Culture Is Not A "Thing"

Said before and will say again. Adrian Vermeule is a great scholar of administrative law, but that doesn’t bring fame, sycophants or influence outside a narrow part of legal academia. But being a performative online authoritarian can get you that, and he’s playing it to the hilt. pic.twitter.com/LA4HIKKpru

— Mark R. Yzaguirre (@markyzaguirre) April 25, 2021

It isn't a virus or a bacterium. It isn't a building or even a government. It is more than an idea, but far less than a movement.  It is more than a philosophy, but less than a commitment.

The only concrete definition of culture possible is to identify it with people.  So to call for the elimination of a culture, a real culture, not a phony one like "cancel culture" or "rape culture," is to call for the elimination of the people who embody that culture.

I don't care how great a scholar of the law you are, or how performative you are online:  this is a statement no different from calling for the elimination of Jews or blacks or Armenians.  It's a disgusting sentiment that, like racism, corrupts everything it touches.