I always appreciate your tone when looking out over the cultural landscape. As someone who is almost 40 and has kids 12 and 13, well I’ve been exposed to this world four ways. 1) I tend to get intellectual crushes on a certain writer or video producer or radio-maker, and at one time it was for me Natalie Wynn, who is old school trans, before it was popularized and therefore a useful social power play. (S)he made this https://youtu.be/QuN6GfUix7c about the style mistake of the Left before the Left was co-opted and destroyed by faux ‘progressive’ supporting the current thing including trans rights. (S)he is also a spectacular video artist and cultural theorist and not ‘for’ stating your pronouns or demanding protected-victim status. I wonder what she is thinking about the current terrorism... haven’t checked. May do.
2) I worked with a let’s say community organizing effort which was colonized and destroyed by radical identity politics which shut down all capacity for doing the work we were ostensibly organized to do
3) my son had told me about this aggressively victim-claiming population in his school where it is clearly a case of taking up an identity which is useful to get social standing through a back door for people who don’t feel they can access it through conventional pathways that used to dominate in middle school.
4) I was at the state capital for other business and saw a young person state on the record that ‘my guidance counselor told me that I would kill myself if I wasn’t supported to transition.’ And the problem with this was supposed to be that she wasn’t being supported enough by the state legal structures, not that her guidance counselor was telling her that she would kill herself if she didn’t get cut up surgically.
I knew something what it was like and that it was growing out of proportion to any possible physical reality. Thanks for sharing the level of violence that has coalesced around this. It just keeps accelerating.
I always appreciate your tone when looking out over the cultural landscape. As someone who is almost 40 and has kids 12 and 13, well I’ve been exposed to this world four ways. 1) I tend to get intellectual crushes on a certain writer or video producer or radio-maker, and at one time it was for me Natalie Wynn, who is old school trans, before it was popularized and therefore a useful social power play. (S)he made this https://youtu.be/QuN6GfUix7c about the style mistake of the Left before the Left was co-opted and destroyed by faux ‘progressive’ supporting the current thing including trans rights. (S)he is also a spectacular video artist and cultural theorist and not ‘for’ stating your pronouns or demanding protected-victim status. I wonder what she is thinking about the current terrorism... haven’t checked. May do.
2) I worked with a let’s say community organizing effort which was colonized and destroyed by radical identity politics which shut down all capacity for doing the work we were ostensibly organized to do
3) my son had told me about this aggressively victim-claiming population in his school where it is clearly a case of taking up an identity which is useful to get social standing through a back door for people who don’t feel they can access it through conventional pathways that used to dominate in middle school.
4) I was at the state capital for other business and saw a young person state on the record that ‘my guidance counselor told me that I would kill myself if I wasn’t supported to transition.’ And the problem with this was supposed to be that she wasn’t being supported enough by the state legal structures, not that her guidance counselor was telling her that she would kill herself if she didn’t get cut up surgically.
I knew something what it was like and that it was growing out of proportion to any possible physical reality. Thanks for sharing the level of violence that has coalesced around this. It just keeps accelerating.
Yeah I wrote almost exactly this article as an email to the ppl of extinction rebellion when I signed out of there fed up https://open.substack.com/pub/jbilek/p/corporatism-the-new-new-left-and?r=1hp4he&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post thanks for sharing and again, thanks for your podcast