Hilarious. Still fighting the good fight, I see.I treat BLM with the same broad strokes everyone treats everyone else. I refuse to play their game that when it comes to everyone else, holy ****, are their radars and pattern recognition finely tuned. Everything is systemic here and dog-whistling there, and ACAB and benefiting or suffering from group (lack of) privilege etc etc. But when it comes to them, you couldn't find a a bunch of more rugged philosophical individualists.
Hilarious. Still fighting the good fight, I see.
I agree it's fantastic how disingenuous people can be. Declaring broad groups of sociiety, like the proverbial straight white men, as guilty or complicit in all leftist conspiracies. But somehow very reasonable and sensitive to nuance when treated with their own medicine.
BLM is just another cultural scarecrow like alt right, in which populists would lump everyone they don't like from actual nazis to pewdiepie and Dave Rubin. And in both cases the scarecrow status obviously didn't materialize out of nothing.
On a related note, I'm actually amazed by the cultural shift I'm witnessing especially from my own perspective. Where the liberalized center left Eastern Europeans are now considered conservative/right-wing by the West, while the discourse in the West now increasingly resembles the Soviet era to me. Only if the Soviets started with a functioning country instead of a ****hole and had to work it the entire way into the ditch first.
**** sorry. I misread this. You're right.BLM is just another cultural scarecrow like alt right, in which populists would lump everyone they don't like from actual nazis to pewdiepie and Dave Rubin. And in both cases the scarecrow status obviously didn't materialize out of nothing.
...Where the liberalized center left Eastern Europeans are now considered conservative/right-wing by the West...
Sure, I can live with that.Compromise: ..
I see what you mean. I agree, that's also true. But what I was talking about was more related to the ideological side of things. The centralized leftist discourse which is strengthening its grip on the society. A very illeberal marxist-ish ideology enforced on the population institutionally which increasingly becomes pretty much THE ideology.
Also a torrent of absolutely inane propaganda coming from almost all media sources. I mean, look at that sketch the cutie posted. It's obviously just a cringy satire which only a 3 y.o. would buy into, but that pretty much sums up what I see actual talking heads spew on almost all legacy tv channels. The public discourse is held at a level appealing to people with borderline personality disorder. And I mean it literally, it's not an insult.
The difference of course being that it is not the state that controls the ideology but the ideology controlling the state. But the end should not be very different. I won't say I don't experience a little bit of schadenfreude. But I also hate to see it because western ideology does inevitably trickle down to my part of the globe along with the money.