Summary: Feel the wind on our cheeks as we slide down the slippery slope to a New America! Here are two books about the next phase of the trip, as the Left guides us into the future.
For decades, the Left has assured us that we need not fear that they are taking us down a “slippery slope.” There is no such thing!
- The Guardian speaks: “The phrase ‘slippery slope’ is used all the time in public debate, but the argument behind it is a fallacy.”
- “No Slippery Slope” by John Corvino (Assoc Prof of philosophy at Wayne State U) at the NYT.
Every month brings more evidence that they are wrong. Years ago we passed the events described in the chain emails everybody’s crazy uncle Ned described at long-ago Thanksgiving dinners. Now we see the Left advocate for the next phase of our wild ride down the slippery slope. Those hoping for a happy landing will be disappointed. Here are two examples. Laugh as you like, but these people have been shaping America for 50 years.
Abandoning the pretense: destroy the family!
The Left has long sought to destroy the family, the most powerful obstacle to their social engineering programs. Now that they have gone mainstream, they can be open about it.
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
by Sophie Anne Lewis (2019).
See the review “Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family” by Rosemarie Ho at The Nation. – “Feminist theorist Sophie Lewis’s new book looks at how rethinking pregnancy and the idea of family as forms of labor is central to emancipatory politics.”
Better yet, see this by the publisher …
“In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition. But we need more surrogacy, not less! The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you?
“Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front and center, and their rights to the babies they gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that they are more than mere vessels. In doing so we can break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.
“This might sound like a radical proposal but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children, rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship. Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy helps us to see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child.”
“Collective responsibility for children”, much as in the Soviet Union they took “collective responsibility” for farming. Wrecking families means less power for people, more for the government. Pretty phrases for ugly policies.
About the author.
“Sophie Lewis is a writer, translator and feminist geographer living in Philadelphia. …Lewis is a member of the Out of the Woods collective, an editor at Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry, and a queer feminist committed to cyborg ecology and anti-fascism.
“She has published her work, on subjects ranging from Donna Haraway to dating, in Boston Review, Viewpoint magazine, Signs, Dialogues in Human Geography, Antipode, Feminism & Psychology, Science as Culture, Frontiers, Gender Place & Culture, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, Mute, and Salvage Quarterly.” {From the publisher.}
Her PhD on gestational surrogacy, “Cyborg labour: exploring surrogacy as gestational work“, was defended at the University of Manchester (UK). She has a BA in English Literature at Oxford, an MSC in Geography at Oxford, and an MA in Politics at the New School for Social Research.
See her Twitter feed.
Pushing African-American men further down the Leftist hole
How to deal with African-American men is one of our greatest challenges. They have made great contributions to America, but today they are America’s unspeakable problem, due to their stratospheric crime rates. They are one of America’s few remaining reservoirs of masculinity – survivors of the gender wars. They can change the gender wars – & help us all win. But some want them to take the opposite path, joining the feminist crusade – as second class citizens – by seeing themselves as victims.
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
by Tommy J. Curry (2017).
See a review at the Black Agenda Report. Also see this from the publisher (red emphasis added) …
“Tommy J. Curry’s provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines.
“Curry argues that Black men struggle with death and suicide, as well as abuse and rape, and their genred {sic} existence deserves study and theorization. This book offers intellectual, historical, sociological, and psychological evidence that the analysis of patriarchy offered by mainstream feminism (including Black feminism) does not yet fully understand the role that homoeroticism, sexual violence, and vulnerability play in the deaths and lives of Black males. Curry challenges how we think of and perceive the conditions that actually affect all Black males.”
About the author.
Tommy J. Curry was a Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. He is leaving Texas A&M to become Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh (story here).” He is the author of The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris
He serves as Executive Director of Philosophy Born of Struggle. His research has been recognized by Diverse as placing him among the Top 15 Emerging Scholars in the United States in 2018, and his public intellectual work earned him the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy’s Alain Locke Award in 2017. He is a past recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation and A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellowship, the Ray A. Rothrock Fellowship at Texas A&M University. He is the past president of Philosophy Born of Struggle, one of the oldest Black philosophy organizations in the United States.” {Paraphrased from the Texas A&M website.}
See his Twitter feed.
Conclusions
“The world revolves around the creators of new ideas, revolves silently.”
— Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Lewis and Curry are the kind of intellectual innovators who are molding our society. We can laugh at their ideas, just as people laughed at Andrea Dworkin decades ago (her ideas are now mainstream feminist thinking, or passé because too tame), or a few years ago mocked those who said protecting and encouraging the transgendered should be a major focus of public policy. Now liberal schools rejoice at every child who expresses confusion about their sexual identity, and recommend hormones to fix him/her/it. Expect even wilder changes to America in the future. The Left will tinker with America until it breaks.
Don’t worry about how this all will end.
Other posts in this series
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- Important: A 4th of July reminder that America is ours to keep – or to lose!
- Fear the rise of political violence in America. We can still stop it.
- America abandons the ideals that made us great.
- Visions of America if the Left wins.
- The Left goes full open borders, changing America forever.
- The key insight: the Left hates America and will destroy it.
- The Democrats will own America. Their past will sink them.
- America’s foes reveal themselves. They are many & strong.
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Useful books explaining what happened to the Left
I have not found a good book explaining what happened to the Left, causing its hatred of America. These are the best I have found, looking at our politics.
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
