Well that's essentially all that the stop woke act forbids teaching.BulletMagnet wrote:What? Who the hell claims that? Nobody is "inherently" privileged:
How about you write a reply to the real claims being made and not an imagined straw man? Those moneyed interests don't want white people or any other people to lead lives of comfort and leisure either, unless they are already wealthy or politically connected. The global ruling class wants to oppress the poorest 99.9% of humanity, and they're doing just that, with a great deal of assistance from the social justice movement. The elites want infighting and disunity among the working class and the social justice movement is doing a bang up job of intensifying racial hatreds, which makes systemic improvements more difficult, not less! It has failed utterly to reduce racial violence or to increase economic conditions among minorities. Indeed, the methods they are using cannot and will never be able to do so, and that is by design. Angry twitter mobs getting individuals fired from their jobs could never bring about social change. Empowering the state and corporations to censor "bigots" and various forms of media will never bring about systemic improvements. How could one fight the existing system by empowering it? Why do they never consider that the elites will turn these powers of censorship against the social justice movement, should it ever become an inconvenience? Any time it does seem like systemic change might happen, some extremely convenient leftists inevitably show up to demand it isn't good enough, that we need even more and end up sabotaging the whole thing. Reform the police becomes defund the police becomes abolish the police, and that obviously is not happening, so nothing happens at all.BulletMagnet wrote:if society gives any group a default leg up over another it's by design, the result of deliberate and ongoing decisions and actions, which can be both quantified and thus changed.
But we're supposed to believe that somehow the established, moneyed interests with the most to lose from just such a process are the ones really pulling the strings whenever anyone states that historically-oppressed minorities still have something to complain about, because too darn many of those silly geese - who, again, are the ones who have lived experience when it comes to institutional inequality - just can't reason well enough to respond in any manner aside from beating up random straight white Christian males, and thus are, dare I say, inherently doomed to play directly into the globalists' hands?
The social justice movement is the second greatest obstacle there is to achieving any real economic justice, behind only the capitalist class itself. The social justice movement is an outstanding distraction for economic leftists that has worked time and time again. There is always some racial or gender issue happening, and no matter how minor or irrelevant it is, it will always take precedent in the eyes of the left over things like raising wages, restoring union rights, reducing work hours, enforcing antitrust law, addressing corporate corruption, taxing the rich, or ending wars for profit. Additionally, the social justice movement is by far the greatest recruiting mechanism available to the right and conservatives right now.
On an individual level, cancelling is a great way for the elites to deal with problematic individuals. Remember all of those completely baseless complaints of antisemitism that torpedoed Jeremy Corbyn's run for Prime Minister of Britain?
If the social justice movement were concerned with fighting racism and systemic oppression, they would, of course, take the most diplomatic and least confrontational methods possible when dealing with the general public. They would prefer to educate others rather than lash out angrily. They would hold themselves and their fellows to the highest standards, far beyond what they'd ask of outsiders and opponents. They would be more concerned with corruption in their own parties and organizations (in the case of American SJWs, that would mean the Democrats) than in opposing organizations. They would want to defend all people against all forms of injustice and not merely of an arbitrary selection of ethnicities against a cherry picked set of problems. They would set reasonable goals and be willing to take baby steps towards improvement. They would be willing to compromise. Finally, when and if they were cancelling someone, they would exclusively go after powerful individuals with decision making power. Worked on Weinstein! But the modern social justice movement does the exact opposite of all of those things, because it is controlled opposition for the ruling class that exists to protect all existing forms of systemic oppression.