Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:39 pm
ok, how about this... what exactly is the difference
between dressing up for Halloween and dressing up as
a drag queen? I can't see any difference at all.
But you are inordinately virtuous, aren't you? Those who arrive at your level should I think be more generous to those still in the phase of struggle. Was such virtue innate or was it taught you?
It seems clear to me that to understand those who oppose sexual deviancy in the public sphere -- and we have one emblematic example that is a 'gone-viral' example called Drag Queen Story Hour -- that all we need to do is turn to those who have strong opinions on the subject and ask them.
Do you pay attention to the media where such people express their ideas? I have found
James Lindsay to be quite coherent in presenting his arguments on the theme. But I think one has to be somewhat *primed* for them in order to receive them. He sees in the 'deviancy' I identify the undermining influence of general cultural Marxism. But many, I admit, would have to spend a few weeks in forced therapy in a reeducation prison harshly managed by Joe Arpaio to see Lindsay in a positive light (or to be capable of critiquing so-called cultural Marxism).
I find it hard to believe that you cannot distinguish between dressing up for Halloween in a peculiar costume and the organized event of a drag queen reading stories to infants in a public library.
Drag Queen story hour has many different levels of social significance. And the purpose, or one of them, of such an event is to
accustom children to the presence of outrageous gender-benders (as they call themselves). It fits with processes of establishing new standard of normalcy. It is, ultimately, didactic. Those who oppose this hyper-liberalism point out that the activism of Gramsci has had results: the
long march through the institutions dragged in a really bizarre overweight creature with big hair and fantastic make-up.
What
exactly is the difference. You mean you wish for those who respond to you do make it
exactly clear? Do you mean
sort of exact, but still a bit fuzzy, or do you mean absolutely and thoroughly exact. Shall I present the data from an MRI?