This topic has my mind and I want to rift on it for a minute... π§΅
What I wrote in the tweet below strikes dead-center. You see this exact same engine deployed across so many fronts. In fact, it really is the core of progressivism because it's central to all critical theories.
The destructive mechanism (and that's what it is) being as follows...
Group X is disadvantaged in Area Y. Equity and justice demand we assist them/make them less disadvantaged. Ok, so far you can defend this as noble.
But here's where it perverts, every. single. time...
B/c life on Planet Earth will never be "fair" and there will ALWAYS be inequitable outcomes and certain people advantaged/others disadvantaged, this mindset should crash into a brick wall known as reality. And it does, but then leftists disconnect from reality and work around it.
The landing place of this thinking is always the same. The deranged solution becomes disrupting the "norm" for all people in order to make those disadvantaged less uncomfortable and/or to artificially manufacture equitable outcomes.
Nonsense that makes sense only on campus.
What it ends up looking like in application in reality is the intentional degradation of important norms and foundations and pillars which are wholesome and beneficial for society being eroded and destroyed in the quest to make things "fair"/even the playing field for all.
There is no example of this engine more paramount than western culture's current maniacal obsession with modeling and championing gender dysphoria to young children.
Literally disrupting the gender binary for all to coddle the feelings of a few.
This is obviously a sad man with a broken and empty heart. One that's never known true love. His solution? Not to better himself... no no no, it's to bring the rest of society down to his level. π‘
Returning to the OP and this completely insane campaign to erode breastfeeding...
It's the same dynamic. Two dogmas fuel this:
1) Some women can't, so we need to disrupt that state of norm for all to make them feel better
2) Breastfeeding means SAHM which is oppressive
Of course this thinking is sick as shit! Complete derangement. Destructive derangement. π‘
But it's not that far of a bridge from people like Jill Filipovic ranting about SAHM being oppression and detrimental to women, is it? No, it's not at all. These are peas of the same pod.
This is "the culture war", folks. It's moving now from the theoretical to the tangible...
Below is one of those threads I knew would ruffle feathers when I wrote it. But that doesn't make it any less accurate. Understand, these are feathers I seek to ruffle...
What an excellent description of the wicked engine of Repressive Tolerance. βοΈπ
This Saul Alinsky doctrine of how to cultivate domestic radicalism for Marxist revolution (Equity) is what both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama studied in college. Hillary did her thesis on it.π
Those are the new saints for the demographic that turned Our Father into Patrarichy. π§ββοΈβοΈπ¦
What is the state of this political platform right now? I'm not talking about "far-left" and terms that can be ignored; I mean the party of "median Democrats".π
If at first you don't succeed, try and try again! π΅βπ«βοΈ
The camp that spent most of our adult lives selling the notion that "identity politics" was not a thing and only a "Fox News talking point" for racists, no longer understands a political landscape without them. This is chips all-in, Thelma and Louise off the cliff kind of shit! And understand, this isn't Steven Collinson. It's one of their top Political Analysts. π If this is your understanding of our "fault lines", man, are you screwed! ππ§π§ββοΈπ§ββοΈ
It's worth reading the entire piece, but I want to dissect this propaganda messaging and lay its components on the table. Just watch how lost this shit is, by design. π¬π΅βπ«π The singularity within MSM and Progress spheres is stunning.
The script here is to avoid the collapse of the Equity revolution, dodge the cultural issues entirely, and try and reframe both 2024 and the next cycles as solely being driven by economic factors. We're basically back to "That's not happening". π
"Few strategists in either party believe the cooling toward Trump means Democrats have erased their long-term problems with these voter groups, which have generally drifted toward the GOP since the end of Barack Obamaβs presidency. But the rapid erosion of Trumpβs standing with them does suggest that their movement toward him in 2024 was driven less by a durable rightward shift on cultural issues than by immediate discontent with their economic situation. And that means that rather than solidifying as part of the GOP coalition, many of these voters likely will remain up for grabs if Trump canβt improve their finances any more than President Joe Biden did."
And, as always, our legacy news rolls out their team of "experts" to prove to their clapping-seal base that everything they say is still The Science and The Moral (dissent therefore still Hate and The Monster; end of democracy against the Moral Majority π). It was never true.
