Thursday, March 31, 2022

It's a Broken Clock Day. Ann Althouse Get's It Right For a Change.

 First the context.  Disney Corp in FL has been at war with the Republican Nazis, who are at war with the idea of gender inclusivity. The Republican Nazis passed a law which  I have no problem flat out saying, is an attack on the very idea of gender inclusivity. 

Now there is some vid making the rounds which shows, allegedly, some Disney exe talking about a plan to add queerness and drop the traditional gender greetings and shit, at their parks. 

Enter NY Post opinion writer Karol Markowitz, who announced she is,

"Quitting Disney after seeing it boast about pushing ‘gender theory.’"

I am not reading the article  as I don't have the minutes to spare. I assume at core of her revulsion is the idea people have the audacity to think differently about shit than she does. That is what makes Republican Nazis livid.  Non conformity to their biases.

Enter Ann Althouse for posting about this shit, but also for getting it right, if only partly.  She says:

"Markowicz pretends that the theme park never delivered a gender-identity lesson, but of course it did. You can deny it by restricting the meaning of gender-identity lesson, but that's a con. Cinderella, Snow White... etc. etc.... that was always delivering a gender message. It was indoctrination, just the indoctrination that was traditional and conventional. The princess idea didn't come straight from your little daughter's head. It's a meme that she was infected with. And it's pretty shallow and inane."

And I agree with her.  Now too bad Althouse did not go off on the tangent I touched on.  How Republican Nazis get livid about and over non conformity to their biases.

To my mind she has too much sympathy to the core idea of conservatism (Republican Nazism.)  I have never seen her go off on that whole . . . our way of the highway, mindset that is the core of conservatism (Republican Nazism.)  Now the counter argument is something like "wokeism" and liberal ideology is as stubborn and blind as conservatism (Republican Nazism.)  There is a genuine, if not huge difference.  At its core, liberal ideology is about increasing inclusion, and by that I mean a rejection of the idea of blanket conformity.  Giving people shit for being a bigot is not the same as being a bigot yourself.  The bigot wants people to be more like them in the ways they claim to think and the ways they seem to act.  What liberals want is for the bigots to stop being bigots, and allow for people of different thoughts and not actually harmful to others actions the dignity to be free to be exactly that.

So much not the same thing.  Even if some of the liberals do go over the top.  But that is a minority of them, and more a matter of using bad tactics, than a failure of the core ideology.




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