The “objects in motion” concept is an interesting one when applied to social justice movements.

Certainly, there was a time when blacks, for instance, suffered unfair treatment. This resulted in a movement to reduce and eventually eliminate such abuse.

But such movements invariably accrue a tremendous amount of momentum, expressed in jobs, money, power, influence, etc., and none of that shit magically goes away once the movement ostensibly achieves its goal of “equality under the law”. So there’s a very clear motivation and impetus to continue the movement by any means necessary, including rapid mission creep into “equity”.

Which is to say: equality movements, left to fester, inevitably evolve into supremacy or Marxist movements. The highly funded and staffed “body” of a social justice movement will remain “in motion”, progressing to insanity, until someone or something acts in opposition to it. There is no reality in which a paid SJW announces “mission complete” and voluntarily gives up her cushy make-work salary to pursue legitimately productive work.

And as a special bonus problem, the people who do endeavor to push against such runaway movements will be, at the start, disproportionately “deplorable”. It’s not like legitimately malicious racists - and I cringe to even use the word - are going to sit on the sidelines while everyday people begin to wake up to the evil of modern day “civil rights”. The bigots are going to participate. And then leftists will use the fallacy of association to demonize anyone who opposes them. “You’re standing shoulder to shoulder with Nazis, so you’re automatically the bad guy.”

The only responses to this line of attack are “that’s not an argument” and “so what”.

The “objects in motion” concept is an interesting one when applied to social justice movements.

Certainly, there was a time when blacks, for instance, suffered unfair treatment. This resulted in a movement to reduce and eventually eliminate such abuse.

But such movements invariably accrue a tremendous amount of momentum, expressed in jobs, money, power, influence, etc., and none of that shit magically goes away once the movement ostensibly achieves its goal of “equality under the law”. So there’s a very clear motivation and impetus to continue the movement by any means necessary, including rapid mission creep into “equity”.

Which is to say: equality movements, left to fester, inevitably evolve into supremacy or Marxist movements. The highly funded and staffed “body” of a social justice movement will remain “in motion”, progressing to insanity, until someone or something acts in opposition to it.

And as a special bonus problem, the people who do endeavor to push against such runaway movements will be disproportionately “deplorable”. It’s not like legitimately malicious racists - and I cringe to even use the word - are going to sit on the sidelines while everyday people begin to wake up to the evil of modern day “civil rights”. And then leftists will use the fallacy of association to demonize anyone who opposes them. “You’re standing shoulder to shoulder with Nazis, so you’re automatically the bad guy.”