/lit/ - Literature

>>20326904
The essence of modern leftism lies in a vision of reality which is fundamentally wrong-headed and inverted. In fact, strangely enough, before having even read this post>>20326901 I was just about to talk about something like this dichotomy.

In the modern monstrous pseudo-leftist worldview, historical guilt is ascribed to a massive class of people (Whites). This ascribing of a new form of original sin to them — White privilege, oppressor class, colonialist, got all their wealth at the expense of the poorer other oppressed races — already is inverted and wrong off the bat by making an itself monstrously racist conflation between historical elites tied to the pushing of colonialism and slavery and oppression — the Morgans, the Rockefellers, Cecil Rhodes, and Rothschild-types — to the average bumfuck poor or middle-class White, simply by a coincidence of skin color. “Since these wealthy industrial barons, bankers, colonial Southern slave-owners and mining magnates of yore were White, and were tied to causing so much suffering, and you’re White — you need to be held accountable for this, too! You’re a racist and not acknowledging your privilege!” This is already a massively un-Christian worldview, with its obsession with revenge, holding accountable — not just that we need to uplift the poor and suffering and needy (an OK idea in itself) but that we need to PUNISH, hold accountable — even people who had no direct role in causing it. Even if these people are nice, law-abiding, well-integrated and contributing citizens, they’re “bigoted” if they disagree with you politically. Furthermore, you can then NEVER criticize aspects of cultures that are not part of this “White oppressor culture” — even if they have hugely negative aspects.

Thomas Sowell points this out perfectly, saying, “There is no greater idiocy than holding some people strongly accountable for the actions of their ancestors while not holding others accountable for what they themselves are doing today.”

Your black and white of course is very essentialistic, reductionistic, malevolent and destructive in yet another way — only focusing on the evils of a certain class you’ve deemed to be the oppressors and not on any of the goods or contributions they’ve made to the world — painting you as a massive asshole and a racist who sees reality invertedly, and could benefit from living in a third-world country for a while, or some Islamo-tyranny where you can get stoned to death for adultery or homosexuality.

>>9884199
>be honest with yourself and say clearly that the number of female and nonwhite writers you want to see isn't some nebulous "less" but zero
Not at all, I think going after anything other than merit is insulting to those who actually are good writers. Now when I see something written by a woman or a non-white I always have to ask myself if they are garbage writers who got published because of their identity or if they actually are worth a damn. Most publishing houses are very openly pushing for more non-white authors and when the talent pool they have to pick from is mostly white then how could it results in anything else than mediocrity?

Marxist are really dumb if they are trying to achieve what they say they do.

>>6942773
>you wanna know where big ideas you gotta go to the occupy wall street
Don't even have to watch a second more but
>le corporate greed
>MY LIFE BROTHA
>*CLAPS CLAPS CLAPS*
Hilarious.
I'd stick to Sowell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3vZ8_XCMfA