The diagonal right may run a warped-mirror dialectic against racial-justice movements.

Evidence

All of this raises the question of what the relationship is between the diagonalists and the other major movements of our time. Are they running on non-intersecting tracks? Do we see, as many diagonalists claim, evidence of rampant double standards, with anti-lockdown protests condemned by liberal elites while racial justice uprisings were celebrated? Or is the dynamic more complex, with one movement engaged in some kind of warped-mirror dialectic with the other? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 830

Categorization

  • QUESTION: This is the chapter’s central analytic question, worth chasing to see whether Klein resolves it in either direction.
  • DEFINE: Frames the ‘warped-mirror dialectic’ hypothesis that structures the diagonalism analysis.