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...
You'd think a political party now solely branded around "saving democracy" and battling authoritarians on behalf of everything good would have this as a central issue. But that's not the case at all.
The experts say there is none. π
That's it; that is literally the depth of analysis here.
"There is no material level of fraud."
Period; end of story. But says who? The experts! And who is that? The Brennan Center for Justice, of course
"Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution"
Our heroes!
When you see language like this, it should scream at you that you're being manipulated. π§ββοΈ
Fantastic! The Long March is finally being reversed. The heinous chapter of "moral discrimination", the dogmatic anti-American pursuit of Equity βοΈ, is ending right in front of us. Colleges are the Death Star. May we put this madness behind us forever! yahoo.com/news/articles/β¦
Let's talk a bit about UVA... βοΈπͺ¨
We'll engineer this one in reverse and begin with the latest state of affairs. This is the academic culture conservatives now in control of funding have begun Long Marching back out.
I want to show everyone what "Hatecraft" as policy looks like. Check this out...
Out of the blue one day, the MSM announces that "The Science" has proven a prong of the Progress agenda as morally righteous. In this case, climate and gas stoves as bad. Not just bad: unhealthy!
Because it went from The Science to The Health, this means a "Safety Agency" (Executive fiat, of course, because the No Kings!-analysis can never apply when The Science has issued a decree in its favor) is now entitled (you could say obligated) to ban them and end the "fear".π΅βπ«π
The Moral announces what superior people they are. π΅βπ«π
Once again, Atlantic Derek paints his convenient position. One that always shines light where he needs it to and avoids major underlying issues entirely. I couldn't QT this because Rob Henderson blocked me within months of me coming here.
As is often the case unless it's worthless trash (which this is not), I encourage you to read the post in full and do so before hearing my own thoughts. I want you to be the arbitrator. I've never required shell games or smoke and mirrors. derekthompson.org/p/all-the-sad-β¦
Let me set the article's components on the table one at a time and let's look at them.
First, it speaks only to males. Derek Thompson is a male embodiment of feminism, so this is no surprise. He is end-stage Smash The Patriarchy where everything wrong with the world is male.π΅βπ«π