Thursday, March 9, 2017

so, let's try to think this through carefully.

i've been arguing at various levels of intensity, in various fora, that the left should not be acting as apologists for patriarchy through the cover of "religious freedom" - that is, it should not be throwing gays and women under the bus in a rush to stand up for ethnic diversity, and should rather take an idealistic stand against patriarchy, in all it's forms.

so, therefore i'm pro-trump? opposing religious refugees on the grounds of feminism means i'm in favour of christian extremism? right. sure. if you think you can explain that to me somewhere, go for it...

you're lost in a contradiction. and, yes: i'm shit-disturbing. but, you're going to need to work this through...

you can't be pro-religion and pro-queer and pro-woman at the same time. and, i'll continue to call you out on it for as long as you need to figure it out.

what is the truth here?

the truth is that some of the pseudo-left are, at their core, traditionalists: some of them are really in favour of upholding patriarchy deep down, and will in the end side with religion over feminism. getting them to admit this is a first step forward in throwing them out of the left - and that is something that needs to happen.

others are just hopelessly naive and need to have the truth of it held up to them in the most brutal terms possible, and these are the ones i'm more interested in targeting through agit-prop: they need to be shocked into seeing things as they really are, and in dropping their hegemonically enforced burkean delusions.

once again: i am not a pc-worshipping millenial progressive democrat that wants peace and love, and i'm certainly not a white supremacist christian republican that wants to run the world out of the back of the bible. what i am is an atheistic anarcho-communist gen x punk that wants to agitate and irritate and shit-disturb people into fighting against religion, against patriarchy and against capital. and, it's up to you to determine whether we have common cause or not.