I don’t usually delete my posts, even if I’m in error. And in this case, I’m actually correct, except on one point, which has proven to be of significance. But I have removed a post in which I gave Laci Green a whole lot of shit. There’s a reason for this.
I still hold that during her time as an SJW, she was completely off the rails, and all that I said was true and correct. But, as many may know already, Laci has, of late, abandoned the SJW community. Or, perhaps more charitably, she has been booted from it. And she has a fascinating story to tell about how oppressive and twisted that community can be.
There are times I fear for the future of America, and the entire Western world. Because Marxism, in its Social Justice form, has taken the moral high ground. It is seen (not by us, but by a sufficiently large number of folks) as morally superior. Peace, love, tolerance, equality, fighting poverty and injustice. Who could have an issue with those things, right?
Well, as Laci’s own story demonstrates, the peace-love-tolerance bit is largely a sham. Laci explains:
it’s…fkng sad. i feel proud of sex+. i wish i’d had support and guidance from my allies. instead – shame, guilt, very conditional warmth
Everything is conditional with them. Say the right things, or you are made to feel shame and guilt for things you have never done. There is no tolerance. Quite the opposite, there is rigorous conformity.
TL;DR my experience taught me that others who are called a *BIGOT!!* may hold the capacity to do good when given a chance (and maybe a hug).
She’s beginning to see through the lies, the accusations of bigotry, of racism-sexism-homophobia. Why? Because she, herself, was called a bigot, merely for deigning to choose a politically incorrect boyfriend.
truth: all the years ive done sex+, i absolutely loathed myself. i felt i was never good enough, always failing to do social justice right.
I’ve spoken at length on this subject before. In fact, in the post title The Weight of the World my words sound like an eerie (and much more verbose – but y’all know how it is with me) echo of what Laci just said. Observe:
Being a supposed ally means nothing to them. It neither alleviates your guilt, nor mitigates the punishments due to you for the supposed crimes of Jones…
Talk to a Leftist, and he will complain that dead people who looked vaguely similar to you perpetrated horrific crimes against humanity (while ignoring similar crimes perpetuated by people who didn’t look much like you). The Trail of Tears was your fault, so was slavery, the Holocaust, colonialism, why Somalia sucks today, and why it sucked 500 years ago, and why an overweight lesbian couldn’t get a taxi cab in Manhattan at 4 in the afternoon on a Friday – whatever. It’s all your fault. Carry the sins, accept the punishment, give up your wealth (there was a hashtag running around social media some time ago called #GiveYourMoneyToWomen), shut up and stay in your lane.
Christ could carry the weight of the world, the plethora of sins committed by mankind. I, however, am unable to do so. I’m just a man, a regular Joe. I work, I pay my taxes (I’d rather not, but it’s not like the IRS gives us a choice in the matter), I have a family, same as any other. I screw up a lot, and the weight of my own responsibilities is, on occasion, rather crushing on its own. I am not Atlas, and SJWs can sit there and try to put the weight of the world on my shoulders, but it’ll never work. It’ll never do any good.
Folks, I don’t know how much of your thinking has been wasted on the matter of social justice and progressivism. A good man might ask himself if, perhaps, he really ought to carry these chains, if you are Jacob Marley to their Ebenezer Scrooge. But the question is moot to begin with. You can’t carry these chains, whether you wanted to or not. They are too big for you. They will destroy you. When you look into the face of an SJW, you are seeing someone who was already destroyed by this weight. Their psyches cracked under the pressure. They are no longer sane, or even themselves. It is almost like they are all possessed.
So the main reason I have deleted the post on Laci Green is simple: she actually managed to prove me wrong about one thing. I’ve often lamented that reaching the other side is impossible. That once someone goes down the path of SocJus and Marxism, they are lost to us.
Laci, whatever her other failings, managed to summon the intellectual courage (perhaps with the help of her boyfriend) to escape that intellectual and emotional prison. And for that, she has my respect.
It makes me wonder how many others are trapped behind the SJWs, questioning and wondering, but too afraid to speak up for themselves, too afraid to disagree or be caught exercising wrongthink.
