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You have to understand, this is the last dying throes of a liberal fire that has been raging for hundreds of years. Liberalism has achieved great things in the
by uejfiweun 5y ago
You have to understand, this is the last dying throes of a liberal fire that has been raging for hundreds of years. Liberalism has achieved great things in the west, including expanding the rights of women, minorities, and LGBT individuals. We are all better off for its achievements. However, the low hanging fruit is taken, and now the same activists that once fought for noble goals are reduced to taking ever more divisive measures in pursuit of an unattainable ideological purity. The hyper focus on race, the election of Trump, the increasingly bizarre language of the modern liberal intelligentsia - these are all symptoms. Expect these crazy racist programs & ideas to intensify in the next 10 years until the whole movement collapses in on itself like a dying star (it may have already started, look at SF school board elections).
- boredumb 5y agoLiberals need to start speaking out against the 'progressives' that have commandeered their ideology in the public eye or I emphatically agree with your ending to the movement. My worry is what comes next, the people preying on american liberals aren't going to die with them.
- gxs 5y agoThank you for contributing something other than pop-sociology to the comments (omg race is a social construct guys). I hadn’t thought about this this way before - eventually anyone with an inclination to “rage against the machine” will have to really pinpoint that energy and drill down and down until it seems like a parody. Not saying we’re there now, but an interesting thought exercise.
- anon7725 5y agoWhen the idea is backed by corporate HR departments and academic orthodoxies, it’s no longer raging against the machine. It is the machine.
- kbelder 5y agoI've noticed this in young people, in school or fresh out. They've somehow been convinced that they're rebelling against the system by thinking and acting exactly as they've been taught.
- cuteboy19 5y agoNit: it's not liberalism, but rather the general progressive/socialist movements. Some of the things being championed are highly illiberal, for example CRT has anti-liberalism as a central tenet.
- oblio 5y agoIs there some manifesto or doc for it?
- JohnWhigham 5y agoNot really, but learning about the Frankfurt School during the Weimar Republic is a good foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
- SyzygistSix 5y agoYou make it seem like the US no longer has an issue when there's an entire class of people who are not being educated, has high crime, and ending in mass incarceration. I can accept that some people have an issue with current liberal ideas because they think they don't work. If so, what is going to work? Or is the current state inevitable in order to have the high-functioning economy that the US has? Certainly more Harvard grads isn't the solution. But finding a path to even good high school educations and any college has been elusive to say the least.
- someguydave 5y agoPlenty of people-groups have endured horrible abuses and have not turned into a criminal underclass. Therefore, other groups are not responsible for any particular group’s criminality. As to what might work I would consider medicine or genetic augmentation maybe?
- quantum_solanum 5y ago> As to what might work I would consider medicine or genetic augmentation maybe? you're a fucking nazi freak, foh with this Mengele shit
- someguydave 5y agoIf there was an injection that made you less criminal, are you saying it should not be mandated? I fully agree.
- shard 5y agoHigher testosterone has been linked to more violent crimes. Would you propose that high testosterone individuals be mandated to receive shots to reduce testosterone?
- someguydave 5y agoprobably not but there might be a therapy with similar effects and fewer side effects