It’s the same scenario when certain words are banned by a given social media platform. New funny euphemisms are developed.

Russell makes the opposite claim: that though people on the fringes of society might be in a weaker position socioeconomically, they are in a stronger position in other crucial ways.

New meanings may emerge, but past references will always be lingering in the background. Yet this desire to decree universal meaning is, again, a testament to the evangelical left’s demand to maintain total control of discourse and even thought.

Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with

valorizing the weak outsider that leftists get a front-row seat for the innovations of tomorrow.

If my model for cultural change is accurate, one would expect that as white men lose their grip on power, they would increasingly become innovators of culture—and that is exactly what has happened. And not just white men, but the low-status white men (i.e., the young), and the lowest status of those (i.e., the archetypical virgin in his parents’

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

One of the problems with being red-pilled is that once one believes everything one sees as a lie, it’s often hard to navigate to truth—and in fact the more intricate and bizarre something sounds, the more intriguing its veracity becomes.

Even worse, to get a Barack Obama to recognize that this is what is happening in his mental processes would also be a Herculean endeavor.