We have another one! Another person claiming the term cultural Marxism is anti semitic and that it doesn't actually exist and if you do you're on some nazi/alt right rabbit hole. This time, it's lazerpig. I normally respect lazerpig. I mean, hes normally just doing nerd crap with tanks but lately he's done more political advocacy, especially in support of nato/ukraine and against russia, which i respect, but now he's wading into culture wars. And it's a little more...cringe.
Look, I've defended my actual views on this topic before. And I stand by that article. Social justice ideology is basically conflict theory, which is basically the sociological variation of marxism, applied to cultural issues. Rather than doing class analysis, they do critical analysis and think that the world is stacked against people of certain races/genders/sexualities, and that this needs to change. They're not even entirely wrong, which is where I kinda shift left. Sociologically, critical theory is a completely fair way of looking at the world, I just hate this weirdo class of political zealot who bases their ENTIRE WORLDVIEW around this specific kind of analysis, and makes it their entire personality. Such people are self righteous, annoying, and alienating. There's more to life than this stuff, and as a "privileged" person, I don't want to be lectured about these weird suffering olympics of who has it worse and these weird hierarchies of who is the most persecuted minority. I really don't. There's more to life like this. Like, if life is the FM band of radio, imagine ONLY listening to 98.5 ALL THE TIME, even though there are plenty of options from 88 to 108, some good, some bad, etc. That's SJWs to me. They are just pathologically obsessed with this one wavelength through which to view political issues, and they NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
Even worse, when other people on different wavelengths point out how annoyingly obsessed they are, they gaslight people, and act like "no we're not, you're just imagining things." They are so indoctrinated into their specific worldview that to them, it is like a fish living in water. They know no better. They know no different. It's all they know. To us living on the outside, it's like "yeah, you're literally like a goldfish living in a bowl", but they're just like "no you're not, you're imagining things", while projecting onto other people that they're falling down some alr right rabbit hole.
And that's another thing they do. In this sense, they remind me a lot of Christianity, and how if you aren't totally tuned into THEIR wavelength, that you're falling down the path to sin and being led astray by satan. Same energy. I mean, if you read my article and then watched his video, virtually everything i say about myself is what they view the alt right rabbit hole as being, like you start identifying as "center" or "center left" or "libertarian", which I do on cultural issues, and then the next thing you know, you're seig heiling.
Except...I've been criticizing the SJW left for 10 years (longer if you count me being a literal conservative), and my views have not changed much since I started this blog. Sure, I've evolved in small ways, spent time digging into the weeds on certain things and fine tuning my ideas, but my core ideology is largely the same as it always was. I have not changed. I'm just what the left was pre wokeism. I never was into wokeism. I never liked it. If anything, my previous conservative affilitation is why. Because these guys fit the nails on a chalkboard screeching militant people stereotype i had of liberals and leftists so perfectly, that I cant help but cringe. I did not come over to the left to suffer these ninnies. I came over to actually oppose the right in MEANINGFUL ways. And that's the thing. You can be anti SJW and still hate the right. My entire ideology was designed from the ground up to counter the right and their christian nationalist BS. And while it's admittedly not as strong on the whole "anti racist" angle, quite frankly it's because I give lower priority to those issues. For me, most of the changes society needed to make were made in previous years and decades, and honestly, all we really need to do is preserve the pre trump status quo, go back where ground was lost, and probably do a little more on trans stuff. Beyond that, we're to the point of diminishing marginal utility, where large changes cause little change and the net trade off causes more harm then good. Id rather focus on solving the core issues directly and in a colorblind way, which given the systemic barriers that underprivileged people face, should help them in net anyway.
I admit, in the age of trump and literal fascism, a more "woke" or "anti fascist" approach is needed. For example, on immigration, we need to stop the deportation of legal immigrants and crap like that, because what trump is doing is so beyond the pale that it is a blatant violation of constitutional rights and risks expanding to citizens. It really is as the left says of the nazis, first they came for the X but because i wasnt X i didnt speak out, and then they came for me and no one else was left. it's like being a herd of water buffalo on the african savanna. Lions circle us, looking for a weak member of the herd to attack, so the herd has to work together and say F no, you aint taking them, because it's the same thing. First they'll go for the weak but then as the herd thins out, then YOU are in danger too. When you deal with fascists, you gotta defend those who cannot defend themselves, because if you dont, any inch you give the fascists will cause them to take a mile.
I already explained my theory of immigration deportations recently. I came up with a 1-10 scale, and basically, I'm at like "2/10 or less, yeah, no issues with deportation, 3/10, I'm iffy, 4/10+, no, hell no."
We're at like an 8 on that scale. If we hit 10, America is cooked. So we gotta stop this now to protect ALL of our freedoms. And that's not even taking into consideration CECOT. No one should be deported to an el salvadorian maximum security prison that's basically a modern concentration camp. The very idea is FRICKING INSANE. Like that's hitler crap. And that's why I'm coming down hard on Trump. Again, this is nazi stuff, and we need to take strong stands early because otherwise we're gonna have creeping normality to the point where WE ARE ALL UNDER THREAT OF DEPORTATION TO WEIRDO FASCIST CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Ya know? We had this happen before in nazi germany. This is repeating history, and we need to LEARN from that history, FAST, so that we dont repeat it. We failed the first test by electing the guy the second time. I can forgive the first time, but the second? Yeah, you failed the germany 1932 test if you didn't vote for harris, sorry, you did. I dont normally voter shame, but this is like 5 alarm fire level stuff here. But now our goal is to ensure that he doesnt dissolve our democratic government and doesnt violate our constitutional rights. And that's the thing. I'm anti woke, but I'm still saying this stuff. Because I'm on the left. Not the right. You can think that what the social justice people who literally fetishize identity politics and make them their entire personality and theory of everything are weirdo fringe extremists, and they are. if youre not tuned into their frequency, youre gonna think they're shrill, annoying, and weird. However, that doesnt mean that when our mutual housing complex is burning down that we don't both grab a pail of water and try to put out the fire. Ya know? You still gotta work with them against the bigger enemy, which is literal fascism.
And that's where I guess I'll leave it. I just got irritated by lazerpig going on acting like if you think like me you're half way down some alt right rabbit hole. I dont deny that the rabbit hole exists and that others fall into it, but yeah, I haven't. And I'm still on the "right side" of things. So these people need to chill out and understand there's more to life than their own worldview and theory of everything. People are gonna think differently, and not everyone is gonna like your specific ideology or interpretation of left wing politics. And that's okay. If anything, it's healthy. As long as you dont actually go alt right, it's fine.
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