Hi everyone I hope you're all well so over the past couple of weeks we have
seen a distinct shift in popular culture and public discussion generally four
five or so years public dialogue has very much been saturated with what you'd
call radical leftist social justice content topics have ranged from things
like cultural appropriation to black lives matter male privilege white
privilege toxic masculinity me too extremism microaggressions democratic
socialism orange man bad and most potently over the last six months
climate change alarmism now these topics moved in
trends for sort of a few months at a time and if you went back through media
headlines and Twitter content of course you could probably map which cause was
in vogue and when and although the vast majority of the population actually
doesn't care about this kind of stuff the minority who do push it are
disproportionately represented in the media Hollywood universities and big
tech all of which are the institutions that create pop culture and therefore
define what is acceptable and not acceptable to talk about publicly which
is why these so-called progressives who buy into social justice and cultural
Marxism have been consistently surprised whenever their preferred political party
candidate or cause has lost out of the ballot box since 2016
just because your local Hollywood celebrity is saying it and the Guardian
is reporting it doesn't mean that everyone thinks it however since the
large-scale global crisis that is currently bringing the world to its
knees the name of which I unfortunately cannot mention or YouTube will de rank D
monetize and possibly a delete to this video has really heated up social
justice warriors and causes seem to have largely disappeared from pop culture not
completely of course I mean there are still a lot of fanatics lingering around
who are trying to use what I like to call the beverage bug for political
clout but rather than being accepted by trendy metropolitan progressives they
are getting absolutely howled down or just completely ignored
it's like these social justice fanatics are desperately trying to maintain the
attention that had been lavished on them and their feelings prior to the outbreak
but people just don't seem to be buying it right now for example there was this
tweet by former Minister for women and equalities of the UK amber rod during
government briefings am I the only one thinking where are all the women why are
there no senior women in the war cabinet or used to convey those critical
messages equality means better decisions don't pack the women away during a
crisis then there are the not insignificant number of headlines from
journalists who are madly clutching at straws to find social justice narratives
in their beverage bug commentary feminism racism even trans oppression
are all featured however the grifter who really took the cake was Australian
Green Senator marine Farooqi who had this to say let us not forget that is a
gendered crisis nurses nurse aids teachers child carers and early
childhood educators h care workers and cleaners are mostly women they are on
the frontline of this public health crisis and carry a disproportionate risk
of being exposed this is especially ironic considering
that a large majority of the deaths from the bug are men and also men are more
likely than women to catch it in the first place and finally let's not forget
the insane shrieking of journalists and social justice
Haddix insisting that any mention of the bug in conjunction with where it came
from is racist this is despite the fact that diseases have been referred to by
their places of origin for hundreds of years I mean there's Legionnaires
disease Lassa fever Spanish flu German measles Japanese encephalitis Zika fever
norovirus Marburg virus disease valley fever Middle East respiratory syndrome
or MERS Ebola hemorrhagic fever OMPs hemorrhagic fever Ross River fever Lyme
disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever guinea worm and West Nile virus then of
course there's the anti-capitalist pro-socialist narrative Bernie Sanders
has of course latched on to the beverage bug as an opportunity to push his
medicare-for-all plan stating at the March 15th debate that the bug has laid
bare the incredible weakness and dysfunctionality of the US healthcare
system however as even Joe Biden pointed out with all due respect to Medicare for
all you have a single-payer system in Italy it doesn't work there it has
nothing to do with Medicare for all that would not solve the problem at all
we can take care of that right now by making sure that no one has to pay for
treatment period because of the crisis no one has to pay for whatever drugs are
needed period because of the crisis no one has to pay for hospitalization
because of the crisis period that is a national emergency and that's how it's
handled it is not working in Italy right now and we have a single-payer system
activist and author Naomi Klein also weighed in lamenting what she calls
disaster capitalism on the intercept podcast but the assertion that really
does sum up the socialist opportunist point of view comes from the publication
counterpunch in an article by dr. Michael Pappas the issue highlights the
need for socialism to face epidemics like this and by socialism we don't mean
Medicare for all or New Deal liberalism Medicare for all is not enough to face
pandemics like the bug we mean a society in which human needs govern production
not the drive for profit it's a society without capitalists where production and
reproduction is democratically planned by the working class and oppressed in
this kind of society we would be able to respond to the beverage bug
infinitely better than in capitalism needless to say this is very misguided
thinking just because a little bit of big government intervention is probably
the most effective course of action in this very specific temporary situation
does not mean that the same is true under normal circumstances we have seen
and continue to see proof of that for over a hundred years
not only does socialism not work ever it infallibly results in poverty starvation
authoritarianism and mass loss of life this is a truth universally acknowledged
by people who are not completely stupid aside from anything else
the beverage bug situation actually vindicates capitalism rather than
undermines it according to Kimberly a straw so in The Wall Street Journal
she points out that relying solely on government bureaucracy is crazy and to
the extent America is coping with this it is in large part thanks to the
nation's competitive capitalist players Kimberly points out that drug company
Roche has started on their own high volume beverage bug test in January and
were finally able to get approval from the FDA Google currently has a website
advising people on symptoms retailers like Walmart and CVS are converting
parking lots for drive through testing and private labs are standing by to
process them thirty Big Pharma and small biotech firms are racing for treatments
and vaccines moderna turned around a vaccine batch in just 42 days
Gilead science is already in phase three trials for its remedies via treatment
straight off president Trump's announcement of FDA approval for anti
