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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tno6nPT66RM

Have we talked about Georgia Meloni’s powerful speech? A few days ago half my twitter feed was talking about.

I believe she is fundamentally correct that we have robbed society of their identity and tried to replace it with whatever pronouns are.

The consumer stuff gets a little silly but whatever it sounds good. Need to have an enemy your fighting against.

My pro nouns are

Man, American, Catholic, Son.

I think makes a strong implication that gender identity and whole pronoun thing is for those without roots. Empty people.

I was thinking about her speech on my way into work today, and I realized that invalidating my identities is indeed the current work of the successor ideology. I am not allowed to be Normal, Patriotic American, Not Racist, or A Good Christian anymore, the four identities I most value.

Taking away the ability to identify as they choose is the oppression the purity spiral progressives fought against, but once they won, they kept going.

Sure you are.

I rate as 2-3 of those 4, and I'd proudly announce such to anyone I work with or know by name. It might not even get a weird look. Ads for political candidates and for trucks proudly trumpet one or another of those categories.

Yeah, you could probably draw down some ire for stating such on the wrong parts of Twitter. But in the real world? In your job and neighborhood? We can still live those values.

At my workplace two days ago, I walked in on a conversation about fast food, and one of my co-workers actually said this: “I won’t eat at Chick-fil-A because they sponsor charities that commit genocide against LGBT people in third world countries.” I looked around incredulously, but the other two people in the room just nodded sagely.

Now, this goes beyond mere bigotry. They were claiming that every meal bought at a Christian restaurant chain includes some money going to killing people for being gay. That’s a blood libel, and in that moment, I realized some people who call fundamentalist Christianity “American Taliban” or “Y’all Quaeda” are no longer joking.

I wrote a more thorough commentary on that conversation, which is depressing to hear, as a top-level.

I want to defend the broader stance and say that a fossil criticism of one organization is not the same as a blanket condemnation of Christians. Ultimately, though, I would agree with you that being anti-Christian is more acceptable than any of the other categories. Regardless of the historical justifications (which mostly cash out as "it's still punching up, right??"), this sort of conversation is depressingly plausible.

But you aren’t allowed to be those things in your public persona anymore. You can’t be a son. You can’t be a Christian. They are literally trying to repress these things at elite institutions https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-academy-diversity-training-tells-cadets-to-use-words-that-include-all-genders-drop-mom-and-dad

At a technical level I'd be more offended that the Academy which now produces both Airmen and Guardians recommends using "Guardians" in favor of "Mom and Dad."

A diversity PowerPoint says that cadets shouldn’t assume parental gender. Corporate PR in the armed forces, sure. How the hell is that exclusive of “being” a son?

“Refrain from saying things like mom or dad”

You can secretly be a son you just can’t openly be a son.

Oh, we’re interpreting this different ways. I figured it was if you don’t know—like if asking “where are your parents?”

If it is actually telling cadets not to gender their own, known parental units, then whoever wrote the guidelines is a moron. I don’t think that’s what’s going on, but I’ll grant that.

It doesn’t sound like it means if you asks someone “use neutral terms” but if you talk about yourself you shouldn’t say your a father or a son etc. Which robs people if their identity as a father or a son.

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