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Progressive Thought, Updated
- Gender is a social construct; there are no differences between the sexes. All men are bad.
- Race is a social construct; there are no differences between the races. All white people are bad.
- No culture is better than another. Western Civilization is bad.
- Diversity of skin color is good. Diversity of thought is bad.
- Religion leads to conflict and war. Islam is the religion of peace.
- An especially harsh winter in one part of the globe does not disprove global warming. A single extreme weather event proves it.
- Marriage is oppression. Opposing same-sex marriage is oppression.
- There are no absolute truths. Absolutely.
- The Left’s violence is free speech. The Right’s free speech is violence.
- White silence is violence. White speech is violence.
- Segregation is bad. Separate black college dorms and black graduation ceremonies are good.
- Stereotyping people is wrong. All white people are racist oppressors.
- “White flight” from inner cities is bad. White migration to inner cities (aka “gentrification”) is bad.
- Diversity strengthens us by bringing in different viewpoints. Adopting diverse viewpoints is “cultural appropriation.”
- Government must be directed by the will of the people. Government must be directed by a technocracy that is shielded from politics.
- Merited success condemns merited failure, therefore no success is merited.
- The Constitution is a living document. The Supreme Court’s “Roe v Wade” decision is carved in stone.
- Raising the cost of cigarettes will discourage people from smoking. Raising the cost of employing workers will not discourage businesses from hiring.
- Slavery – an economic system in which people can arbitrarily demand others’ time, labor, and produce – is bad. Social Justice – a philosophy that holds that “the oppressed” can arbitrarily demand others’ time, labor, and produce – is good.
- Monopoly by corporations – which must satisfy their customers to survive – is bad. Monopoly by government – which can use deadly force to survive – is good.
Additions from comments:
- Voter fraud is when Republicans get elected. We stuff ballot boxes to prevent voter fraud.
- We must defund police departments that oppress left-wing rioters, looters, and arsonists. We must increase funding for police departments that protect our gated communities and that arrest Christians who refuse to wear masks while worshiping outdoors.
- The ATF, CFTC, CPSC, DEA, EEOC, EPA, FAA, FCA, FDA, FCC, FDIC, FERC, FHA, FRA, FTC, NLRB, NRC, OSHA, SEC, and Federal Reserve regulatory agencies must be strengthened because unfettered capitalism is failing.
- Nuclear, coal, hydroelectric, and natural gas power plants have been banned in California and must be banned throughout the country. Free enterprise has failed to keep the lights on in California.
- We must teach our children that 2+2=5. Unemployment is rising among high school and college graduates, proving the failure of capitalism.
- Our ideas are contradictory only in the light of Western logic – a patriarchal and racist tool of oppression.
That’s the most brilliant thing I’ve read in a while…
Fairly comprehensive. Shouldn’t there be something about defunding the police? Then when citizens defend themselves from the mob, the first words from the left are, “Somebody call the police.”
You left out the part where logic is a tool of the Patriarchy.
And math, too, but they want their paychecks to be for the full amount.
Diversity of thought is good when the left is weak, but bad when the left is strong enough to silence opponents:
(from the excellent Calvin and Maud’Dib)
Don’t you understand the intellectual power of holding two opposing, and completely contradictory points, when it suits your immediate needs to destroy those you hate?
Supposedly for having the temerity of using logic against your unbalance world views?
Well put.
Excellent!
For the COVID mask rules/BLM and Antifa protests, there’s the dichotomy that:
Laws must be obeyed or violators will face justice. Laws must be disobeyed in the name of justice.
The funniest part is that if I showed this to my Leftist acquaintances their reply would be …
”You finally get it!”
In the view of Wise Progressive Minds, the law is whatever they want at the moment.
Okay everybody, help me with the wording:
The “I’m OK You’re OK but society and our culture suck” notion can be traced in large measure to this narcissistic twit. Notions of personal authenticity (“my truth”) and pseudo-religious respect for nature were also his trademarks. Giving lectures to that era’s equivalent of liberal suburban weenies and leaving then all atwitter with his cutting edge, almost bad-boy rejection of traditional religion and politics for a living, he was the equivalent of a media figure.
Progressives immunize themselves against logic or empirical reasoning by using feelings and personal aesthetics as a moral guide under the delusion that this represents the epitome of personal autonomy and freedom. Progressivism combines the worst of commercial mass-marketing with horrific political ideas all with a patina of moral and intellectual superiority while anesthetizing the human locus within each of its followers where intellect and conscience should meet thus creating “a herd of independent minds” oblivious to moral and logical contradiction.
Emerson was indeed a twit. Perhaps his need for rhythmic balance was the only reason for the word “foolish,” but it is there nonetheless. Our problem is that the number of fools has been increasing.
Well, every example where this is discussed I see it as them saying 2+2 = 5 is valid, so maybe they are just requesting a pay increase?
The police are under no requirement to protect you, you must protect yourself. But if you protect yourself, you go to jail because you should have left it to the police.
Give them 4 and call it 5. They won’t be able to do anything about it.
A: Logic is the pernicious tool of the oppressive Patriarchy.
B: How do you know?
A: It stands to reason.
We believe in science! Biology . . . ?
Here’s a possible explanation:
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer
Well done, sir.
How about something like:
We believe in science. We don’t believe in the First Law of Thermodynamics (you can’t get something for nothing).
Another way of saying this is: You don’t need guns to defend yourself, that’s why we have trained police; now defund the police.
That is a wonderful quote.
I am so glad that these clear, logically consistent, rules are enforced by totalitarian tech that is so benevolent that if it detects that it can’t bend you to its will, is kind enough to disappear you.
Oh this is brilliant. Can I copy the bullets and send them to friends?
Those who don’t know [expletive] from Shinola teach:
Listen to the audio at the link. Am I the only one who thinks those hissing esses are very common in the mouths of Leftist women?
That was a lot of stoopid to cram into two-and-a-half minutes. If she hadn’t gone into education, she could have been VP of Marketing by now.
Well done Richard.
Sure. Please send me any additions that your friends make!