Cory Doctorow
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2,525 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Leftist extremism is moving some zines around.
Right-wing extremism is attempting the overthrow of the government, murdering brown people in gulags, and the Earth's richest man slaughtering the world's poorest children for the lulz.
Horseshoe theory, the idea that the far right and the far left actually bend around to meet each other, is bullshit.
The reality is that the right and the left have large substantive disagreements that are matters of life and death.
Anyone dismissing these as tribalism doesn't know what left and right mean.
At best, they have mistaken a collection of cultural signifiers like pronouns, MMA, and brands of beer for politics.
Mistaking cultural signifiers and identity markers for politics is centrism's most dangerous pathology.
It's the thing that makes centrism the handmaiden of the right.
If you think identity markers are politics, then you'll be tempted to think the answer to a world run by 150 rich white cis straight guys is to replace half of them with women, people of color, and queers.
The difference between the left and the right isn't the identities of the ruling class.
It's whether we have a ruling class at all.
I collect definitions of right and left.
There's Corey Robbins' definition from The Reactionary Mind that conservatism is the belief that some people were born to rule and others to be ruled over, and that any attempt to elevate the latter group to positions of power through civil rights movements, affirmative action, and so on will result in dire misrule and disaster.
This explains how the right can encompass white nationalists, rule by white people, Hindu nationalists, rule by high-caste Hindus, libertarians, rule by bosses, Zionists, rule by Jews, imperialists, rule by military aggressors, and so on.
It also explains the right's obsession with learning the racial and gender markers of anyone involved in a plane crash or other disaster.
See, the oil tanker was being piloted by a DEI hire when it crashed into that bridge.
Now, another important definition is Wilhoyt's Law.
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 binds but does not protect.
This one hardly needs explanation in this era of it's not a crime if the president does it, where Alex Jones can owe billions to the parents of dozens of murdered children and somehow not have to pay or give up his assets.
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