What are DU opinions on Scott Galloway?

[Sympthsical]

16. He's right, and the party should listen

We have a problem, and it takes shape as a cultural one rather than a political one. We have become a party - and this is true of the Left in general - that has fostered an internal culture that appears overtly hostile to young men. Indifference is the best that can be managed on the very best of days. But in general, if any topic involving young males comes up, ideologues cannot manage it without melting down. And then it's just discussions of incels and toxic masculinity (two terms that are completely meaningless at this point and are simply used as shorthand for "man I dislike" ).

If anyone so much as whispers that there's a problem within our educational systems, the economy, and how we're culturally and socially restructuring over the past twenty years, it'll rapidly devolve into the harms felt by other populations.

Which are important harms! That need to be discussed, that need to be ameliorated. But the constant magician's trick of "Look over there at this other issue" whenever the problem with young men comes up isn't serving us. Not culturally, not politically.

And as far as the manosphere goes, yeah. That's what happens when you ignore a population and your loudest voices are constantly approaching them with insults and disdain. Who'd have foreseen that happening?

Everyone. It was everyone. Everyone not blinded by ideology saw it. Hell, I've been beating that horse as long as I've been here. To ignore the manosphere, to not attempt some rapprochement, to not wield some influence and reshape a message that is not shaped by tired identarian ideologies is to have more 2024 elections.

The thing about young men is, they become middle aged men, then old men. And to write them all off now, particularly when we see that this problem leeches into non-white male demographics as well, is to sign a political suicide pact.

And I'm not willing to commit political suicide because anachronistic ideologues are still grinding axes that haven't been honed since the mid-90s.