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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Given how quickly the tables have turned, it now seems clear that whoever holds the upper hand in terms of culture's dominant mores, that side will act in precisely the same way. It's depressing both because it suggests that human beings are fundamentally broken, and because it feels like such a betrayal by people whose basic goals we supported before they entered the fray.
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These are my feelings exactly. The most disturbing thing about the Culture Warz isn't the particulars of what the dogmatic right or left are arguing. It's the realization that so many people cannot handle genuine liberalism and tolerance, and are susceptible to shaming, conformity, and group-think. The left turned out to be no more liberal than the right.
The reason I wrote articles in the Mount Royal student newspaper in the early 90s arguing for gay rights was because I didn't think behaviour should be suppressed just because it was unpopular. I felt everyone who had some aspect of their lives that defied social norms had a duty to protect the rights of other individuals who defied social norms. And that speaking the truth was to be applauded no matter who it made uncomfortable.
So yeah, it feels like a betrayal that the identarian left are now using the same tactics, the same conformist shaming, the same vilification of uncomfortable truths, to assert their own orthodoxies wherever they've gained the upper hand.