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Everything for what we hated the right wing -- love of censorship, sexual puritanism, total conviction in its righteousness and desire to fight and forbid all other opinions - is now a manifestation of leftism.
The 18th century definition of left wing politics doesn't make sense anymore. The left all over the world are puritans and Stalinists, who crave censorship and work for the profit of international corporations. The rights on the contrary have won the voices of the traditionally left voters (working class and petty bourgeoisie). I myself signed out from the left in mid 2010s, and have been sitting on the fence since then, not knowing what side to pick.
The left are also adopting the role of racist wingnuts, normally associated with the right, but this is a different, new bonafide racism, although the result will be the same as in 1930s, racially segregated toilets:
The Left is Now the Right
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
"“Diversity through segregation” sounds like another idea clipped from poor over-invoked George Orwell, but it surged in recent weeks as the Smithsonian-style conception of “antiracism” caught fire.In the media context, diversity consultants recently invited Intercept employees to a “Safe Space Conversation” that would feature “two breakout groups – one for those who identify as people of color and one for those who identify as white.”
The same strategy is used in DiAngelo’s version of antiracist training. A theater employee forced to go through her program described the shock of being separated into “affinity groups” in this episode of the Blocked and Reported podcast. If you’re wondering what employees who “identify as white” can learn from being put in a room without minority co-workers and urged to “express themselves sincerely and honestly,” you’re not alone.
At Princeton, the situation was even more bizarre. On July 4th, hundreds of faculty members and staff at Princeton University signed a group letter calling for radical changes.
Some demands seem reasonable, like requests to remedy University-wide underrepresentation among faculty members of color. Much of the rest of the letter read like someone drunk-tweeting their way through a Critical Theory seminar. Signatories asked the University to establish differing compensation levels according to race, demanding “course relief,” “summer salary,” “one additional semester of sabbatical,” and “additional human resources” for “faculty of color,” a term left undefined. That this would be grossly illegal didn’t seem to bother the 300-plus signatories of one of America’s most prestigious learning institutions."
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"The National Museum of African American History and Culture created a graphic on “Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture” that declared the following white values: “the scientific method,” “rational, linear thinking,” “the nuclear family,” “children should have their own rooms,” “hard work is the key to success,” “be polite,” “written tradition,” and “self-reliance.” White food is “steak and potatoes; bland is best,” and in white justice, “intent counts.”
The astute observer will notice this graphic could equally have been written by white supremacist Richard Spencer or History of White People parodist Martin Mull. It seems impossible that no one at one of the country’s leading educational institutions noticed this messaging is ludicrously racist, not just to white people but to everyone (what is any person of color supposed to think when he or she reads that self-reliance, politeness, and “linear thinking” are white values?).
The exhibit was inspired by white corporate consultants with Education degrees like Judith Katz and White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, who themselves echo the work of more consultants with Ed degrees like Glenn Singleton of Courageous Conversations. Per the New York Times, Courageous Conversations even teaches that “written communication over other forms” and “mechanical time” (i.e. clock time) are tools by which “whiteness undercuts Black kids.”
The notion that such bugbears as time, data, and the written word are racist has caught fire across the United States in the last few weeks, igniting calls for an end to virtually every form of quantitative evaluation in hiring and admissions, including many that were designed specifically to combat racism. Few tears will be shed for the SAT and ACT exams, even though they were once infamous for causing Harvard to be overpopulated with high-scoring “undesirables” like Jews and Catholics, forcing the school to add letters of reference and personal essays to help restore the WASP balance."
It’s unsurprising that in the mouths of such people, the definitions of “whiteness” sound suspiciously like lazy suburban white stereotypes about Black America, only in reverse. They read like a peer-reviewed version of Bill de Blasio’s infamous joke about “CP Time.”
In WWIII your skin color will be your uniform
https://www.qbn.com/reply/396836…- Woke Congregation ASSEMBLE!Morning_star
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- The left going to shit doesn't mean the right is getting more attractivedrgs
- about a month ago the right right (not to be confused with the left right, who are now worse than the old right?) had this material cancelled from the exhibit12xu
- https://myminiurl.ne…12xu
- Communication : avoid conflict
FLOLi_was - the left is now the right but the right is also the right? as in this forum the SJW proponents and right wingers just control the conversation/kingsteven
- behind closed doors among my proper lefty friends the conversation gets fairly heated on SJWs vs class politics, Trans vs TERFs, BLM etc.kingsteven
- i spend a lot of time cussing the TV as my GF insists on watching Democracy Now... there's a lot more nuance of opinion everywherekingsteven
- get down my local trans safe space (where my band rehearse and they put on deadly BYO shows) and you'll hear some anti SJW shit not even fit for sidenoteskingsteven
- Reminded me of this moment
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"Hypermoralization, which is silent admission of a defeat"drgs - Something is happening in America which does not really fit on any of the two sidesdrgs
- I'm not sure most commentators understand the difference. Censorship is often center left ala Mary gorekingsteven
- The British equivalent would be mary Whitehouse. A center right (con) ... look at how left the gores would be perceived now...kingsteven
- reactionary liberalism triggered by the rise of the right is the new right? or all activism is fucking cringe - and leave it that :Dkingsteven
- interesting that 'protestant work ethic' is in here as judeo christian tradition when the phrase was coined as a capitalist trope. im sure if you drill downkingsteven
- through the 'assumptions' many of them will have their origins in economic egoism. here (where you still occasionally hear a relationship between a catholic andkingsteven
- a protestant referred to as a mixed-marriage) the belief in protestant work ethic is something that should be debunked. over there it's really just a prototypekingsteven
- dollar hunting mankingsteven
- I've heard a completely different explanation to the rise of SWJ: Before 1980 women in US who had a job traditionally left their children at homedrgs
- or let them play with other children on the street (there are practically no kindergardens in America)drgs
- In 1980-81 the media fanned the wildest paranoia about child abusers and kidnappers, leading to an increase in the number of women staying at homedrgs
- + children were not allowed to leave home and walk without adult supervision, up to the age of 12-14 years olddrgs
- A generation of cowardly infantiles has grown up, whose central need is safetydrgs
- Polar opposites of any spectrum being closer together than they'd like to admit... this is like grade 9 social studies, right?ben_
- so much whining about the left, but the right are in power if you haven't noticed. pretty much world wide too.inteliboy
- I'll bet Trump won exactly because he addressed the left from the right angle at some point, which won him low IQ voters in the flyover states.drgs
- Meanwhile the left are constantly and actively looking for stories about how whites abuse blacks, men abuse women, and whites, blacks, men and women abuse LGBTQdrgs
- and all their brain power is dedicated to process these traumasdrgs
- thats interesting drgs but while i'm sure that helicopter parenting creates fucked up adults i'm sure that coddled SJWs are just a particularly noxious flavourkingsteven
- Wearing skin as a uniform, this is some pretty sick stuffyuekit