Its a shame to think that celebrating progress is a betrayal of any cause. On the contrary, it is inspiring & keeps a movement positive.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/877309435567362049 …
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Some people see it as a moral imperative to be very negative about everything all the time- shows how seriously you take social injustice.
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In fact, there is no conflict between taking human rights very seriously and celebrating advances in human rights. Why would there be?
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Gay Pride was always excellent for this & believe it or not, liberal feminism used to be too.
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The reason it was positive was because it had concrete goals and they kept getting met. Now, its more like this. https://twitter.com/GodDoesnt/status/877191939929636866 …
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Because, with legal equality attained & the shift to postmodernism, problems became embedded in cultural discourses & interpretations.
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So we have moved from sisters standing on their own two feet & doing it for themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGx7JkFSp4 … to...
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'OMG, everything's oppressive of me & I can't possibly achieve anything coz a scientist is wearing a shirt & someone got my pronouns wrong'
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OK, that's hyperbolic. I know it is. We always had extremist loons & reasonable liberal feminists still exist. But the shift is very real.
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Self-victimisation & idea that unremitting apocalyptic despair is virtuous features in 'far' movements on all sides.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcwOJvpyJA …
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