So, I noticed Kyle Kulinski covered Bill maher's latest segment on transgenderism and stuff like drag queen story hour, and I kinda was gonna let it slide as i cover enough stuff from Kyle, but then Mike Figuredo covered the same segment and was even more shrill about it and calling him a right winger and stuff. So I wanted to give my input here.
Look, unpopular opinion, but I think Bill maher had a point. It's fine to be gay, it's fine to be trans, i dont generally support the right, especially legislatively, but uh....yeah, let's talk about the drag queen story hour thing and this stuff around kids. It's weird. It's really weird. I understand why some people think it's kinda creepy, and think maybe kids shouldnt be exposed to this stuff. Anything to do with sex is considered an "adult subject" and we generally try to hold off talking about this stuff until they're old enough. How old is old enough? Eh, anywhere from maybe 10-13? That seemed the norm for sex ed in my generation. And that's just starting to talk about it, explain how it works, explain it more scientifically. Im not saying we need to overcorrect all the way over to the right, I dont support desantis's position and think it's TOO restrictive, but uh....can we at least not give the right ammo that ALLOWS them to push for that stuff in the first place?
Like, teaching kids about drag queens and having them twerking under signs that say "it's not gonna lick itself" is....kinda creepy. And I understand why some adults would push back against that. And yeah, I'm fully aware of some of the stuff that went over my head as a kid. The macarena was big in the 90s and was actually about some chick cheating on their boyfriend with the infamous dance being kinda like acting it out, and...of course...and this is what brought this subject up, the nickeleodeon thing. And obviously nickelodeon is actually a hot topic right now because of how creepy some of the stuff was, and how dan schnieder seemed to be doing really creepy stuff that probably played into certain fetishes he had. So...I'm not opposed to discussing that stuff too. And while we (millennials who watched that stuff) mostly turned out fine, yeah maybe you dont wanna lean into that because at some point you are just enabling child predators. Like dan schneider.
And yeah there's talk within the straight community of stuff like say child beauty pageants being creepy and potential pedo material too. So this isn't just discriminating against lgbtq+ in saying this. But yeah maybe we shouldnt be exposing kids to this stuff. Maybe we shouldnt normalize it. I have no doubt some within the community mean well, they're trying to teach tolerance, and that's why the left gets so NUTS when people push back against this. And I noticed this with mike's video in particular. He seems to take all of this stuff personally being LGBT+ himself and saying that the right doesnt want people like him to exist so he fights against this stuff as if it's for his own existence.
But again...maybe some stuff goes a bit over the line? Maybe we should sometime push back against this stuff? And maybe, just maybe the SJW community needs to stop treating everyone as a pariah for checking them once in a while. it's a problem they have. And this is why they've gotten so unreasonable and radical in the first place. The antidote to group think are nuanced individuals who largely agree with the mission of the community, but who will sometimes put a check on it like uh...yeah maybe we need to back off a bit. It's like asch experiment. People will sometimes suppress their own views if they feel like they'll face negative feedback for expressing them. But if even ONE PERSON expresses dissent, then sometimes that kinda encourages others to speak up about their true feelings.
But that's the issue with SJWs, and the growing extremism we're seeing on all sides really. Any time someone slightly more moderate checks the community for stepping out of line, they get treated as a pariah and eventually bullied out or thrown out. Which is where I am with social justice causes. They treat everyone who mildly disagrees with them as a right winger, when no we're still on the left. I myself probably still agree with SJWs on substance like 80% of the time, I just think their extremism and zeal makes them batcrap insane. And while more lately I am noticing more ideological differences between myself and "the left", thats really more a result of the radicalization of these guys, and not the dissenters, WE remained the same, it's the left that changed, and that's the problem. Im not saying that lefties arent sometimes right on bill maher. He IS kinda becoming more moderate. But the thing is, a lot of people today who are being thrown out of the left wing movements of the day are people who were on the cutting edge 10-20 years ago. That's what Bill Maher is. He's a "brian griffin" liberal. Ya know, atheist, thinks hes smarter than anyone else, but not crazy. Same with richard dawkins, who faces increased criticism from the left and rightly points out that the modern left acts like the religious right. And of course, I've made similar observations. The commonality here really comes down to, to some extent, age. A lot of these people being thrown out of modern left wing movements are older. Often boomers or gen x, but sometimes millennials. People who have long and distinguished lives of being progressive and then suddenly they're not, because "it" changed, and they're not longer "with it" to make that simpsons reference again.
Now, im not always saying that old centristy version of liberalism is always right. I am a millennial, and I kind of am like in that weird middle ground zone between the old world and the new. I was conservative, i became liberal because i realized liberals werent the crazy militant america haters i thought they were, and now they're turning into rush limbaugh's worst strawmen. And thats where I am kind of more moderate or "conservative". Socially and foreign policy wise, I AM just a liberal. I AM just aligned with the likes of bill maher, or richard dawkins, or that old school liberalism that's quickly being treated as a pariah. I'm just more progressive on economics. And even then I'm not a SOCIALIST. I mean, I might flirt with market socialism from time to time, but i dont feel an affinity to literal leftism, if anything i spend a lot of time criticizing them and calling them crazy because they are too far left. I shifted into being more like a socdem, not a leftist, not a socialist, or communist, or anarchist. Just a more progressive iteration of liberalism. But again even that's getting people thrown out of the modern left where we have little choice but to go back to the democratic party and settle for Biden, because bernie's movement is going full on socialist and being obnoxiously gatekeepy about it.
This isn't healthy. it's actually quite toxic. And its dangerous long term. We saw the right do this and now a lot of us in normieville are genuinely fearful this guy might try to overthrow the constitution. And now the left is doing the same. Sure we need to move left, but we need a more mild sane left thats still left of the dems, but not TOO insane. We need like that social democratic middle ground or equivalent like human centered capitalism.
But again, the left is just going too far on stuff. And we need to check them to bring them back to sanity. But sadly, they dont want sanity, and they're, much like the MAGA movement, purging any dissenters and getting more and more extreme until it gets dangerous.
Im sorry, I dont think bill maher was out of line here. I dont think hes always right. His latest segment on single payer was cringe for example. BUT, on stuff like drag queen story hour or israel? He has a point. And he's going after the same batcrap insane left i criticize and making fun of them at their expense. And he makes good points. Deal with it.
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