Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: lol: Dry January is racist, now. ...
lol: Dry January is racist, now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/dry-january-social-media-sober.html
If Dry January were just temporary teetotalism or total abstinence, it would be innocuous. But consumer-driven health campaigns that get this kind of traction do not happen in a vacuum. A broader modern temperance movement promoting “clean” living traffics in moral superiority and old racist ideas. That history is unavoidable, but today’s version of “the lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine” also reflects our self-defeating politics of individuality: Cutesy individual solutions cannot solve big social problems, like alcoholism or cancer.
https://archive.ph/FZrq1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/dry-january-social-media-sober.html
If Dry January were just temporary teetotalism or total abstinence, it would be innocuous. But consumer-driven health campaigns that get this kind of traction do not happen in a vacuum. A broader modern temperance movement promoting “clean” living traffics in moral superiority and old racist ideas. That history is unavoidable, but today’s version of “the lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine” also reflects our self-defeating politics of individuality: Cutesy individual solutions cannot solve big social problems, like alcoholism or cancer.
https://archive.ph/FZrq1