Bogus Racism Charge Melts Down Elite Progressive Listserv
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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.
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.