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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 22, 2021, 10:54 pm
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How do you know a False Leftist is talking? They use long-winded
terminology that doesn't actually mean anything:
HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AM0NX
[quote]White supremacy a 'transnational threat', U.N. chief
warns
...
“Far too often, these hate groups are cheered on by people in
positions of responsibility in ways that were considered
unimaginable not long ago,” Guterres said. “We need global
coordinated action to defeat this grave and growing danger.”
[/quote]
OK, so what does "global coordinated action" mean? Answer: no
one knows and no one needs to be able to say. (At best it means
many countries officially agreeing on record that white
supremacism is deplorable, and then going back to ignoring the
problem.) This kind of terminology is designed to placate
listeners to think that something is being done so that they
don't need to do anything themselves.
What does a True Leftist think we need to defeat white
supremacism? Not "global coordinated action". We need to
eliminate all white supremacist bloodlines. This is the
difference. Every policy proposal by a True Leftist, whether or
not you agree with it, is something that can actually be done
and, more importantly, something that anyone can trivially check
to see whether or not it is being done at any given moment.
[quote]Guterres warned about the power of digital platforms and
the use and abuse of data.
“I urge all Member States to place human rights at the centre of
regulatory frameworks and legislation on the development and use
of digital technologies,” he said. “We need a safe, equitable
and open digital future that does not infringe on privacy or
dignity.”[/quote]
This is even worse. How can a digital future be all of the
following: safe, equitable, open, private, dignified? It is
impossible! Furthermore, for whom? Should digital platforms be
safe for white supremacists? Open to white supremacists? Offer
privacy and dignity to white supremacists? But False Leftists
don't care about making sense; they only care about hitting all
the words which sound nice, even when put together it results in
logical contradiction! This is why no one should bother
listening to False Leftists talk.
And "human rights"? Should white supremacists have "human
rights"? This is why no one believes False Leftists can defeat
the enemies they claim to want to defeat. The very way they talk
(and indeed think) precludes them from being able to defeat
anyone!
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 3, 2021, 10:29 pm
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A False Leftist attacks Kendi using progressivism:
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/not-all-anti-racist-ideas-are-good-ones-the-left-isnt-being-honest-about-this/2021/02/22/c83d4870-7179-11eb-b8a9-b9467510f0fe_story.html
[quote]Ibram Kendi, author of the bestseller “How to Be an
Antiracist,” argues for an extremely expansive concept of racism
that pushes the boundaries of structural analysis to the limits.
...
Kendi writes that “we degrade Black minds every time we speak of
an ‘academic-achievement gap’ ” based on standardized test
scores and grades. Instead, he asks: “What if the intellect of a
low-testing Black child in a poor Black school is different from
— and not inferior to — the intellect of a high-testing White
child in a rich White school? What if we measured intelligence
by how knowledgeable individuals are about their own
environments?”
We certainly could do that. But the fact remains that if African
American children continue to be less likely to learn to read
and write and do math than White children, and less likely to
graduate from high school, then this will contribute to other
unequal outcomes down the road.[/quote]
Yes. Such as a lower probability of inventing new machines for
space travel. Which is the whole point. We want a population
which will not invent new machines for space travel, or even
maintain those already invented.
[quote]Education is not a cure-all for labor market
discrimination, and educational disparities don’t fully account
for the Black-White earnings gap. But they partially account for
that gap while also leaving people less able to organize
politically, protect themselves from financial scams and
otherwise navigate the modern world. Stigmatizing the use of
test scores and grades to measure learning undermines
policymakers’ ability to make the case for reforms to promote
equity — from providing air conditioning in schools to combating
racially biased low expectations among teachers.[/quote]
The correct way to address the earnings gap is not to try to get
the low-earning to earn more, but to put a cap on wealth.
The correct way to address lack of political organization is to
end democracy.
The correct way to protect people from financial scams is to
eliminate finance itself.
The correct response to the modern world is to end it.
Air conditioners should never have been invented.
But of course the author, being a progressive, is unwilling to
give up on these things. Which is why progressives are part of
the problem.
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: rp Date: March 3, 2021, 11:28 pm
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The author of the article is Matthew Yglesias (Jew), so no
surprises there.
