Why Don't We Normals Have Anti-left Pejoratives?

When someone calls you a racist, sexist, homophobe what do you do?

I mean, here in America, the land of the free and the brave, any blue-check lefty-liberal can get up on Twitter and call anyone a Nazi, or "literally Hitler," and we normals have nothing to say, except  "No I'm not."

Which as we know basically concedes the cultural stage to the lefties.

In a nation with civil rights laws, it shouldn't matter if I'm a racist or you are a homophobe. The point is that the government and a corporation can't discriminate against you on the basis of race or sex or sexual preference.

Or, to use a lefty meme, if the principle of non-discrimination occupies the commanding heights of  culture and politics, then a group of racist tiki-torchers really don't matter; they are, as we say, too marginalized to matter.

Of course, in reality, according to the mendacious concept of "diversity and inclusion," the government and corporations actively discriminate in favor of woman and minorities, so the tiki-torchers are even less powerful than you might think.

And the lie that some kid in a MAGA hat is a danger to shipping is a bunch of baloney. But then, what notion from the left, ever since the marginal revolution blew up the classical economics in Marx's Capital in 1870, hasn't been a bunch of baloney?

Still. It would be nice to have some delicious pejorative to sling at lefty-liberal Twitter thugs. It is not so much the ability to insult that I am interested in, but the ability to signal that we normals occupy the high ground and the lefties better watch out.

The problem is that we normals are not really in the business of cultural warfare. We are People of the Responsible Self and we are not organized in para-military fashion ready at a moment's notice to descent on some lefty cultural thug to teach him a lesson. We just want to live our responsible lives, obeying the law, going to work, and following the rules. We just wish that the lefties would mind their own business and stop bothering us.

If you have been reading my stuff you may know that my brilliant, though reductive, Three Peoples theory tells us what should be the cultural norm in America.

In my book, People of the Responsible Self should be tolerant of the groupishness of People of the Subordinate Self. The point is that People of the Subordinate Self,  the workers and peasants and traditionally marginalized groups of which we've heard tell, have not yet developed the cultural and economic skills to experience and live modern life as competent People of the Responsible Self do. So we should cut them some slack.

The germ of truth in the left's pejoratives about race and white supremacy and toxic masculinity is that white males are perhaps the most adapted to a responsible life in the city and therefore ought to be understanding and tolerant of people that have not yet achieved those economic and cultural skills.

But in my book, the People of the Creative Self should be tolerant of the responsibility culture and the rigid rules of the People of the Responsible Self. As Nietzsche pointed out, the life of a genuine creative person is hard: many are called but few are chosen. Most people really don't have the chops to be a creative artist, or writer, or journalist, or start-up businessman. So it is monstrous and vile to attack the normies because they don't quite measure up to the lofty creative standards of the creative elite, which most of the time our lefty friends cannot live up to, because they don't have the creative chops and the Nietzschean hardness to make it as a creative.

OK, great. So our lords and masters of the educated ruling class should be more understanding, more tolerant -- hey, even compassionate -- of us dull routinist normals.

But how do we recover a cultural space and the right to our dull routinist cultural beliefs and "make" the lefties respect us?

I can think of a lot of clever retorts to the accusation of racism, sexism, homophobia, or toxic masculinity, such as:

How's your Two Minute Hate going today, precious?

Look, diversity/ inclusion is racism, straight up. 

Where's the toxic masculinity if colleges are 60 percent female? 

What white supremacy? There is nothing more shameful and low-rent today that being a white male in a MAGA hat.

But that falls short of a one-word insult. And let's face it: it took a while for liberals to make "racist" the most shameful insult ever.

Maybe the way to deflate the "racist" insult is to say: "Of course, and how about you?"

But there is still a problem.

I'm not sure that developing a quiver of cultural arrows that we can launch at a moment's notice on Twitter is "who we are."

I think that more realistic is getting ordinary middle-class women -- wives of men and mothers of boys -- to be saying to each other in their kaffee-klatsches: "I can't believe (some lefty activist or Democratic politician) said that."

One little problem with the Trump rebellion is that nice suburban women were offended by the macho insult methods of Trump. I get that. Trump lives the male Culture of Insult, and women prefer the action indirect: "I can't believe she said that!"

But shouldn't suburban women be just as offended by the Twitter thugs that could descend on their husbands and children at any moment with a vile and insulting accusation that could ruin their lives?

Nietzsche, after all, writes in Ecce Homo:

Woman...  after all, the state of nature, the eternal war between the sexes, gives her by far the first rank.

So take it away, ladies!