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Western liberalism has devolved into a reflexive form of white saviorism, itself rooted in the intense white guilt all good liberals know to feel toward those poorer and browner, the common link between the moral crusades for BLM/George Floyd, Palestinians, and now migrants.

The causes may change but the script doesn't: an innocent BIPOC/Noble Savage is menaced by a white colonialist oppressor, who must be defeated by a coalition led by white allies blessed with superior levels of empathy and "critical consciousness", who help their charges achieve justice and liberation. It is a pagaent of performative moralism designed to "raise awareness" of the activist class, who have no sense of identity or life purpose except BEING SEEN cosplaying the role of enlightened radical.

This crusade by guilt-ridden Western bourgeois (mostly) women is meant to perform atonement, seek redemption and display how much more righteous they are than their political enemies, who are the main audience for these displays. (The POC victims are really just props and extras, their actual lives and needs are irrelevant.)

Their entire project is a post-religious psychodrama to find all the meaning, community and confessions of sin/guilt that religions provide. The Church of Social Justice is Christianity with Jesus replaced by a rotating cast of victimized POCs, who each get their turn on the cross.

This is why that poor fool yesterday got himself killed to keep an Ecuadorian criminal from being deported. He was following a script written by others, hoping to be recognized for being one of the Good Whites. And I guess he got his wish...

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The anti ice mob is a mob. It’s interesting how they’re often more menacing than ice but don’t perceive themselves that way. I wish ice would narrow its mission to criminals and people who entered during the lawless period but you can’t sanction ice doing whatever it wants just bc protestors are obstructing. Renee good looks like a tragic accident. I don’t like the view that ice should’ve done this and that to avoid bc it’s basically a license to have obstructing protestors. In an ideal world it would’ve been handled better but this stuff moves fast. I got the impression she was trying to hightail it away and did so in a way that could easily be misinterpreted. The other case I’m concerned bc if he didn’t wield a weapon you can’t pretend he did and you can’t sanction this reaction to seeing a weapon that isn’t being used or reached for. We have a second amendment. I remember long time ago reading about a guy who told a rookie police officer he had a gun and was a legal owner and the officer just panicked and shot him and it’s not okay. I don’t want to make a judgment yet till all the facts come out but I’m not enjoying hearing that Americans can’t carry legal firearms. Of course I agree that utterly amoral people are looking for this ending for propaganda purposes

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