SwiftQuill

I remember when I identified as a progressive liberal roughly 4 years ago. I used to consume a lot of Breadtube content. In my view, my stances weren't even "political". My stances on things were just "be a good person, let others live their life". I supported: Gay marriage Homosexuals adopting children Legalization of most drugs Immigration Taxing the wealthy Green energies Fixing the wage gap Reparations (when applied surgically) That being said, I have always been against DEI and Affirmative Action, because even back then, I found these measures racist and sexist, and I found the studies defending them to be biased. I won't get into that because I've been berated and insulted by the bald man many times on this forum. If I say I don't want a society that creates job ads and positions in college that exclude you because of your race or gender, according to the bald man, I'm selfish and a white fragile. Still, if we are being objective, most of my views are left-wing. I recently took the political compass quiz. I scored at the center of the bottom left quadrant (libertarian-socialist). Of all the issues I listed above, my only change in the past 4 years is immigration. I've seen the effects of mass immigration. It's not a matter of "racism". It's about integrity of the system (house market, jobs, schools, hospitals). But really, at the end of the day that doesn't matter. Because the train I take to go to work, that 50% of the time has delays, and workers go on strike? That's irrelevant for the modern Left. To the modern Left, that's peanuts. Because those poor black people are extremely disadvantaged and the main theme in politics should be black lesbian women ethnic minorities LGBTQ. Why on earth would we spend time discussing issues that affect ALL OF US when we can instead engage in culture wars that only serve to divide and conquer? How dare I, as a straight white male cisgender patriarch say my life is difficult. Only because I have multiple college degrees, and I make less money in my country, than if I were in the UK as a dishwasher. How dare I complain about the disproportionately low wage I make (1400€ a month, cost of living being 1300€ while living frugally), when there's black people in the USA suffering from racism? How dare I talk about issues that men face, and say that not all men are evil rapists who want to oppress women, when in reality 1% of men do rape women? Because we need to be proportionate. But really, you modern leftists, do you apply that criterion to yourself? When you go to a hospital, with a broken leg, do you think to yourself "Oh wait I'm not going to waste resources from this system, knowing there's children in stage 4 cancer out there". Because if you have more than 2 braincells, you understand tackling one issue does not necessarily invalidate or take away resources from the other one. But you know what, maybe I am right wing. I am far right, fascist, racist, sexist, because I oppose the immigrant population multiplying at the current rate. Maybe I am sexist and misogynist, because I oppose the fearmongering of feminism. That glancing in a woman's general direction is predatory and creepy. Maybe I do have an issue with the "top 10 red flags" issues women consume these days on instagram and Tiktok. "Number 1 red flag: he complimented your shoes, that means he wants to rape you". "But that's a strawman of the Left wing worldview". You can't have it both ways. You can't ignore the issues of the Woke religion, defend them, minimize them, and insist it's a strawman. These issues I'm describing from experience. That's why I'm far right. That's why today I fully reject the label "progressive" and "liberal". Because these words mean different things in my head. In my head, progress is a necessarily good thing, by definition. Gay marriage is progress. Increased wages is progress. Functioning trains is progress. Seeing rainbow LGBTQ+ flags plastered around companies, and seeing Disney writers and producers calling anyone who dislikes their movies "racist", I don't call that progress. I'm aware of the mental gymnastics that leftists make to defend these things. "If you were a woman you too would be afraid of men. It's entirely justified to be afraid of men these days." "You yourself may not be racist but ALMOST EVERYONE who is against immigration is racist." "Studies show white people in particular are more racist than all other races." "You are literally by definition privileged. Whether you like it or not. If you are above the poverty line, and are male, and you don't experience racism or bigotry because of your sexuality, you are literally textbook definition privileged." This is all a distraction. These things are not refutations. People think they have GOTCHA against me but they really don't. What they do have is gaslight. You see, I have an inclusive worldview. In my view, gender, sex, sexuality, race, yes of course these are important dimensions to a person. But they aren't THE ONLY dimensions. I came from a low income family, raised by a single mother. That brought me a lot of disadvantages in life. My parents didn't pay my college tuition. And I struggled so much with money it caused me