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Social Justice Warriors for Christ
I've been thinking about the folks that my generation called "politically correct people" and the younger generation calls "social justice warriors" (Wow, making a new term for no reason! You guys are so hip!)
Basically, think of it as a refinement of dirty tricks, in which the powerful pretend to be underdogs in order to escape responsibility, allowing for more abuses. The main tactic involves witchhunts.
But wait, there's nothing wrong with witchhunt, if you're after actual witches. And there's nothing wrong with defending the oppressed by hitting back at the privileged - if you understand that the most oppressed people in the world today are wealthy white men who lack bizarre fetishes.
I've had enough of marriage culture being "expropriated" by gays, of Jewish Hollywood profiting from "exoticist" caricatures of Christianity in movies like "Noah" and "Ben-Hur".
I mean if you don't see how every Christmas Shopping season for me is a non-stop kristalnacht of "season's greeting" swastikas and "Santa" idolatry, you're suffering from privilege blindness, and you need to stop athiestsplaining in my safe space and check your privilege. I have a disability in that I'm not able to betray my religion and convert to atheism, but of course you guys don't see that as the ableist oppressors that you are.
Okay, maybe it's going to be a hard sell to get Faith and Loyalty called a disability. But let me give you an example from my good friend and occasional tenant Trent Harvey Jr.
Now, back when he was employable, he worked in a Washington D.C. think tank that not only preached ruthless competitiveness, but also practised it. One of Trent's rivals - a slick woman, in every way - quickly sized him up, and figured "this Trent guy is very weak on social skills. I mean, he's so clumsy with his words that it's almost a disability. But not quite a disability. Which means I can exploit that and get away with it."
So the rival insisted that everyone change the buzzwords and terminology for everything every day, and people were expected to get very angry at people who failed to keep their vocabulary up-to-date. Now, this sort of thing is easy for me - I never use for word "bigger" for fear I'll be misheard, unintentionally or otherwise, and of course I'm not dumb enough to say "niggardly". But it's hard for Trent. Making social interactions even more needlessly complex than they already are - that's like solving a poison ivy hazard by burying landmines everywhere. In short, someone with (almost) ableist privilege was using Trent's relative disability against him.
Of course, nobody saw what the rival was up to, because their social-skills abilities made them blind with privilege. When Trent tried to explain what was going on, it just sounded like whining to them. They told him to get a grip, grow a pair, stop acting like a woman (now there's a insult women have the privilege of never having to hear), quit being a wimp, and all of the other slurs used to manipulate insecure young men.
Then one day Trent said "I'm got to stop being an enabler with internalized oppression. I'm going to speak truth to power! I am crippled, hear me roar!"
So, inspired by how his weakness was used against him, Trent cleverly used the rival's weakness (She's in a wheelchair) and installed speedbumps all over the office. Now for every time Trent trips over his words, she trips over his speedbumps. Thus the playing field is leveled (though not literally, of course)
Justice! Diversity! I have a dream!
Basically, think of it as a refinement of dirty tricks, in which the powerful pretend to be underdogs in order to escape responsibility, allowing for more abuses. The main tactic involves witchhunts.
But wait, there's nothing wrong with witchhunt, if you're after actual witches. And there's nothing wrong with defending the oppressed by hitting back at the privileged - if you understand that the most oppressed people in the world today are wealthy white men who lack bizarre fetishes.
I've had enough of marriage culture being "expropriated" by gays, of Jewish Hollywood profiting from "exoticist" caricatures of Christianity in movies like "Noah" and "Ben-Hur".
I mean if you don't see how every Christmas Shopping season for me is a non-stop kristalnacht of "season's greeting" swastikas and "Santa" idolatry, you're suffering from privilege blindness, and you need to stop athiestsplaining in my safe space and check your privilege. I have a disability in that I'm not able to betray my religion and convert to atheism, but of course you guys don't see that as the ableist oppressors that you are.
Okay, maybe it's going to be a hard sell to get Faith and Loyalty called a disability. But let me give you an example from my good friend and occasional tenant Trent Harvey Jr.
Now, back when he was employable, he worked in a Washington D.C. think tank that not only preached ruthless competitiveness, but also practised it. One of Trent's rivals - a slick woman, in every way - quickly sized him up, and figured "this Trent guy is very weak on social skills. I mean, he's so clumsy with his words that it's almost a disability. But not quite a disability. Which means I can exploit that and get away with it."
So the rival insisted that everyone change the buzzwords and terminology for everything every day, and people were expected to get very angry at people who failed to keep their vocabulary up-to-date. Now, this sort of thing is easy for me - I never use for word "bigger" for fear I'll be misheard, unintentionally or otherwise, and of course I'm not dumb enough to say "niggardly". But it's hard for Trent. Making social interactions even more needlessly complex than they already are - that's like solving a poison ivy hazard by burying landmines everywhere. In short, someone with (almost) ableist privilege was using Trent's relative disability against him.
Of course, nobody saw what the rival was up to, because their social-skills abilities made them blind with privilege. When Trent tried to explain what was going on, it just sounded like whining to them. They told him to get a grip, grow a pair, stop acting like a woman (now there's a insult women have the privilege of never having to hear), quit being a wimp, and all of the other slurs used to manipulate insecure young men.
Then one day Trent said "I'm got to stop being an enabler with internalized oppression. I'm going to speak truth to power! I am crippled, hear me roar!"
So, inspired by how his weakness was used against him, Trent cleverly used the rival's weakness (She's in a wheelchair) and installed speedbumps all over the office. Now for every time Trent trips over his words, she trips over his speedbumps. Thus the playing field is leveled (though not literally, of course)
Justice! Diversity! I have a dream!
We can certainly use the PC police to shut up all the atheists who register here solely for the purpose of triggering us.
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