But lately the meaning seems to have drifted to "anyone who wouldn't personally ride a bomb onto the Kremlin like Major Kong at the end of Dr. Strangelove."
From the blog post American Thought WHITENESS, RACISM AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE Today it is almost impossible to find a person who was engaged in a discussion with the left from the West and who never encountered ideas such as white privilege, White and whiteness. In this particular view the concept of White becomes a separate “sociological category”. It looks like people sometimes forget how racism is, in similar way as class, a problem of the political and economic, i.e. it is a problem of access to societal resources and services, segregation, violence and in the role that certain group plays in a political process. It is always used to exclude certain ethnic groups based on their or their ancestors background. ‘American Thought’’s approach towards race and culture also reveals its poverty of understanding the historical role, limitations and fundamental concepts of classical liberalism; such as individuality as expressed in John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty (1859). I...
There are now Transgender women, who wrongly refer to themselves as ‘women with prostates’. This is due to the stupidity of erasing women and stupid gender neutral language The Transgender women who stupidly refer to themselves ‘women with prostates’ are hypocrites since they whine about wanting "person with a vagina" to be used for cisgender women. You don't need to make reference to someone's genitals in the context of their gender and vice versa. "If you have a shorter canal / haven't had a baby /find X uncomfortable I can do Y instead" Normal language usage is in general more elegant and thoughtful than "vagina haver" - and so such awkward language becomes a strawman. I dislike "service user" in a medical context, especially in acute services - no you are not here because you had a choice, you are here because some stuff has happened and you must be treated with sympathy, rather than as a purchaser. At least it's gender neutr...
From American Thought blog post here It is also extremely important to note how ‘American Thought’ benefits from American imperialism and its worldwide supremacy. American imperialism helps it spread mostly through social networks, popular culture and “independent” media, imposing itself, just like the USA, as the sharia police of this little socio-political scene on the international level. Or to put it in short: The World exists only if you look at it through the eyes of the American left. Social networks are crucial for spreading of ‘American Thought’ not only because they promote simplified expression, but also they are simplifying language itself which suits this narrative of theoretical simplification and poverty. Also, social networks allow certain academics, who have not published anything genuine or important in their lives and that cannot even grasp the basics of their own academic disciplines, to gain attention and a following just by saying “shocking things” on ...
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