Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by keane on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:05PM
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WikiLeaks writes: "Most of our critics have 3 (((brackets))) around their names... Tribalist symbol for establishment climbers?"
Tribalist here in the sense of those who are complicit with In-Group/Out-Group dynamics [1]. Knowing that Assange is some sort of anarchist helps [2]. Such language is common within a certain political perspective that includes anarchism; these 'horizontalist' 'global citizens' envision a utopia and as they work towards it, in addition to opposing establishment climbers especially, they often look down on and view 'identity politics' or 'lifestyle politics' (and the use of ideological labels and in-group signaling all together) as base and beneath them [3]. And yes, they often practice the same things they critique and theoretically oppose.
Tribalist here in the sense of those who are complicit with In-Group/Out-Group dynamics [1]. Knowing that Assange is some sort of anarchist helps [2]. Such language is common within a certain political perspective that includes anarchism; these 'horizontalist' 'global citizens' envision a utopia and as they work towards it, in addition to opposing establishment climbers especially, they often look down on and view 'identity politics' or 'lifestyle politics' (and the use of ideological labels and in-group signaling all together) as base and beneath them [3]. And yes, they often practice the same things they critique and theoretically oppose.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20060712184552/http://iq.org/inde... [3] http://new-compass.net/articles/beyond-ideology