malarial drugs to treat the disease Bayer announced it would donate 3
million of the tablets in addition Comcast Verizon and Sprint are
guaranteeing to keep Americans online for the next two months regardless of
who can afford to pay for service Adobe and Google are making remote learning
tools available to schools universities and parents anybody who thinks this
would have happened under socialism is the best very low IQ or at worst
sociopathic the other big push is from the climate change fanatics who are also
socialism and through lists about climate change alarmist are
noting that with less travel and less industry there are less emissions which
is apparently healing the earth they are also pointing out that the industry shut
downs being done by governments currently are pretty much exactly what
they want in terms of radical climate change action and look how governments
around the world have proved that they can act like this when pushed and
wouldn't it be just marvelous if we could only learn from this but the thing
is this has only worsened their cause because the general public has now
experienced firsthand the kinds of policies radical leftist climate
activists want to implement and it's horrifying it stinks mass job lost
broken economies loss of civil liberties like freedom of movement forced closure
of private businesses police and armed forces roaming around telling people
what they can and can't do on pain of arrests fines or force not the way your
average person wants to live especially as it's touted as a remedy that
admittedly may or may not work any idealistic notion that these kinds of
policies could be somehow reasonable and Noble has been thrown out the window in
the cold light of day nobody is going to want to even slightly entertain the
notion that mass global regulations on businesses and travel could be an option
for combating climate change not to mention the fact that these climate
activists are effectively dancing on the hospital beds of those who are sick and
dying from the bug and thumbing their noses at the family and friends of the
sick and of course at everyone who has lost that job any chance the climate
change Brigade had ever winning over the general public has been absolutely blown
not only that it's interesting to note that the millions of people who were
screaming and protesting about climate change and all those journalists and
commentators and celebrities who latched themselves onto the cause who insisted
that climate change is the greatest threat to humanity has ever faced and if
we don't do something about it right now then millions of people will die etc etc
etc have completely shut up about it surely if they truly
leave that climate change was actually the existential threat they said it was
they would be saying yes you know the beverage bug is bad but it is ultimately
temporary whereas climate change is long-term so we need to keep doubling
down on our activism to make sure the issue of the climate crisis doesn't
completely disappear from public dialogue but there's not a peep aside
from you know the inner circles of fanatics the one time climate change
activists have all moved on terrified by the fact that they now have something
very immediate and very very tangible to worry about at the end of the day normal
people don't care about ideology or politics or anything like that they just
want to not get sick and for things to go back to normal as quickly as possible
this includes the outer circles of the social justice squadrons you know the
ones who aren't fanatical but instead maybe just got caught up in the campus
craziness thought it was trendy and since they really wanted to fit in they
just kind of went along with it or the ones who were terrified into believing
in the dogma because they saw how horribly dissenters were treated and
they didn't want to have their own morality attacked in the same way all of
those who really truly mean well and want to save the world and since they
just know they're not racist or bigoted felt it was appropriate to run with the
crowd who insisted that they were the good guys uniting against a common enemy
those are the people who seem to have completely shut right up about feminism
or black lives matter or climate change identity politics pronouns and all the
rest instead they are suddenly confronted with the very real problems
of losing their jobs overnight or supporting someone who has or of dealing
with the gross intrusions by governments into their personal lives and having
their freedom of movement restricted for an as-of-yet
undisclosed period of time and all the while of course living in the shadow of
the beverage bug anxiously keeping track of the daily number of cases and
desperately hoping that they and their family won't get sick modern social
justice with all its semantics hysterics and abstract concepts
he's an actually real while it certainly served its purpose during the civil
rights era and brought forth vital social reforms nowadays with all those
battles one it has to constantly reinvent itself to have any relevance
which is why in the face of an actual immediate crisis it evaporates dad it's
God booth we in the West are living in a time of
unprecedented Plenty especially for those who on average tend to gravitate
towards radical social justice leftism that is university educated white people
who live in cities and are more likely than any other political tribe to earn a
hundred thousand dollars a year or more according to a 2018 study called hidden
tribes because of their education and class privilege which are ever so much
more real than a race or gender privilege they are free of their
financial woes of the non university educated working class so in the absence
of a world war or a depression over the last ten years they have not actually
faced any kind of massive generational challenge they lacked purpose and so
they invented one in the form of social justice and progressivism their war on
microaggressions and male privilege is not akin to storming the beaches at
Normandy yet progressives truly believe that their screechy flimsy cause was
equally or even more important than the struggles of generations past with no
threat of real violence in their lives they decided that words were violence
and that therefore anyone who uttered words that they didn't like or agree
with was engaging in physical abuse against them and should therefore be
treated as much like an enemy as any foe in a battle of old but of course none of
it was real the enemies were vapid imagined niche so in the presence of a
real enemy I'll be at an invisible one their petty woes have vanished and try
as the media and the leftist fanatical commentariat might they are as of yet
unable to rekindle that progressive spark that shone so brightly before all
of this happened so is this the end of social justice has the rift between the
chattering classes and the real world become so great that there is no turning
back has the perspective shift been so potent
that there is no realigning the masses to so petty a cause who knows but what I
do know is that when all of this is done and the world has turned roughly back to
normal the fanatics will not go down without a fight
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