/lit/ - Literature

>>17155129
until you figure out a way to distiguish between run of the mill working class people who happen to be jewish and those jews who are overrepresented among the power elite, I'm not gonna be on board with this.
For example, sepphardic jews are pretty chill people and almost universally hated by the ashkenazim. Most ashkenazim are autistic urban dwellers, they have some retarded beliefs but no access to the levers of power.
A select few ashkenazim go on to become hollywood, government, social engineering, AIPAC, epstein types.
I'm never gonna be on board for wholesale slaughter when a more careful approach would get rid of the problem with significantly less collateral damage.

>>16481314
>Conservative ideas that prop up corporations, military states, hierarchies in general are in any way punk.

To be honest, the only thing conservatives do that I'd consider truly "counter culture" is their refusal to conform blindly to "PC" standards and actively question modernity's social standards. However, even ardent leftists like Mark Fisher and Zizek fight against this, which would make them "punk" in a sense and mean that conservatives don't have a monopoly on counter culture.

>>16363528
"Handmaid’s Tale is meant to reassure every wretched office-worker who goes home to a cat, a VCR, and Pizza-for-one that her life is noble and progressive. Handmaid’s Tale is fun horror-fiction for women who work in the American-style cubicle-world precisely because it’s so utterly unrelated to the miseries and terrors of their own lives. No one wants to force middle-class American women to have babies. In fact, it’s almost impossible for them to contemplate having kids, because they’re terrified that it might set them back in their careers, and their rivals in the adjacent cubicles would grab their parking spaces and health plans. Nobody wants to use their bodies. That’s precisely the horror with which they live: no one wants to mate with them because in their world, every single striver must fear every other, and the sort of joint action involved in mating and rearing one’s young is impossible—laughable, a thing which only those who have abandoned the hope of A Career can contemplate. So in their minds, mating and rearing children moves down in class, becoming a thing for rednecks and (though they’ll never say this part out loud) immigrants-of-color. The desire to have children gets bounced outside oneself, onto these lesser beings, and returns, courtesy of Atwood, in demonized form, as the tyranny of procreation, family values and the Patriarchy. It’s the horror they love to fear."

http://exiledonline.com/old-exile/vault/books/review103.html

>>16273027
the tacit acceptance of misogynist claims about women as destructive, hysterical, illogical, overly emotional, and obsessed with vaginas.
Only a tranny would claim to be a woman and see no issue in writing this garbage.

>>15673679
This is run of the mill virtue signaling liberal behavior. All over my neighborhood- typically, "upper middle class" (downwardly mobile working class like the rest of us, but in denial due to sheer volume of propaganda in certain social groups and professions).
Don't try to refute your neighbors. Get along with them. Be a functional, nice guy. After years of relationship with them you can start to say things like "what actual innovations have the beneficiaries of affirmative action brought to institutions which have helped their broad ethnic group? Or could they just be cynically self interested members of the black political class for whom affirmative action is an analogue of legacy status for keeping privilege and opportunity within the family?" or "did you know that the only people who care about political correctness, statistically, are older and wealthier whites?"