relationship issues (it does require to have SOME money to be social, go out, have drinks). To this day, I have suffered because of my upbringing. I'm not saying I'm oppressed by society. I'm saying I'm NOT privileged. And if you came with me with a neutral definition of "privileged" I would be fine with it. If you told me "you are privileged because you aren't in prison, or in a third world country, or living under a bridge" or something along those lines, yes I would obviously say I'm privileged. But I'm not privileged in the context of this society. The so called "patriarchy" has never given me a job. I've had to send out literally 1000's of CV's, only to get a response or two for a job. "But the issues you are describing fall under the definition of personal issue not collective issue. Because none of your demographic characteristics contain systemic historic oppression, you are defined as privileged." Such a convenient feminist argument to make. And people wonder why young men are leaving the Left? I wonder if the things I'm describing, in the things I've experienced here in Portugal, young men in the USA also experience. Or maybe, as the bald man says, it's because men are selfish and in stage orange selfish ego mindset, and "are unwilling to surrender their privilege". I don't have a binary view of such things. I don't see the world as oppressed vs privileged. I'm privileged because I'm a man, she's privileged because she's a woman. I find that preposterous and it demonstrates a complete lack of bad faith in Left wing discourse. There are degrees of privilege. I'm healthy. I have two arms and two legs. That is a lot of privilege compared to someone with a disability. But am I privileged even though I'm a fucking virgin at age 27? I'm privileged even if I flirt with a woman at a bar, the white knights there turn on me and kick me out? I'm privileged even though I'm way overqualified for my job, and I make way less than if I lived in any other country? Could it be that the primary source of oppression is actually capitalism, that it causes poverty for black people, it causes inequality and frustration for everyone, and that all these culture wars are a distraction? No. Because leftists must virtue signal all the time. I'm not exaggerating when I say my stances on politics are around 85% left wing. Some of them radically left wing, especially economically. But you know what, I'm still called as "far right" by leftists. Because I dare listen to Joe Rogan, or because I like Jordan Peterson. It wasn't like this. My country used to be normal. I used to be able to turn on the news, and trust reporters. But now? Everyone has Trump Derangement Syndrome. The moment any policy here is discussed, that even VAGUELY aligns with Trump or the Republican party, people freak out. "WHAT NO we are a progressive political party, and we are Portuguese. We don't do that silly far right thing Americans do." It's a thought terminating cliché. It's an emotional kneejerk reaction. No one is allowed to discuss crime, immigration, or even economics. Even strategic economic policies are considered "American Right wing". I may be left wing overall, but I'm all for pragmatic policies that make the government more efficient. But no, if a guy here proposes to cut government spending, suddenly he's lumped together with Elon Musk Neo Nazi Alt Right DOGE. I have not become radicalized by the Right. I have become radicalized by the Left, against itself. This forum has actually solidified my stance on this topic. I was hoping I could discuss things with open minded people. Instead, I was called "stage orange", "selfish", "child", "white fragile", I've been told I "don't have compassion for ethnic minorities" (for daring to be against DEI). That's why I am "Far Right". I shall never use the labels "progressive" or "liberal" ever again. I consider myself heterodox with left leaning perspectives. But to Leo? To Actualized.org? To Reddit? To Facebook? To my friends and family? I'm Far Right. We live in a society that claims gender is a social construct. Yet, "men" are evil. We live in a society that claims race is a social construct. Yey, "it's white people's fault". This division and hatred isn't progress. It's an abomination. This only serves those who identify as ethnic minorities, or white women, or LGBTQ. And even these people, it doesn't serve them. It gives them an emotional catharsis, but it doesn't actually solve the systemic problems they face. Because when a woman goes to the hospital, and they can't take her in, because it's full, that's not the Patriarchy. That's a broken system. When a black man takes the train to go to work, and workers are protesting, and he ends up spending a shit ton of money on a taxi to go to work, that's not the white's fault. It's the system. And when a homosexual man works as a mechanical engineer and earns 3x less in his own country than in the country right next to him, that's not homophobia. That's capitalism at its best. So I do suggest, if you have even the slightest of open mindedness, to look inward. Or, as I can predict, you will read the first paragraph or two, scoff at what I'm saying, and dismiss me as some anti woke idiot.

