The insistence here is that successful cultures be destroyed while unsuccessful cultures are spread.
The Left's foundational allergy to the very concept of cause and effect has no problem with this, because it does not recognize the relative success of cultures as a product of those cultures; it simply sees a "power imbalance" to be quashed.
I suppose describing the problem is a step in the right direction and certainly preferable to pretending everything is fine. Even so, I seem to have been reading about this and associated problems for a very long time. I wonder if the drip-drip of such articles is helping to dismantle an unfair state of affairs through a steady accumulation of speaking truth to self-deceiving gits, or whether all we are doing is venting our frustration to prevent ourselves from going collectively mad.
At what point is the social contract for those at the bottom is broken?. It is not getting passed over for promotion. It is not going down the council house list another 40 places...
Galaxy Brain take: Would it not be preferable to make old fashioned snobbery socially acceptable again, allowing upper crust liberal bohemians to hate the lower orders for dropping their aitches and having poor taste in furniture, so that they don't have to present their disdain as being rooted somehow in politics?
It’s perfectly natural for groups to quite nakedly regard their own (country, culture, customs and people ) as somewhat superior to all others. To think otherwise (en masse)would be demented. But this is not permitted by western progressives, being a prohibition they enforce via the racism taboo and the ever expanding definition of racism itself. Perhaps because progressives ,contrary to all protestations, believe western culture to be so obviously superior as to require to obsessively deny this proposition so as not to destroy, by the very thought of it, people THEY view as too puny to take it
Randolph Bourne: Deformed little goblin who hated the society he grew up in because the girls wouldn't go out with him. Bourne is to English-speaking nations what Grima Wormtongue was to Middle-Earth.
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"this week Peters revealed that one of the councillors named in a report into the town’s failures to deal with the grooming gangs scandal has gone onto become a senior Diversity & Inclusion Manager working for the NHS"
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This is similar to the way in which abusive priests were retained and even promoted by virtue of their exalted moral status and the correctness of their beliefs in times past (and present?). Diversity and Inclusion is basically the modern day equivalent of a theology degree and priestly ordination, casting out the demons of racism, sexism and what not. DIE is the new religion, and it's ok when they do it.
There is also an additonal complication here, EVERYBODY who worked around Mahroof Hussain knew what was going on, but if he goes down how many others will go with him? So essentially everyone clams up and says nothing. They all know the score.
I get your analysis and cannot fault it but am left feeling sad. It is a heartbreaking story. Such small minded, mean thinking while thinking one is being kind but also protected from the worst of society.
A couple of years ago, my old university's Student Union condemned the term 'friend zone' as "an invention of toxic masculinity" in one of its publications. Funnily enough, our cultural elites rarely apply that term to rap music, despite its endless references to b*tches, guns, crime, violence against people who diss you, and all the rest of it. Skinny teenage boys reading manosphere articles are the *real* threat to our civilisation, you see. (Sorry, I mean "our communities".)
"As the weakest members of the most powerful group, they were always going to be asymmetrical multiculturalism’s fall guys ..."
Vivid phrasing and an insightful observation.
The insistence here is that successful cultures be destroyed while unsuccessful cultures are spread.
The Left's foundational allergy to the very concept of cause and effect has no problem with this, because it does not recognize the relative success of cultures as a product of those cultures; it simply sees a "power imbalance" to be quashed.
Superb and well worth the wait.
I suppose describing the problem is a step in the right direction and certainly preferable to pretending everything is fine. Even so, I seem to have been reading about this and associated problems for a very long time. I wonder if the drip-drip of such articles is helping to dismantle an unfair state of affairs through a steady accumulation of speaking truth to self-deceiving gits, or whether all we are doing is venting our frustration to prevent ourselves from going collectively mad.
Happy New Year, Ed. Great piece and I'm glad you're feeling better.
Asymmetrical multiculturalism writ small:
A: “Your group are responsible for all of these bad things.”
B: “But look at the goods things my group have done.”
A: “You don’t have a group and your claim to have one makes you a supremacist.”
A:“Also, your group are supremacists.”
B: “I thought I didn’t have a group”
A: “You don’t.”
Well what a charming start to 2023
The Lozell riots have been memory holded
At what point is the social contract for those at the bottom is broken?. It is not getting passed over for promotion. It is not going down the council house list another 40 places...
It is seeing your daughter raped
Galaxy Brain take: Would it not be preferable to make old fashioned snobbery socially acceptable again, allowing upper crust liberal bohemians to hate the lower orders for dropping their aitches and having poor taste in furniture, so that they don't have to present their disdain as being rooted somehow in politics?
2023 off to a positive start on the WSOH!
It’s perfectly natural for groups to quite nakedly regard their own (country, culture, customs and people ) as somewhat superior to all others. To think otherwise (en masse)would be demented. But this is not permitted by western progressives, being a prohibition they enforce via the racism taboo and the ever expanding definition of racism itself. Perhaps because progressives ,contrary to all protestations, believe western culture to be so obviously superior as to require to obsessively deny this proposition so as not to destroy, by the very thought of it, people THEY view as too puny to take it
Happy to see you bring up the Zeroth Awokening here. Also like the in/out/far group framing and haven't seen that before -- is that original to you?
Randolph Bourne: Deformed little goblin who hated the society he grew up in because the girls wouldn't go out with him. Bourne is to English-speaking nations what Grima Wormtongue was to Middle-Earth.
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"this week Peters revealed that one of the councillors named in a report into the town’s failures to deal with the grooming gangs scandal has gone onto become a senior Diversity & Inclusion Manager working for the NHS"
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This is similar to the way in which abusive priests were retained and even promoted by virtue of their exalted moral status and the correctness of their beliefs in times past (and present?). Diversity and Inclusion is basically the modern day equivalent of a theology degree and priestly ordination, casting out the demons of racism, sexism and what not. DIE is the new religion, and it's ok when they do it.
There is also an additonal complication here, EVERYBODY who worked around Mahroof Hussain knew what was going on, but if he goes down how many others will go with him? So essentially everyone clams up and says nothing. They all know the score.
I get your analysis and cannot fault it but am left feeling sad. It is a heartbreaking story. Such small minded, mean thinking while thinking one is being kind but also protected from the worst of society.
A couple of years ago, my old university's Student Union condemned the term 'friend zone' as "an invention of toxic masculinity" in one of its publications. Funnily enough, our cultural elites rarely apply that term to rap music, despite its endless references to b*tches, guns, crime, violence against people who diss you, and all the rest of it. Skinny teenage boys reading manosphere articles are the *real* threat to our civilisation, you see. (Sorry, I mean "our communities".)