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Originally Posted by Gozer
My beef with the regressive left is that it is preempting progress on difficult issues by crying 'foul' on the conversation.
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So much this. The regressive left have set out a dogmatic model of the world, and any approaches that don't suit this dogma - including, increasingly, approaches that are scientifically sound - are immediately denounced. It's an unrelenting campaign to define the terms of discussion, and shove anything that challenges leftist dogma off the table.
The only explanation for the wage gap is sexism. Different choices in studies and vocation, and differing willingness to work long hours or in physically unpleasant conditions, voluntary decisions to devote more energy to family than career - off the table. The notion that some of these differences may be innately gendered - off the table. Recognizing the growing gap in educational attainment between girls and boys - off the table. The very notion that we have innate capabilities or tendencies - off the table.
The only acceptable explanations for the dire state of many native communities in Canada is the residential school system and white bigotry. Family breakdown, toxic child-rearing conditions, the dependency fostered by the reserve system, and endemic substance abuse - off the table.
The only explanation for why some countries or regions are economic basket-cases is Western colonialism and exploitation. Any examination of former colonies that are economic success stories, and comparison of their cultural values with less successful countries - off the table.
We're transitioning from a period when the weightiest anchor against progress was the stubborn traditions of conservatism, to a period when it's the blinkered dogma of the left holding us back. Whole fields of science, such as evolutionary psychology, are denounced because of how they might inform us about our world. The staggering gains in food production that science enabled are being challenged because they run contrary to a romantic naturalism that clouds leftist thought. We've deluded ourselves that intransigent disparities in material wealth can be overcome if only white people and men atone for their sins and stop being bigots. And worst of all, liberalism itself - an essential element in making the modern West the most prosperous, tolerant, and progressive society in history - is being abandoned in favour of the dark appeal of tribal identity.