The new religion of wokeness.
(boghossian.substack.com)
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This falls short in many ways, as other comments here have noted (nothing about sexism/feminism, gays, etc.). And this paragraph betrays the authors' liberal perspective:
No, not really. These "ongoing" problems are perhaps not non-existent, but they are basically irrelevant. For example, objections to trans ideology are rooted in genuine concerns, with "hatred" playing almost no role. And if the occasional person's disgust turns to hatred, that is not "morally abhorrent" but just an unimportant fact of life.
The "taboo facts" are mostly not taboo, and many are even boring ("Deaths from natural disasters have declined 90% since 1900"; who argues about this?). Almost none will get you banned from Twitter. Some supposed taboos basically support the woke agenda by other means: "Trans activism can hurt trans and gender-dysphoric children."
Real taboos would be that black crime and lower achievement is due to genetic differences in behavior and intelligence, as is Asian academic success, or that the "trans children" phenomenon is a fraud and incredibly damaging. Indeed, it is almost taboo to say that Western nations have the right to detain and expel illegal immigrants, much less that they have the right and reason to preserve their original ethnic and racial composition.
So, are they too afraid to endorse an actual taboo fact, or do they endorse the tabooing?
Oh and I've never seen the woke care about the homeless; too white and way too male.
I was essentially neutral on trannies until they made their problems my problem. If I hate them, I hate them for forcing me to deal with them and their bullshit. At the end of the day, I just want to be left alone but the left won’t leave me alone, so I can’t leave them alone.
I just wanted to play videogames, now I'm a soldier in the culture war
Black crime even existing is a taboo. We're not allowed to acknowledge or talk about it and the effects it has on society, let alone the 13/50 statistic, or the culture that it promotes (or which promotes it), which is one laced with naked hostility, violence, promiscuity, and prominent use of the word "nigger." And yet paradoxically, that entire culture, from the rap, the profanity, the gangs, and the crime, is constantly lauded by the entertainment industry. But we're still forced to pretend it doesn't actually happen and that if it does, it's whitey's fault.
Its because the subverted (feminine) culture has pushed the narrative "racism is bad" since "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Those poison seeds sprouted and finally bore fruit in the 60s when our nation allowed black militants to organize and operate openly without mercilessly crushing them.
Once "racism is bad" was accepted then it was only a matter of time before it was twisted into "anything a white person does that a black person doesn't like" is "racist". And that is where we are now, a black ethno-state.
Where black people can do whatever they want without consequence. And if a white person merely defends himself or his community against their opportunism he is demonized in the media and crushed by the apparatus of the state.
The real list wpuld probably send them into a fainting spell
One of the talking points for environmentalism is that more people will die in the increased storms caused by climate change. The decline doesn't disprove climate change or even the idea that more natural disasters are occuring. It could be we're just handling them better these days.