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| Political Correctness Is War By Other Means |
| 2016-05-12 |
| h/t Instapundit Our ruling class's forceful exaltation of the persons, proclivities, and symbols by which it defines itself, along with its pretense that its preferences trump reality, defeat themselves by their absurdity. That absurdity stems from its members' conceit about who they are. ...There is a sense in which the ruling icons of political correctness--lesser Americans are racist, sexist, religiously bigoted, and infested by pathologies for which they must make amends--are petty partisanship meant to squeeze the last drops of voter participation out of the Democratic Party's habitual constituencies. But our Progressive rulers' partisanship is more. It is identity politics waged as war. ...We may also remember 2016 as the year in which Progressives dropped pretenses about asserting the rise of their class as world history's main event, that all concerning the clash of empires and civilizations must be judged by its relevance to themselves. ...Why also, for example, do our rulers force schoolchildren to recite Islam’s act of submission, order male soldiers to walk around in pink high heels and wear simulated female breasts; why do they lecture others on how ashamed they should be of their "white privilege"; why do they proscribe common words and prescribe others in their stead, etc. ad nauseam? Surely these impositions are not attempts to turn inferiors into equals by persuading them. Progressives view those outside their class not as fellow citizens who are capable of being persuaded into equality with them, but rather as a herd to be prodded into alienation from their irremediably flawed natures and affections. But why do that? To what end? The answer is one of mankind’s oldest stories. Confessing other people’s sins (real or imagined) and inflicting punishment on them has ever been human beings’ preferred path to feeling good about themselves. The more fault I find and the more penance I impose on thee, the holier I am than thou. The worse you are, the better I am and the more power I should have over you. Because feeling better about one’s self by denigrating and punishing others is an addictive pleasure the appetite for which grows with each satisfaction, victories can never satiate those who wage identity politics as war. The insatiability of their need to bolster self-esteem at others’ expense is the reason why our rulers must trump every imposition with another, without end. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 The addiction / compulsion to always build oneself up at the expense of denigrating & punishing others has been described by the term 'megalothymia'. Lots of that going around. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-05-12 22:25 |