The problem with opinions is, that unless one had the time or opportunity to hone them, they are what we
might call airheaded. Well, depending on what one means by 'honing' ... one can certainly also hone
airheadedness ... . Which is when we speak of airheads. Maybe not really, but ... close enough.
So - ever so often I come to voice my opinions - and ever so often I feel torn back and forth about having
done so; And the process of figuring out whether it was a good or bad opinion is slightly less ...
comfortable. Certainly because now I'm troubled over having said or written something that is possibly
stupid ... and eventually the fear of at least people thinking "this or that way" of me ... can be
stressing.
the Woke agenda
Well, the story isn't going to be that I'll suddenly turn out to be conservative because leftist airheads
have become just too much for me. Though the story may be similar - the solution against airheadedness is
not to become one yourself.
But well.
The story is an old one - and by now I've grown tired to re-iterate on it. But it flares up ever so often
- and in essence it's one of how super-far-left types basically accuse everyone not far-left enough of
some kind of crime against humanity - or well: sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia - that
sort of thing; And in opposition to them you're basically put into the same basket as everyone as far
right as it gets. And that's something that's bothering me right now - because, overall I have been maintaining
a somewhat skeptical attitude towards some of the Alphabet Mafia. And to keep it simple - for now, perhaps it
makes sense to categorize the LGBTQ+ into an Alphabet Mafia and a Rainbow Mafia. I, for my part, certainly love
the rainbow and I like it as a symbol for what the LGBTQ+ stands for - but I can't help but feel like it's
somewhat tainted.
The thing is, that if I were to criticize "them" - and then moved on to get somewhat angry over their inability
to engage in the topic with anything but utter rejection - I in a sense find myself pushed into an array of
talking points that are very common in the conservative right. From getting their ideology shoved down our throat
to "can't even criticize them" - there's all that and things in between that comes to mind. And all of a sudden Abortion was illegal. Which is to say, that on the conservative right, this whole "can't
even criticize them" is a very convenient front for more radical fascist ideology. But well, so now I'm basically
making the "they make us look bad" argument - to say that all those "crazy lefties" that hold on to those ideas
that attract easy criticism, do attract a lot of the homophobia and transphobia that then gets extended onto the
rest of us. And what can I say? I certainly don't take issue with people who make 'us' look bad. But well ...
.
Gender Identity
Sometimes writing about this feels like batting myself on the head. And I don't know what the issue is. Thinking
about it though, I get mixed feelings that sortof make me regret having said anything. And so I come to assume
that maybe the issue is, that science doesn't do the trick. I mean, to imply that you have to gender me correctly
because science - while true - also feels a bit like extortion. That would however be one of those conservative-right
talking points.
Then, maybe, it also makes me feel weird because I barely have any experiences with transphobia ... IRL. And overall,
the world around me has been pretty inclusive, supportive ... albeit sometimes I was under the impression of having
triggered actual trans-PHOBIA. As in ... a fear response.
Overall I'm comfortable with it not being a topic; And so, yet again, I get to look at "the LGBTQ+" and must wonder
... in how far I'm actually a part of "that".
Similarly so - when it comes to inter-germanic racism, for instance - I find myself sympathetic towards it although
I don't engage in it. It's weird. I mean, I didn't have much real life encounters where I might call someone a retard;
And those few occasions that could have developed towards that - they ended up resolving themselves somehow.
But nonetheless - things I see through my screen ... certainly lead to a variety of swearing.
So - there is a certain disconnect between what I "support" and what I "do myself". Although perhaps just a minor
one.
In all that it so would seem, that I have a considerably large overlap with "the conservative right" - and sure,
during the haydays of gamergate (the pre-Trump era), I guess I would have been very vocal about that being the
case. Except I wouldn't have called "them" conservative or right-wing.
There so is this dynamic, where this agenda of inclusivity leads to exclusion - where, if you're not woke enough
you're considered a bigot. And now I see myself being a victim of this exclusion; Or at least I can think that
that's why I feel how I feel; And oh howdy is there a ... "colorful cast" of people who would await me to say
that they've been right all along.
Well, sure thing. I never quite abandoned the anti-SJW within me - it's just ... not that simple.
So, the thing is - that once this "inclusivity" leads to "exclusion", whereby the excluded then move on to embrace
all this misoginist, homophobic, transphobic nonsense - I wouldn't blame that exclusion on the inclusive party being
too woke; But more so on the excluded party being actual bigots. So, in that regard, I found that the wokes have
been right all along.
Responding to this video - well ... . I just started rewatching it - and being up unto the half-point of it, it seems
oddly relevant to what I'm concerned about here.
So, on the matter of 'fixing people' - the 'right wing agenda' has found a clear modus operandi - which is to fling shit
against the wall until something sticks; And to then go run with it. And the same seems to be true for the left and the
center of the political spectrum. Thereby I would move on to argue, that within those three groups them, there is a "hard
core" that thrives off of their own odds with the others. Thus they can be labeled as harmful - and when it comes to the
right-wing side, that is the most obvious. On the left then we have a hug-box. So, inclusive spaces that thereby produce
a wealth of ideas that works for people that are affected - as within the others - such that people can experience comfort
in their alienation unto the world around them.
And in cases where homophobic parents clash with queer kids ... I certainly have more sympathy with the rainbow spaces;
Especially when taking the extent of the homophobia that ocurrs there into consideration. Or rather than just the
homophobia, the overall stubborness and bigotry.
At the end of the day however - I can assume that this "three groups dynamics" implies that there's something very wrong
about that. My go to issue would be the matter of validation. While the term "you're valid" is pretty common in those
rainbow spaces, it's certainly at the heart of either one though. To say as much as that there probably is a place
where you can get your shittiest ideas validated. "Ask Elon Musk".
And oh, don't get me started (LOL, I can do that pretty well on my own) - ... [wooza - rubbing temples (virtually)] ...
The problem then being, that vulnerable people develop some dependency on the validation they receive. Yes "pull yourself
up by your bootstraps" - but not really. Anyway, when it comes to the left, the situation is far less unanimous - I assume -
because it's just independently the right direction. And so there is a lot more friction between ... let's call it:
Applied rationality and the "hard core"s hugboxing. What I'm getting at is, that I hear it ever so often that it are
mostly white people that are very vocal about oppressed minorities - with the minorities themselves being ever so
often rather uncomfortable with being shoved into the spotlight under those "woke narratives".
Either way - I can barely see how one might use their head AND be migrating between either of those three groups.
It is then due to their similarity, I have to assume, that they can very easily accuse each other of their own faults -
with only those outside ending up with a deep imprint of their hand on their forehead.
And trying to make sense of it, is maybe how it feels to be a "Strand Extractor". Strand Extraction is a job in
Dwarf Fortress, which is to extract Adamantine Strands from raw Adamantine; And apparently it's an arduous task.
Good that these Dwarves don't have to deal with Frustration.