The Small Activist Group Problem

The Zman wonders how the keep the place going when "no coherent society is possible on a continent full of people with radically different cultural perspectives."

Really? I'd say there are about two cultural perspectives in America.

1. There are the people that obey the law, go to work, and follow the rules.
2. And then there are small upper-class liberal activist groups that all believe they are saving the world from injustice.

A couple of days ago I was writing about Ron Unz's experience of the activist group phenomenon when he was running a voter initiative to slow down bilingual education in California. He found that bilingual education was driven by activists.

Although the bilingual advocates were relatively few in number, they were fiercely committed to their programs and intensely focused upon that sole, overriding issue, expressing the sort of fanaticism that persuaded far larger organizations to steer clear of any direct conflict.

Now we are in the middle of the "trans" age where gay and trans activist groups are, shall we say, "fiercely committed" to gay and trans normalization in schools.

So here's a piece in Quillette on the issue. Back in the day, LGBT activist groups sued under grounds of discrimination on the basis of sex for "children who’d been diagnosed as gender dysphoric." And a federal judge "proved amenable." Wrote one federal judge:

If left untreated, gender dysphoria may result in serious and debilitating psychological distress including anxiety, depression, and even self-harm or suicidal ideation.

You think, your honor? Or maybe, if nobody talked about gender dysphoria so that it wasn't a thing, nobody would know anything about it and kids would be getting all riled up about something else. Playground bullies gotta bully and Mean Girls gotta Mean Girl. And the kids that aren't bullies or Mean Girls are miserable as usual.

Or let's dive into our favorite 19th century novels. Whaddya think about the kids at Mr Creakle's school for boys in David Copperfield? You think the boys were thinking about anything except avoiding the wrath of Mr Creakle and getting in the good graces of Steerforth? Or whatabout the two teenage girls in Adam Bede? We are talking about Dinah Morris, the saint, and Hetty Sorrel the teenage twerp. So, if you put those two girls into the 21st century I bet that Dinah would have been the perfect girl volunteering at the animal shelter, and Hetty would have got into endless trouble on the gender front like her original at the Manor Farm. Trouble is: there are no Mrs Poysers around any more to straighten out the minds of empty-headed girls and put them to work in the dairy.

Here's an idea. We pass a law that says that gubmint schools cannot discuss sex or gender or discrimination or oppression at all. Or counsel students about sex. Or do anything except teach the 3 Rs.

Yeah, I know. Good luck with that. Ruling classes gotta rule. They gotta remind the peasants who is the lord around here. And one of the ways that rulers rule is by messing with other peoples' kids. Just to show they can.

See, back in the day, the ruling class of the time decided it would be a good thing to have gubmint schools here in the good old USA and teach the Protestant Bible. Because those bloody Irish spoiling the neighborhoods in New York and Boston were crazy Catholics and a cunning gubmint school system could cut the Irish off at the pass. Plus, according to Horace Mann, we could cut crime by 90 percent.

The Irish said, fuggedaboudit, and built their own schools attached to every Catholic church in the land. Indeed, they developed the deeply religious doctrine that I dare say you can find in the Vulgate bible that "first you build the school, then the church." (But you can't find it on Google Search, except on articles by Yours Truly).

See what I mean? Nothing has changed. Back in the 19th century stuck-up Yale and Harvard graduates knew what was best for the hoi polloi and so they used their political power to put a wrench, as they thought, into the primitive ways of the Irish street thug -- not to mention New York's 50,000 "nymphs of the pave."

Today, Yale and Harvard graduates want to indoctrinate kids with LGBT culture. Nothing personal, you understand. Just that activists gotta activate. Otherwise they don't get to live the creative lives that Gaia ordained for them. 

And you were put on this Earth so that activists could activate you into a proper mood of obedience.

I say to liberal activists: Go. Away.