Don't you think most of the waves of victimhood of different flavors are just the expression of one of the uglier sides of human nature? No one likes a whiny crybaby.
When I was a little kid in the late 50s early 60s, there was a horrible TV show called "Queen for a Day". My mother would be knitting while I played on the floor near her, and that show would sometimes air. The idea was, you had several sad-faced housewives in a row, and each one told her sob story. Then once the tear jerking was over, the voting took place. "Voting" was the dB level of applause for each individual. The loudest applause indicated the winner, who got some prize. Best of all, my mother would shake her head and laugh at it.
We seem to be stuck in "Queen for a Day" world. First we all got to feel sorry for blacks, en masse. Then, ok, everyone applauded the Jews because they went through "the Holocaust". That got tiresome so we had to go on the hunt for other tragedies and along with that, the perps and villains. The louder the press-applause, the more furrowed academic brows, the more shot you had at being the Winner at being a Big Loser.
Ok, so it's fashionable now to dump all over white men. I can't wait to see what happens when it's time for women to take their turn in the barrel. Maybe we can have a face-off of every Queen for a Day, you know, get them all into the ring and let them duke it out for the crown of Empress for a Day.
Thomas Sowell's recent, outstanding book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" gets into some historiography of the portrayal of American whites as villains, American blacks as victims, Jews as victims, and Germans as evil to the man. I do worry though that he just walked into a fan.
Somewhere, somehow a war on "white" "privilege" has emerged*. Events can be reinterpreted in the pursuit of such a war, eg characterisation of 'anti vaxxers', but also their tactics can be adopted by other interests, eg the cancellation of British politician Jeremy Corbyn for antisemitism, mass immigration in Europe perhaps.
Can this war be 'won', or will it result in a stalemate with rising populism and what happens next? (What's really suprising is how many people have been unknowingly drafted into this war by the weaponisation of outrage)
What seems fairly clear is that The Holocaust narrative doesn't fit easily into it all, except as a motivation for cancellation.
*For the purposes of this war, whiteness can treated as privilege when it's not, eg a working class white person voting for Brexit, or, privilege can be treated as white when it's not eg an Indian Harvard applicant who is a 'minority' but treated the same as a white person.
I more had the Weinstein bonfire in mind, since the theme is "confident male sexism" - but the same revolt on the status quo obviously includes Louis. The complicating but also illuminating factor for him and Kavanaugh is scoring extra-highly in the old, hypocritical order's metrics - they both promoted women within their field semi-altruistically. They just also threw in a will-be-boys moment of imperfection along the way, and so were devoured by their female clients. This targeting of the proto-woke male was foreseeable, it's why I jumped ship from Weird Twitter in 2015.
Well, if it is presaged it must either be Naziism or another 70s-style sublimation. Otherwise better to take Crichton's advice and not expect any predictions to be fulfilled.
There was an early me-too outburst in 2014/15. I forget the prompt at this point, but not the subtweets, so it's not like I was being prescient.
Don't you think most of the waves of victimhood of different flavors are just the expression of one of the uglier sides of human nature? No one likes a whiny crybaby.
When I was a little kid in the late 50s early 60s, there was a horrible TV show called "Queen for a Day". My mother would be knitting while I played on the floor near her, and that show would sometimes air. The idea was, you had several sad-faced housewives in a row, and each one told her sob story. Then once the tear jerking was over, the voting took place. "Voting" was the dB level of applause for each individual. The loudest applause indicated the winner, who got some prize. Best of all, my mother would shake her head and laugh at it.
We seem to be stuck in "Queen for a Day" world. First we all got to feel sorry for blacks, en masse. Then, ok, everyone applauded the Jews because they went through "the Holocaust". That got tiresome so we had to go on the hunt for other tragedies and along with that, the perps and villains. The louder the press-applause, the more furrowed academic brows, the more shot you had at being the Winner at being a Big Loser.
Ok, so it's fashionable now to dump all over white men. I can't wait to see what happens when it's time for women to take their turn in the barrel. Maybe we can have a face-off of every Queen for a Day, you know, get them all into the ring and let them duke it out for the crown of Empress for a Day.
Thomas Sowell's recent, outstanding book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" gets into some historiography of the portrayal of American whites as villains, American blacks as victims, Jews as victims, and Germans as evil to the man. I do worry though that he just walked into a fan.
Looks like cancel culture came into being after me too but concurrently with a white privilege:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22mee%20too%22,%22cancel%20culture%22,%22white%20privilege%22
Somewhere, somehow a war on "white" "privilege" has emerged*. Events can be reinterpreted in the pursuit of such a war, eg characterisation of 'anti vaxxers', but also their tactics can be adopted by other interests, eg the cancellation of British politician Jeremy Corbyn for antisemitism, mass immigration in Europe perhaps.
Can this war be 'won', or will it result in a stalemate with rising populism and what happens next? (What's really suprising is how many people have been unknowingly drafted into this war by the weaponisation of outrage)
What seems fairly clear is that The Holocaust narrative doesn't fit easily into it all, except as a motivation for cancellation.
*For the purposes of this war, whiteness can treated as privilege when it's not, eg a working class white person voting for Brexit, or, privilege can be treated as white when it's not eg an Indian Harvard applicant who is a 'minority' but treated the same as a white person.
I more had the Weinstein bonfire in mind, since the theme is "confident male sexism" - but the same revolt on the status quo obviously includes Louis. The complicating but also illuminating factor for him and Kavanaugh is scoring extra-highly in the old, hypocritical order's metrics - they both promoted women within their field semi-altruistically. They just also threw in a will-be-boys moment of imperfection along the way, and so were devoured by their female clients. This targeting of the proto-woke male was foreseeable, it's why I jumped ship from Weird Twitter in 2015.
Well, if it is presaged it must either be Naziism or another 70s-style sublimation. Otherwise better to take Crichton's advice and not expect any predictions to be fulfilled.
There was an early me-too outburst in 2014/15. I forget the prompt at this point, but not the subtweets, so it's not like I was being prescient.