[Article] Carl Benjamin: Five False Assumptions of Liberalism
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The details of the article may be old hat to a lot of people here but it's an interesting read. For further expounding on the points of the article Carl Benjamin recently had a discussion with Auron MacIntyre.
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lol classic Sargon
In the interview he said there needs to be a synthesis with traditional values.
Identifying problems is a lot simpler than picking the correct solution. "Fixing" liberalism is the work of a lifetime, not an afternoon.
Wrong. There's a number of obvious solutions that are easy to understand if you aren't a coward.
"Equality"? Were we magically transported back to 1990?
The new credo is Equity, equality of outcome.
If that retarded dye haired lib arts SJW working a shitty Starbucks job is not making the same 200k a year a Neuro Surgeon or a Chemical Engineer makes, then it is "systemic patriarchal oppression".
when I was in high school in the 90s, the dichotomy of [Republican = equality of opportunity / Democrat = equality of outcome] was already firmly established, and probably dates back to the rise of marxist-influenced Leftism from the 1920s/30s.
So it's not a new credo, it's just that the "equity" label has been getting pushed hard by Democrats in recent years. Same old shit, though.
Thanks for your explanation, I'm in my mid 30s and honestly I did not notice "equity" replacing "equality" till the mid 2000s.
It is now everywhere and "equality" is an anachronism. SJWs have made it clear it is not about equal access but equal outcomes regardless of capability or effort.
I don't know when the words switched, but you can already see the pivot to equity in affirmative action which has been around since at least the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s.
I came across this on the site a while back, it is very interesting in a navel gazing kind of way
Whoever wrote this - apparently some youtuber named Sargon - is a pretentious idiot who is trying very hard to come across as smarter and more knowledgeable than he is. He comes across like a college student even though he's in his 40s.
Everything in the article is just pretentious fart sniffing with no application to real life. It looks like something a college kid wrote after smoking too much weed.
I think he is trying really hard to come across like an intellectual like Jordan Peterson, but he's failing and comes across as pathetic.
Carl Benjamin is much further right than the eternally wet Jordan Peterson, although that isn't a high bar.
I get the feeling that "Sargon" is just like the right wing version of Vaush. They both try to act like internet badasses.
Anyway according to his wiki, he's just anti-feminism, which describes the large majority of the Right, Peterson included.
"much further right" lo fucking l
>the right
>Jordan Peterson
Pick one
He's a Britbong, so even Bernie Sanders is to the right of where he started.
He's not at, say Academic Agent's level but from what I am seeing from people on the New Right (or NRx or w/e you call it) they're rubbing their hands with glee that Carl's "finally coming around."