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: rp Date: March 6, 2021, 12:07 pm
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How standardized tests were designed by racists and eugenicists:
HTML https://youtu.be/SwYiOrq5c8s
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 6, 2021, 9:14 pm
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I think Kendi argued poorly in the above video. Yes, IQ tests
were designed by eugenicists, so at least explain why we
shouldn't want a society that practices IQ-test-score eugenics!
The answer is that such a society is more likely to keep Western
civilization running:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
(Also, why was he wearing Western clothes FFS?
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/
)
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 15, 2021, 12:29 am
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The worst thing is that progressives are on board with space
travel also. Read the following utter idiocy:
HTML https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/black-people-white-people-and-orange-people-on-mars/
[quote]Going to Mars can help Earth solve racism. Also, sexism.
If we do it right.
...
Going to Mars inspires young people to know that doing the
impossible can become possible. Once, it was impossible to split
atoms, walk on the moon, or understand the human genome. Now
it’s in the realm of what humans can achieve. Why, on Earth
then, do we limit our beliefs to think that we cannot “achieve
the impossible” and cure inequality? If a very huge majority of
people say no to exploitation, it can be stopped.
...
The first human colonists on Mars will come from a changed
Earth, one that better knows itself. We will also learn, more
than ever before, that we are one species among many. We can
unite with this fact, and let it seep deeply into the shared DNA
of our bones.
To know for a fact, once and for all, that we are not alone in
the Universe is huge. It could well change our petty opinions
about in-groups and out-groups. It could inform and improve our
religions, and our narrow perspectives on who “belongs.”[/quote]
Anti-racists already exist, and we did not need to go to Mars to
become anti-racist. So why should going to Mars be necessary to
promote anti-racism? Put another way, anyone who must go to Mars
as a prerequisite to become anti-racist is not really
anti-racist! Of course, progressives are simply bad at thinking.
(The reality is that progressives are Westerners, therefore like
the idea of going to Mars for the usual Western reasons, and are
just trying to rationalize in some nominal anti-racism as an
afterthought.)
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Utopianism is Slavish!
By: guest5 Date: March 23, 2021, 5:32 pm
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Walter Isaacson Hopes CRISPR Gene Editing Will Be Used To Create
A Utopia, Not A Dystopia
[quote]Author Walter Isaacson's newest book explores Jennifer
Doudna's revolutionary work on CRISPR gene editing, which has
the potential to revolutionize humanity. Isaacson's new book,
"The Code Breakers: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the
Future Of The Human Race," is available now. #CRISPR​
#TheCodeBreakers​ #WalterIsaacson​[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZviX6VjaeY
All utopian ideals are rooted in hedonism and all hedonism is
slavish. Furthermore, what do you think rightists would create
with CRISPR technology? Are you people completely fucken insane
at this point or what? What is wrong with your brains? Why can
you not think clearly?
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: Avena_sativa Date: May 28, 2021, 11:08 pm
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Arson attack destroys power supply to site of Tesla Giga factory
in Berlin
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 26, 2021, 12:29 am
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False Leftists are confused about vocabulary:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/university-warns-against-using-oppressive-171700004.html
[quote]A Massachusetts university compiled a growing list of
words and phrases it considers “oppressive” and discouraged
people from using them.
The phrase “killing it,” for example, is language Brandeis
University wants people to stop using.
"If someone is doing well, we don’t need to equate that to
murder," Brandeis’s Prevention, Advocacy, and Resource Center
wrote in a new "oppressive language list."
The list is divided into five categories: violent language,
identity-based language, language that doesn’t say what we mean,
culturally appropriative language, and person-first
alternatives.
“Take a shot/stab at,” “trigger warning,” and “go off the
reservation” are all on the “violent language” list because they
“needlessly use imagery of hurting someone or
something.”[/quote]
Many people (e.g. rightists) deserve to be hurt. To discourage
such imagery is to promote the notion that no one deserves to be
hurt, which is going to ensure we lose when the fighting begins.
[quote]People should also stop using “rule of thumb,” another
phrase on the list, as the “expression allegedly comes from an
old British law allowing men to beat their wives with sticks no
wider than their thumb.”[/quote]
OK, this one I agree with. Nice information about Western
civilization too!
