not the working class, it’s the ruling plutocracy—and reconsider your attitude towards expressions of this poisonous elitism. Such contempt for ordinary people makes it impossible to build an egalitarian revolutionary movement by doing the kinds of things I discuss here.
The written version of Caitlin Johnstone’s video is also at (7) Don't Talk About Politics At The Dinner Table (caitlinjohnst.one)
OK I watched it and think you have mischaracterized her intent.I think it is NOT at all directed against ordinary working class people, per se, but to showcase the capacity of some, especially the media, to not grasp the depth of depravity of the genocide or even call it that. I recall during the Vietnam era when thee was a cartoon depiction of a supermarket with dead Vietnamese children in the meat section. It, like this, makes the point vividly that we ought to be horrified, not complacent, about the genocide, and this is not a class issue but a generic one.
Strawmanning Johnstone yet again Spritzler? What was it you were saying about not gaining a large following by showing contempt for the people you're trying to influence? Now let's take a look at the relative size of your audiences... hmm.
You know, we can just go and read her posts and form our own opinions about her attitude - and what I'm seeing doesn't match with what you're saying. Mate, honestly, you're just coming off as sounding jealous.