Quote: (12-03-2015 01:13 PM)Menace Wrote:
What is the true motive/thinking behind this pathological need to exculpate Muslims/Islam from any blame?...
...It just defies all logic.
By ten years of age, I was suspecting this was the truth. By twenty years of age, I was convinced, and settled on this theory:
Progressives loathe the good and the beautiful, so will always use whatever power they possess to side with the bad actor in any situation: the weak, the lazy the dishonest, the manipulative, the violent. Anyone who reflects their own sense of inadequacy back at them will be sympathised with, and their negative behaviour will be rationalised away to avoid the progressive considering self-reflection, feeling shame, and feeling any need to work to be any better than they are, for they are already perfect, and it is the rest of the world who is flawed for not recognising their genius and sex appeal.
Taking this further: given the choice between accepting they're mediocre, bad people who are damaged and broken, they'll project their cynicism onto the world and decide that no-one can actually be good and decent, and that everyone must be secretly-flawed. * (A good example of this was one of the Jezebel writer's defence of Lena Dunham, saying "Like you've never sexually-experimented with your sister!")
As such, Progressives, given power, will always guarantee a dysfunctional outcome: they will champion justice, tolerance, fairness and equality of outcome in a way that guarantee injustices, intolerance, unfairness and inequality. If they claim to be building a better society or institution, all they will be doing is destroying an existing one. If they strive to elevate a population, they will only degrade it. If they're seeking to protect the marginalised, they will champion those already powerful. If they speak about privilege, they will possess it. If they speak about experiencing hardship, they'll come from comfortable backgrounds.
So, Muslims? They represent the Progressive Power Fantasy taken to extremes: ruling over a strict society where dissent isn't allowed or tolerated, who terrorise and murder other people who hold different views to them. Pay attention to progressive Twitter feeds some time, and note the constant fantasies of murdering, killing, or mass exterminating others over (often minor) differences in political viewpoints. To Progressives, wishing death on someone over a simple disagreement is a normal, rational way of thinking. This is why they must never be handed state power.
Extremist Muslims are living their fantasy life: they're Progressive Rock Stars. Does it make sense now?
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* Just a footnote about the 'secretly-flawed' way of thinking:
This results in a progressive media obsession of 'puncturing the bubble' of normality, (which can't possibly-exist in their worldview): which means a lot of 50's period pieces where Mother is popping tranquilisers and Daddy is abusing the kids; injecting homosexuality into traditionally-male domains (priesthood, cowboys); and, every few years, supposed-'comedic' movies about broken people who are convinced they're morally-superior to others, murdering people for failing to live up to the standards of decency their killers believe in, presented in a way where you're supposed to cheer them on as heroes: (Heathers, The Doom Generation (with progressive sook Rose McGowan ), Natural Born Killers).
I came across one of these the other day, and thought, "They're still making these?" Weak sauce, the usual easy targets, moral superiority, standard nihilistic ending. Progressive edgelord power fantasy that thinks it's edgier than it is, and says more about the loser writer / director than the society it's criticising.