@Elliott I had a group of coworkers I got along with. 3 years ago, the foids started talking misandry during lunch. Every single day. I'm not kidding. Literally every single day they would only talk about how they hate men and radical feminist ideas. These aren't gen z. These are millenials and even boomer foids. They started making feminist jokes even during work. Like "Wassup man, how's your patriarchy life going". I understand this is peanuts to most people, but this type of talk irritates me. I changed jobs 6 months ago (for a better paying one). I had a female coworker who is also a developer. She was in my team. She identified as radical feminist. She refused to engage in meetings with me (zoom meetings, not even meetings in person). She said she only wants to interact with me via text so in case I ever say anything inappropriate to her, she has evidence. I quit my job that day. And mind you, I'm not a player. I don't even interact with women. I've given up on dating, even socializing with them. Women have become so fucking paranoid they think a COWORKER wanting to discuss technical details with them, that's potentially dangerous. One day I was going to my office, a foid was behind me. I was going to take the elevator. From her body language, she clearly was going to enter the same elevator. I entered and stretched my arm (so the elevator door wouldn't close, so she could enter). She took a step back and said "thanks but I don't take elevators with men in them, I'll take the next one". This is normal shit. Very normal shit that is being taken over by this radical ideology. People are going fucking insane. And I blame it on American Left Wing Postmodern Maxism. Because women absorb these ideas mostly from social media. My psychologist says I have my perception distorted because of these experiences. But is my perception distorted, is it bad luck? Or is it a retarded trend that's taking over society? That being said, obviously I'm not saying this is universal. I'm stating these things because I experienced them. I'm not here implying all men experience these things in society. But it sure is odd that when I talk with other Portuguese men, they relate similar experiences.

@Elliott I'm very easily triggered by the word "privileged" because, overall, I've had a hard life. I actually go out of my way to avoid interacting with wokies online. But it's hard to avoid them, considering most social media is very left-wing. And institutions are left-wing. And news reporters are left-wing. And people in my life are very left-wing. And I'm still upset at the way the bald man ridiculed me. And here in Portugal, there's a strong surge of radical feminism happening. So it's not just me spending too much time online. It's interactions I have with female coworkers, and foids in general. It wasn't like this 4 years ago... It started happening around 3 years ago and it's been getting worse.

This forum is an echo chamber, yes. But it's not just echo chambers, it's overall vibe in society. It's evolving, but without progress. I call it fake progressivism. Women hating men isn't empowering, it's hateful, it's divisive. LGBTQ flags aren't progress, they are shallow. They are an easy symbol for virtue signaling. Canceling someone for a minor transgression is seen as normal, even righteous. But it isn't. But really, the thing that triggers me most is the privilege thing. Any normal person, with an objective analysis of my life, of what I've been through, of what my current life is, wouldn't call me "privileged". At least not under the marxist feminist definition. I look at society and I see for the most part, 4 major groups: The poor (people starving, or working in sweatshops in China) The oppressed workers (and yes I do consider myself oppressed economically. I'm a software engineer and my wage barely allows me to live. And my skills far outweight my sallary, it's oppression through unfair pay). I consider this group 90% of people in western society The comfortable ones (millionaires, celebrities, people who don't worry about survival that much) The tyrants (the billionaires, oligarchs, high ranking politicians). And people come to me, saying I'm selfish because my perspective is TOO BROAD. I instead should have this perspective, according to leftists: The universally oppressed (women, blacks, immigrants, including even multimillionaire female celebrities) The universally protected by the patriarchy privileged ones (men, including Mcdonald's workers, including men in prison, including men who are neurodivergent, anything goes except for PHYSICAL disabilities, those go under the oppressed category And this retarded as fuck binary is what I disagree with. And even though I don't go out of my way pushing my own perspective, my own pyramid of maxism unto others, people come to ME and tell me THEIR pyramid is the right one, and come up with bullshit feminist studies to "prove" it. Society, at this rate, is fucked. And you know who wins? The billionaires, the oligarchs. They should by laughing by now, knowing we people spend so much of our fucking time engaging in culture wars, instead of fixing the real problems in the system.

