Thread by @Doc_0

The Left is in an interesting place with Muslims right now. They really didn't expect Muslims to stand so firmly against the groomers. After their experiences with Christians and Jews over the past 50 years, the Left didn't think anyone was willing to fight for their beliefs.

One reason Roe v. Wade was such a landmark in the radicalization of our elite culture was that it showed left-wingers they could browbeat religious people out of their beliefs. Even the most radical pro-abortion leaders were not excommunicated. Religious leaders compromised.

That was a powerful lesson for the lefty radicals. Notice that THEY don't hesitate to use their own version of excommunication against anyone who blasphemes against THEIR weird religion. That's basically what "cancel culture" is.

The Left is totalitarian to the core, and it thinks fanatical, total commitment is a measure of sincerity. If a rival ideology is not willing to use all forms of social, economic, and political pressure to advance its beliefs, it's not as serious as the Left is.

For five decades the Left pushed, and everything else - religion, social conservatism, and eventually plain common sense and science itself - gave ground and fell back. Now we have biologists pretending the number of human sexes is a complicated question.

Every step of the way, the Left concluded that defenders of culture, tradition, and science weren't really serious. They weren't as committed to holding ground as the Left was to taking it. People who wanted peace kept making compromises, thinking each would be the last.

But now the Left is having a bit of trouble with Muslims, a group they believed was tucked securely into their hip pockets as part of the Coalition of the Oppressed. They're dumbfounded to see Muslims turning up at school board meetings to oppose sexual indoctrination.

It's not easy for Lefty to turn his big guns against the Muslims and bully or otherize them. More likely a deal will be struck with renewed support from the international Left for blasphemy laws. The UN just took a step in that direction with a "religious hatred" resolution.

Blasphemy laws are an easy bargain for the Left to make because it doesn't believe in classical liberal values like free speech anyway. Lefty only shrieks about free speech when people try to keep twisted left-wing indoctrination materials out of schools.

The Left is really pretty cool with the notion of blasphemy laws, because it has its own LONG list of speech it wants to ban as "blasphemy" against its weird political religion. Adding Quran-burning and insults against Mohammed to the list is easy enough.

This blasphemy stuff is a political bargain, a power calculation, not a statement of principle, so there might be a few gassy speeches about standing against all "religious hatred," but don't for an instant think that means the Left will suddenly start respecting Christians.

As far as the Left is concerned, Christians lost all their power and leverage long ago, especially white Christians, and they see most of organized Judaism as a progressive political ally. You don't see Jewish leaders turning against blatantly anti-Semitic Democrat pols, do you?

The free world is losing the battle for free speech, because its political elites are increasingly hostile to dissent. We'll most likely see a formal surrender to political Islam's view that free speech ends where Islamic sensibilities begin.

That will be a small price for the Left to pay for quelling grassroots Muslim opposition to LGBTQ and trans indoctrination, probably accompanied by quiet concessions to school districts with heavy Muslim populations to keep the worst of that junk away from their kids for a while.

As for the rest of the so-called "religious right," the Left thinks you were defeated and subjugated a generation ago, so your kids are getting indoctrinated whether you like it or not, and if you object, the full power of the State and corporations will be turned against you.

In other words: you didn't excommunicate them a half-century ago when you claimed they violated your sacred beliefs with a judicial fiat, so they now have the power to excommunicate you for blaspheming their bizarre religion, and they WILL use it. /end