I would not call Florian's response a knee-jerk reaction, and also find it difficult to sketch out an anti-racist position without addressing vaccine equity, or the adjacency of anti-vaccine rhetoric to narratives of reverse colonialism entailing the subjugation of white people; not to mention their rabid antisemitism. I would not foreclose a left-wing critique of government policy but would agree with Florian that its dangerous to couch far-right sentiment in left wing discourse.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:06 PM Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <[email protected]> wrote: > Your knee-jerk response is an excellent example of elitist and > false-oppositional ‘left’ thinking that has completely fallen for the > government and big-pharma propaganda, and forgets to think critically about > power structures, knowing very well that right-wing and left-wing, while > also entertaining huge differences, are not pure opposites. Baudet would be > proud of you; he can rake in the spoils. > > Cheers, Ingrid. > > > > > > *From:* Florian Cramer <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:00 > *To:* Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > > > > > - Government propaganda and censorship around lockdown and vaccination > > [...] > > - The role of mass and social media in anti- or pro-lockdown or vaccine > propaganda, political polarization and forms of media virality (eg. via > covid-19 memes) > > [...] > > - Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to bodily > autonomy > > [...] > > - Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming and > lateral citizen surveillance > > [...] > > - Teleological and theological narratives of science as salvation (eg. via > vaccinations) > > > > All beautiful examples of a "Querfront" discourse where extreme right > positions are packaged in left-wing rhetoric. Not a single point, however, > on minorities and vulnerable people and communities endangered by > anti-vaccer egoism, and neo-Darwinist politics - for example in the UK, > Sweden and the Netherlands, of "herd immunity" through survival of the > fittest. > > > > You should invite Dutch experts Willem Engel and Thierry Baudet as keynote > speakers. > > > > -F > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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