Yes, right wing extremists have a very well-funded
platform and a disturbing agenda. The disturbing agenda part feels
strangely familiar.
I think it would be refreshing if a major left-leaning site finally acknowledged the left's social/political agenda; specifically, its ambitious attempts to insert gender
ideology, queer theory, and critical race theories into schools, government agencies, non-profits, and just about everywhere else. They've already taken over social media, universities, and completely captured the democratic party - yet not a word about that
is ever uttered by the mouthpieces of what passes for the left these
days. Perhaps they're terrified of their own readers: Some are likely the same vitriolic, misogynist, and sanctimonious
arbiters of cultural correctness we're inundated with on social media.
This
may come as a surprise to some, because those of us who do not embrace these
unsupported post-modern social theories have largely been de-platformed
and demonized as "bigots" by the politically righteous on social media platforms.
Which is a tad ironic coming from the compulsive virtue signalers who now vilify an entire
race of people, but irony sails over many heads these days, on either
side of the political spectrum.
Unfortunately,
the "critical" part of critical social justice apparently does not
include "critical thinking", which is now a foreign concept to Americans
in general, whether left or right. While I never was part of the latter, I no longer fit into the former. And I'm far from the only one.
The
hate and intolerance of the left, aimed at anyone who doesn't embrace
their unsupported theories or "affirm" biological impossibilities, is
just as big of a threat to our country/culture as the hate and
intolerance of the right.
And the promotion of divisive social theories - who is benefiting
from the mindset of dividing people, of keeping conflict front and
center? From insisting that literally everything has to do with race, and that an entire race - white people - are born bigots? From conflating the teaching of an accurate history with
critical race theory, which are separate issues? From viewing absolutely everyone and everything through the binary lens of "oppressor and victim"? From the assertion that heterosexuality and "normalcy" is somehow bad, or at the very least, not appealing? Who benefits from insisting everyone pretend that humans can actually change their biological sex by wishing it so, along with lifelong cross-sex hormones plus surgery? Or for that matter, the ludicrous notion that a person's biological sex is "assigned at birth"?
Who is
benefiting from telling children - little kids, ffs - that "they may
have been born into the wrong bodies" if their interests and play choices don't conform to rigid, regressive sex-based stereotypes? It's almost like there's an entire industry seeking to create a generation of lifelong medical patients.
Oh wait...
What happened to the sex-based rights and protection of actual women? Why are women called names and even physically attacked BY THOSE ON THE LEFT, for fighting for their own domains like locker rooms, changing rooms, sports teams, shelters, bathrooms, and even jail cells? Why is the comfort and safety of women not an issue, and how is it that leftist women themselves center the wishes/delusions of a tiny minority of males over women's needs and wants? These self-described progressive women seem so pathetically desperate to position themselves as kind and inclusive, yet can't be bothered to include actual women in their consideration. This is apparently what passes for "feminism" these days on the left.
And why are the LGBTQ alphabet groups ignoring the homophobia promoted by gender ideology? Could it be because LGBTQ etc is now in
reality TTTQ? (All trans all the time, with a dash of "queer" thrown in for that extra edginess). Lesbians are now not allowed to have
women-only gatherings, dating sites, or clubs, because that would be "transphobic" to
not include the men who pretend they are women. Seriously?
Hel-looooo....what part of "same sex attraction" do the gender acolytes
not get?!
Why aren't these kinds of
questions ever addressed, or even asked, in the media? Why is no one on the so-called
left allowed to discuss any of this without being utterly vilified? What does it tell you when even the most insightful, articulate writers with media platforms avoid these questions and issues like the plague? Shouldn't that be seen as at least problematic?
Individuals like me, who have never had an affinity for the right, who also aren't centrists, and now can't relate to much of the left, are politically and socially homeless.
It feels strange and alienating. When listening to many progressives now, I find myself thinking the same thoughts I'd have when listening to MAGA folks: "How can you actually believe stuff like this?!"
