It seems very similar to a certain left tendency to be exceedingly angry toward people who aren't on board the leftist clue train. They tend to go on and on about how fat, stupid, lazy, and greedy USers are for instance. If they'd only get a clue and get on board the leftist klew train, all our problems would be arighted. Everyone would be fighting the revolution. There's a kind of mean spirited bitterness, a tendency to belitte, attack, shame, ridicule with a specific focus on attacking their physical being and tastes. It's sort of a "*I* figured it out you lazy fucks, why can't you?" sentiment, with the implication being that the people who don't see the light are morally culpable.
the tendency seems to assume that getting on board the leftist klewtrain is the act of morally righteous individuals.
I used to see this hatred and anger from a sect of radical/cultural feminists of the sort where all oppression is rooted first and foremost in the sexual domination of women by men. All forms of what they called hierarchy flowed from that basic condition.
At any rate, I suspect the problem tends to lie in their tacit theories about how social change works: they tend to see it as something special individuals make happen.
This tends to flow out of the tradition of critical race theory, doesn't it? I have read up on it in years, bt I seem to remember that there was a strain of thought where it was expected tat you were supposed to renounce white privilege. For instance, I remember one radical feminist telling us that she married a black man in order to give up white privilege. how that worked, I wasn't sure, but she was serious as a heart attack about it and did it as part of some wider 70s countercultural movement with which she was associated for awhile.
At 11:47 AM 8/18/2013, Andy wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
>
> > What's always funny about these conversations is that I remember a
> > feminist blog war that ensued when a blogger supported some racist POV. I
> > can't remember the details except that among the critics of said blog, the
> > white bloggers were very keen to argue and very keen to call what had
> > happened racist. It was the women of color bloggers who checked their white
> > feminist allies, asked them to tone it down and, repeatedly, refused to use
> > the "r" word - even in the face of some ridiculous Scarlett O'hara-like
> > flouncing.
> >
>
>That was suggested in the FB thread, that it was most often invoked by
>whites, males, etc. (pick your dimension). I can't really say, I tend not
>to stick around long enough to determine who is in fact a dog.
>
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