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Must-Watch Video: I’m A Lesbian Woman & I’m Leaving The INSANE “Progressive” Left
Arielle Scarcella is a well-known lesbian YouTube personality; she has been on the platform for ten years and boasts over 630,000 subscribers on her channel. Normally she posts videos of sex toy reviews and other graphic non-family friendly content. She isn’t someone you’d normally see mentioned here, but she just posted a must-watch video about her decision to leave the woke progressive Left that’s worth a watch:
The comments on the video are also incredibly interesting; I was anticipating a flood of comments proclaiming Scarella “canceled” but the most up-voted comments are those agreeing with her. A sampling:
Among the young, old, black, white, gay and lesbian; there appears to be a growing resentment of “woke” culture on the progressive Left. Time will tell if they’re able to take back the definition of what it means to be LGBTQ, but for the sake of sanity, here’s hoping.
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This is quite real. I saw this after watching this gal on Tim Pool’s show ( a young guy trying his best to be a fair journalist) , and it’s happening everywhere. I personally know quite a few lesbians and three(!) trans-people ( am I saying that right? – I don’t care) None of them are strident crusaders and are quite like Arielle.
There’s a new young therapist in my wife’s practice who wants to make a weekly meeting about white privilege and woke gender issues ( she herself is white and straight) sending long, lecturing group e-mails to all the other therapists.
Of course, this subset therapists working in a major US city, is extraordinarily compassionate and aware, fall heavily on the Democratic political spectrum and deal with all kinds of grave and horrific personal issues. I would add that almost 90% of the clients at this facility are minorities. Two of my wife’s colleagues have taken her aside and in hushed tones were effectively rolling their eyes and saying WTF?
So what happens i, it only takes a vocal minority – who, importantly, holds an unassailable position – to harass and hector their colleagues and associates into de facto submission.
This isn’t really new either. I was in a group of performers working in a large casino. One of these performers was black, gay and very bitter. He was funny and his insults were biting. If he was your enemy you’d be sorry because he would absolutely destroy you.He was a toxic narcissist. I think we have all encountered this type. So everyone laughed at his jokes and deferred to him. This was mostly because he could hide behind charges of racism and anti-gay sentiment if you challenged him, and if you didn’t go along with laughing and agreeing with him you’d become his next target of his behind-the-back snide mockery.
So for every person who comes “out” against this kind of bullying, there are many more who feel too vulnerable to do so. But the sentiment against these woke wankers is building up to something worthy of note.
Martina Navratilova came out as a lesbian about the same time in American pop culture that Donald Trump came out as an aggressive millionaire real-estate developer — i.e., a long, long, long time ago. But Martina got crushed in the past 18 months over refusing to accept the idea that men who identify as women should compete against men, because she and other women tennis players had dealt with that same unfair situation 40 years ago with Dr. Richard Raskin/Renee Richards playing on the USWTA tour and making it into the Top 20 despite being in his/her mid-40s at the time.
Been there, dealt with that, but Navratilova’s pioneering status in the LGBT movement meant bupkis to the current victimhood crowd, because social media has created a world where every group or individual is battling to be the Alpha victim, and therefore the ones everyone else has to bow to and concede to their demands. Victimhood as a path to political power — without actually being a victim — has been around for years, and fueled the rises to power of people like Al Sharpton, but in the past you had to be in a major media market to get the attention of the big media, and you had to have no shame about brazenly lying and then being called out in public for your lies.
Things like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media portals have allowed for the rise of thousands of mini-Sharptons — activists who make their charges and try to cancel people and/or corporations, but can still hide behind online anonymity and not have to face at least the counter-attacks, if not the consequences, for their lies. And the new group doesn’t care if they attack others ostensibly on the left, as long as they’re seen has having some sort of power they can seize for themselves. For people like Scarcella, the choice is either up the ante on he victimhood even more, or finally give up and just walk away from the angriest of the angry left.
Where did this Cancel Culture gain a foothold and where is it strongest and most dangerous? Our top tier institutions of higher learning. How did that happen? Cowardly administrators and Roman Legion style phalanx of Ministers of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (except for White people).
So when will Alumni stop contributing to this system, and when will attendance at one of these institutions be recognized as an indicator of smug uselessness and ignorance?
I have known a lot of LGBT people throughout my life. Most were simply decent people, trying to live their lives with some sense of dignity. This young woman is a lot more like those people. The crazies out there would be crazy no matter what their orientation was. It is good, though, to hear some sanity being injected into the conversation. There is a long way to go before the stupid people who support these looney tunes start to realize that, just like the French Revolution, the leftists will eventually get around to eating their own. We are already seeing that happening, but not yet to the extent that it will bring down the house. Just wait….
Who cares what any of them are? I don’t care if she’s a lesbian either. Maybe she also could have reconsidered the tattoo on her arm that I have to see when I look at her. I’m glad she’s a spokesperson for the insanity of the Left, but I’m not sure I care. I want her to be able to live her life, saying whatever she wants, as long as she doesn’t attack others.
