liberalism

It is, in other words, yet another example of the way revolutionary ideals have been aestheticized, repackaged, and commodified by those they’re meant to challenge.

This is the reality: governments, corporations, and media outlets subtly (or explicitly) frame dissenters as mentally unstable—reducing radical thought to a symptom rather than an argument.

There is a power structure embedded in their language—one that is weaponized for nefarious purposes by constantly invoking symbols of legitimacy to maintain control (also, it’s this part that the left uses like a bunch of superficial and performative idiots)

This is the failure of reformism. Reformism is an insidious poison. It trains the oppressed to celebrate the leg room in their prison cell. We are taught that the few women who can reach high levels of success are enough to ignore the millions of women and marginalized genders suffering. We are taught that success makes up for oppression, and that... See more

At Ionia State Hospital in Michigan—once a psychiatric institution, now a prison—Black men involved in the civil rights movement were disproportionately labeled schizophrenic, their political rage reframed as psychiatric pathology. Why? Because in 1968, the DSM-II redefined schizophrenia, adding “hostility” and “aggression” as symptoms. Suddenly,... See more

Often, pro sex work individuals will ask if the prostituted woman enjoys her work. Andrea Dworkin defines this stereotype as the chattel whore: a woman predisposed to sexual slavery, a woman who enjoys sexual service, a woman born to be a cunt. We do not ask this of other forms of work, however. Why? Because we understand that under capitalism,... See more

The same YouGov survey that found Americans to be so unhappy with the state of movies, TV, and music found that people also generally feel that this is the decade with the worst economy, the least moral society, the least close-knit communities, and the most political division.

By positioning those that are vaguely distributed into these categories (woke, postmodern neo-Marxist) as inherently detached from reality, the right effectively renders it unworthy of rational debate, because for them, you don’t debate someone who is psychotic, deranged, or delusional...you manage them, neutralize them, and dismiss them.