As I read a certain local feminist's latest diatribe, a thought struck me like lightning.
Social Justice rhetoric is uncannily similar to Lovecraft.
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Social Justice rhetoric is uncannily similar to Lovecraft.
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The screed begins innocently enough.
Standard English. Description of current state of affairs.
Then an introduction to The Horror.
A nebulous, abstract malevolent thing beyond so far beyond human construction mere language is insufficient to explain it.
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Standard English. Description of current state of affairs.
Then an introduction to The Horror.
A nebulous, abstract malevolent thing beyond so far beyond human construction mere language is insufficient to explain it.
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Lovecraft conjures monsters from far beyond known reality, their very presence an abomination in the eyes of a divine Creator.
In SocJus ideology, it is the patriarchy / institutions / networks / white privilege, an invisible, intangible power that tramples all underfoot.
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In SocJus ideology, it is the patriarchy / institutions / networks / white privilege, an invisible, intangible power that tramples all underfoot.
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Mere mortals cannot see it.
Only those insiders with occult knowledge can even begin to grasp it.
Those who do see it quickly realize that ordinary language fails them, but language is the only medium they have to warn the world of such frightful horrors.
Sounds familiar?
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Only those insiders with occult knowledge can even begin to grasp it.
Those who do see it quickly realize that ordinary language fails them, but language is the only medium they have to warn the world of such frightful horrors.
Sounds familiar?
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Quickly the text explodes into loquaciousness.
Lovecraft's narrators pile on adjective bombs and archaic nouns to create prose so purple it defies comprehension.
SocJus activists invent words out of nothing and weave them into a mat of mantras to pass them as arguments.
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Lovecraft's narrators pile on adjective bombs and archaic nouns to create prose so purple it defies comprehension.
SocJus activists invent words out of nothing and weave them into a mat of mantras to pass them as arguments.
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In the final, soul-shattering climax there is nothing but endless loquacious ranting and raving, building up to a tremendous climactic fever pitch, breaking the floor of sanity to descend headlong forever into inescapable madness.
As with Lovecraft, so it is with SocJus.
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As with Lovecraft, so it is with SocJus.
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Lovecraft's narrators are all implied to be people of scant renown and frail constitutions, people who primarily inhabit the realm of the mind and only their bodies as an afterthought. Academicians, authors, men of science.
Who are the ones pushing for Social Justice today?
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Who are the ones pushing for Social Justice today?
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Remember that (almost) all of Lovecraft's narrators go insane by the end.
And that huge numbers of social justice warriors are mentally ill.
Those who are not enable those who are.
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And that huge numbers of social justice warriors are mentally ill.
Those who are not enable those who are.
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Social Justice aims to destroy Lovecraft's legacy.
Writers, artists, creators, those who have swallowed that strange poison seek to saw 'decolonise' the field.
Perhaps their motivations are simpler.
They see themselves in him.
And despise what they see.
/end
Writers, artists, creators, those who have swallowed that strange poison seek to saw 'decolonise' the field.
Perhaps their motivations are simpler.
They see themselves in him.
And despise what they see.
/end
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