Pundit dismissal of student protestors as future politicians trivializes present action

Evidence

Compare also with David Aaronvitch on Newsnight: the avuncular grey vampire body posture, that performance of simultaneous weariness and infinite ease in the world, the jaded fatalism passed off as mature wisdom. Yes, of course, I would have gone on the marches when I was a student, but of course I know better now… It’s little different to an argument made by Richard Littlejohn: the protestors will be the next generation of politicians… As if that’s what they want, as if, even if that ended up being true, it would diminish what’s happening now… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1525

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘avuncular grey vampire body posture’ phrase is a deliciously barbed image of pundit condescension.
• XREF: connects to: Media dismissal of protesters as self-interested reflects media’s own assumptions, not protesters’ motives — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1516; Challenging consensus triggers dismissal of the arguer rather than the argument — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2389; Critics of institutional complicity are dismissed as bullies and dissidents rather than engaged — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2379

Broader Connections

• Media dismissal of protesters as self-interested reflects media’s own assumptions, not protesters’ motives #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1516
• Challenging consensus triggers dismissal of the arguer rather than the argument #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2389
• Critics of institutional complicity are dismissed as bullies and dissidents rather than engaged #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2379