I have fundamental disagreements with both economic and social right-wing philosophy. But I am also incredibly critical of the virulent identity politics and exclusionary, yet somehow prevalent thought and praxis that pervades across the modern left.
For this reason, I feel increasingly isolated politically and even socially. I worry about policing myself and my conduct to avoid potentially offending others and suffering social and emotional consequences. The essentialist philosophy has especially manifested in various sub-cultures I am a part of, and has made it much harder for me to enjoy them and express myself freely and honestly within them, to the point where the number of people I can have honest conversations about any topic without fear of being judged or shamed are in the single digits.
Opinions that deviate from the corporatized leftist norm are shunned, and the people who express them often find themselves alone, or even thrust into the arms of the centre or right. Woke and woke-adjacent people have become gatekeepers that essentially do everything they can to make you believe you are actually a right-winger or centrist . . .
For this reason, I feel increasingly isolated politically and even socially. I worry about policing myself and my conduct to avoid potentially offending others and suffering social and emotional consequences. The essentialist philosophy has especially manifested in various sub-cultures I am a part of, and has made it much harder for me to enjoy them and express myself freely and honestly within them, to the point where the number of people I can have honest conversations about any topic without fear of being judged or shamed are in the single digits.
Opinions that deviate from the corporatized leftist norm are shunned, and the people who express them often find themselves alone, or even thrust into the arms of the centre or right. Woke and woke-adjacent people have become gatekeepers that essentially do everything they can to make you believe you are actually a right-winger or centrist . . .
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Yip, especially when so many are now relishing the fact that the pendulum is now heading in the opposite direction.
ReplyDeleteAt times some of the Woke evangelicals act like they are agent provocateurs, out to undermine and discredit the causes they claim to be defending.
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