One of my good friends predicted that wokeness would someday come for Jews. As soon as you start going through group identities and sloppily picking "oppressed" or "oppressor" for each entire group, it is inevitable, he argued. I nodded along, seeing left-wing social justice for the fraud that it is, but I never thought that things would…
One of my good friends predicted that wokeness would someday come for Jews. As soon as you start going through group identities and sloppily picking "oppressed" or "oppressor" for each entire group, it is inevitable, he argued. I nodded along, seeing left-wing social justice for the fraud that it is, but I never thought that things would go so far as siding with murder, rape, kidnapping, and torture. I guess we have found the left-wing equivalent of Trump's, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
Trump's comment referred to the fact that his supporters have learned that everything the media says is a lie to such an extent that if he actually DID something terrible they wouldn't believe it anymore.
The Left, by contrast, would BELIEVE that their figurehead committed an act of barbarity and applaud him for it.
Jordan Peterson has often noted that it there is a bright line for when the Right goes too far (white supremist racism a la the KKK), but there is not such a bright line for the Left. Celebrating Hamas and framing their barbaric acts of terror as “resistance” seem to me to have created a bright line for lunacy on the Left.
I hope you are right. Seems like we are plumbing the depths of the abyss looking for a low bar of decency -- and we (as American society) can't find it.
Virtual carrots OR. I do not even want to consider that possibility. But you may be on to something. Have they have achieved dystopia instead of utopia?
It's funny I keep remembering when Howard stern used to interview the kkk guy--"wake up whiiiite people" can't remember his name and stern had him list in order the most reviled races etc and the guy said Jews at the top then from dark to light. Back then Jews were comfortably nestled within the oppressed side of the scale but now, they're Goliath slaying those poor victimized innocent Palestinians, ruling the world with their money and so forth. People are so fucking stupid. The world is a cult and we're watching and shouting wake the fuck up!
One of my good friends predicted that wokeness would someday come for Jews. As soon as you start going through group identities and sloppily picking "oppressed" or "oppressor" for each entire group, it is inevitable, he argued. I nodded along, seeing left-wing social justice for the fraud that it is, but I never thought that things would go so far as siding with murder, rape, kidnapping, and torture. I guess we have found the left-wing equivalent of Trump's, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
Trump's comment referred to the fact that his supporters have learned that everything the media says is a lie to such an extent that if he actually DID something terrible they wouldn't believe it anymore.
The Left, by contrast, would BELIEVE that their figurehead committed an act of barbarity and applaud him for it.
Jordan Peterson has often noted that it there is a bright line for when the Right goes too far (white supremist racism a la the KKK), but there is not such a bright line for the Left. Celebrating Hamas and framing their barbaric acts of terror as “resistance” seem to me to have created a bright line for lunacy on the Left.
I hope you are right. Seems like we are plumbing the depths of the abyss looking for a low bar of decency -- and we (as American society) can't find it.
I really hope you are wrong because I firmly believe that hitting rock bottom.leaves no place to go but up.
I dunno...what if there IS no bottom? Pardon my pessimism, but it comes naturally to us rabbits.
Virtual carrots OR. I do not even want to consider that possibility. But you may be on to something. Have they have achieved dystopia instead of utopia?
It's funny I keep remembering when Howard stern used to interview the kkk guy--"wake up whiiiite people" can't remember his name and stern had him list in order the most reviled races etc and the guy said Jews at the top then from dark to light. Back then Jews were comfortably nestled within the oppressed side of the scale but now, they're Goliath slaying those poor victimized innocent Palestinians, ruling the world with their money and so forth. People are so fucking stupid. The world is a cult and we're watching and shouting wake the fuck up!