From Campus Intifadas to Pronoun Mandates: Who is Our Common Enemy? Choosing a post-liberal society. Jason Hill
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Some people need to be hit over the head to tie abstractions together under a Conceptual Common Denominator, and that is what we need as we look out at the various maladies afflicting American civilization, from the campus intifada protests calling for both the Islamification of the United States and the destruction of Israel, to the new pronoun mandate for workers, employers and even customers issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as part of the civil rights agency’s first move in a quarter-century to bring its workplace guidelines up to date with legal precedent and evolving social norms. This decision is the consequence of decades of queer scholarship and legal machinations to gain civil rights protection for behaviors once regarded as deviant but now part of a set of mainstream norms that protects trans people not only from being misgendered, but from having to use a bathroom that does not accord with their chosen gender.
The age of nihilism is upon us. We have witnessed the radical queering of America: the tran-sexualizing of students behind their parents’ backs; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives that overtly discriminate against white men; Critical Race Theory that reinforces the idea—among others—that structural and systemic barriers still exist to keep blacks outside of public and private institutions; and the decimation of our universities that are now Marxist, anti-American indoctrination centers. This article will not list all the myriad social ills plaguing our republic today. They are well known to our readers.
The detritus, the putrefaction, the moral decay, all the forces of evil were possible because of one conceptual common denominator: liberalism. Everybody got let into the future and all standards were dropped to the lowest common denominator of the cheapest harlot on the block, who was told her inclusion was as valued as that of the righteous man. Every social ballast dragging down humanity was told, You too belong. Even pedophiles have been rebranded as Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs) as part of a sinister path towards normalizing pedophilia.
The fundamental phenomenon that permitted the domination of our civilization, from the idea that reason and logic are racist, to the criminalization of the Western canon, to the normalization of the idea that biological males can become women and biological females can become men, and that men can give birth to babies, is liberalism. Liberalism not only promotes the idea that all conceptions of the good life are equal; it also advances the view that the radical spirit of moral egalitarianism that undergirds liberalism invites radical inclusion of all voices and a multiplicity of competing value systems—many of them morally degenerate—as constitutive of the public sphere.
Liberalism takes the grotesque and ugly as having just as much right to be valorized and glorified as the beautiful. The village idiot who has never read nor thought about a topic, but who has a facility for elevating his sophomoric high school opinions to the level of human knowledge is regarded, on college campuses, as having a viewpoint as worthy as the professor who has spent thirty-five years honing her skill and knowledge in her areas of specialization. The obliteration of the hierarchy of methods of appraising and judging right from wrong, and good from evil—a nefarious form of relativism—is a child of liberalism. Liberalism allowed nihilistic post-modernism to go unchecked by claiming that a plurality and heterogeneity of competing truth claims were goods in themselves. It sanctioned the even more evil perspective that claiming one method of adjudication is superior to another is racist, imperial, white colonialist settler logic. This in turn, for example, makes the Land Back Movement which seeks, ultimately, to indict America as being founded on stolen land that should be returned to Native tribes, a morally tenable idea.
So when I hear students on college campuses during the wave of viral on-campus protests screaming, “Who is the Intifada? We are The Intifada!” or “No Divestment, No Commencement!” and furthermore, watch Brown University administrators and others negotiate with students—who break the law with impunity—about divesting from companies that invest in Israel, I think, Time for a regime change.
Liberalism has failed. It has remained too agnostic on conceptions of the good life in certain spheres of human lives and, in others, ascribed moral value to them. A judge in New York recently upheld the right of a gay polyamorous relationship. Polyamory could easily be recast as an essential expression of queerness, meriting equal status under the U.S. Constitution. If it’s ethical to slaughter and eat an animal; why is it not ethical to love and interact with that animal sexually as Joana Bourke explored in her book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love?
Because transgenderism and queer theory have been written into the Civil Rights Act, everything has been complicated. It is the cause of many legal and moral developments in the past several decades with its endless accretions of intersectional identities claiming grievance and oppression and seeking protection under the Civil Rights Act. Anyone on the short end of the power dynamic who feels marginalized could potentially qualify: polyamorous persons, drag queens, cross-dressers, incest lovers, bestiality practitioners, pedophiles, those who wish to lower the age of consent to thirteen—in fact, all the pre-Western global norms that preceded colonization and capitalist hegemony. It’s only a matter of time before an argument will be made for why two brothers should be allowed to be married once it is established that objection to polyamory results from a paucity of imagination and addiction to old-fashioned pieties. After all, it will be said, the state ought not to have any jurisdiction over the bodily autonomy and sovereignty of any individual. This is a cardinal premise of political liberalism. We can see where the application of that premise in its most extreme form will end up.