Is there a possibility that a preference cascade could be lurking behind all of this, one that might sweep away the tides of extreme Leftism? Or was Laci merely a little stronger (and more fortunate) than her fellows?
The question bears more thought. In the meantime, welcome to intellectual freedom, Laci. I do hope you enjoy it.
“Laci, whatever her other failings, managed to summon the intellectual courage (perhaps with the help of her boyfriend) to escape that intellectual and emotional prison.”
All well and good, but you’d be a fool to trust her. Ever.
True. Fortunately, I am not in a position where I need to trust her. And, quite frankly, she’s still miles from my views.
But if genuine, an escape from SocJus ought to be appreciated.
Per your question, “how many are being suppress by the SJW community?”
I am always amazed by the size and power of the Eastern Orthodox Church in former Soviet republics. Shouldn’t it be non existent? Weren’t all the Christians purged?
How many people are hiding out from the SJW’s? Like the Church in Russia, the answer is “almost all of them….”
An excellent analogy, sir.
I wouldn’t let mizz Green off the hook just yet. I don’t mean to be uncharitable, but admit to having a healthy skepticism, shall we say.
It’s extremely rare – dodo bird rare, in fact – for a committed progressive to fully and completely ‘leave the island.’ Even Cristopher Hitchens and Oriana Fallaci – super smart people that they were – could never abandon their deep leftist principles even when fully aware of their ridiculous contradictions with reality.
The only person I can think of who has successfully made the transition is David Mamet. But that’s it.
Maybe so. I don’t know, and only time will tell. But it is encouraging nonetheless to note that it seems possible to get out, so to speak. And I’d really like to encourage more of this. Hitchens is an ass… but I’ll take him over an SJW any day of the week. Net-net, it’s an improvement, even if an incomplete one.
I agree with the above. You have to watch these guys like a hawk. After Georgia and S. Carolina I think we’ll see a lot of “:I see the light” business coming from the Left. They dropped the mask and got popped right up side the head. The real fight going on internally in the Left will be between those who say this is our time let’s do it regardless and those “moderates” who say no we need to put the mask back on and go back to our incrementalism until it’s assured. So you’ll hear a lot of folksy talk in their speeches and they’ll all of the sudden be champions again of the “white working class”, etc.
They really really thought that Obama was their Caesar who was taking them across the Rubicon and all would flee before them. He wasn’t. If you want to draw a parallel then perhaps he was their Cataline.
In her case the change may be genuine. There are a few Leftists who have intellectual honesty and avoid incrementalist Fabian Socialism. Camille Paglia and Dave Rubin come to mind. Still wouldn’t agree with them, but I’d talk to them.
It remains to be seen if Laci will join them, or become an incrementalist. Only time will tell.
But you are right, I think a struggle is going on internally with the Left right now over this very issue.
These are true believers who never give up. You can have exceptions (after all we are human not divine, though some on the Left think they are divine). Anyway too much being a “smart guy” it’s to the “stool of silence” for me.
Forgiveness is a long and hard road. Those willing to walk it deserve the support of their peers, but only inasmuch as the sincerity of their actions lines up with the severity of the task before them. The burden isn’t on us to forgive, but on them to seek it to our satisfaction.
At the same time, the capacity for forgiveness, I believe, plays a key role in what separates good and evil. To the SJW crowd, all sin is perpetual and visited upon the descendants of the sinners. You might be paraded around as a penitent “ally” after much flagellation, but they will never forgive you. This is the mentality of someone who seeks to assert their will over you and shape you in their own interests
A just society, even when faced with someone of truly irredeemable evil, would at least be civil enough to put an end to such persons and recognize their death providing some level of absolution for their deeds. This in turn is the mentality of someone who seeks to bring others up to their potential, while recognizing how that potential is laid low if transgressors refuse to play a part in their own redemption. Those who in turn are willing to walk this difficult path, stand a chance to be recognized the fullness of their humanity. It’s this mercy, tempered by duty to uphold what is moral and just, that separates good men from evil.