Whenever a new Disney movie for the 3-9-year-old crowd is released, leftist commentators go nuts, insisting that any friendship between same-sex characters means they are gay. It happened with Frozen 2, Raya, and now Luca. Even when characters are clearly little children, this madness still happens.
The neoliberal left (which is a tautology because there’s no other kind) doesn’t believe in friendship. If people are nice to each other, the left feels puzzled and uncomfortable. Why are they nice? What do they want? What’s the value they are trying to squeeze out of the interaction?
It’s good that my husband is not suspicious because that confession lasted a very long time. A more suspicious man might wonder what kind of sins I have that require such a long enumeration. In reality, though, the priest and I got into a theological debate over the need to read the Old Testament.
I just discovered that the term “Latin America” as a substitute for “Spanish America” or “Hispanic America” was introduced in the 19th century by the French to advance the goals of French imperialism.
Basically, “Latin America” was the 19th-century “Latinxs.”
Klara doesn’t understand the British pronunciation and refuses to listen to books on tapes narrated in it. But she’s perfectly fine with the West African pronunciation, even a very heavily accented one. I wish there were books recorded in it. Alternatively, maybe I should scare up a couple of British kids for her to play with.
And now I have to remove myself as faculty mentor to the campus Make-a-wish chapter. I can’t and won’t participate in the abuse of terminally ill kids so that some idiot CEO can virtue-signal.
I hate CRT and CRT-based teaching. I’m sending my kid to a private school in large part to spare her being taught CRT that is now mandated in Illinois. (We aren’t allowed to give teaching licenses to anybody who hasn’t undergone a lengthy CRT conditioning. I posted screenshots proving it before and I’d rather not do it again.)
But these anti-CRT bills that some states are trying to push are moronic. I’m sorry, but they are. Here’s the one from PA:
See what the problem is? Anything can be deemed a racist or sexist concept. Anything. Birds, water, apple juice. All this does is bring more fear, persecution, and ideological insanity into teaching as people battle whose racism is racister and who is the racistest of all the racisting racists.
You can’t win this battle through legislation. You can’t exercise power to make people stop acting crazy and believing insane stuff. Wokeism captured academia, the arts, and the tech fields not because somebody passed a law. People are genuinely and sincerely attracted to the woke worldview. It’s winning because people like it. The only way to defeat it is to propose a more attractive alternative.
In the USSR, we had the strictest censorship imaginable. Yet by the 1970s, only the tiniest minority believed in the woke dogma that was taught exclusively and aggressively everywhere. Soviet people turned away from wokeism not because somebody passed a law but because the other side was so much more alluring. It had better music, cooler clothes, more engaging ideas, more talented journalism (that people listened to secretly on old radios in the dead of night), better books. It was the same thing in the Franco dictatorship. Younger people simply turned away from the state-mandated dogma because it was boring, old-fashioned, and really uncool.
You can’t legislate the woke madness away. But you can make it so kids yawn and share memes mocking the frumpy oldster trying to pontificate about systemic racisters in class.
“Venceréis, pero no convenceréis” – you will win but you will not convince – famously said Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
“Long live death! Death to the intelligence!” yelled fascists in the audience.
We need to make our own “death to the intelligence” folks uncool. We can’t order people not to believe this garbage. But we can offer a more attractive alternative. In Spain, there’s now a whole generation of young, crazy cool, really talented anti-woke artists. There’s also a crowd of crazed wokesters who call them fascists and scream like unhinged banshees. But the woke banshees are so uncool and unattractive that I have no doubt who will win that particular battle.
I love the legislative path for many things but not for the battle of ideas.
I know people hate long posts, so sorry but I had to let it all out.
This is what I find funny. In Russia there’s wall to wall propaganda. People turn on the TV, and it’s lies, lies, lies, except for a single show on a single channel. Facebook closes dissident accounts that say anything against the government in minutes. People get hounded for disagreeing with the official line. In short, we all know how it looks.
But the result is quite different. In Russia, the people who disagree with the propaganda and preserve their sanity are all writers, poets, journalists, intellectuals. Not all of them, of course, but if you are to find a dissident, it’s going to be a person in an intellectual profession. Regular people are all completely gone, their brains eaten by propaganda.
And in the US it’s the opposite. You can much more easily find people with intact brains and independent thinking outside of artistic and fancy-schmancy ultra-intellectual circles. I come to work, and the janitor is the only person I can talk to who has fresh, interesting thoughts and zero interest in listing his pronouns. I go on social media, and the only people who aren’t zombies are regular folks, many with no college at all.
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