Nucking Futs

A large and growing segment of the contemporary left has done real damage to liberalism—and to the country—by allowing itself to be shaped by an education and political culture that produces emotional dysfunction. In this framework there are only two relationships that matter: oppressor and oppressed…and anger is the core emotion. Everything else is either irrelevant or actively suspect. People are not primarily individuals who can be harmed, helped, or judged on the basis of their actions; they are representatives of categories whose moral standing is determined by their position relative to the designated oppressor. The result is that these leftists lack genuine compassion. What looks like compassion is almost always downstream of hostility toward the “oppressor”. If the designated enemy is straight white conservative men, then moral concern is extended to groups framed as standing in opposition to them. That concern does not reliably extend to black people, women, or immigrants who reject the required opposition; those people are frequently treated as traitors to their category precisely because they refuse to play their assigned role. The feeling is not primarily about the well-being of the people involved. It is about their usefulness against the enemy. This is why the selectivity is so consistent. All these people who treat the historical evils of slavery as a central moral fact show no interest in the ongoing slave markets in Libya. They don’t actually care about slavery. They’d happily enslave anybody they deemed “MAGA”. They only care about slavery as it fits their narrative against their enemy. Violence against Nigerian Christians receives no attention from the leftists who mobilize intensely against other forms of religious or ethnic violence, because Nigerian Muslims are not positioned as the relevant oppressor. If the “oppressors” aren’t their enemy then oppression is sanctioned. Without an enemy to drive the reaction, there is no reliable mechanism for recognizing and responding to suffering on its own terms. Ordinary liberals and ordinary conservatives can look at a situation, recognize that people are being harmed, and feel concern without first needing the harm to serve an oppositional agenda. Leftists are emotionally incapable of doing that. Once the current oppressor is defeated or discredited, anger and hate doesn’t go away. That is their driving force so they have to find a new target. The emotional and ideological need for an enemy remains. This is one reason intersectionality has proven so durable: it supplies an open-ended supply of new oppressors so that the binary can be maintained. The anger and blame were never primarily about any particular group. They are products of the framework itself, which was taught and reinforced long before any specific target was selected. It can be race, class, gender, etc. It’s also why Leftists will always eat themselves once there is nobody left to eat. It’s why they’re always racing to be the most oppressed in their meetings and intersectionality hierarchies. The most oppressed has the strongest “justifications” to kill the others once the hunger games start.

My latest at @WSJFreeEx: For some in the GOP's activist class, John Thune is the reason why the party got trounced in the midterms. They're wrong. The midterms weren't his fault, and the soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader is a valuable steady hand at a chaotic time.

Army vet at Ace Hardware this morning asked if I served. Told him I’m in the trenches EVERY DAY defending President Trump online. He said he meant the MILITARY. Told me he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. I turned the conversation back to my heroic online battles for truth. Asked how many followers he has. ZERO. Doesn’t even use social media. He fought the TALIBAN. Ok. But I’ve fought LIBERALS in comment sections for NINE YEARS without leave. ONLY ONE OF US IS STILL ON ACTIVE DUTY. 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

Republicans spent today working on our plan for the future. We hear you, and we are committed to keeping strong conservative values in the Senate. Here's a quick update on what lies ahead these next few months ⬇️

Every Friday from 2 to 3pm, someone new answers our company's customer service line. Customers don't know who it is. The person just says, "Hello, customer service, how can I help?" Last month, a man called in furious. His order was three weeks late. He'd been on hold 40 minutes the day before. He'd called four times. Nobody called back. The person on the phone listened to all of it. Twelve minutes. Then said, "You're right. That's not good enough. I'm fixing it now." The man said, "Who even is this?" The voice said...