Link: https://survey.ucalgary.ca/jfe/form/SV_0DHbQPy5Vr0TAlE My results: Highs: High humility and fairness, expected. Very high emotionality, fearfulness, anxiety, neuroticism, wouldn't expect any lower. Very high flexibility (cooperativeness), also expected as I'm kind of a people pleaser and often bend over backwards for others. High conscientiousness, with focus on prudence (avoidance of impulsive decision making), expected. I'm very risk averse and like to plan things carefully. High openness, aesthetic appreciation, creativity, as expected because my Life Purpose involves producing art. High altruism, I have donated to charity a lot in the past and I enjoy being generous. Lows: Autistic level low on extraversion, gee who would expect I'm the kind of guy who hates clubbing and loud noises and partying. Almost dead in terms of liveliness, this is a mix of introversion and my neuroticism, I often feel paralyzed with stress and I lack energy. Low agreeableness, I actually expected to be higher but eh, my old age has indeed made me impatient and resentful of people. Low organization, yeah I mean it's not really transversal. My bedroom is a mess, so is my laptop, so are my emails, and my car, and my physical documents... I'm messy. Weird? Low inquisitiveness? I mean I've studied philosophy, psychology, I have degrees in IT, in Business Management, I'm the type of person who reads the dictionary for fun. And I watch documentaries and stuff like that. I'm surprised I didn't score high here. High unconventionality? No clue what this metric even measures. Moderate diligence? I'm actually very, very hard working. I expected this one to be one of the highest metrics. I'm borderline workaholic. Low gentleness? I'm actually a lot more gentle than people think. I don't mistreat others, I'm not harsh with anyone. I may be low on agreeableness but I would think I'm high on gentleness.

Now I'm aware most of you dismiss Jordan Peterson as a stage blue right wing grifter, "the king of incels". I won't entertain such low IQ comments here. Let me tell you about the time I saw JP live in 2023. At the end of the presentation he said this (paraphrasing): "The most important aspect of personal development is faith. Even if you are an atheist, faith remains essential. Every sacrifice you make in life, every long-term plan, is fundamentally an act of faith. You can never predict the outcome of your sacrifices with certainty. Even with statistics and studies, you cannot guarantee that a college degree will pay off, that a business idea will succeed, or that the major sacrifices you make will lead to the desired results. These decisions are rooted in faith, not in scientific certainty. Faith is what empowers you to endure hardship and to persevere, even when there is no clear evidence that you will succeed." This lesson isn't obvious. It seems obvious but it isn't. It surely wasn't obvious to me. For a long time I held a Buddhist perspective of things. I used to think faith = expectation = attachment = suffering. But that perspective doesn't empower you. I noticed the areas in my life where I succeeded the most (finances and LP) were the ones I had most faith in. Conversely, in dating, I always had very little faith, and that's the area I struggle with the most. The correlation between faith and success in a domain in life, to me is incredible. It changed my attitude in life, and it gave me an inner locus of control when I started having more faith. Faith is one of those concepts that can seem like a cliché. Something everyone knows but few truly understand. There's a difference between intellectually recognizing the importance of faith and genuinely absorbing and embodying it. If you find yourself rolling your eyes, dismissing it as obvious, that's a sign you may not fully grasp its significance. I encourage you to reflect on the areas of your life where you lack faith. What would change if you truly believed in your ability to succeed there?

