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"Progressives", and by that I'm not just referring to education, but anti-conservative (small c) forces in general often differed from conservatives (small c) on the issues of human nature. Progressives saw human beings as basically good but corrupted by society. This always...
...caused problems in getting things done as it was obviously false or as G. K. Chesterton put it, original sin "is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved". This often caused leftwing movements to be split between working class pragmatists who wanted...
...to improve the conditions of the masses and middle class utopians who wanted to restructure society to eliminate all the evils of the world by any means necessary.
Successful leftwing parties often had to be at least a bit (small c) conservative, and often their strongest...
Successful leftwing parties often had to be at least a bit (small c) conservative, and often their strongest...
...appeals would be on issues where they wished to conserve the status quo: "Protect the NHS".
Anyway, nothing new here, but I wonder if this is why the theory that liberal societies are "white supremacist" has taken off on the left. It is a way to allow the left to accept...
Anyway, nothing new here, but I wonder if this is why the theory that liberal societies are "white supremacist" has taken off on the left. It is a way to allow the left to accept...
...a doctrine of original sin. To see people as basically flawed and to view virtue as difficult to achieve.
The problem, of course, with this is it is still only accepting it for white people. Everyone else is still basically a saint. Which is why it often comes across as a...
The problem, of course, with this is it is still only accepting it for white people. Everyone else is still basically a saint. Which is why it often comes across as a...
...theory aimed at white people who hardly ever encounter anyone who isn't white and why, in a multicultural environment, it really just creates division and strife.
But, perhaps, the non-woke left need to address it in this light, as a reaction to their own incorrect...
But, perhaps, the non-woke left need to address it in this light, as a reaction to their own incorrect...
...beliefs about human nature and their tendency to see history as the product of huge forces in which individuals are not culpable for their actions.
Well now you have a reaction to that. Every white person in history is now "super-culpable".
Well now you have a reaction to that. Every white person in history is now "super-culpable".
Of course, if this analysis is true, there's a big problem.
It effectively means that Woke politics has got something important right, but is wrong because it is obsessed with the importance of white people. Or in other words, it's basically racist.
Try selling this message.
It effectively means that Woke politics has got something important right, but is wrong because it is obsessed with the importance of white people. Or in other words, it's basically racist.
Try selling this message.
Also, I'm fully aware this analysis is blatantly in the "recent events which I didn't predict, prove that I was right all along" category.
After all, in education, human nature has always been central to the debate and the reason so many left-wing teachers aren't "progressive".
After all, in education, human nature has always been central to the debate and the reason so many left-wing teachers aren't "progressive".
