Oppressed or Oppressor?
I recently ran across a fascinating video on YouTube by a Canadian psychologist about “Ideological possession.”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rys45...] See also [https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/05/e...]
Ideological possession is similar to demonic possession except the possessor is an evil ideology rather than an evil spirit. It renders the possessed just as powerless. They’re merely puppets for the possessor. Being ideologically possessed alleviates any need for thinking. A fact goes in one ear, is compared to the “truths” of the ideological catechism and is filed according to the algorithm. It’s exactly like a computer program—no thinking involved. For example, a Progressive sees a White male speaking. Is he repeating the Progressive catechism? If yes, he’s right-thinking, a good person. No, means he’s an agent of the Right-wing Patriarchy—a fascist. You don’t actually have to pay any attention to the actual content of what he says. Facts, figures, arguments, evidence is all superfluous. All one needs is enough data to fit him into the proper ideological box.
To Progressives, other people aren’t individuals. We’re members of a class—male, female, trangendered, White, Black, Hispanic. We’re either Oppressed, or the Oppressor. This is why they can condemn a White male for being a patriarchial oppressor without knowing anything else about him—for all they know he’s homeless. But that wouldn’t matter. He’s a White male, by definition an oppressor. That he can’t even effectively oppress a stray dog is irrelevant. Reality doesn’t matter. “Truth” is what their ideology says is true. In their algorithm White + male = oppressor, and Black + female = oppressed, even if it’s Oprah.
It doesn’t matter if you personally aren’t racist. If the “class” you belong to is defined as racist—you’re guilty. We saw the same thinking in the Soviet judicial system—and for the same reasons. During the Russian revolution if your family owned a cow you were a Kulak, a bourgeoisie oppressor and therefore guilty of theft from “the People.” That you paid for the cow by saving from your factory salary was irrelevant and immaterial. All that mattered was your class identity. This is the same sort of seductive thinking one finds in cultists. By giving in to it the cultist is automatically a moral person. There’s nothing they have to do to improve themselves other than to just continue to believe. Anyone who disagrees is automatically either ignorant or Evil. The ignorant must be re-educated. The Evil are the Enemies of Humanity and must be destroyed.
Progressives are in favor of free speech—for right thinkers. Enemies of Humanity spout (by definition) Hate Speech and must be silenced. Progressives are in favor of free elections—unless their opponent is a fascist (i.e. not a Progressive.) In that case anything goes—vote fraud, intimidation, breaking up opposing rallies with violent attacks—whatever it takes. This is a war against the Enemies of Humanity. By definition anyone who opposes them is a White Supremacist, a Nazi in favor of oppression. The actual beliefs of their opponents are irrelevant. No need to talk to them. There are no individuals. If they’re White and male they are always oppressors. If they’re a person of color or female (or think they are) they are always oppressed.
This is the opposite of the scientific method. It’s the same way of thinking that led in the Middle Ages to literal witch hunts—except now our witches aren’t cat-loving old widows who dabble in herbalism—they’re White males.
I’ll take my stake medium rare.
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For a complete examination of this topic read my Conservatives are from Mars and Progressives are from Venus...at least until Amazon and Smashwords take it down because it’s “hate speech.”
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rys45...] See also [https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/05/e...]
Ideological possession is similar to demonic possession except the possessor is an evil ideology rather than an evil spirit. It renders the possessed just as powerless. They’re merely puppets for the possessor. Being ideologically possessed alleviates any need for thinking. A fact goes in one ear, is compared to the “truths” of the ideological catechism and is filed according to the algorithm. It’s exactly like a computer program—no thinking involved. For example, a Progressive sees a White male speaking. Is he repeating the Progressive catechism? If yes, he’s right-thinking, a good person. No, means he’s an agent of the Right-wing Patriarchy—a fascist. You don’t actually have to pay any attention to the actual content of what he says. Facts, figures, arguments, evidence is all superfluous. All one needs is enough data to fit him into the proper ideological box.
To Progressives, other people aren’t individuals. We’re members of a class—male, female, trangendered, White, Black, Hispanic. We’re either Oppressed, or the Oppressor. This is why they can condemn a White male for being a patriarchial oppressor without knowing anything else about him—for all they know he’s homeless. But that wouldn’t matter. He’s a White male, by definition an oppressor. That he can’t even effectively oppress a stray dog is irrelevant. Reality doesn’t matter. “Truth” is what their ideology says is true. In their algorithm White + male = oppressor, and Black + female = oppressed, even if it’s Oprah.
It doesn’t matter if you personally aren’t racist. If the “class” you belong to is defined as racist—you’re guilty. We saw the same thinking in the Soviet judicial system—and for the same reasons. During the Russian revolution if your family owned a cow you were a Kulak, a bourgeoisie oppressor and therefore guilty of theft from “the People.” That you paid for the cow by saving from your factory salary was irrelevant and immaterial. All that mattered was your class identity. This is the same sort of seductive thinking one finds in cultists. By giving in to it the cultist is automatically a moral person. There’s nothing they have to do to improve themselves other than to just continue to believe. Anyone who disagrees is automatically either ignorant or Evil. The ignorant must be re-educated. The Evil are the Enemies of Humanity and must be destroyed.
Progressives are in favor of free speech—for right thinkers. Enemies of Humanity spout (by definition) Hate Speech and must be silenced. Progressives are in favor of free elections—unless their opponent is a fascist (i.e. not a Progressive.) In that case anything goes—vote fraud, intimidation, breaking up opposing rallies with violent attacks—whatever it takes. This is a war against the Enemies of Humanity. By definition anyone who opposes them is a White Supremacist, a Nazi in favor of oppression. The actual beliefs of their opponents are irrelevant. No need to talk to them. There are no individuals. If they’re White and male they are always oppressors. If they’re a person of color or female (or think they are) they are always oppressed.
This is the opposite of the scientific method. It’s the same way of thinking that led in the Middle Ages to literal witch hunts—except now our witches aren’t cat-loving old widows who dabble in herbalism—they’re White males.
I’ll take my stake medium rare.
* * *
For a complete examination of this topic read my Conservatives are from Mars and Progressives are from Venus...at least until Amazon and Smashwords take it down because it’s “hate speech.”
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
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