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Ash Sarkar
Born
London, England
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Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
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published
2025
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5 editions
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My White Best Friend
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2020
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3 editions
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Minority Rule Adventures in the Culture War By Ash Sarkar & Wake Up By Piers Morgan 2 Books Collection Set
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“Attention, as well as being a commodity that can be monetised through digital platforms, is a psychological wage. We know this from when we are children: think of the heaven of basking in the glow of an attentive parent or
teacher. To be recognised is to be told that you matter, that your life has worth and that you have a place in the world. There’s nothing unhealthy about that. But our media and politics leverage the psychological wages of attention in a way that is utterly corrosive and warping.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
teacher. To be recognised is to be told that you matter, that your life has worth and that you have a place in the world. There’s nothing unhealthy about that. But our media and politics leverage the psychological wages of attention in a way that is utterly corrosive and warping.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
“One in eight trans people report having been attacked while at work, and half of all trans and non-binary people report having to hide their identity from employers because they’re afraid of being discriminated against. Transgender people are at the sharp edge of material dispossession, while at the same time being used by the press and politicians as a means of distracting people away from economic issues. It’s a classic minority rule strategy of division.
It’s not my intention to close down good-faith conversations. It’s important to talk openly about where we, as a society, establish the threshold for being legally and socially recognised as your chosen gender. But that discussion has been hijacked by a highly motivated ideological network to clamp down on the rights of transgender people. They don’t want to consider the idea that trans people, and transgender women in particular, are just as deserving of respect as they are.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
It’s not my intention to close down good-faith conversations. It’s important to talk openly about where we, as a society, establish the threshold for being legally and socially recognised as your chosen gender. But that discussion has been hijacked by a highly motivated ideological network to clamp down on the rights of transgender people. They don’t want to consider the idea that trans people, and transgender women in particular, are just as deserving of respect as they are.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
“As W. E. B. Du Bois pointed out, to only see yourself as a figure of ‘crime or ridicule’ is a form of oppression. While wealth inequalities grow ever wider, there has been – at least – some redistribution in the psychological wage of attention.
But this can be manipulated. Though identity minorities are objects of fear and derision, presented as an enemy within for wanting to impose Minority Rule, they’re also given a degree of social prestige by being acknowledged as minorities. Recognised identity minorities like people of colour, some of those with disabilities or LGBTQ people get the consolation of attention. While this attention doesn’t necessarily convert into justice or systemic change, it does at least establish a sense of public importance. That’s not nothing in our information-saturated, discourse-obsessed attention economy.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
But this can be manipulated. Though identity minorities are objects of fear and derision, presented as an enemy within for wanting to impose Minority Rule, they’re also given a degree of social prestige by being acknowledged as minorities. Recognised identity minorities like people of colour, some of those with disabilities or LGBTQ people get the consolation of attention. While this attention doesn’t necessarily convert into justice or systemic change, it does at least establish a sense of public importance. That’s not nothing in our information-saturated, discourse-obsessed attention economy.”
― Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
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