Conceding your principles to authoritarians will only ever lead to more and more concessions. This move alone made her story go national; it spread her message way more than complying would have.
You're wrong.
Made her story go national? Pushing it to people who already agree won't do shit.
If I had kids, I'd be able to do way more to oppose this shit than she could, because I wouldn't take random fucking fights, and I'd have my sources ready.
I'd ask them very calmly. "Why are you pushing a white woman's theory to explain black people's lives? Do you believe white women can speak for black men, that they don't need a voice of their own?"
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Why didn't she just put the mask on? Surely her actual cause was more important than acting the martyr.
No, it wasn't.
Conceding your principles to authoritarians will only ever lead to more and more concessions. This move alone made her story go national; it spread her message way more than complying would have.
You're wrong.
What principle? Was she not there to oppose CRT?
Made her story go national? Pushing it to people who already agree won't do shit.
If I had kids, I'd be able to do way more to oppose this shit than she could, because I wouldn't take random fucking fights, and I'd have my sources ready.
I'd ask them very calmly. "Why are you pushing a white woman's theory to explain black people's lives? Do you believe white women can speak for black men, that they don't need a voice of their own?"
-Theodore Dalrymple
Brilliant man. You cannot concede an inch on your principles, or you will just embolden them.
The mask “request” was an attempt to dominate her. If she’s going to concede to that demand, why would she not also concede to CRT?