As Lizzo's case shows, it is usually true that the "higher they are the longer they fall". It does seem like that people who are so keen on the victim Olympics, and claim the status of the poor and downtrodden aggressively, also not very nice people when they are in the position of power. Who knew. It is also quite chilling that people can now be arrested for Tweets in certain parts of the world. There are also fundamental problems with the woke as the ideology seeped into institutions, politics, and culture.
But there is a core issue with the progressive mindset, and the progressive ideology that is going to bring it down for sure.
Just look at feminists. (Currently at the fourth wave as they are.) They played the identity politics card as hard as they could, and they succeeded. (Anyone seriously arguing that women are oppressed in Western countries is a deluded moron.)
However, this does not stop. First, they need to keep the ball rolling, because many people built their careers on this -so new groups are needed to fight for. And suddenly the "old school", hard-core feminists found themselves in the place of the evil white men they fought- the reactionary TERF, who is oppressing poor trans people. The tactics, the language is the same, but the sides have changed. Heck, their efforts to have the "women are identical to men in every way" idea entrenched only helped trans activists who took this concept and made it their own. (Weirdly now feminists, like Kathleen Stock, are demanding that men to raise their voices, even though they were quite insistent that they shut the f... heck up and stand in line, until now... but that is a different matter.)
All of which is ironic. And this will keep going on and on as the groups to be fought for are getting more and more fractured. But this also means that the "mainstream" will have to accept weirder and weirder things, and at some point the dichotomy between reality and ideology will break the system. People could accept "gender pay gap" as a fact even though the way it was calculated is completely bonkers, and even a first grader should see the problem with it. They can ignore domestic violence statistics, etc., etc... Then came the whole issue of who we support -Islam or women- in Europe during 2015 (Islam won - apparently the issues with women's rights in Islamic -and to be fair, other non-European- cultures are non-issues, and mentioning them is Islamphobic). But now the whole "what is a woman" thing is breaking things apart. This is something you average person will not ignore, even though you are trying to muddy the waters with the differences between sex and gender. And this process will continue since the woke have only one way to go -forward. They need to double down or else. Which, eventually, will mean that the whole ideology will crash and burn. You can kinda see signs of it with the whole MAP thing... You can't possibly normalize that with most of humanity as most people have children. It is an interesting topic to explore, but somehow the lines are much, much more blurred than activists declare them to be.
This is not a bad thing -the only problem is that they can do enormous damage until then. For one, enactment of misplaced, sexist and racist policies, destroyed individuals and the rest - but the strengthening of the far Right is also a big issue they carry the responsibility for.
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