Month: June 2022

The damage the trans movement has done to the left’s credibility can’t be overstated. It’s infuriating, because it’s a movement of radlibs and not leftists in the first place. If I’m going to be the “woke left”, I’m so annoyed to be associated with this shit. I really like Umair Haque’s columns, in general. He…

I’m not planning to read Elite Capture myself, but reviews of it are turning out to be a great source of blog material. Adrian Nathan West’s review in The Baffler is striking for its honesty about white people: Many white progressives—virtually all the white progressives I know—have, for fear of being thought racist or at…

Ryan Grim has written a LONG take at The Intercept on why progressive activists haven’t accomplished anything lately: uppity black people. It’s the lament of managers at activist organizations in DC. He starts by summarizing a fateful Zoom meeting at the Guttmacher Institute, on the occasion of George Floyd’s death. Leadership was like, what can…

I’m #TeamTERF, and I also read liberal/progressive media. Because of the taboo on criticizing trans people, a liberal staying in their bubble would have no idea why groomer panic is getting so much traction on the right. When the topic gets covered, it’s treated as an extension of QAnon/Satanic panic or old-school homophobia. But it’s…

Afropessimism is what happens when you realize racism is deeper than you thought and you’re still not a real person to your allies. It’s the disillusionment after solidarity. I see it as the type of maturity Derrick Bell, founder of CRT, exhibits when asked about discouraging young people with his message that “racism is permanent”:…

Let’s get this out of the way: “wokeness” means “black people stuff” and Sam Adler-Bell can’t stand it. Several nights ago, I shot up in my bed with a ringing in my ears and the queasy sense that the ceiling was getting closer and further away at the same time. I assumed I was having…

Naomi Wolf is an actual idiot, and she was still able to see the fascist direction of society back in 2007. It’s been continuous since the Bush administration, with no interruption during the Obama years. The question of whether Trump is fascist was never interesting, but the role of liberals in society is to pretend…

The idea that it’s important to understand the psychology of fascism in order to fix it has been around since the immediate aftermath of WWII. The idea that there’s something spiritually and psychologically wrong with European civilization has, of course, always been obvious to its victims. And it’s also been pointed out since the 1950s…