@Jacob Morres I'm done debating this topic. Call me privileged and all of that, I don't care. I've been told many times I'm privileged so this is nothing new. I'm not going to debate DEI any further. And frankly I'm going to avoid this politics forum from now on. People have 0 interested in addressing my points and prefer lecturing me about privilege and ignore all of my valid points.

1. I never denied the existence of racism. Just because I have pointed out flaws and biases in woke studies and I'm against DEI, it doesn't mean I reject the existence of racism. I would really appreciate if people stopped making this accusation. 2. I never said "white men are oppressed". I said this woke religion divides people between oppressed and privileged in too simplistic of a manner. I will not pretend all white mens lives are easy because there are problems. Each demographic group has it's own problems. And not everything is about demographic. You can be white male and have shit life. Individual struggles also exist. 3. I will never apologize for being white. Racism, slavery, history, I don't give a fuck. I'm not racist and I don't mistreat anyone for their race. If me not bending over backwards to assume "responsibility" for racism, if that means I'm "fragile", so be it. 4. All of this dog piling because DEI. I've stated my politics many times and people are aware I'm not right wing. Just because I dare to disagree with a few points here and there on this forum, everyone freaks out and starts lecturing me. 5. Go tell a male McDonalds worker he's privileged. If you are all so "empathetic" as you think you are, do it. See if that feels right. Point a finger at him, and tell him he's privileged and that his race has caused slavery.

@Jacob Morres also [removed] for misrepresenting and ridiculing me. You clearly had no interest in an actual discussion with me or in understanding my position.

@Leo Gura then WHY THE FUCK IS IT WHITE FRAGILITY

Maybe I should prepare a woke fragility lecture to educate the public to walk on eggshells and avoid offending the Wokies.

@Leo Gura yes because obviously only white people are racist. Asians? Nah. Black people in Africa? Nah. Obviously it's only those with a light skin tone who inherited the racism genes.

@Jacob Morres my opinion leans on empirical observation which is infinitely better than abstract reading of woke papers. I'm not debating this topic any further.

My biggest enemies in life are woke psychologists, woke sociologists, critical race theorists, woke anthropologists, and woke feminist scholars. These far left activists have invaded universities in the 70's and since then they've been pushing their Marxist religion and poisoning science and academic institutions. They are the most hypocritical, delusional, radical people out there. And their pseudoscience has been so normalized that normal people think there's no difference in rigor between a paper in economics and a paper in feminist religion. I actually make an effort to no longer engage with their intellectual rot. These are Marxist radicals who do nothing all day but read other papers written by other Marxist radicals. They don't understand how normal life works. They don't understand how you can send 1000 cvs and still receive 0 responses. They don't understand the various asymmetries that exist not only in the job market but in society in general. To them, any assymetry is causing by the white patriarchy. They have a delusional concept of what it means to be white, male, and straight. I've been told many times that since I no longer debate this topic, it's because "I'm afraid of facing the truth". Because after a horse has been beaten to death I no longer feel the need to continue. Those hyper intellectuals at Harvard, they wouldn't last a month living as the average white male. They would have an existential crisis if they were ever unemployed or broke. And honestly I wish if God existed, God would put those bastards in these harsh uncomfortable positions. I wish those woke retards would reincarnate in a next life, as a minimum wage McDonald's worker. And gaslit by woke scholars about their supposed "cis white male privilege". Maybe then they would understand why so many people like myself hate wokeness and most of the modern left. They would become so blackpilled they would realize the harshness of life and see the amount of religious bullshit those so called "scientific studies" contain. Nothing angers me more than hypocritical self righteousness. I'd rather have a con artist steal me 1000€ than go to a "white fragility" lecture. It would be less painful because at least the con artist has 0 morals, and so there's no hypocrisy. And also the con artist doesn't gaslight me. He just cheats to get my money. So for anyone reading this thread I suggest you don't bother asking me questions about DEI and scientific wokeness because it's a topic people bring up a lot and I am frankly tired of it. I'm not interested in debates on this topic. Call me right wing, straw man me, tell me I'm privileged, I don't care. I won't entertain this topic any further.

