My older brother is the reason that I got into "nerd culture" since I read his sci-fi books as a kid as well as his comic books before I started collecting my own. Also, before he got too old for it we watched G.I. Joe religiously (imagine that cartoon on today). He a wife and three kids now so he is out of the loop for a lot of geek stuff, so when I told him that Amazon was going to have a Lord of the Ring show we both got a good laugh because the first thing he said was "so how long before the articles bashing Tolkien or whining about lack of diversity start"
It is so funny because with all the reboots/sequels I swear it is like clockwork to see articles from supposed life long fans of something that now "realize" all the racism/sexism in the original show/movie. I remember the gushing critic articles for Ghostbusters 2016 and it has only become worse since. I'm currently on the last book of Wheel of Time series and I've already seen articles calling it sexist and complaining about abuse to women. That whole Geeker Gate thing was spot on.
Very well stated.
Except for the part where antifa literally existed in Europe first. And all of the intellectuals responsible for modern leftist doctrine came from Europe. Just because America imported this shit and enabled it with free speech doesn't mean Europe is not to blame.
The racial and gender components of modern leftism are obviously more pronounced in America. Cultural Marxism was a necessary pivot in the States because American workers were anti-communist. In Europe, this pivot was unnecessary because Marxism was already mainstream.
I know you like to blame non-jews however you can. Call them Bolsheviks if you must. But don't pretend that all of this began in the 60s with American college students.
It wasn't even that American workers were anti-communist, but specifically that they didn't respond to class warfare rhetoric. That was because the communists never quite understood America and the fact that it was not a well-established nation-state with a contracting middle class. When communism first showed up on American shores the country was still expanding so there was still room for class mobility. Even into the 1950s the G.I. Bill created a path to the middle class for millions.
Only now that the country has more or less filled up and the frontier is closed do people start responding to the rhetoric of class warfare -- because it actually applies. Of course by now the establishment has switched to using racist rhetoric instead. Doesn't matter, though. The working class knows who their actual oppressors are, and it sure ain't "wypipo".
Yeah, but our Antifa was fighting against the literal Nazis, while your Antifa beats up old men crossing the street.
Europe is definitely to blame. But this recent form it's coming out of your country, however you based in on prior European ideas. Almost all bad ideas come out of Europe, since almost all ideas originate in Europe.
Yet Marxism did not manage to take over any country. In fact, most European countries have a privatized postal service, while you still have a socialist postal service. Same for the railways. That is not Marxism, you know.
I like to blame regressives and SJWs, no matter whether they are Jews or non-Jews, while you want to blame Jews, no matter if they are regressives or not.
I don't believe any ethnic group is inherently good or bad. All of them are a mix of good and bad. The good ones should be praised, and the bad ones condemned. I'm not sure what is so hard about that.
Didn't our Antifa make the Nazis look like a less insane alternative to a lot of people, though? Not unlike a certain american incarnation.
The violence certainly helped the Nazis in that way. But it was not as much Antifa that scared the living hell out of the Germans, but the Bolsheviks themselves.