There are several factors here, in addition to the ones you stated.
1. Culture of victimhood/martyrdom. Our culture celebrates the unfairly maligned, and treats being hurt/oppressed as proof of moral value. (hence 9/11; we were hurt, so we could hurt others). So bleeding is the quickest way to sympathy...and sympathy is hard to get. I'm not saying there isn't some real victimization, but the constant "microaggressions" strike me as performative.
2. Moving goalposts. There is always money to be made in prolonging the problem. So what if we're at the least racist/sexist/homophobic time and place in history; we can do better!
3. Perfect world/utopianism. I'm guilty of that myself; it's hard not to look at the very real problems today and wonder why tf we have any of them. I'm not asking for kumbayah-ville; I just want a society that doesn't worship the Just Universe Fallacy, that doesn't base its ethics off of bronze age superstitions, where people at least TRY to examine their prejudices.
4. Lack of time sense/history. A country of 400 million people takes time to change. I'm still surprised how FAST queer rights have appeared, but anything short of complete and total acceptance (with dissenters shipped to Siberia) is not enough. I blame the Internet; it has given people a distorted sense of how quickly ideas move through meatspace.
5. Contempt for normies. Finding a queer space where non-queers can ask questions without getting dogpiled, called bigots, chased out, or otherwise made to feel unwelcome. Just because not everyone is up to date on your bespoke gender identity or every letter in the LGBTQIA[insert letter here], doesn't make them a bigot.
Great piece, 2nd I've read after discovering this sub.
I think one point left out is that so many of these causes had industries created to wage the "war", and now the war has been won, there are people with careers at stake, livelihoods on the line, who are incentivized to continue to search for injustice, else they have to find a new career.
The recent brouhaha on Twitter when GLAAD denigrated the NYT for daring to confirm Jamie Reed's allegations against the St Louis Gender Clinic she worked appears evidence of this phenomena?
I might be quite wrong, but it seems GLAAD won the battle years ago, and rather than unwind the organizational apparatus, they continue to seek new wars where perhaps war isn't the answer?
There are several factors here, in addition to the ones you stated.
1. Culture of victimhood/martyrdom. Our culture celebrates the unfairly maligned, and treats being hurt/oppressed as proof of moral value. (hence 9/11; we were hurt, so we could hurt others). So bleeding is the quickest way to sympathy...and sympathy is hard to get. I'm not saying there isn't some real victimization, but the constant "microaggressions" strike me as performative.
2. Moving goalposts. There is always money to be made in prolonging the problem. So what if we're at the least racist/sexist/homophobic time and place in history; we can do better!
3. Perfect world/utopianism. I'm guilty of that myself; it's hard not to look at the very real problems today and wonder why tf we have any of them. I'm not asking for kumbayah-ville; I just want a society that doesn't worship the Just Universe Fallacy, that doesn't base its ethics off of bronze age superstitions, where people at least TRY to examine their prejudices.
4. Lack of time sense/history. A country of 400 million people takes time to change. I'm still surprised how FAST queer rights have appeared, but anything short of complete and total acceptance (with dissenters shipped to Siberia) is not enough. I blame the Internet; it has given people a distorted sense of how quickly ideas move through meatspace.
5. Contempt for normies. Finding a queer space where non-queers can ask questions without getting dogpiled, called bigots, chased out, or otherwise made to feel unwelcome. Just because not everyone is up to date on your bespoke gender identity or every letter in the LGBTQIA[insert letter here], doesn't make them a bigot.
Great piece, 2nd I've read after discovering this sub.
I think one point left out is that so many of these causes had industries created to wage the "war", and now the war has been won, there are people with careers at stake, livelihoods on the line, who are incentivized to continue to search for injustice, else they have to find a new career.
The recent brouhaha on Twitter when GLAAD denigrated the NYT for daring to confirm Jamie Reed's allegations against the St Louis Gender Clinic she worked appears evidence of this phenomena?
I might be quite wrong, but it seems GLAAD won the battle years ago, and rather than unwind the organizational apparatus, they continue to seek new wars where perhaps war isn't the answer?
Maybe.
this is such drivel, I cannot believe you bothered to write it