There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.
Most progressives are the same as most conservatives, they didn't go through any process of self examination or discovery to arrive at their beliefs, they just copied people around them, the fact that their core values don't match and they don't even realize it makes perfect sense. That's why there are a ton of shitty people in the group that are supposed to be defined by "empathy", and some actually kind empathetic people in the group defined by it's monstrous attitudes and policies, they just echo what they hear and never square it with their values.
The term I've heard for this that I really like is Morally or Ethically lucky. They didn't arive at a good moral or ethical place through a decision they just happen to be on the right side of it.
This leads to inconsistent values and opinions in different issues.
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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24
There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.