03-16-2019, 09:06 AM
Yes radical Islamic killings ARE a big problem in the world.
Yes women are not vilified and neither are people of colour. That is right. Be as upset as you would like to be but it is false equivalence to go there. Here is how it is, there is racism and that is individuals being racist to people of a different race. That exists in US and every other country in the world. Many places are a LOT less tolerant than the US. But it does exist.
However the Progressives have a significant social and cultural hold in US and other Western countries and pander to the Progressive Stack in addressing people collectively. According to the Progressive stack people are collectively categorised and graded b virtue of immutable characteristics. For example If you are White, you are considered "privileged" irrespective of your experience, position, background, heritage. Progressives will consider you less worthy by virtue of your privilege and power in society taking away a voice or benefit from someone else and to make it worse you are the race that conquered America and owned slaves and subdue and wiped out the Native Americans . It does not even matter if your ancestors were dirt poor immigrants who came over after America was colonised and never held slaves, you are still an oppressor because of the colour of your skin.
These kinds of narratives are part of the Progressive ethos and this Leftist agenda and drive is toxic. It is backed by selective reporting in media and it is unhealthy in the extreme. It is not limited to race of course, what genitals you possess, your nationality, your religion, your ethnicity, all of these things can be used to denigrate and polarise factions.
This is identity politics.
Progressives have a lot of sway in society. They are NOT the Liberals they are authoritarian and intolerant. The reason this is unhealthy is that it doesn't "give minorities a voice" it does precisely three things:
1. Like the casting the Bourgeoisie as the enemy by virtue of their class, Progressive stack does the same thing but with every aspect of one's identity
2. As we see with the Covington Kids who had the temerity to be Catholic, White and Male, they were afforded no quarter and railed against, not for what they did wrong (they did nothing wrong) but for who they were. They were high on the stack and so they had to be railed against and smeared.
3. Many people are not privileged or advantaged even if they are white and male and their struggles are just as real and just as onerous as someone who is a different gender or religion or skin colour and they are PRECISELY the kind of people who are likely to be drawn to groups who tell them that they do not need to apologise for breathing and that the people pushing this toxic ideological demonisation of them are the bad guys.
I am old-fashioned. I believe that there is nothing you can tell about someone by the colour of their skin or their genitals. You know nothing about what motivates them or drives them. What they love or hate. What their interests are. what their hopes and loves and dreams are. You learn that by getting to know them. You can't assess what their life is or is not or how moral or intelligent they are.
Progressives do that. So do the White Supremacists. In different directions obviously. Progressives have a big hold on society and white Supremacists don't. But Progressives will cause combative identity politics. It is already happening and what is fringe at the moment will not always be so.
Yes women are not vilified and neither are people of colour. That is right. Be as upset as you would like to be but it is false equivalence to go there. Here is how it is, there is racism and that is individuals being racist to people of a different race. That exists in US and every other country in the world. Many places are a LOT less tolerant than the US. But it does exist.
However the Progressives have a significant social and cultural hold in US and other Western countries and pander to the Progressive Stack in addressing people collectively. According to the Progressive stack people are collectively categorised and graded b virtue of immutable characteristics. For example If you are White, you are considered "privileged" irrespective of your experience, position, background, heritage. Progressives will consider you less worthy by virtue of your privilege and power in society taking away a voice or benefit from someone else and to make it worse you are the race that conquered America and owned slaves and subdue and wiped out the Native Americans . It does not even matter if your ancestors were dirt poor immigrants who came over after America was colonised and never held slaves, you are still an oppressor because of the colour of your skin.
These kinds of narratives are part of the Progressive ethos and this Leftist agenda and drive is toxic. It is backed by selective reporting in media and it is unhealthy in the extreme. It is not limited to race of course, what genitals you possess, your nationality, your religion, your ethnicity, all of these things can be used to denigrate and polarise factions.
This is identity politics.
Progressives have a lot of sway in society. They are NOT the Liberals they are authoritarian and intolerant. The reason this is unhealthy is that it doesn't "give minorities a voice" it does precisely three things:
1. Like the casting the Bourgeoisie as the enemy by virtue of their class, Progressive stack does the same thing but with every aspect of one's identity
2. As we see with the Covington Kids who had the temerity to be Catholic, White and Male, they were afforded no quarter and railed against, not for what they did wrong (they did nothing wrong) but for who they were. They were high on the stack and so they had to be railed against and smeared.
3. Many people are not privileged or advantaged even if they are white and male and their struggles are just as real and just as onerous as someone who is a different gender or religion or skin colour and they are PRECISELY the kind of people who are likely to be drawn to groups who tell them that they do not need to apologise for breathing and that the people pushing this toxic ideological demonisation of them are the bad guys.
I am old-fashioned. I believe that there is nothing you can tell about someone by the colour of their skin or their genitals. You know nothing about what motivates them or drives them. What they love or hate. What their interests are. what their hopes and loves and dreams are. You learn that by getting to know them. You can't assess what their life is or is not or how moral or intelligent they are.
Progressives do that. So do the White Supremacists. In different directions obviously. Progressives have a big hold on society and white Supremacists don't. But Progressives will cause combative identity politics. It is already happening and what is fringe at the moment will not always be so.