Turn any text or speech into a Scrabble set and derive hidden meanings from everything! Brilliant! Post-Derridaist pseudo-narratives everywhere! Everything means what I say! Words no longer have definitions! Dictionaries begone!
"She said white people’s poor hygiene “literally started the bubonic plague, lice, syphilis.”
She said “we lived in perfect harmony w/ the earth pre whiteness” and blamed environmental destruction on “white capitalism.”"
Excellent chance, if not already proven beyond doubt, that syphilis started in the Americas.
In terms of that "perfect harmony", one of the traits of homo sapiens is that whenever they got to a new place, over the centuries and millenia, other creatures would go extinct.
Three comments before me, and all I can say is, yes, you write about a perfectly pluralistic society, the one I dreamed about in my youth, and saw it ripped away from my dreams with the introduction of multiculturalism, the ideology that was introduced like a virus into the United States in the late sixties and was a Trojan Horse for relativism, and it took a couple of decades but like all viral infections, it tore the host apart. I appreciate your analysis, and how you’re bold enough to say all of us are beautiful, but I fear no one is listening.
I don’t think multiculturalism is morally superior, just a kind of preference, but it can work, in my view, indeed I would argue that it was working fairly well for a while there, but woke ideology, or cultural Marxism, or whatever you wanna call it, have infected American society, especially the forces on the left that drive multiculturalism. They’ve done incredible damage to the project.
The social justice left would say that it not for a Christian to judge the physical and sexual violence of Islam, not for the West to look down on primitive or savage societies, not even to help, not even to describe them as such, not for Americans to judge Chinese etiquette or hygiene as lacking, not for straight people to criticize the perversion on display at modern Pride parades, not even to describe it as perverted, and on and on. I’ve written about the anthropologists Franz Boas and Stanislaw Malinowski and the origins of this kind of thinking.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I don't understand what you mean by "relativism."
They social justice left doesn't seem all that relativistic to me. If anything it's even more dogmatic about objective moral truths. It just inverts them from what people are normally used to.
Marty, I think that either Substack is having trouble with replies or he and I have only been replying to my first comment. See David’s answer about relativism somewhere above, or you may be replying to him but I was notified.
I couldn't see the other replies for some reason, but I'm still unclear about what you're calling "relativism." The Social justice left makes lots of objective moral claims that aren't relativistic. Relativism, in fact, would be much more preferrable to deal with than what they actually promote.
There is one critical factor missing from your excellent analysis: Demonology. Possession. The Underworld. Creatures that haul hellish points of view up to the surface world to confuse and trap and ensnare souls have become too plentiful. "St." Felix is simply another in a plethora of demons that wander our wasteland spewing hate-filled rhetoric. I suppose somewhere in Dante's Circles there is an author's wing where the security is too lax and venom laced pens are too plentiful.
Turn any text or speech into a Scrabble set and derive hidden meanings from everything! Brilliant! Post-Derridaist pseudo-narratives everywhere! Everything means what I say! Words no longer have definitions! Dictionaries begone!
And everything is racist because I say it is!
From her tweets:
"She said white people’s poor hygiene “literally started the bubonic plague, lice, syphilis.”
She said “we lived in perfect harmony w/ the earth pre whiteness” and blamed environmental destruction on “white capitalism.”"
Excellent chance, if not already proven beyond doubt, that syphilis started in the Americas.
In terms of that "perfect harmony", one of the traits of homo sapiens is that whenever they got to a new place, over the centuries and millenia, other creatures would go extinct.
Three comments before me, and all I can say is, yes, you write about a perfectly pluralistic society, the one I dreamed about in my youth, and saw it ripped away from my dreams with the introduction of multiculturalism, the ideology that was introduced like a virus into the United States in the late sixties and was a Trojan Horse for relativism, and it took a couple of decades but like all viral infections, it tore the host apart. I appreciate your analysis, and how you’re bold enough to say all of us are beautiful, but I fear no one is listening.
I don’t think multiculturalism is morally superior, just a kind of preference, but it can work, in my view, indeed I would argue that it was working fairly well for a while there, but woke ideology, or cultural Marxism, or whatever you wanna call it, have infected American society, especially the forces on the left that drive multiculturalism. They’ve done incredible damage to the project.
The social justice left would say that it not for a Christian to judge the physical and sexual violence of Islam, not for the West to look down on primitive or savage societies, not even to help, not even to describe them as such, not for Americans to judge Chinese etiquette or hygiene as lacking, not for straight people to criticize the perversion on display at modern Pride parades, not even to describe it as perverted, and on and on. I’ve written about the anthropologists Franz Boas and Stanislaw Malinowski and the origins of this kind of thinking.
“I’ll try that perspective and see if I can make it fit.”
I appreciate this attitude, and the phrasing. Will steal and use.
I’ll try that perspective and see if I can make it fit. In a lot of cases it’s not the thing that’s bad, it’s how the thing is used.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I don't understand what you mean by "relativism."
They social justice left doesn't seem all that relativistic to me. If anything it's even more dogmatic about objective moral truths. It just inverts them from what people are normally used to.
Marty, I think that either Substack is having trouble with replies or he and I have only been replying to my first comment. See David’s answer about relativism somewhere above, or you may be replying to him but I was notified.
I couldn't see the other replies for some reason, but I'm still unclear about what you're calling "relativism." The Social justice left makes lots of objective moral claims that aren't relativistic. Relativism, in fact, would be much more preferrable to deal with than what they actually promote.
Why does anyone publish her racist antisemitic crap?
Sadly, because it sells magazines. It’s as simple as that. But also, her racism is vogue now.
There is one critical factor missing from your excellent analysis: Demonology. Possession. The Underworld. Creatures that haul hellish points of view up to the surface world to confuse and trap and ensnare souls have become too plentiful. "St." Felix is simply another in a plethora of demons that wander our wasteland spewing hate-filled rhetoric. I suppose somewhere in Dante's Circles there is an author's wing where the security is too lax and venom laced pens are too plentiful.