Why Do They Try to Make Bad Things Cool? |
If someone came up to you and said, "Hey, you're punctual, focused on achievement, prioritizing evidence over emotion, and determined to succeed on merit," you would probably reply, "Thanks!" But that's not a compliment, at least not coming from the Left. No, that's an indictment. See, you are demonstrating "white supremacy." These characteristics, which built this country from a land of Stone Age savages into the greatest, most prosperous nation ever known, are, in fact, bad. You know it because "white supremacy" is bad, and these things constitute "white supremacy."
So, why are they trying to make things that are bad seem awesome? They understand that controlling the language means controlling thought. It's label creep – the creeps expand the definition of bad concepts to include good things that they hate because the good things keep the leftists from getting what they want.
Only a weirdo adheres to "white supremacy" as normal people would understand it. Goofs going around sounding off about how they are cool for happening to be born a particular race – black, brown, and yellow supremacy are equally ridiculous concepts – is a clown. Your race is not an achievement; it's just a thing, and one you had zero to do with. So, that's why we understand the term "white supremacy" to be something bad. And yet, the go-to move for the Left is to take that label and apply it to other things, things that happen to be awesome that they want us to be ashamed of. To be able to read a clock, to be ambitious, to strive for success, and to believe effort should be rewarded (and sloth punished) are great things. They are also things the Left hates, so it tries to poison them by associating with things we think are bad.
Except it won't work. Normal people are not as dumb as leftists either are or think we are.
Look at the word "racism." It's a punchline now, a living, breathing demonstration of the "cry wolf" principle. That's because "racism" has shifted from what everyone agrees is a bad thing – discriminating invidiously against people based on their........