C_D wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:22 am
jakell wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:33 pm
The oppression hierarchies are shifting noticeably nowadays.
Yes, the search for
greater victimhood continues. But how far will 'the left' go?
I think calling them 'the left' is a bit of a misnomer, really.
I used to be 'left of centre' but the terms of membership have changed and now I'm classified a Nazi, apparantly. I'm starting to feel less concerned about names.
I suspect the ultimate winners will be the greatest victims to have ever existed. Once all the victims have been categorised, graded and recompensed, a single group of victims will stand head and shoulders above all else as examples of the most enduring homo sapiens ( <-- yikes! Sexist alert! What's the correct term these days?) that have suffered most. They shall be crowned the undisputed overlords and all shall love and honour them. Yippee.
It's a poor label, but I need some sort of label to be able to discuss the subject, one can get too bogged down with the accuracy of labels to the extent that the wider subject gets overlooked.
When I use the term 'The Left' I more or less mean that which is driven/informed by Marxism, whether overtly as in the case of BAMN (Yvette Falarca's crowd) and RefuseFascism (Sunsara Taylor's crowd), covertly as in antifa (who would claim to be anarchists and decentralised) or cryptically in the case of pushy PC socialism and/or liberalism (the
regressive Left)**
I think there will be no ultimate victims in this hierarchy though, it seems that it is to remain fluid and subject to fashion. the latest push to re-arrange the old hierarchies (gay, race, sex/gender) using transgender issues*** seems to be a move to keep them in flux and and experiment to see what people will tolerate without pushback. I commented this on at the Old Place when trans-issues as a game changer were first floated there around 2015, there was some questioning of this but, as predicted, most swallowed this so-called new paradigm.
** Maybe I should adopt Majid Nawaz's term "Regressive Left"
*** Notice how "trans-
something" opens up a doorway (neurolinguistically speaking) for trans-
humanism. This may well be the next push.