"Cancel culture" and "political correctness" are right-wing phenomena which today are dressed up in left wing language and symbols, and which serve to reinforce relationships of power and dominance between managers and workers.
There is a huge difference between using respectful language aimed at treating each other as brothers and sisters, which is a left wing impulse born of empathy, and appealing to authority to ruin peoples’ lives, which is a right wing dominance behaviour, and we should not lump them into the same category.
Articles quoted in this video: Corey Robin, Chris Bertram and Alex Gourevitch 2012 - Life at Work https://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/01/let-it-bleed-libertarianism-and-the-workplace/
Amanda Hess 2013 - How Sexy Should A Worker Be? The Plight of the Babe in the American Workplace, Slate
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/borgata-babes-lawsuit-new-legal-cases-assess-discrimination-based-on-sex-weight-and-attractiveness.html
Yvonne Abraham 2015 - Tom Brady has more rights than most American workers, Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/08/31/tom-brady-employee-has-more-rights-than-most-american-workers/SORdrxjAQZEYUhp0m6OVIM/story.html
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