Great post, Ben. I couldn't agree with you more. This is a deeply concerning issue and something that only seems to be getting worse.
The Progressive Regime: More dangerous than you think!
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 On 06/04/2014 at 01:43 PM by BrokenH See More From This User » |
“Progressive” certainly holds an allure for people. Accept it or deny it, most of us want to be “right” about things and we want to somehow feel “morally superior” about the stances we have adopted as our own.
Of course this “pride” has really fucked us over this generation. We have a lot of social justice warriors bitching on tumblr and twitter but not a lot of people actually making positive changes.
Below are some of the issues I believe are hurting us BAD as a society!
"Yeah,let's forget about putting down "humanist" and "equalist" as choices too,right? Remember, if you're not a feminist you are a pedophile rape monster! Er,a misogynist too!"
Pointing of fingers and buzz-word slander
“Kojima is a misogynist!” one headline reads. “Lords of Shadow comparable to rape-lay?” reads another. Yes, we’ve certainly gotten good at mud-slinging yet we barely take the time to truly know the victims of our slander. Certain “trigger words” are meant to shut down a discussion before it even begins. Admit it, being labelled as a “woman hater” or “rape apologist” is a difficult hole to climb oneself out of.
But the thing is no one uses these terms correctly. Yes, it’s easy to call your ex boyfriend or ex girlfriend a narcissist (because he or she hurt you) or label an angry neckbeard who gave you trouble at your job a "shut-in otaku virgin pedophile" but if you step outside your emotions a bit you will probably realize that those indviduals are not really “that bad”. Just because someone disagreed with you, offended your cultural sensibilities, or hurt your feelings does not mean they embody a hateful buzzword that should be reserved for no less than the absolute worst of humanity!
Censorship for the sake of “hospitality”
Everyone knows Mark Twain’s Tom sawyer and Huck Finn books had the word “nigger” in them. But in truth Mark was very anti-racist and progressive. “Nigger” was simply a word used in racist context at the time slavery in the south was a real thing.
So when I found out Mark Twain’s works were being “edited” to be “less offensive” it made me angry. Truth be told, his books probably have less references to the N-word than a skit done by a Black comedian or certain rap videos on you-tube!
When we censor period fiction we essentially lie about real history and when we lie about history we cannot learn from it!
Attacking the wrong issues
We all know somewhere kids are starving to death or being armed as shock troops and a woman is being lashed repeatedly because she had the audacity to drive her dying husband to the nearest hospital. (Women are not allowed to drive in certain countries.) The world certainly is not all kittens and rainbows!
To this end it never ceases to amaze me how westerners argue and viciously attack each other over the STUPIDEST most TRIVIAL bullshit!
-“You like that game? You’re a sexist! It has jiggle physics and objectifies women!”
-“When guys I don’t like stare at me in the distance it feels like RAPE!”
-“Samus has heels now, ZOMG! Fuck the new Super Smash Bros. !”
-“That movie portraying “American heroism in the military” is just a recruitment video done by war-mongering tyrants!”
-“Let’s start an online petition to get that guy fired! His jokes offended me!”
-"Elsa from Frozen is obviously a lesbian dyke to push "gay-marriage-fornification",derp!!"
Shut up….PLEASE….shut the fuck up! Not everything is a conspiracy and not everything has a hidden meaning or veiled agenda. People that complain about the trite crap above are spineless wimps. I’m sorry, but it’s true.
I started off being a liberal myself but I swear I’m coming to hate that same label. Probably because the most vocal leftists give us all a terrible reputation and can be just as unruly as the most backwards conservatives. (That quote I put about Elsa is supposed to be from a radical conservative viewpoint because they piss me off just as much!) Of course the most vocal leftists seem more like socialist Marxists than democratic Americans. (And before I get a rebuttal Marxism is built upon the principality of making us into Marxists without us even realizing it’s happening. It’s called propaganda and subliminal advertising! Why do you think so many Germans supported Hitler even as the Nazi party did horrendous crimes.)
White privilege, thin privilege, cis privilege, able bodied privilege, male privilege….blah blah fuckity blah!
Across forums and social media sites wars rage over the word “privilege”. No word this generation has divided us apart and turned us against each other more than the P-word.
If you have “privilege” you will never be right in a debate. If you are male and white your life has been nothing but sugarplums and magic carpet rides! Poor suffering white-folk? They don’t exist!
But don’t think you are safe just because your Black, Asian,Native American, or Latino! You still might have that “male privilege” or that dreaded “thin privilege”. You have functioning legs? Step aside, able bodied swine!
Are you a woman? Great, but a big “Fuck you” if you are a White woman, attractive woman, or ALWAYS had a vagina! What about those poor women trapped in men’s bodies you heartless bitch?!
Are you Trans-gendered? At least you still have your health you selfish twit! Some people have cancer you know! That's right diva,get down from your high horse because I'm bi-polar! I obviously endure trials and tribulations YOU could never understand!
That’s right, no matter where you rank in the oppression Olympics “someone” will be gunning for you and asking you to check your privilege at the door.
So what gets done from having a “check your privilege” Olympics? A whole lotta nothing. Can we challenge our government or research what laws they’re changing when we are bickering amongst each other? Nope! And the corrupt officials in power know this too. Together we stand but divided we fall.
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