Visual Identity Politics and Remix Society

Blackbook

“better inside pissing out than outside pissing in” (Récuperation)

In an article in De Volkskrant regarding the “mondkapjes affaire” (face mask affair) concerning Sywert van Lienden and the role of Hugo de Jonge, then Minister of Health:

“It’s better to have that Sywert inside pissing out than outside pissing in”

According to the newspaper this referencing American politician Lyndon B. Johnson, who preferred to make critics part of his own camp in order to silence them.

I would say a classic strategy of recuperation.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2022/hoe-hugo-de-jonge-zich-actief-bemoeide-met-de-mondkapjesdeal-van-sywert-van-lienden~v497075/