renard_ruse
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The "Myth of The Oppressed Demographic Groups" is the underlying ideological foundation of all post-modern liberalism and "social democracy" in the western world. As western society has been more or less utterly ruled and controlled by liberalism and "social democracy" since the 1960s (not just politically but across all institutions including schools and universities, mass media, Big Entertainment, charitable foundations, advertising and yes even to a significant extent corporations and the financial sector) it has therefore been the underlying ideological foundation of western society itself for at least 45 years.
Instead of diminishing with time, as we move farther and farther away from the civil rights era, and as many traditional majority groups are even disappearing from existence, the rhetoric that other groups are "victimized" and "oppressed" actually gets stronger. The non-stop cacophony of propaganda we are bombarded with 24/7 in western society about the victimhood of select groups, with zero actual factual basis, just keeps intensifying. So deafening has it become it now drowns out nearly all other issues besides stupid foreign policies like imaginary "threats" from Muslims or Russia (those are other issues entirely).
Yet, the idea is so obviously idiotic and untrue, with any open eyed assessment of today's society. Most real victimhood is against the very groups the liberal establishment says are in fact are the "privileged victimizers," for the ultimate irony in the whole thing. I understand the ruling establishment's need to perpetuate The Myth, every ruling elite needs an ideology to justify its rule and consolidate its power around.
What has never made any sense is the religious-like commitment to the idea among lay supporters, and their angry defense of it as an unquestionable gospel. The lay supporter, for example, include some of those on this board (they are on all message boards of course, and all universities, and well, everywhere, even though they are a minority of the overall population, they shout the loudest). In the past I just considered them either 1. misguided, or 2. evil. Yet, in truth, perhaps these lay supporters actually BELIEVE The Myth is true.
As hard as that is for me to get my head around, I am starting to think that it must be more than just brainwash that leads to the militant support for The Myth and the angry hateful response toward anyone who questions any aspect of It. Some of them may be "true believers" yet, of course, they get nothing from it themselves, and simply prop up the ideology of the ruling corrupt elites. Useful idiots I believe the Communists called such people.
Instead of diminishing with time, as we move farther and farther away from the civil rights era, and as many traditional majority groups are even disappearing from existence, the rhetoric that other groups are "victimized" and "oppressed" actually gets stronger. The non-stop cacophony of propaganda we are bombarded with 24/7 in western society about the victimhood of select groups, with zero actual factual basis, just keeps intensifying. So deafening has it become it now drowns out nearly all other issues besides stupid foreign policies like imaginary "threats" from Muslims or Russia (those are other issues entirely).
Yet, the idea is so obviously idiotic and untrue, with any open eyed assessment of today's society. Most real victimhood is against the very groups the liberal establishment says are in fact are the "privileged victimizers," for the ultimate irony in the whole thing. I understand the ruling establishment's need to perpetuate The Myth, every ruling elite needs an ideology to justify its rule and consolidate its power around.
What has never made any sense is the religious-like commitment to the idea among lay supporters, and their angry defense of it as an unquestionable gospel. The lay supporter, for example, include some of those on this board (they are on all message boards of course, and all universities, and well, everywhere, even though they are a minority of the overall population, they shout the loudest). In the past I just considered them either 1. misguided, or 2. evil. Yet, in truth, perhaps these lay supporters actually BELIEVE The Myth is true.
As hard as that is for me to get my head around, I am starting to think that it must be more than just brainwash that leads to the militant support for The Myth and the angry hateful response toward anyone who questions any aspect of It. Some of them may be "true believers" yet, of course, they get nothing from it themselves, and simply prop up the ideology of the ruling corrupt elites. Useful idiots I believe the Communists called such people.