I'm not going to debate the stupidity and bias those woke studies contain. It's not worth wasting time with woke pseudoscience. The same people who produce studies about the evil and privileged white males are the same ones who say trans women don't have an advantage in women's sports. And let's conveniently ignore the anti male bias that exists in various industries like education, HR, the fashion industry. Let's ignore that certain industries and certain college degrees have more female applicants than males. 80% of people in HR are female: "its just women like hr more than men" 90% of people in IT are male: "OMFG IT'S THE PATRIARCHY" It reminds me of studies in the past on middle school and high school education. 80% of top students are male: "OMG PATRIARCHY" Today, female students outperform males. 80% of top students are female: "This proves my high IQ PhD paper in feminist Wokeology that women are more disciplined than men, more inquisitive than men, more conscientious.. etc women are better than men" Again and again and again I've seen and read these bullshit studies. Regardless of what the data is, it's always massaged to fit the woke scholars agendas. Same with the bullshit wage gap studies that say "women on average earn 20% less than men". You might as well say "on average a human being has 1 testicle and 1 boob". This is why people accuse me of being an anti intellectual. Because I'm a critical thinker and I don't dogmatically accept the headlines of those bullshit studies. I've done research myself and I've found when we take more factors into account, the gap isn't nearly as big as Harvard's Wokeology department says it is. Now, am I saying society is 100% fair? No of course not. I'm sure the wage gap exists. I'm sure there is discrimination against ethnic minorities. But I've yet to see good quality research on that topic. It's all full of bullshit woke double standards. People don't understand maybe females just don't enjoy the field of IT as much as males do. Because there are natural assume tries in life. You can't expect a perfect 50/50 make to female ratio. Or straight to gay ratio. Or white to black ratio. People say "if our country has 90% whites and 10% blacks, that's the precise ratio we expect in any company". No, that's full of woke assumptions. First off there simply aren't enough applicants for each job ad out there. Certain industries don't have as many females or blacks. If the job ad is there but the company receives 99% of CV's from white males, there's that. "But that's because patriarchy so we need to push our ideology even further". What Wokies want is a really freaky apartheid type scenario. They want job ads that select for race, gender, and sexuality. They want college vacancies selected for race, gender, and sexuality. They want all of that from work, job positions, all the way down to preschool divisions. The reason for this is because they reject natural assume tries exist. My country has a lot of indians for instance. But most of them start their own business (usually grocery shop). Most of them don't even send cvs to any company out there. But you PhD in bullshit wokeness college professor, the one who wrote the book "I hate white males" the one the bald man here loves because she gives lectures in "white fragility" she will pull up 4000 studies telling me that those poor indians are oppressed. Wokies don't understand that society does have a few asymmetries here and there. I think what's important is to give people opportunities. And if they don't take those opportunity it's on them. Also let's ignore that when I go to many stores with chill jobs like cashier at perfume store or clothes store or Lego store, 90% of the time it's a young woman working there. Yes I know it's controversial to say but fuck it. Women do have clearly an advantage for certain job positions. But why aren't you freaking out about men taking high risk jobs? Why aren't Wokies freaking out most suicides are committed by men? Because any problem in a white man's life is assumed to be his fault and 0 serious attention is taken to it. Why is it 90% of people who work in coal mines, garbage trucks, sewers, those shit jobs, why aren't there studies exploring why men are pushed to such harsh and degrading positions? For certain topics in life, strangely enough there's 0 data, 0 studies. But what there is is infinite mental gymnastics by people who abuse statistics to push their religion. I know statistics. I'm highly educated on research, data, and statistics. And from your favorite Wokeology department I see a shit ton of fallacies. The data is carefully selected, committed and analyzed to serve their agenda. People tell me I'm an ant intellectual because I reject such studies. And then they reverse the burden of proof, and as ME to give them studies. You seriously think I'm going to pour hours into a rigorous research paper only for idiots online to not even read it? Not to mention the constant genetic fallacies that because I'm a data scientist and not a feminist scholar or critical race theory scholar, because my analysis is less valid. I used to be more "open minded" in those sense I would perform mental gymnastics to try see it from the other person's point of view. All the while ignoring the blatant bias in the methodology and conclusion sections of such woke studies. I'm not interested in debating the topic of DEI any further. It's a waste of time.

