Thursday, June 17, 2021

The next big thing:

Microradicalization.

6 comments:

Otto said...

I think it will be "climate refugees".

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Or microclimate refugees — like when you hang out at the library all day because it’s air-conditioned.

David Earle said...

Microaliens. They're here, and we must do what they say, but you can't see them so you will have to take the expert's word for it.

Bruce Charlton said...

It takes a million microradicals to make one just radical... Not something to worry about, I'd of thunk.

Actually, I assumed microradicalization was a *good* thing from the leftist perspective - considering they always used to think of themselves as radicals.

But apparently it is about the kind of non-left people who (albeit with only 1/ 1,000,000 of their conviction) almost/ slightly tend to think that the birdemic, climate emergency and antiracism are Evil Lies. Don't see many of them round here, do we.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Being radical is fine, it's just being radical-ized that's a problem. And of course everything is worse when it's micro. I should know, I'm living through a devastating micropandemic even as we speak!

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

@islanti

"Aliens" is offensive. It's "undocumented earthlings."

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