CalassoMinor
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The mask has slipped. It was never about inclusivity. It was about stealing your toys, smashing them in front of you, and watching you weep.
This is something that anyone interested in Literature has known for awhile, that the "Diversity" agenda was just another tactic in the postmodern Left takeover of the Humanities, that there was no real interest in adding "diverse" authors such as José Saramago, Sei Shonagon, Louise Labe etc etc, but the goal was always the smashing of the 4 Olds and the total ideological takeover of all Lit depts (and outlets).
This is from Mark Bauerlein, who teaches English @ Emory:
"Once the multiculturalists got rid of the old canon, their promise of a richer, fuller curriculum of multiple cultures never materialized. The outcome proves the point. They didn’t want a new and improved humanities curriculum, adding Toni Morrison to Shakespeare, adding wives and mothers to kings and generals in history courses. No, the revolutionaries just wanted to take out the Western/American heritage. The tradition had to go, period. “Diversity” was a dodge, a tactic, a temporary step in the discreditation of the old.
The real goal had already been accomplished, and right in front of us: the demolition of literary tradition, of a Western literary canon and an American literary canon."
I hate to say what is probably obvious, but I do have some insight as a resident of the Blue Bubble with many gay friends etc etc: but at least in my neck of the woods once any remotely tribal signifier is invoked (in this case "Drag") it just becomes pure confirmation bias all the way down.
Once anyone on Team Blue hears one of their tribal signifiers (and of course same goes for Team Red) I can immediately see their brains twisting to come up with any possible "hey, move along nothing to see here" defense.
The usual suspects are: it's just kids playing dress up having fun; it's just something you heard on Fox; Drag isn't sexual; or the old favorite, you sound like a Republican.
Sorry I guess I don't see a mistake theory way around this. After the whole Don't Say Gay thing, which was so drenched in Big Lie propaganda, Drag Kids is just another tribal shibboleth, and this is when the cerebrum gets bypassed for the amygdala.
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