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Jim in Alaska's avatar

Good essay Baldilocks, my favorite white supremacist! Hey, of course, if it suites their narrative ain't nothing about you to negate their deciding you're a white supremacist, to the irrational we're all whatever they say we are. To a certain extent I pity rather than fault them, so scared and unsure that they make up things about others just so they can feel a wee bit better about themselves.

Not quite germane but writing the above make me think of back when I was a card carrying latter day beatnik in NYC in the early '60s. I worked with a gentleman from Harlem who had rather a strong dislike for pale skinned folks. Over time we became friends but, as he did not want to associate with whites and would never admit to friendship with such, he decided I was passing.

I suspect his usage of the word is still common and understandable today, but just in case; someone who is passing is a Negro who skin is light enough that he or she can and does 'pass' as a Caucasian.

His suggesting I was passing, of course didn't offend me but I did find it rather humorous with my blond hair, blue eyes and Irish grandparents that didn't hit the American shores until the 1920s. & no, I didn't pity or fault him, I quite understood his was just doing what he needed to do to get through the day and I was, am, quite sure some of my actions/views are rather humorous to others as well.

I do like Elite rather than Left as a descriptive of the self appointed masters of the world. Left of center is a rather inadequate depiction of such today.

Corporate overlords; The line twix government bureaucratic busybodies, media talking heads, politicians in strange beds, corporate woke, internet "influencers", klowns and Karens on the streets, in the stores, ...., is blurred, it's hard to tell where one ends and another begins these days. I think the words elites and/or wannabe elites covers them all pretty well.

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Stephen Skubinna's avatar

<i>Specifically, educational systems stopped calling leftist concepts and ideologies by name.</i>

Not only that, but they will jettison their own terminology as soon as it becomes a liability. Critical Race Theory, for example (which incidentally is only a subset of Critical Theory, which comes from the Marxists of the Frankfurt School). They were happy to throw that phrase around until it started receiving adverse attention, because when you take even a cursory look it's impossible to reconcile with equal treatment under the law or even anti-racism. So once it was obvious even to the normies that it was a) an anti-American field of thought and b) permeating all levels of the education establishment, the left pivoted on a dime and denied such a thing even existed, and anyway it was only taught in advanced law school classes.

Likewise, woke. It is their word, and they were happy to use it until the normies heard it and realized that it, again, expressed a virulently anti-egalitarian mindset. So they mocked it and said the knuckle dragging right loved top throw the word around but couldn't even define it, hur hur hur.

Which is nonsense. We know what it means. They know what it means. But since it became baggage, into the realm of alt-right conspiracy theories it went.

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