TERFing Out Feminism
We fought proudly for civil rights; now they have been weaponised against us and are destroying our society
Something very strange has happened in Britain, and perhaps the West generally, over the last three decades. The civil rights that were hard fought for and hard won in the post-war decades appear to be the vehicle for movements undermining every aspect of our way of life. In short, the very rights we so proudly declared as the embodiment of British values have been weaponised against us. Whether through deliberate malice or naive ignorance, the very vehicles that once drove society to the junction of change have somehow turned one hundred and eighty degrees and are careening towards their former cheerleaders scattering all common sense and coherence in their path. How did we get here?
How did we get to a place where a man can identify as a woman and participate in a contact sport where their natural physiology gives them a distinct advantage and serious injuries occur? Where feminists speaking up for the protection of female only safe spaces only to be attacked and cancelled by other feminists? Where a gay teacher has been in hiding for three years because of threats from parents of Mulsim pupils? Where a school achieving consistent excellence and that refuses to delineate students by faith or creed is on trial for not doing so? Where expressing an opinion about the high rate of immigration having negative impacts results in cancellation and accusations of being a ‘Nazi’ or ‘fascist'?
It is easy, and a common occurrence, to blame it on the left or on wokeism, to pin it all on fourteen years of failed Tory governance, or to correlate the decline of British standards with rising immigration. All of those are factors as we shall see but there is a deeper malaise affecting Britain, and perhaps America, that most obviously appears as political apathy but rears its weary, toothless head everywhere at some point or another. After all most Western European countries have had higher immigration, more left leaning cultural and political landscapes, and more political turbulence overall (although Brexit and Trump are easily the two most disruptive individual moments in recent political history) yet millions of Europeans are out in force on a weekly basis (it seems) to protest some policy or other disgruntlement.
In Britain we have hundreds of thousands of protestors on the streets of London every week for foreign causes hundreds of miles away over which our government has no control, yet less than three thousand turn out for protests against police corruption over the industrial scale gang rape of thousands of British children. Similarly in America it seems only Donald Trump's unique personality can mobilise masses of people (on both sides) to any sort of action, far beyond any response to their nation's domestic or international activity. Yet none of this is due to a lack of passion or reasoning, as a quick browse around social media sites, a trip to the pub, or phone call to a friend will easily demonstrate. Emotions are running high, the general populous is as politicised as I have ever known it, and everyone is or has been affected by policy decisions of recent years.
The problem, I believe, is that we no longer feel that anything we do will make a difference to the world around us. And who can blame us. If you are not a Tory you have had to endure fourteen years in opposition to an increasingly incompetent government. If you are a conservative you have watched as the ‘Conservative’ party bastardised the very word. If you voted for Brexit you had to wait three and a half years of pointless delays and wrangling only to find there was no plan when it happened and the preparation time wasted. If you voted remain you are still waiting to be shown proof that Brexit should have been great for Britain. If you voted for Boris in 2019 you have watched an eighty seat majority squandered with nothing to show for it. Is there anyone not in one of those camps? I doubt it. So a lack of faith in anyone being able to affect change politically is understandable.
Then there is the failure of our national institutions to do the very job they were intended for. Police investigating hate speech on social media while burglaries, assaults and other serious crimes wait hours and days to be attended. Courts obstructing all attempts to deport foreign nationals who pose a risk while handing out ever lighter sentences for some of the most despicable crimes. The Home Office overseeing the shockingly high, record breaking immigration statistics - net migration over 700,000 a year, over 70% of asylum claims approved, nearly ten thousand failed asylum seekers AWOL. Everywhere you look, we are being failed in every way.
Lets put the left right debate to bed though. Both sides of the political spectrum are to blame for the situation we find ourselves in. The right won the economic battle in Britain, and the left won the social battles. So the right gave us individualism, the belief that we are masters of our own destiny, but in exchange we outsourced the management and oversight of society to a new breed of technocrat with their persuasive scientific models. The left gave us civil rights and a sense of collective responsibility for our society, where we could revel in our newfound individualism within a framework that said ‘as long as you don't inerfere with anyone else's right to freedom'.
