The woke world is a world of snitches, informants, rats. Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance. Everybody is to be judged. Everyone is under suspicion. Everything you say is to be scoured, picked over, analyzed for any possible offense. Everyone’s a detective in the Division of Problematics, and they walk the beat 24/7. You search and search for someone Bad doing Bad Things, finding ways to indict writers and artists and ordinary people for something, anything. That movie that got popular? Give me a few hours and 800 words. I’ll get you your indictments. That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and who’s Bad. I wonder why people run away from establishment progressivism in droves.-Freddie deBoer quoted here. This is well worth a read in it's entirety.
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The Left has become the party of barren old scolds: don't eat beef, don't drive a car, don't drink beer, don't smoke tobacco, don't touch women, don't even flirt, don't say that, don't think that, etc.
ReplyDeleteBut smoking weed and same-sex marriage are perfectly acceptable.
DeleteIn another era, they were known as roundheads. They are forever with us.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortunate that this has become the modus operandi for almost the whole culture left and right. Whoever is on "the other side" gets endlessly analyzed and judged according to whatever prejudice is already present.
ReplyDeleteThose of us of a certain age used to worry about Big Brother watching us. But it turned out not to be Big Brother, but a host of little brothers and sisters, waiting to snitch. And this should be no surprise--little brothers and sisters are far more persistent (and vindictive) and a distant Big Brother ever could be . . .
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