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Avinaash Vasudaven's avatar

I can't be the only one who's noticed that much of liberal-progressive ideology is just taking the most demeaning and degrading stereotypes about marginalized people and saying "this is good actually, and if you disagree you're a fascist". It's almost deliberately designed to reinforce traditional bigotries through indirect means.

Example: BIPOC are dumb and have Other ways Of Knowing and so need the bar lowered for them to succeed, but this is good actually.

Women are hysterical and emotional and vulnerable and need men to be chiv... I mean be Better Allies, but this good actually.

Gays are annoying promiscuous degenerates, but this is good actually. Trans people have irrational and unstable self concepts and will rope without endless validation from society, but this is good actually.

Since all functional, well adjusted people are aware that weakness, incontinence, irrationality, and stupidity are bad things, and no amount of liberal scolding is going to make this self-evidently true fact less self-evidently true, all this has the inevitable effect of increasing bigotry towards marginalized groups, regardless of the progressives insisting that "This Is Good Actually".

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Ami Dar's avatar

You can add: when the Spaniards arrived in what is today Latin America, they found two huge empires - no other word will do - the Inca and the Aztec. And before these, we have 1,000 years of archeological evidence of one empire/nation subjugating another in an endless cycle. Europeans did not need to invent any of this. Also, yes, the idea that Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, and others are incapable of hating, fighting, and oppressing one another without European "inspiration" is just insanely condescending. Have none of these people ever heard of Genghis Kahn or the Mughal Empire?

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