[quote]The “identity-based language” list includes terms that
are masculine-dominant, such as “you guys,” “policeman,”
“congressman,” and "freshman.”[/quote]
"You guys" is not masculine:
HTML https://www.etymonline.com/word/guy#etymonline_v_14401
[quote]"fellow," 1847, American English; earlier, in British
English (1836) "grotesquely or poorly dressed person,"
originally (1806) "effigy of Guy Fawkes," leader of the
Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5,
1605). The effigies were paraded through the streets by children
on the anniversary of the conspiracy.[/quote]
[quote]“Ladies and gentlemen,” a phrase often used to address a
crowd of mixed genders, should also not be used, as it is
“within the gender binary, which doesn’t include
everyone.”[/quote]
I agree (in fact I was proposing this one long before mainstream
academia was).
[quote]The term “African American” should also stop being used.
“Black” is listed as a “possible alternative” as “not all Black
people are from Africa and/or America.”[/quote]
I agree. As I keep saying, this is the only correct definition
of Africa:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Roman_Empire_-_Africa_Proconsularis_%28125_AD%29.svg/578px-Roman_Empire_-_Africa_Proconsularis_%28125_AD%29.svg.png
But "black" should eventually be phased out too, as it too is a
Western concept.
[quote]Even a more generic term such as “people of color” is
considered “oppressive,” as the center said: “If you are talking
about a specific racial group, name the group you are talking
about.”[/quote]
WRONG. These so-called "specific racial groups" are Western
concepts, which is what we need to get rid of. Thus using "POC"*
is better than using these group names, as it emphasizes our
outgroup status only and not the Western concepts designed to
divide the outgroup. On this account, the more direct
"non-white" is even better than "POC".
(* Jews are not POC.)
[quote]Similarly, “transsexual” is a word people “outside of
that group should not use.” Instead, the school recommends
people simply refer to them as “trans and gender non-conforming
folk.”[/quote]
Far too complicated. People who have had limb-lengthening
surgery are not called "height non-conforming folk". Why have
special terminology for gender only? (Answer: because Westerners
are obsessed with sexual dimorphism.)
[quote]The university also encourages people to stop using words
such as “crazy," "insane," "wild," "lame," or "walk-in,” as in a
walk-in appointment, because they are “ableist.”[/quote]
Wrong again. The important thing is whom we call "crazy". Here
is an example of the correct way to use the term "crazy" (also
note the correct use of the term "you guys", because anyone
dressed in Western dress code is grotesquely dressed):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbZHDC9oleU
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/
[quote]The word "picnic" also made the list because it is "often
associated with lynchings of Black people in the United States,
during which White spectators were said to have watched while
eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving
racial slurs against Black people."[/quote]
So do you want people to remember how evil "whites" are, or do
you want them to forget? I want them to remember and hence buy:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
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Re: Leftists against progressivism
By: Avena_sativa Date: June 26, 2021, 4:49 am
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[quote]Brandeis University[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis_University
[quote] Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational
institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was
established on the site of the former Middlesex University. The
university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.[/quote]
If this university’s anti-racism efforts were in any way
sincere, its administration would have started by abolishing
every one of its institutional references to Judaism and by
renaming the institution itself.
More on the racist who the university is named after:
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis
[quote] Brandeis also became a prominent figure in the Zionist
movement. He became active in the Federation of American
Zionists in 1912, as a result of a conversation with Jacob de
Haas, according to some. His involvement provided the nascent
American Zionist movement one of the most distinguished men in
American life and a friend of the next president. Over the next
several years he devoted a great deal of his time, energy, and
money to championing the cause.[/quote]
Leftists should treat this university no differently than the
many other institutions and monuments on American soil dedicated
to racists.
Given the amount of rubbish published along with the kernels of
truth, it seems that the university is deliberately trying to
confuse anti-racists, which is of course consistent with the
interests of every racist. Considering this intrinsic racist
self-interest that must motivate the university’s decisions and
its remorseless display of its rotten origins, I find it
reasonable to assume that it only ever feigns adherence to any
semblance social justice as some sort of preemptive measure in
order to dissuade future Cancel Culture targeting.
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