Yea. Fiddling while Rome burns, making mountains out of molehills, straining at the gnat while swallowing the camel whole - to coin a phrase or two.Kirbmarc wrote:The SocJus movement is just a big waste of time and energy spent in outrage after outrage trivial bullshit like "sexist video games" or "bigotry in Hollywood movies" or "gendered toys" or trying to analyze any interaction between anyone according to Critical Theory.Brive1987 wrote:These people are so fucking useless, that the upcoming end of their world was noted only as an unacceptable impost on their time and emotional energy.
No doubt they are cocooned in cotton wool waiting for woven vaginas to become the searing topic of the day.
At someone else's convention.
...... oh good. Look at what's on the telly:
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Apropos of "identity politics", something that Cathy Young recently retweeted and endorsed ("lot of truth to this"):Kirbmarc wrote:Meanwhile any worthwhile human rights cause is either poisoned by identity politics or ignored outright.
There are people who really care about human rights, but it's not the SocJus, they're more likely to be a motley crew of anti-identitarian leftists, libertarians, largely apolitical single-issue activists, and moderates.
The leftist intellectual elites in universities prefer discussing Star Wars or Doctor Who or LARPing as bolshevik street warriors.
A salient quote or two:
Though maybe somewhat surprising or a bit incongruous as Young recently touted a couple of Dr. Who shows:Doctor Who: Invasion of the Identarians
... Apparently it doesn’t matter if the show is any good – it’s great just being able to celebrate the casting of the new Doctor. You don’t actually have to watch. Paradoxically, the same media types making these grand claims are calling fans misogynistic for reacting negatively before watching Whittaker’s debut. Here’s another paradox: when a diverse sci-fi fantasy franchise succeeds (like Wonder Woman), it is held up as proof that the public is thirsting for more diverse output, but when a diverse franchise bombs (as the Ghostbusters reboot did), it is blamed on a bigoted nerd culture. Even when a production fails, the dogma of diversity wins. The quality of the material never comes into it.
The female Doctor isn’t a victory for women, but for the BBC. Through identity politics, and the media fuss it always generates, the BBC has created the illusion that Doctor Who is more popular and cutting edge than it is. ....
