The current leftist-feminist social justice cult ideology is often called with the moniker "regressive left" (as a counter-point to their own claims that they are "progressive"). But what does that mean? What's so "regressive" about it?
I think this article is the perfect example of what it means, titled:
This looks like something you could have perhaps seen in the 1950's America. Even as-is.
As a society we have made great progress in the past 50 years, but the "progressive" left is trying very hard to drag us back to the era of open blatant racism and racial discrimination.
But wait, perhaps I'm just ripping a headline out of its context. Maybe the article is exactly how ridiculous such a statement is, and criticizes people who would think like that? Or perhaps it's just a parody?
No. It's serious. The article says, for example:
Oh, but surely I just ripped that off from some random blog somewhere? Who cares what some lunatic bigot has to say on some random blog where anybody can write whatever they want without supervision? Or perhaps it's just some extremist radical black activist publication somewhere? Surely something completely fringe.
No. It's in The New York Times. You know, one of the biggest news corporations in the world.
That's why they call it the regressive left.
I think this article is the perfect example of what it means, titled:
This looks like something you could have perhaps seen in the 1950's America. Even as-is.
As a society we have made great progress in the past 50 years, but the "progressive" left is trying very hard to drag us back to the era of open blatant racism and racial discrimination.
But wait, perhaps I'm just ripping a headline out of its context. Maybe the article is exactly how ridiculous such a statement is, and criticizes people who would think like that? Or perhaps it's just a parody?
No. It's serious. The article says, for example:
"As against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible."Profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible... Just all white people as a collective. As if they all were a monolithic group, almost like its own species of wild animal. You know, like the racist ideas of over 50 years ago?
Oh, but surely I just ripped that off from some random blog somewhere? Who cares what some lunatic bigot has to say on some random blog where anybody can write whatever they want without supervision? Or perhaps it's just some extremist radical black activist publication somewhere? Surely something completely fringe.
No. It's in The New York Times. You know, one of the biggest news corporations in the world.
That's why they call it the regressive left.
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