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).
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.
It is also ironic that the "anti-colonialist" crowd are themselves colonizers, or more specifically, gentrifiers.
Must be nice, being so privileged that you can throw away college tuition on a course whose sole purpose is to teach you the cultural shibboleths of the elite.
Remember the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in the 80s? It too was promulgated by psychiatrists and journalists looking to gain some quick status while armed with questionable methods and a complete lack of evidence. Their rallying cry was "Believe The Children". Even when their arguments made no sense or were physically impossible, Believe The Children. Even when they had to be coerced or manipulated into giving the correct answers for the witch hunt, Believe The Children.
This game was never about solving the problem of Satanic child abuse, otherwise they would have quickly lost because they would have realized that Satanic child abuse wasn't real. This game was a virtue game. They weave a story about how their striving is motivated by the solving of some immediate moral dilemma. The people making the allegations were high-status figures who spoke at conferences and wrote for newspapers and authored academic papers and were interviewed by Oprah. Everyone knew child abuse was the most urgent moral crisis facing America, and that all those poor suffering children had, for so long, been ignored. Who could be against Believing The Children? Who could be against fighting abuse?
Need to score some quick social capital? Just Believe The Children.
The same people who rail against fascism and want to abolish the police wish to be the enforcers of a powerful one-party state with the power to crush dissent, because that dissent is immoral.
Nothing legitimizes the unethical treatment of others more than the belief that you are more ethical than them. Every dictatorship on earth began as a campaign for justice.
the trans stuff was about affirming the individual's identity, not trying to factory produce "hot transwomen" by castrating young boys.
Sure it's about affirming your identity. It's just that the identity they are looking for is that of a fuckhole with no agency. Look up the writing of Andrea Long Chu.
The last decade has been everyone except aggrieved white men forming a collective identity. What a surprise, they reacted violently.
Nothing legitimizes the unethical treatment of others more than the belief that you are more ethical than them. Every dictatorship on earth began as a campaign for justice.
If I were you, Trudy, I'd be more worried about your approval rating dipping below 30%, and how everything indicates you getting kicked to the curb in your election next October.
Of course! Assad was an Iranian puppet. Syria has been a failed state for decades. Russia ia exhausted from the war in Ukraine, and Israel has defeated Hamas and Hezbollah, both Iranian puppets. It is not a coincidence that Assad has been ousted; he has no more Russian air support for his regime.
As opposed to the pro-Assad forces, who are bankrolled by Russia or Iran. The whole middle east is one big proxy war between the US, Israel, Iran, Russia, and maybe China and the Saudis too.
Critical Theory, of which Marxism is a subset, cannot build. It can only destroy. It can only define itself as "not the current thing". Critical Theorists believe that by destroying society, a glorious, oppression-free utopia will magically arise from the ashes. Pointing out that this is an absurd pipe dream gets you labeled as problematic.
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.