The Aristocracy of Victimhood ｜ 4⧸5⧸23
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Summary
Western liberal democracies have been engaged in a narrative of political and social progress, believing themselves superior to all that came before. According to this story, the scientific revolution led to the Enlightenment, which produced new social technologies to replace the backward superstitions and traditions that once governed human relations. Armed with a more scientific and rational understanding of human affairs, these new technologies would free those who had once been subjects of the state. Popular sovereignty, rule of law, and constitutional government were supposed to protect the rights of the individual from the whims of capricious rulers. This ambitious project has now proven a failure, as democracies across the West seem in unison, creating an aristocracy of favored groups.
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Western liberal democracies have been engaged in a narrative of political and social progress,
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believing themselves superior to all that came before.
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According to this story, the scientific revolution led to the Enlightenment,
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which produced new social technologies to replace the backward superstitions
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and traditions that once governed human relations.
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Armed with a more scientific and rational understanding of human affairs,
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these new political technologies would free those who had once been subjects of the state.
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Popular sovereignty, rule of law, and constitutional government were supposed to protect
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the rights of the individual from the whims of capricious rulers.
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This ambitious project has now proven a failure, as democracies across the West seem to be
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in unison, creating an aristocracy of favored groups.
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In America, trans activists can storm state capitol buildings,
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and BLM protesters can riot for weeks on end, while January 6th protesters rot in jail.
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In Canada, transgenderists can punch their opponents in the face without penalty,
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In the United Kingdom, those praying silently outside abortion clinics are arrested,
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while Muslim grooming gangs prey on women with little to no fear of reprisal.
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These nations all share a tradition of Western liberal democratic government,
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and also seem to have simultaneously developed a social class with special privileges,
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and the ability to ignore the rule of law as long as they are punishing the political opponents
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For many, this feels like a radical shift in the way that Western nations are run,
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but in truth, this has been happening for a long time and has been formalized in U.S. law for decades.
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Affirmative action and disparate impact have warped the American legal system,
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not only allowing bias, but in many cases legally mandating it
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as long as the bias benefits groups that have been granted the status of victim.
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Even when the practice is not formally mandated by law,
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it's enforced culturally by institutions like corporations and universities.
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Harvard is currently arguing in a Supreme Court case
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that it must continue to use racial bias in its admissions
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if it wishes to obtain a diverse student population.
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The university's lawyers take for granted that labeling those groups
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who are elevated through racial preference as disadvantaged
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What many in the West never grasped was that the leftist concept of social progress
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was always destined to dismantle classically liberal constitutional government.
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The left is a coalition of groups who benefit from the destruction of natural hierarchies.
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The organic limitations inherent in family, church, community, and even biological sex
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are unacceptable barriers to the leftist conception of progress.
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While legal equality was originally the stated goal,
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when it failed to reliably produce equal outcomes,
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there was no way the left was simply going to shrug,
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assume this was the natural order of things, and go home.
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Many conservatives attempt to hold the left accountable for the linguistic transition
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from equality to equity, but this is a mistake,
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because for progressives these terms were always one and the same.
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In order to progress beyond the natural social hierarchies,
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If legal equality is achieved, but inequality of outcome persists,
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then the only remaining option is to privilege some and suppress others
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Legal equality must be dismantled because it failed to generate the unstated expectation,
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At first, people didn't object to special privileges
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being granted to those who were characterized as disadvantaged.
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This is especially true when it comes to the civil rights movement,
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which many Americans saw as a noble correction of a deep wrong
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The population at large was willing to grant a form of emergency power to the movement,
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often ignoring the violation of legislative procedure
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and prior understanding of constitutional rights
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to the specific historical legacy of the civil rights movement
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gained access to the super-constitutional framework
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and moral authority granted by the civil rights movement.
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and export those rights to the rest of the world.
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Instead of going to war for security interests,
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now go to war on behalf of democracy and LGBTQ rights.
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and is probably in league with both Hitler and Putin.
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The wrong side of history is a very scary place to be.
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Each of these increasingly obscure social minorities
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which grants them access to the special privileges
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that lay beyond the rule of law and constitutional order.
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where the incentives for being an oppressed minority
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under rule of law and the constitutional order.
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with the almost deistic elevation through victimhood
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and the drive to achieve this new aristocratic status
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I mean, who wouldn't want to be on the right side of history
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while also getting to punch people they hate in the face?
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the rhetoric of freedom and constitutional rights
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to impose their artificial and inverted social hierarchy.
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Progressives hope that by securing enough power,
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