Every genocide has begun with an accusation of 'privilege.'
Leftism is the primitive and infantile division of the world into oppressors and victims, but the left does not wish to improve the lot of the victims they pretend to champion, but feed off the political energy of their increased immiseration.
Thank you. The division of the world into oppressors and victims is part of what has come to be called Cultural Marxism. The Cultural Marxists couldn't sell Marxism to the populace, so they took the template of bourgeoisie and proletarian and imposed it on the population: White people, especially White men, and now Jews are labeled bourgeoisie, and everyone else is a proletarian. In the United States, this began when the Frankfurt School landed here in the 1930s.
There is another form of anti-White racism that takes the form of throwing all non-Whites into the basket of "persons of color", which is a fraud as well as racist, as non-Whites are hardly a monolithic entity. As luck would have it, my Japanese-American union rep once started to give me the "person of color" speech in her office, then immediately lowered her head and described the painful memory of other "persons of color" - Blacks, to be exact - beating her up on the bus ride home from school.
A very thoughtful and useful discussion. I used to hear a lot about "critical thinking" as a teaching strategy. What happened to that? Dividing the world into oppressed and oppressor is the opposite of both criticism and thinking. I am dismayed at the simple-mindedness of the woke. It is striking that these professors and their students are satisfied with crude divisions of the population. Paul notes that they are not very interested in history. It seems to me that they have never studied history. Without going on too long, I want to point to the cell phone and social media and their contribution to this massive ignorance. Seemingly these are devices and programs that facilitate connections. It turns out, however, that they are used only to make connections to what the user is already part of, "curated," I believe the word is, to make sure that conflicting views and complications (i.e., history) are excluded. Those Harvard and Penn students who want to "globalize intifada" seem not to realize that they could be harmed, or worse, in a bombed building or plane or rally. Indifferent to history, grossly ignorant of it as well, they are also strangely unaware that they seem to be calling for their own destruction. University enrollments are declining. Not a bad thing.
Every genocide has begun with an accusation of 'privilege.'
Leftism is the primitive and infantile division of the world into oppressors and victims, but the left does not wish to improve the lot of the victims they pretend to champion, but feed off the political energy of their increased immiseration.
Indeed. Very good point about the privilege.
Thank you. The division of the world into oppressors and victims is part of what has come to be called Cultural Marxism. The Cultural Marxists couldn't sell Marxism to the populace, so they took the template of bourgeoisie and proletarian and imposed it on the population: White people, especially White men, and now Jews are labeled bourgeoisie, and everyone else is a proletarian. In the United States, this began when the Frankfurt School landed here in the 1930s.
Indeed. And Christians, Whites, and just about anyone who has ever accomplished anything. lol
There is another form of anti-White racism that takes the form of throwing all non-Whites into the basket of "persons of color", which is a fraud as well as racist, as non-Whites are hardly a monolithic entity. As luck would have it, my Japanese-American union rep once started to give me the "person of color" speech in her office, then immediately lowered her head and described the painful memory of other "persons of color" - Blacks, to be exact - beating her up on the bus ride home from school.
Yes, I think Asians are considered "White Adjacent" and are therefore on the woke shitlist.
A very thoughtful and useful discussion. I used to hear a lot about "critical thinking" as a teaching strategy. What happened to that? Dividing the world into oppressed and oppressor is the opposite of both criticism and thinking. I am dismayed at the simple-mindedness of the woke. It is striking that these professors and their students are satisfied with crude divisions of the population. Paul notes that they are not very interested in history. It seems to me that they have never studied history. Without going on too long, I want to point to the cell phone and social media and their contribution to this massive ignorance. Seemingly these are devices and programs that facilitate connections. It turns out, however, that they are used only to make connections to what the user is already part of, "curated," I believe the word is, to make sure that conflicting views and complications (i.e., history) are excluded. Those Harvard and Penn students who want to "globalize intifada" seem not to realize that they could be harmed, or worse, in a bombed building or plane or rally. Indifferent to history, grossly ignorant of it as well, they are also strangely unaware that they seem to be calling for their own destruction. University enrollments are declining. Not a bad thing.