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...
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
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."