Wow. I want to leave a thoughtful comment but I’m going to have to come back later. I think the word “progressive” has been hijacked, like “hacker” has been too.
It's ok if you don't find it interesting, but don't assume everyone else thinks like you.
What's described in the article is a social phenomenon, worthy of study and reflection. The plethora of consequences that come from it, are already destroying the highest aspects of human thinking.
Left unchecked, and we will return to the dark ages. We are already seeing witch hunts and modern book burning.
I remember a long time ago in middle school, I read a book called Red Scarf Girl. It is a memoir by a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. As a middle schooler, I didn’t think too much about the book other than what strange rules such a bizarre society had for how you could interact and what you could say. But the book increasingly keeps coming to my mind lately. During the Cultural Revolution, there were accusations that people were “landlords” or related to landlords. Even rumors of having something to do with the bourgeoisie was enough to elicit swift punishment from the other members of society. If you weren’t vocal about being on the “right side of history”, then you must be adamantly against it and were addressed as such, either by peers or the government. A lot of accusations turned into witch hunts against people, even if the charges were flimsy.
Anyway, I’ve often observed this same sort of behavior in extremist progressive circles, but it sure appears to be spilling into the mainstream a lot more everyday.
I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot.
Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/change, never the "activists" themselves. It's always this amorphous "we". Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity". Not a single white actor has foregone a role. And so on and so forth all the way down the list. You know how many black people worked in the building I worked in while at Google? Zero. You know how many I interviewed in nearly a decade there? One. He was rejected (not by me though, the guy did very well in my interview). Talk is cheap. Want something done about it? Be the change you want to see in the world.
I come from a country where there was a socialist revolution. The entire contingent of the current "movement" would meet a quick and brutal end after a real revolution, because the moment you don't like something a real revolutionary likes, you become a counter-revolutionary, and those are dealt with quickly, with a bullet to the back of the head. Or, as was the case in the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of bullets to tens of millions of heads.
Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.
The "elite", regressive left is eating their own as it spirals down the drain of culturally self-enforced "purity" norms? Color me thoroughly unsurprised.
It’s really weird because purity and shaming tactics used to be the domain of the far right (hundreds of years ago). It’s now switched to the far left. I’m a big believer in horseshoe theory. Born in a different household or time period, these personalities would be strong advocates for the other side.
This reminds me of the james damore debacle a few years ago[1]. He simply wanted to discuss facts. Those facts were seen as being too dangerous for others' feelings and the feelings won.
America is quickly turning into personality cults and being dismantled into a set of ideologies. The illusions required to make the ideologies true post facto are being made into the "facts" and world views like science and logic are being dismantled.
I wonder what chain of reasoning it takes to consider such a tweet as racist.
If we thought blacks were reasonable people with agency, it is reasonable to conclude that this would help their cause: it would be one additional data point for the black community to decide on how to organize and communicate their demands, and consider it relevant or not on its merits.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 47.1 ms ] threadWhat's described in the article is a social phenomenon, worthy of study and reflection. The plethora of consequences that come from it, are already destroying the highest aspects of human thinking.
Left unchecked, and we will return to the dark ages. We are already seeing witch hunts and modern book burning.
So according to left-leaning “progressive” people, discussing grave misdeeds done in the name of progressivism is “drama” and should be discouraged.
Do I understand you correctly?
Anyway, I’ve often observed this same sort of behavior in extremist progressive circles, but it sure appears to be spilling into the mainstream a lot more everyday.
Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/change, never the "activists" themselves. It's always this amorphous "we". Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity". Not a single white actor has foregone a role. And so on and so forth all the way down the list. You know how many black people worked in the building I worked in while at Google? Zero. You know how many I interviewed in nearly a decade there? One. He was rejected (not by me though, the guy did very well in my interview). Talk is cheap. Want something done about it? Be the change you want to see in the world.
I come from a country where there was a socialist revolution. The entire contingent of the current "movement" would meet a quick and brutal end after a real revolution, because the moment you don't like something a real revolutionary likes, you become a counter-revolutionary, and those are dealt with quickly, with a bullet to the back of the head. Or, as was the case in the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of bullets to tens of millions of heads.
Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...
America is quickly turning into personality cults and being dismantled into a set of ideologies. The illusions required to make the ideologies true post facto are being made into the "facts" and world views like science and logic are being dismantled.
[1]:https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
If we thought blacks were reasonable people with agency, it is reasonable to conclude that this would help their cause: it would be one additional data point for the black community to decide on how to organize and communicate their demands, and consider it relevant or not on its merits.