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the notion of a "liberal biais" is a necessary correlate of and justification for the imposition of its reverse.
this is a basic ideological statement in the upside-down world of conservative-land.
the move is itself kinda interesting: you acknowledge the operation (the imposition of a conservative biais in the packaging of infotainment) but posit it as reactive with the effect that there is nothing interesting or new about the operation: rather it is a corrective, which enables a "conservative perspective" which is fundamental to a "conservative identity" to assert or make or fashion itself.
so the conservative media apparatus builds into its foundations a sense of being-persecuted by a hostile reality, and de facto posits itself as a corrective, enabling those who choose to enter this hall of mirrors to escape this hostile changing reality but moving into an alternate one.
all this is explicit, but somehow erased in the act of entering the hall of mirrors, moving through it, making it over into your own image and your own image into its image and so it goes.
conservative identity politics preserves continuities within information streams by collapsing to the greatest possible extent the contents of these streams back onto the a priori which shape it.
in conservativeland, this is understood, in a glib appropriation of po-mo critical theory, as the way in which everything is anyway. nothing is "real" so you choose your construct. in conservative-land, this construct is suitably metaphysical--markets and "amurican values" and Persecuting Others--so this change business can always be reduced to passing blips.
it's like being some god an having access to the structuring grid of the universe---except that you aren't some god and so don't believe either the viewpoint or its content as such---you just find them reassuring (the fiction of Revelation and the status amongst the Chosen)----so you act like you believe and eventually you forget that you don't.
so we aren't dealing here with a falsifiable proposition for the right--we are dealing here with an axiom. there is a "liberal biais" *because* there is a conservative one, and the "liberal" one is everything that is not part of the conservative one---so the latter creates the former, which at the same time it requires to legitimate itself.
this is all a funhouse mirror image of the post above from the other rb.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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