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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"Bashing the establishment gradually became a way of gaining instant moral rectitude..."

Just about everything is downstream from morality, and the New Left would not have succeeded in its Long March if it had not first captured the high territory of Morality.

Professor by professor, specialty by specialty, one patient step after another, they wisely styled themselves as Official Defenders of the Oppressed™, and thus opposing them became to be seen as the moral equivalent of kicking the guy who just begged for spare change.

Especially as our society has become less religious, less cohesive, they were waiting in the wings to take over from the liberals who sanctified the Civil Rights movement as the great struggle for Justice & Equality in modern America.

After all these decades of cultural programming (which were mostly necessary), they were able to weaponize the ambient moral idea that we should try to heal the wounds of the past in re blacks, women & gays and mold it into a punitive tool of social Deconstruction. Now any opposition to their project just comes coded to the average person as cruelty and/or bigotry.

Simply put, the New Left has captured the means of cultural production, and they will not be relinquishing any of their newfound power without a fight.

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Anne Marie V. Quin's avatar

Please explain your parenthetical phrase(which were mostly necessary).

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"After all these decades of cultural programming (which were mostly necessary),"

i assume u mean this one...

I never want to get to the place where i deny that much of the post-60s cultural programming around racism (essentially anti-Blackness) and sexism and later on homophobia wasn't a social good and needed to make America a better place.

Unfortunately (IMHO) what started as the Civil Rights political movement eventually (perhaps inevitably) morphed into the Civil Rights religious crusade, which seems to have taken on a life of its own and become a thing-in-itself with no stopping place or end point.

Or maybe, more simply, liberals did a lot of good things only to have their work hijacked and weaponized by Leftists, who have very different goals.

Hope this makes sense....

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