The cornerstone belief of Critical Theory is that all unequal outcomes are cause by oppression. So if you see any inequality, anywhere, that means that there is oppression present, and the remedy is to destroy the system of oppression and enforce equality.
IPO = It's Probably Overpriced.
The cornerstone of progressivism is that unequal outcomes are downstream of oppression. When a black student fails, a math test, it's not because he is stupid or didn't study, it's because the test is racist, the teacher is racist, the school is racist, and the entire institution of mathematics is racist. For this reason, progressives take a "blank slate" view of humanity; anyone can achieve anything given sufficient support. Put a hoodrat in Harvard, and he'll become a doctor or a lawyer; the only reason that he has not yet done so is because oppression.
Progressives believe that it is possible to socially and politically engineer away the ills of society: crime, poverty, pollution, etc. But if people are not blank slates, if human nature is a constraint, then that puts limits on how effective those engineering programs can be. Worse, it also suggests that the institutions and the unequal status quo that progressives decry as oppressive and illegitimate have good reasons to exist the way they do, given the constraints of human nature. Both of these problems place limits on the progressive ideal of universal equality and add legitimacy to the present, unequal society.
Communists hate markets, film at 11.
It's a luxury belief. Elites love open borders, because lawless immigration doesn’t affect them.
This is performative pity playing to absolve herself of responsibility for her current situation. If her infections and diabetes could be treated/prevented/cured through proper diet, then all of these bad things happening to her are her own fault. Her feelings are therefore the doctor's responsibility.
Don't tell me that those dastardly unpleaseable fanboys who ruined Game of Thrones' big day in the spotlight have struck again. How dare those horrible racist nerds make such spoiled, entitled demands for reasonably-priced franchise installments targeted at the people who made their franchise popular in the first place! It's just BULLYING really, isn't it? If only these dissatisfied consumers with very little actual power and influence would stop BULLYING the poor innocent massively wealthy corporations and leave them in peace to hack out inferior garbage, designed to siphon money from idiots and exploit what positive emotions remain un-strangled out of existence. Yeah, push that narrative, Disney! It worked for the Ghostbusters reboot!
For all that Antifags say they hate the police, they always want to be the police.
Everyone involved in online social justice--on any side, no matter what they call themselves--is a dishonest morally bankrupt grifter who only cares about their cause to the extent that they can farm clout by selling outrage. “The personal is political” may be true, but also pretty convenient if what you really want to do is talk about yourself and judge other people’s behavior. Robin DiAngelo is a grifter. Taylor Lorenz is a grifter. Alyssa Mercante is a grifter Everyone who works for Vice, Vox, Kotaku, and every other clickbait site is a grifter. Every terminally online wokescold trying to prove that they are more queer for Palestine than their peers is a grifter.
This is all kayfabe. People don't watch the news or go on social media to become informed, they tune in for the emotional high of feeling righteously aggrieved and the illusion of having meaning in their miserable and empty lives. Pretend to care about our cause and we'll manage your emotions for you. You can be a part of the Resistance and defeat Trump and Trumpism by subscribing to my Patreon.
Everyone knows that it is bullshit, but you can never say so out loud or you'll get cancelled. So everyone keeps pretending that the things that don’t make sense make sense, they keep pretending that clicks are the equivalent of politics, and they keep pretending that they believe things they don’t to avoid the social consequences of telling the truth.
AOC isn't a congresswoman. She's a social media influencer who happens to have a seat in Congress. Her politics are whatever score her the most social capital on Twitter right now. If that results in inconsistent or hypocritical politics, that's a feature, not a bug.
That guy is a narcissist, guarantee it. He can't stand not being the center of attention.
Cluster B personality disorders like narcissism. are heavily enriched in troons.
Typical Critical Social Justice playbook: declare something is problematic/racist/transphobic/bigoted/oppressive/sinful/etc. until you destroy it, control it, or dominate it. The merit of your accusation is irrelevant, the point is to give yourself moral license for aggression.
Can we admit it's a little funny that the group which spent the last decade cheering for the deaths of Jews and the destruction of Israel is now clutching their pearls about Nazis?
This is where progressive power comes from: the belief that they hold a monopoly on moral authority and legitimacy. They just keep shouting racism and bigotry until everyone else is cowed into submission.
Manichean ideologies—whether Marxism, radical Islam, or wokeism—all work out badly because they provide wicked people with a moral license and an avenue to obtain power. Since you are fighting for utopia against enemies who are trying to maintain the illegitimate status quo, the ends justify violent, repressive means.
Progressives believe that they hold a permanent monopoly on morality. Anyone who rejects them--say, by voting for the wrong person—is therefore knowingly and willingly rejecting the obvious truth and morality of progressivism. Therefore, such people are deliberately choosing lies and wickedness because they are psychotically evil garbage people, and it is morally necessary and urgent to remove them.
Look under the surface of any utopia and you’ll find tyranny and ethnic cleansing.
"Hey, you know that guy we hate who has lots of power and loves attention? Let's make a display of impotent tardrage that gives him even more attention while alienating our would-be allies!"
John's a narcissist. He's a woman to the extent that he can gain social advantage from it. Everyone always knew he was a man, he's only recently admitted it because he realized he could get more attention by changing sides in the culture war.
Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan.
No, but it is what gets you the most reward for the least effort.
The Middle East is where Western liberal idealism goes to fucking die.
Prison labor has been around for a while. It come from a loophole in the 13th Amendment:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The Clintons used to do this back when Bull was governor of Arkansas.
"Criminalized persons" is another way to paint someone as a victim/not at fault for being in prison. They were "criminalized" by the system, not because of anything they did. It's not his fault he's in prison, it's because the evil system that criminalizes people did it to him! He's a blameless victim, and therefore morally in the right. All of woke newspeak is like this, emphasizing the dynamic of oppressed victims and evil oppressors to absolve the oppressed of blame or responsibility for their predicament.
What do you mean going $250k into debt and spending four years for a degree in gender studies was a bad investment? This is genocide!
"Why do people think we're dishonest?" cried the institution with a long and documented history of dishonesty.
Sacrificing children in exchange for power temporal never goes out of style. If its someone else's children you can throw on the pyre, so much the better.
Which means he will be humiliated and sidelined on his own show in favor of someone more Diverse(TM).
When you abandon responsibility, you abandon agency.
One of the rules of SocJus is that those who identify as Oppressed and Marginalized have no responsibility to fix the world's problems. When you have power, you have responsibility, therefore if things are bad, it’s your fault. When you lack responsibility, you search for change through others. You shouldn’t have to live like this; other people need to recognize your pain and change accordingly.
Since the Oppressed and Marginalized have neither responsibility nor agency, this means that all responsibility lies within the hands of the privileged. Privileged people could solve the world's ills—income inequality, climate change, structural racism, etc.—but they don't. Therefore, they are doing evil by benefitting from such ills, or at the very least they are willfully ignorant. To deny this is to absolve them of blame for how bad the world is and place blame on the victims, and we certainly can't have that.
Anything that suggests personal agency and accountability are good things is unacceptable to the victimhood culture of the left, and must be destroyed. Anything that suggests that society's norms and institutions have a good reason to exist they way they do instead of The Man just arbitrarily keeping you down goes against critical theory, and must be destroyed.