Growing up in the nineties we were taught to see the person not the colour, that some people have same sex attraction, that women have the same rights as men. We did not bat an eyelid at any of this, nothing made more sense than the idea that we were all free and equal, and existed in a world where those values were universal and permanent. We were taught about the visceral ideological conflicts fought by Rosa Parkes, the suffragettes, and Peter Tatchell, how awful life had been for ethnic minorities, women and homosexuals for most of history, and we shared a collective empathy with these ghosts of the past.
But simultaneously something else was happening. We were learning to ignore, or at least pretend to ignore, some very obvious things right under our noses. In the name of this new tolerant, diverse world we mastered being inoffensive and non-confrontational. We held conversations in private and then uttered the exact opposite in public (or at best kept silent). We were made to feel ashamed of national pride, to the point where our national flag was considered a pejorative, a sign of small minded racism (until the Word Cup of course). More recently a surge of national guilt over crimes (that were not crimes at the time) committed by our ancestors was driven into our conscious by an unrelenting media frenzy to appease the indignant minority until they became the majority - publicly at least, by silencing opposition.
None of this was accidental. The long march through our institutions by extreme left wing academics was a planned objective, so as to acquire the levers of power and influence a whole generation to have the ‘right ideas' by the time their education was complete. Herbert Marcuse was a key player in the early plottings. Marcuse turned the idea of economic and political marxism into cultural marxism, where any oppressed group should fight to destroy and replace the power structure, before a newly oppressed group shoulders the burden of revolution. For such a revered thinker, the short sightedness of this philosophy is profound. The ONLY outcome of such a continual process is the atomisation of society, ironic for a movement originating on the left but the epitome of the radical left's revolutionary zeal - they gave us the French Revolution and the Great Terror after all.
Marcuse and others began a self-perpetuating process of replacing wrongthink with those who's views aligned with theirs, largely in educational establishments thus ensuring that the next generation of students were thoroughly exposed to culturally marxist ideas. These students and all subsequent cohorts, increasingly persuaded by their tutors, went on to take roles in other institutions and began their upward career trajectory. Inevitably then several decades later we find such startling statistics as university faculties staffed fourteen to one in favour of left wing views. Similarly our entire media class, minus a few outliers, are overwhelmingly left wing (and middle class, and white, and male… which is odd, given what they espouse). The same applies to our political class.
With all this in mind, it is no surprise that the phrase cultural Marxism has abounded in recent years. We are governed, protected, educated and treated by an entire class of establishment people who between them possess only a singular lens through which to see the world. It has gone so far that the Conservative party and Labour party are almost inseparable on the centre left ground, while any Conservative member uttering some vaguely conservative viewpoint is immediately disgraced. While admitting defeat to the right economically, but bleating vociferously about economic issues to keep our focus there and draw criticism for the right, the left have systematically abused the rights and values we were once so proud of to undermine the very fabric of society.
The results are beyond frightening. There are millions of people living in Britain who overtly reject all of those rights, thanks to immigration and border control policies bought in by this one sided elite class. Some are here illegally, our right to deport or detain blocked by human rights lawyers, others legally by laws introduced by the same group again and in urgent need of reform. We have leaders of terrorist groups living on state welfare in London, brazen gangs of machete weilding asian gangs in Birmingham, and a national grooming gang scandal described as ‘industrial’. Thousands of young girls have been abused with full knowledge of the authorities because maintaining racial harmony was more important, and that ignores the growing evidence of corruption directly facilitating the abuse (keep an eye on Oldham). Thousands more young people have been convinced and supported to take hormone blockers and begin transitioning sex - a concept you will find absolutely no support for on the right. Feminists like JK Rowling have had their lives and careers trashed by a transgender community that thinks she is ‘radical’ in believing women’s hard won rights to safety are theirs to keep. Increasing numbers of women fear for their safety at certain times or in certain places, certainly more than I have ever been aware of. I could go on.
On this trajectory we are fucked, to put it bluntly. Our entire culture is at a tipping point, critical mass is approaching. There is no political, economic, or social will to fix these problems, and not because nobody thinks they need fixing. It is simply that they are all desperate not to be the one seen to breach the rights of some group or other - it is deeply ingrained into their psyche to be inoffensive and non-confrontational and as a result of a lifetime of conflict avoidance they do not have the resilience to cope with the backlash. Sadly, I think this trait is now also deeply embedded in the national psyche too. If we are to break free of the shackles imposed by the liberal fusion of right and left, we need strong leaders with vision, conscience and charisma to step forward.
Peace and love x
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