And who do they roll out as The Latino Whisperer here? This guy, one of the founders of The Lincoln Project... a "defense of democracy" organization. π΅βπ«ππ§ββοΈπ§π§ββοΈ
"He is also a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, a pro-democracy organization dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy."
Some of the shit we've been through is difficult to process. This took place in a school. One that would never invite a stripper. But because it was a male Progress stripper in a dress, it was good for school. π§ββοΈβοΈπ¦
Look how aroused the pervert is in the back. The teacher. π€¬
This is the same engine. The same dismantling cultural attack. Do you see that?
Gamergate was because the industry was too sexualized and needed reform to not be oppressive.
But as soon as the Rainbow Guard seized control, the sexy just took on a new form. Of course! π§ββοΈβοΈπ¦
How many parents would have signed off on their middle-school aged children giving presentations on "demisexual" and other flavors of endlessly deranged sexual cults?
I can't imagine any would have consented if they understood this was going on. So how did this all come to be?
We are watching the Weather Underground (Alinsky) revolution now fail. This has veen underway since before most of us were born. It is the anti-American radicalization movement that birthed both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Not my theory here; they wrote thesis on it. βοΈπ
This was Hillary's masterpiece. βοΈ Read it yourself...
New Hatecraft has dropped. It's from the AP, on Time Magazine, pushed on Yahoo, boosted underneath by local profiles.
This is what our news does. π¬π΅βπ«ππ§ββοΈπ§ββοΈπ§
"Tobinβs job loss sent him scurrying to find whatever work he can, even if itβs at a fast-food restaurant. But some relatives reacting to his firing as βwhat has to happen to make the government great againβ has been one of the worst parts of the entire ordeal.
βIβve been treated as a public enemy by the government and now itβs bleeding into my own family,β says 24-year-old Luke Tobin,
. . .
As she has expressed her disappointment over potentially losing her dream job, some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on social media. Others are giving her the silent treatment. Nearly all favor such cuts even if sheβs a victim of them.
The strife has extended to Jennβs mother, a former federal employee herself. When she has criticized the administrationβs actions, her mother simply says she supports the president.
βShe has somehow been convinced that public servants are a parasite and unproductive even though she was a public servant,β says Jenn.
. . .
Eric Anderson, 48, of Chicago, was still absorbing the shock of being fired from his National Park Service job as a biological science technician when he came across his auntβs social media post celebrating the DOGE cuts. The gist, Anderson said, was, βMan, it sure is great seeing all this waste being knocked off.β
He grows angry thinking about it.
βDo you think Iβm a waste?β he says, his voice rising as he recalls the post. βThere are a lot of people out there that are hurting right now that are not a waste.β
What stings most, Rackliffe says, is the contention that people like him were lazy and worthless, collecting big paychecks for meaningless work.
βItβs really hurtful for the president to insinuate that you donβt exist or that your job consisted of sitting at home doing nothing and cashing the paycheck,β he says. βIβd like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. Heβs the one that goes golfing on the government dime. I donβt even know how to golf.β"
They (the entire American left including all "median Democrats") cannot face this issue. Can't address its merits at all because it obliterates the myth of The Moral vs. The Monsters that every policy front now rides on. This is why the self-blinding and angry mania at conservatives has become so unhinged. It's the only way to not finally accept reality here. It's why the Atlantics and Bulwarks and Alphabets and Singals of the journo world won't talk about anything except some example of how bad Trump and Elon are. We are watching the final crashdown of our own capture.
And it's clear now this was just societal petulance. The Party of Arrested Development. A generation of entitled brats almost all off the norms of our world I'm supposed to somehow priororize over everything we've built and everything I love. π§ββοΈβοΈπ¦
How about you GFY!, instead? This next chapter of the endless Hatecraft propaganda will fail spectacularly. It's going to cause those not naturally abrasive to sprout more balls than they've ever had. π¦πΊπΈ
βMy life is disintegrating because I canβt work in my chosen field. On top of that no support from family β it hits you very hard.β
They just needed a father. I'm serious. That's our Lost Generation. Unmoored, empty inside, chasing state-created idolsβοΈ
Why don't they have support from family? Do you think it's DOGE, or some other factors? I'd put my hard-earned cash on that generational fracturing setting in back when academia turned them into American hating Equity zealots. π§ββοΈβοΈπ¦