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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024

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recent anti-policing pushes have made black communities worse off.

Yes and it's no coincidence that those Anti-policing pushes have been spearheaded by the same class of people who are spearheading HBD awareness, namely secular progressive Democrats. The party of Woodrow Wilson and the KKK never changed sides, just their branding.

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namely secular progressive Democrats

No, they are not, unless you’re referring to second order effects. The Twitter Nazis are mostly secular republicans with fratboyish views on sex and libertarian-ish economics. This is indeed not exactly tradcon, but it’s also a poor fit for what progressives believe. Blue tribe I will believe, but that’s not synonymous with progressive.

but it’s also a poor fit for what progressives believe.

I think you're wrong.

It's a simple fact of US politics that if you support race-based discrimination, you vote Democrat, or maybe Libertarian if you are an edgy /pol/ rDrama type. The GOP are a distant 4th or 5th choice after the Greens and CPUSA, and have been since Bush I elevated Thomas to the USSC back in '91.

It’s true that actually existing racism as government policy is mostly a democrat thing. But it’s also true that the Twitter Nazis are libertarian frat boys who don’t like blacks much. That’s nearly the opposite of progressive; their non race based beliefs aren’t progressive either.

Yes, they have in common a belief that racial discrimination is sometimes good. That’s a single shared belief between people who don’t have anything else in common, fight endlessly over that belief, and got to it by completely different routes.

If secular progressive Democrats were spearheading HBD awareness, it would already be taught as gospel in elementary schools. This claim is simply nonsense.

I think his point is that yelling "DON'T THINK ABOUT ELEPHANTS" at the top of your voice on every street corner is going to make people start looking around for elephants.

I think that assuming this to be intentional is in violation of Hanlon's Razor, though.

To think progressives are deliberately promoting HBD because they're old-South style racists playing 11-d chess is actually impressively deranged.

I don't think it's "deranged" so much as a plain reading of the text.

Look around. Who do you see pushing for more racial "consciousness" or "consideration" in US Government policy? It isn't Conservative Christians, or Reagan-style "Big Tent" Republicans. It's Midwestern Democrats, edgy blue-tribe socialists on Twitter/in the media, and various other flavors of secular progressive. Look at where the racial tensions have boiled over in recent years, it's progressive strongholds like Minneapolis, Chicago, San Fransisco, and New York.

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