Afghanistan is Hell on earth. This video isn't explicit, but I found it highly disturbing when I watched it. It's so disturbing it's surreal. Their cognitive development is shockingly low. I've seen videos and documentaries of other third world countries but really Afghanistan takes the cake. There's a scene near the end of the documentary where the leader of the Taliban says "The problem of this country is that it is still too liberal. I will make sure we bring back the roots of the Koran into our society." A country where if you steal an apple they chop off your hands? A country where women have the same rights as cattle? "Too liberal"? Fuck...

And no, Bernie Sanders isn't woke. When people like myself use woke as a pejorative, they don't mean people like Bernie Sanders. As someone who engages in antiwoke circles, trust me no one considers people like Sanders to be woke. I've seen many videos of him speaking about politics and he comes across as a healthy, intelligent progressive. And when he says he's "socialist" he doesn't mean old school socialism. He talks about a social safety net, like in Scandinavian countries type of "socialism".

Good summary.

Woke mental gymnastics. Fallacious reasoning, hypocritical reasoning, ignores asymmetries in other industries (like how women dominate ok psychology or the beauty industry), ignores all the points I made, anti-meriticratic, misuse of statistics. Seen these same arguments hundreds of times before and refuted all of them many times. White men privileged. White men have easy life. Everyone else victim. Double standards everywhere.

@Joshe that's why I make a distinction between cultural Left (wokeness) and political Left (progressive, liberal, socialist, etc). And my issue isn't with the 5% loud sjw activists. It's with the 50% of people who think like Pakman, sound "normal", but still promote really bad ideas and a culture of censorship, self censorship, virtue signaling, radical feminist misandry, and a hyper politicized perspective on everything in society. Even things that shouldn't be political like videogames or Hollywood movies.

@Nemra I've made myself clear on why DEI is unfair and why it harms what little meritocracy there is under current capitalism. One needs to be deeply brainwashed by the likes of Seder or Pakman or Harvard's Wokeology department in order to believe DEI constitutes fairness. Are there problems in the system? Fix it. And let's stop with the zero sum thinking type solutions. Big corporations have been reaching record high on profits in the past few years, and people cry "whaaaa that white (low income) man has it too easy I want to make my life easier by making his harder" this is preposterous. Sometimes I do wonder if this is a Psyop. They be like "hey if we paint our logo rainbow colors and hire a few blacks, cheap immigrants, and women, they will believe society is becoming "progressive" and people will fall for it.

Anyone who tells me I'm "privileged" because I dare to have been born white and male can fuck off. I've spent 5 years, 5 years unemployed, sending thousands of CV's both in person and online. Very late in life did I finally get a job out of sheer luck. In this incredibly harsh job market, you think it's fair to reduce the chances of guys like me to get a job? Just to fill some HR quota? You want to reduce the number of jobs I can access, make shit even more difficult and competitive? Complete bullshit. The job market already lacks meritocracy as is. We don't need to make it even more competitive and unfair. That zero sum attitude of "we need to hire fewer white men and more black women" isn't just retarded, it's immoral. Of all the L's in the woke religion, DEI and Affirmative Action is the biggest L of them all. If the system is broken, do something to fix it. Don't make it even more broken and unfair.