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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Not to keep banging on the nails that Brad has so expertly hit on their heads, but I go back and forth as to who drives me maddest w rage:

First of course are the Red Guard themselves, the infantile narcissists of the identity age, who so obviously are just stoked to have a socially approved pretext to destroy anyone they don't like while basking in self-righteous sadism, who really most resemble those kids in that old Twilight Zone ep that terrorize a whole town and torture whichever adult pisses them off.

But really I think what stings the most is the pandemic of spinelessness, and not just spinelessness but obvious supine dogmatic conformity. Of course there are the admins and corporate VPs and PR people and other parasites, but then there's our entire upper-crust culture class—writers and critics from the NY Times, New Yorker, NY Review etc—with decades of published work who all woke up one day and decided that Hey, everything really is White supremacy and all art & culture need to be aligned w Leftist propaganda and the most important part of an artwork is the racial identity of the artist.

Writers against free speech! Journalists against getting both sides of a story! Artists against free expression! Actors against acting! Intellectuals against nuance! Segregation (of the imagination) now and forever!

I guess we're getting to experience what so many other generations did when some kind of fundamentalist upsurge appears and society (or at least your section of society) demands: OBEY OR PERISH!

9 out of 10 of your friends, relatives and neighbors are Good Germans. I always suspected, now I know for sure.

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"Their political culture has inculcated them to believe not only that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship, but that if they employ vague language about oppression, they can essentially operate however they’d like and attempt to ruin the life of those with whom they disagree."

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You saw this with Mr. Walker of Project Veritas fame. He runs through the entire progressive victimization playbook -- because it's never failed him before.

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