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DeadArtistGuy's avatar

As always, thanks for writing this.

I think one way Pomo enabled wokies win arguments is that their quest for "self interest" forces us to concede *or* admit cruel truths and be seen to be cruel.

"There's a street person camping outside my front door..."

"Why should that bother you? He has a right* to exist."

Sooner or later, "our" collective irritation is going to be such that it will no longer be embarrassing to state those truths.

*Also, they cheat by invoking absolute concepts of morality when it suits them.

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I spoke on campuses and organized pro-Israel clubs through the first decade of the 2000s.

This one issue (Israel) always triggered the post-Colonialists, feminists, etc. They could only see the lone Jewish state through a lens of colonial power and would not debate anything. There were shout downs and riots from Columbia Univ in NY to Concordia in Montreal (https://youtu.be/sYUVsDfapb8).

This was an early preview of similar ideologies that grew across the board at universities in the 2010s and has come to the wider culture. We couldn’t see it then and now the West is suffering for that failure to see.

I think this defining of the two wings is excellent.

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