Choice quotes:
“I also fell in with feminism … initially drawn to the anti-violence aspects but always somewhat repelled by the girl-boss twist.”
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I also thought of myself as “anti-capitalist”, until a wiser, older friend astutely pointed out that everything I complained about was better described as “globalism” and “corporatism”. I’m not opposed to hierarchies, or to competition. I don’t believe that all people are born equally smart, talented, and/or hardworking, but I dislike the incentives that push top-talent into careers I consider to be unethical or exploitative (e.g. investment banking).
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I quickly became disillusioned by the socialist activists I met and by many of their political stances (e.g. abolish or defund the police).
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It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly I gave up on the left. It might have been when my provincial NDP government tweeted that it was a “dangerous myth” that having adequate Vitamin D levels would protect against Covid. It might have been when I saw “leftists” and “socialists” celebrate the burning of Catholic churches. … I attended a socialist rally in a local park … and everyone except for me, my husband, and one Indigenous speaker were wearing masks. They praised China for their Covid policies and said Canada should be more like them. They served chips and other junk food. They vilified the police and landlords, without making distinctions between law-makers and the working people responsible for enforcing them, or between slumlords who owned multiple buildings and small-time landlords renting out their basements. They pushed for decriminalization and legalization of hard drugs such as cocaine, meth, and fentanyl…
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…even in a more equal society, crimes like rape and murder would still occur and require police action. I said if anything the police needed more funding…
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I’ve done a lot of reading and podcast-listening. I started engaging with content and content creators that mainstream liberals maligned as “right wing”, “conspiracy theorist”, evil in one way or another. I discovered that I quite liked Joe Rogan and many of his guests, and frequently agreed with him. Many of the people I’d been assured were “bad” actually seemed pretty reasonable,…
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The totalitarian aspects of the “woke” movement became impossible to ignore.
Pregnancy and motherhood further changed me. I became more critical of mainstream feminism.
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Race Realism:… there are average differences between different races and ethnicities and because of this racial parity in certain careers is not desirable. If medical doctors are disproportionately Indian and Jewish, that’s fine because I think what’s more important is we all get fairly good healthcare. If the majority of airline pilots are white men, I also think that’s a good thing because it’s in everyone’s interests that planes don’t crash. I also think that “white” people, in particular those from within the Hajnal line, are unique (note: not better), in particular that they are more “autistic” (for lack of a better word) on average than other populations
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Jewish People: Yes, the Jewish advantage in general intelligence is clearly a real thing, and in a pure meritocracy, Jewish people will disproportionately be represented in “elite” professions. Jewish people seem to be unusually capable, and that means that individually they are capable of great good and great evil. Whatever path humanity turns toward, whether to light or darkness, I suspect it will largely be Jewish people who lead us there. (She has a Jewish husband)
it seemed to me like a lot of [socialist activist’s] ideas would hurt small businesses.
Mom and pop hitler strikes again
I dislike the incentives that push top-talent into careers I consider to be unethical or exploitative (e.g. investment banking).
Yeah, we should push them into a volcano
Lmao fascists always write an article or make a video like this and it’s always the same nonsense. Totally bullshit, I’m going to hazard a guess that this person is trying get an online following
It really is wild they think it’s fooling anyone.
“I was a card carrying communist until somebody told me I shouldn’t spit on homeless people while calling them racial slurs and I think we can all agree a man has to draw the line somewhere.”
Although the entirety of the democratic party apparatus seems to have fallen for it considering how hard they’ve been tacking right but who knows.
is this not just a fascist larping
You know an article is going to be insightful when the first several paragraphs are about the author’s blood quantum. /s
Fascists, literally all the time: “Awww did I huwt the baby’s feewings? Lol snowflake! You having your feelings hurt means I’m right!”
Also fascists: “A leftist was rude to me, so that’s why I’m a fascist.”
First thought: literally who?
Brief search: oh, an idle rich kid turned D-tier author and opinion-haver.
Shocked that a nominal socdem “in the top 10 percent of the 1 percent wealthiest in the country” would “leave” the “left.”
Writing a “Why I left the left” article on substack.com is in and of itself a parody
I can excuse police brutality, 1000s of daily deaths from COVID, and race realism, but serving chips and junk food goes too far!
Get in the mineshaft.
If I let people know that I might have been a Republican but literally started moving left because republicans were rude to me, I’d be laughed out of the room but chuds can justify racism by saying the left rudely told them racism was wrong.
I will never understand how many Westerners’ brains just completely bricked at the thought of wearing a fucking paper mask
Just the tiniest little imposition on their fReEDumS - to halt the spread of a deadly virus, no less - and they immediately began to petulantly fill their diapers. Fucking pathetic
NGL, I am slightly embarrassed on behalf of lifelong conservatives, specifically Catholics.
Imagine making a firm commitment to live a moderate, ascetic life and even going through lent annually and then your entire political philosophy is flooded by people who specifically join your ideology for hedonistic reasons.
Then they call leftists weaklings even though they’re too decadent to sacrifice their own pleasures for any idea. Progressives and conservatives alike should mock these people.
Ah, but yuo see, if they really cared about public health they wouldn’t be serving junk food and simping for big pharma.
Because it means “limiting” their “life” for the sake of others. A grave sin in western culture which sees only others to be burdensome or a feast to suck dry to advance their own station.
I absolutely to this day cannot understand it at all. I just can’t. People have explained it over and over, smart people who study americans and american culture, but it just slides out of my mind.
Idk how any serious person can reject Feminism and not be completely throughgoingly evil. For one, there are so many feminisms. Just pick one that appeals to you. But it’s also such a basic idea. The “feminism is the radical idea that women are people” cliche really does sum up the basic demand.
Can’t leave what you were never part of. She dipped her toe in the water, encountered actual left-wing ideas, got scared, and backed out.
It was a sunny day, and everyone except for me, my husband, and one Indigenous speaker were wearing masks.
Fucking
Uhg, that last quote about average Jewish intelligence; Liberal’s eagerness to accept that “pleasant” myth betray their corrosive latent racism.
“I’m not antisemitic I just think jews run all our hospitals” is some serious “I’m not racist I just use the n-word against n-words” energy.
I really, really fucking hate nazi crocodile tears. They accuse others of antisemitism out one side of their mouth, while spreading Holocaust denial and blood libel out the other.
No no, I said you have a racial bonus to that stat, not a debuff. Why can’t you people take a compliment?
Happens to Asians too