I’ve always hated that label. It’s so dishonest. Leftists aggressively and violently react to the “status quo” aka our evolved behaviors and institutions, and yet leftists want to frame their enemies as the ones who are “reacting”. I guess the man who responds to the assault on his home is the “reactionary”.
Not really- they're good at changing the definition of words until they win and conservatives are horrible at denying the change because all they can conserve is the slow decline into clown world.
Fair point. I thought you were referring to their ability to pull new word salads out their ass and pretend like they've said something profoundly academic- like how pedos are now Non-Offending Minor-Attracted Persons (No-MAP). They certainly know how to re-market awful ideas so they sound palatable at surface level.
Sure, they've managed to subvert the dictionary definitions, but all that's really done is make dictionaries inaccurate. Since most people are unaware of the culture war or how deep it goes, racism will remain racism and not "prejudice + power" until there is a significant shift in the zeitgeist.
I still have hope that the only reason they've been able to make it so far is because people just aren't aware. We've been seeing signs of the pendulum swinging the other way- they abused the social power of offence so much that it's losing its effectiveness. We can only hope enough of the population wakes up sooner rather than later.
Well, preaching ranting to the choir, but got to scream into the void somewhere. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve always hated that label. It’s so dishonest. Leftists aggressively and violently react to the “status quo” aka our evolved behaviors and institutions, and yet leftists want to frame their enemies as the ones who are “reacting”. I guess the man who responds to the assault on his home is the “reactionary”.
Not really- they're good at changing the definition of words until they win and conservatives are horrible at denying the change because all they can conserve is the slow decline into clown world.
Fair point. I thought you were referring to their ability to pull new word salads out their ass and pretend like they've said something profoundly academic- like how pedos are now Non-Offending Minor-Attracted Persons (No-MAP). They certainly know how to re-market awful ideas so they sound palatable at surface level.
Sure, they've managed to subvert the dictionary definitions, but all that's really done is make dictionaries inaccurate. Since most people are unaware of the culture war or how deep it goes, racism will remain racism and not "prejudice + power" until there is a significant shift in the zeitgeist.
I still have hope that the only reason they've been able to make it so far is because people just aren't aware. We've been seeing signs of the pendulum swinging the other way- they abused the social power of offence so much that it's losing its effectiveness. We can only hope enough of the population wakes up sooner rather than later.
Well,
preachingranting to the choir, but got to scream into the void somewhere. ¯_(ツ)_/¯