The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity
14th January 2019
Victor Davis Hanson turns over a rock.
Ironically, the quest for a superficial separation from the majority comes at a time when the majority has never been so committed to the promise of the Declaration of Independence and when equal opportunity has become a reality rather than an abstract ideal.
Yet in our new binary society, we all have a choice to be seen either as victims or victimizers. And thus we make the necessary adjustments for the often more lucrative and careerist choice.
January 14th, 2019 at 13:37
Excellent article. I’m about 99% sure that this desire young SJWs have to identify with (and speak for) fashionable minorities is what’s behind the recent explosion in young people identifying as sexually non-conforming. How else does a white kid who grew up in an intact middle-class family with two white heterosexual biological parents — someone who has never been poor, never been oppressed, never suffered discrimination or any other major hardship — get the street cred he/she/it needs to be a good SJW? A few, like Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King, will be brazen enough to identify as black, despite having two parents who are whiter than mayonnaise on Wonder bread, but most will not. Instead, they decide they are homosexual or bisexual or pansexual or gender fluid or transgender or whatever the current fad is. Instant victimhood! See, I’m one of the poor oppressed victims of the cisgender white heterosexist patriarchy!
January 14th, 2019 at 16:57
And there’s a government program for that….