It is utterly predictable that, to paraphrase Marx, the “internal contradictions” of leftism now see the two concepts of “we must respect and honor ALL ‘other’ cultures”, and “we must empower women, minorities, gays, etc”, clash headlong into each other.
And it is beyond astonishing to imagine for even a moment that any Western leftist, if forced to make the choice between the two, would not choose the latter. Yet how many GOP hating, athiest minded, etc, are vociferously and passionately prepared to go after those “other cultures” who go against every single solitary damn thing that the left has marched for for decades? (Chris Hitchens comes to mind, one of a number that can be counted on one hand.)
The fact is, it is beyond belief how few on the left are prepared to fight for their own professed values, and how many will cave in the most craven and cowardly fashion to those who oppose everything they stand for simply because those others are not of the West. Where they white Christians doing this, the left would be at the barricades. Alas, wrong color. So often the case.
Does this beg a question? Just what do these people REALLY stand for? Just what is important to them? Women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights, the right of personal faith without consequence, these all have been used to oppose that “patricharchal, racist, misogynist, Christianist” American (and other Western) society. Surely if our societies were NOT that way, there would not be such opposition to it…. right?
Yet here is the proof. It’s not that way at all. It is the undermining of the current order, NO MATTER WHAT IT MAY BE, that is the most important. That is where the delightful frission of the movement comes from.
Women’s rights? Gay rights? Minority rights? Religious rights? Feh. Convenient when useful, DISCARDED when they get in the way.
People on the left are being forced to choose. The survival of liberty depends on forcing the ramifications of what they choose and why into the light. And let them be judged.