“That’s not a community. That’s a hive-mind cult.”
Those were powerful words she spoke in reference to what the left, the LGBT movement in particular, have become.
When you substitute “live and let live” with “meet all of our demands or else”, you’re substituting tolerance with conflict. And when the conflict becomes intolerable, you get war . . .
I totally agree, and I have. I sent a letter to my alumni association indicating as much. Sadly, this is a token gesture, as my contribution was not substantial (i.e. not building buildings). But, I’ve also encouraged my kids to consider other alternatives.
Yes. This is insane.
Rod Dreher at American Conservative published a letter which he got from a reader.
Dreher says he has verified that the sender is who he says he is, that the story you are about to read is true, Dreher has changed the names to protect the innocent. An excerpt:
2016, 2016… I wonder what was happening that year.
John B. Judas’ book’ ‘The Emerging Democratic Majority’, coupled with Obama’s win in 2012 over Mitt Romney, despite economic and foreign policy indicators that pointed in the opposite direction, was incredibly liberating for the progressives going into the 2016 election.
It convinced them that Obama’s win in 2008 and his re-election wasn’t simply due to a sharp increase in black voter turnout in key stats along with virtue signaling voters trying to make history and believing Obama’s election would permanently change racial divisiveness. It led them to believe the changing demographics meant their ideas were now in the majority and you didn’t have to count on a ‘historic first’ candidate to gin up turnout — any out-and-proud progressive was within 1-2 swing states of winning the White House every four years.
Why hide who you are and why hide oppressing others when they’re in the minority now? And why not support an openly Socialist candidate like Bernie? The left had similar hubris over the new ‘tsunami’ of 18-year-old progressive voters in ’72 with McGovern, and only backed off after getting pounded in the election.
The Left didn’t really back off in 1972. The movement of the day was divided regarding tactics between the direct action people (Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc.) and the Gramsci inspired takeover of the institutions in which
Even terrorists like Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers eventually joined the march.
They and their ilk have accumulated wealth and power via positions in and connected to higher education and the (related) administrative state. They now have a substantial power base even in “conservative” institutions such as the Defense and Justice departments.
Bill Barr may succeed in debulking the institutional “progressive” cancers in his department. I hope he does, but it is too late to “surgically” remove them all. The protected nature of civil service jobs guarantees this; the loyalty to the institution which the Framers intended as part of the checks and balances means that Constitutionally minded non-progressives will defend the institution against Barr (who is himself an institutional loyalist.)
The LGBT and, before that, the pro-homosexuality movement has always been a hive-mind cult. They have always accused everyone holding traditional values of morality. They have, for decades, sought power to destroy the lives of traditionalists.
She does not realize that she is what she dislikes.
I am glad that she sees how the transgender kids and drag-queen story hour stuff is bizarre and freakish. But so is homosexuality.
On another point relating to the comments, I think that the recent problems stretch back further than 2016. The Trayvon Martin case was in 2012. The Ferguson riots were in 2014. The Obergefell decision was in 2015 — and recall what happened then, with the immediate transition to demands for anti-discrimination laws, and even objections to religious exceptions to such laws.
This radicalism has been growing on campus for a long time. I don’t think that it was Donald Trump’s candidacy that caused the current outbreak.
Another thing that I’ve noticed, but have not investigated in detail, is that anti-discrimination provisions regarding homosexuality and transgenderism were inserted in federal contracts by the Obama administration.
Also remember the Brendan Eich controversy. Eich was driven out of his position as CEO of Mozilla due to his contribution to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign, the California proposition that amended the California constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. Interestingly, this was the same position on the issue held by Barack Obama in his 2008 campaign. Eich was forced to resign in 2014.
I continue to be astonished at the apparent shift in public attitudes on LGBT issues since 2008. This even extends to many people who claim to be conservatives. I do wonder how much of it has to do with successful propaganda and vilification by LGBT advocates.
I think patient zero was elevatorgate in the “skeptic” community circa 2011.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Elevatorgate
Hive. Mind. Cult.
Unsealed Borg divorce records helped get us in our current political environment, because if the judge hadn’t done it to hurt 7 of 9’s husband, Barack Obama might never have been elected Senator in 2004 and then president four years later:
When we stop giving them money.
Perhaps we could invent a rubber room for them. Same paycheck, zero responsibility, little-to-no chance of promotion.
I think people are starting to realize that the Progressives are not liberal. Liberals believe in individual freedom. Free speech, freedom to worship, freedom to do what you want as long as you don’t infringe on others. Certainly liberals don’t believe in sorting people by their race, gender, or sexual preferences. Nor do they believe in more government control of peoples lives. Remember, the hippie movement was against “The Man”. Progressives want to give The Man more power.
Assimilate me!
I’m pretty sure a lot of things that some of us heterosexuals enjoy you would also find freakish and bizarre.
Probably true. Care to elaborate?
No. Such things I wouldn’t even tell @jasonrudert.
Well sure – for example,
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