Sometimes the gatekeeping/authentocracy will be necessary

it's from the Telegraph, and is obviously bullshit. Taking authentocracy, and simply inverting it, doesn't get you any closer to reality

Essential reading for understanding a big chunk of centrist BS: Authentocrats, by Joe Kennedy. Repeater Books, 2018.

#authentocracy #workingclass #culturewars #classanalysis #neoliberalism

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"working class bloke" is screaming authentocracy.

i bet he claims to never have biscuits with his frothy coffees.

meal deal authentocracy

can i add Authentocracy or something similar for "mum balancing the UK's cheque book at the kitchen table" shit

Includes a lengthy digression about 'authentocracy' and why how it came to be considered bad if your policy proposals might benefit tens of millions of people who could be characterised as in any way middle class

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I'm not convinced by the argument that progressives like means-testing because they don't see the middle classes as "real". Joe Kennedy's "authentocracy" describes a manoeuvre by middle-class centrists to justify welfare cuts whose incidence is often racially & regionally biased.

Real authentocracy has never been tried?

joe kennedy took this to pieces in authentocracy seven whole years ago ffs

Being actively pro-pop, and pro the idea that pop deserves analysis, has been up and down in critical discourse since at least the early 80s when postmodernism/ poststructuralism were hip to reference. And it's good!

Poptimism, though, has always felt to me doctrinaire, a mirror to authentocracy,

Not sure what this says about North London and authentocracy exactly, but the singers mum was Tracey from Birds of a Feather

this is the objective of all the weird authentocracy stuff, the emphasis on the 'white working class', the thudding normativity of all their rhetoric

Just as austerity economics relies on the demonisation of immigrants and “identity politics” to mask its own crippling impact, so authentocracy relies on a false zero-sum formula where the “white working class” is in a battle with new arrivals for a share of a fixed pot of cash.

There is (or was) a word for it, naturally: authentocracy. www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j...

A bit like how earthquakes get more powerful the longer they don't happen for, the longer 2010s authentocracy goes on, the more powerful the wave will be

Nope, we must have the Authentocracy Wars

have you read Authentocracy?