Canadian professor Jordan Peterson is right...
Scratch a social justice warrior (the same is true for an eco-warrior as well) and you'll find a Marxist underneath or at least someone indoctrinated in cultural Marxism as the result of 50+ years of academic Marxism. The ultimate aims of these movements are not to 'protect' minorities it’s to undermine what we know to be self-evident truths and to ram rod an ideology into society that humans are just pieces of malleable clay, each as inherently capable as the other and we only see differences of outcome based on oppressive socially constructed 'systems' be their patriarchy, cis normativity, 'white' privilege etc.
It is from the Marxist belief that equality of outcome is both an achievable and desirable outcome that such nonsense stems. Marxism in its earlier days was of course devoted to social and economic equality... the attempts of which to implement were of course unmitigated disasters as humans are not inherently equal. Hence coercion and force must always be a part of a Marxist system to try and achieve the desired equality of outcome. Of course, these attempts at Marxist philosophy also created systems of mass mediocracy where the potentially most productive members of society had no incentive to push themselves to innovate.
As Yaron Brooks puts it in a society with Lebron James’ or Michael Jordan’s in it you don’t make everyone ‘equal’ by pulling everyone up to their standard. No, you have to drag them down towards the mediocracy
Having failed so spectacularly as an economic system Marxism, in part, morphed into a different movement, a ‘social justice’ movement in the 1960’s (Marx does not appear to have anticipated this an may well not have agreed with it if he had lived in the era but it’s based on the core of his ideals) . Primarily in the USA to start with. It is for this reason that we should not be at all surprised of the confluence of political Marxism with social justice movements since the 60’s… for example
* Second wave (onwards) feminism
* The Black Panthers an activist from whom was the leader of the US communist party
* Black Lives Matter “we have nothing to lose but our chains" a popularisation of a slogan lifted straight from the communist manifesto
And of course, LGBT activism
“LGBT oppression, like women’s oppression, is tied to the centrality of the nuclear family as one of capitalism’s means to both inculcate gender norms and outsource care for the current and future generations of workers at little cost to the state.”
Yes you read that right these people think that a man and a woman living together raising a few kids is Capitalisms way of oppressing women and LGBT people!
They don’t want society to accommodate ‘diversity’ they wish to smash (Western) society and drag everyone down to the lowest level….
Socialism was correctly described by Winston Churchill as being “the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy”
So, what’s the answer to all this in the context of this situation? It’s simple and doesn’t require any person being “oppressed” …
Children (at least until secondary school) can attend school in practical ‘gender neutral’ clothing. Sensible shoes, trousers and a shirt/ school T-Shirt. Stop fetishizing having children express their ‘gender identity’ at school no doubt aided and abetted by ‘progressive’ parents. Let kids be kids without adult politics and when they have sexual education by all means include input on sexuality and gender expression.
But let’s not drop objective reality, don’t be confused by the claims made by the advocates…. intersex and trans gender people are not the same thing. A biological man who identifies as a woman (or vice versa) is free in my mind to have the legal right to express their identity and unless there is good reason to prevent it should have that identity legally protected.
But a trans woman is not a biological woman (and vice versa) and as such, where a legitimate difference exists in the treatment by society of the sexes and particularly in the case of trans women they should not be regarded in the same category as women.
Competitive sports are a classical example of this
Scratch a social justice warrior (the same is true for an eco-warrior as well) and you'll find a Marxist underneath or at least someone indoctrinated in cultural Marxism as the result of 50+ years of academic Marxism. The ultimate aims of these movements are not to 'protect' minorities it’s to undermine what we know to be self-evident truths and to ram rod an ideology into society that humans are just pieces of malleable clay, each as inherently capable as the other and we only see differences of outcome based on oppressive socially constructed 'systems' be their patriarchy, cis normativity, 'white' privilege etc.
It is from the Marxist belief that equality of outcome is both an achievable and desirable outcome that such nonsense stems. Marxism in its earlier days was of course devoted to social and economic equality... the attempts of which to implement were of course unmitigated disasters as humans are not inherently equal. Hence coercion and force must always be a part of a Marxist system to try and achieve the desired equality of outcome. Of course, these attempts at Marxist philosophy also created systems of mass mediocracy where the potentially most productive members of society had no incentive to push themselves to innovate.
As Yaron Brooks puts it in a society with Lebron James’ or Michael Jordan’s in it you don’t make everyone ‘equal’ by pulling everyone up to their standard. No, you have to drag them down towards the mediocracy
Having failed so spectacularly as an economic system Marxism, in part, morphed into a different movement, a ‘social justice’ movement in the 1960’s (Marx does not appear to have anticipated this an may well not have agreed with it if he had lived in the era but it’s based on the core of his ideals) . Primarily in the USA to start with. It is for this reason that we should not be at all surprised of the confluence of political Marxism with social justice movements since the 60’s… for example
* Second wave (onwards) feminism
* The Black Panthers an activist from whom was the leader of the US communist party
* Black Lives Matter “we have nothing to lose but our chains" a popularisation of a slogan lifted straight from the communist manifesto
And of course, LGBT activism
“LGBT oppression, like women’s oppression, is tied to the centrality of the nuclear family as one of capitalism’s means to both inculcate gender norms and outsource care for the current and future generations of workers at little cost to the state.”
Yes you read that right these people think that a man and a woman living together raising a few kids is Capitalisms way of oppressing women and LGBT people!
They don’t want society to accommodate ‘diversity’ they wish to smash (Western) society and drag everyone down to the lowest level….
Socialism was correctly described by Winston Churchill as being “the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy”
So, what’s the answer to all this in the context of this situation? It’s simple and doesn’t require any person being “oppressed” …
Children (at least until secondary school) can attend school in practical ‘gender neutral’ clothing. Sensible shoes, trousers and a shirt/ school T-Shirt. Stop fetishizing having children express their ‘gender identity’ at school no doubt aided and abetted by ‘progressive’ parents. Let kids be kids without adult politics and when they have sexual education by all means include input on sexuality and gender expression.
But let’s not drop objective reality, don’t be confused by the claims made by the advocates…. intersex and trans gender people are not the same thing. A biological man who identifies as a woman (or vice versa) is free in my mind to have the legal right to express their identity and unless there is good reason to prevent it should have that identity legally protected.
But a trans woman is not a biological woman (and vice versa) and as such, where a legitimate difference exists in the treatment by society of the sexes and particularly in the case of trans women they should not be regarded in the same category as women.
Competitive sports are a classical example of this