Liberalism is an extraordinary political philosophy. Its policy of granting residency to illiberal and unassimilable peoples from illiberal countries who vow to colonize their host countries with their own values, and to give them the legal right to do so, is unprecedented. When parts of Germany look more like the outskirts of Istanbul, and segregated all-male Muslim cafes populate certain neighborhoods in France, should we be surprised that the queering of the United States and the normalizing of transgenderism are becoming coin of the realm?
Liberalism is single-handedly responsible for the high crime rates in Europe which are linked directly to migrants, and where the Islamification of the continent is achieved by Muslims who openly declare their intent to destroy the values of western civilization and establish a caliphate. How much difference in degree (not kind) is that from Queer Nation USA, or Transgenderism writ large conducted under our secular mullahs and imams—the Teachers Unions, and backed by the United States government where, again, misgendering (a real misnomer) has been declared illegal under federal antidiscrimination law.
Is it any surprise that our future generation of leaders will be more LGBT than they were in the past? Our K-12 and elite universities normalize these identity states and criminalize masculinity, simpliciter, as toxic with little chance for the defenders of heteronormativity to issue rejoinders. Liberalism has not come to an impasse. Its self-correcting and self-reflexivity clause that encouraged it to cast a suspicious eye on dogma has been destroyed. It has cemented into a harbinger of dogmatic pagan religions, each vying to impose its conception of the good on the citizenry with the help of enforced government decrees and laws. And let us not forget that transgenderism that ends in sterilization of both sexes leads inevitability to extinction of the human race: there is no procreation among a phalanx of eunuchs.
Today, the state is the protector of every single so-called marginalized group, every fringe radical that has contributed mayhem, chaos and nihilism as ways of existing and their concomitant way of life. The dead white European Christian males who discovered liberalism and opened up the domain of the ethical to broad swaths of individuals wrought from groups previously excluded from the pantheon of the human community is today the only group excluded from that domain, and almost from the pantheon of the human community.
One could have said a few years ago that the liberal state was not wickedly stacked against anyone’s conception of the good life; that there was no conspiracy by the state, since at least the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to prevent anyone’s self-actualization from coming into existence. The liberal state today in almost every progressive European country and certainly, in the United States, is with full malice aforethought stacked against the self-actualization and self-representation of Christian whites in the United States—and especially males. When Coca-Cola led the campaign against whiteness in its corporation, and DEI policies in universities and businesses utter with the flippancy of reading from a flash card the goal of decentering whiteness, or eliminating whiteness from our American civilization, and try to play rhetorical games by claiming whiteness is an ideology—without giving a proper definition of that ideology, we can be sure of one thing: Liberalism has become a genocidal and extinction philosophy and form of governance.
It is time for a regime change, a new order and a new gilded moral age where not everyone will be let into the future. Radical diversity and inclusion are a mess and a lie. What we need is a new post liberal society where rational discrimination and exclusion can be executed. A place where the radical existential egalitarianism of liberalism is shattered. Too many uncouth social ballasts believing that they are the equal to their superiors have been allowed to sit and bend the posture of man to that of slouching, self-satisfied mediocrity. In enshrining mediocrity and suffusing the world with their decrepit forms of life which they insist carry the normative weight of command, edicts and dicta—they have crushed dissent and any deviation from received orthodoxy. State liberalism stamps Woke movements with the imprimatur of infallibility where infallibility means not a mere belief that one is right. It is rather an action: the pursuit of the means to prevent individuals by means of force from contesting and challenging one’s sacrosanct beliefs and viewpoints.
The subject of a post-liberal society is a conversation that needs to be had. This society is one that could be comprehensive and inclined to homogeneity in basic moral values and principles that inform a conception of the good life. It would establish heteronormativity and binary conceptions of gender roles as the natural order of life. Certain conceptions of the good life would be regarded as more consonant with rational human nature than others.
That system would not be agnostic on the question of what constitutes the good, or about the conception of the good life people carve out for themselves. Therefore, for example, it could not permit the arbitrary redefinition of concepts such as marriage and family to fit the private wishes and desires of persons. In such a society, transgenderism by logical extension would be impermissible since the assumptions that undergird the transgender movement—that biological sex exists on a continuum, or at best, exists in a manner that does not have to correspond to a concomitant gender—would be proven to be putatively false.
Equity, the belief that calls for equal results from unequal causes, or equal rewards for unequal performance based on the belief that we are all equal in intelligence, moral values and physical prowess—would not be legally enacted in any manner.
Whatever form it takes, a post-liberal society is one that articulates a more just and fair society where at least wisdom and common sense cannot be superseded by malice towards all, and charity towards none.
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