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Left Critique

Draft Breaking down individual critiques made by the left

Judeo Christian, cys gender, Anglo-centric, colonialist, capitalist, conservative patriarchy.

Conservatism - This takes the form of an idealized, almost mythological view of the past. The left dismantles this by pointing out the faults of historical figures and societies. This is meant to expose how the current order is based on lies and/or evil. However, the question is - shouldn't the very fact that it is an idealized version of the past undermine any such opposition to it? It would be one thing if violent conquest was being promoted, the swindling of primitive people of their land, or the mistreatment of stolen humans. The fact that it is rather things such as work ethic, ingenuity, community, family values, rationality, beauty of architecture and art, articulate rationality, etc. which are promoted should be a self-evident justification for conservatism. It is not the faults that that are attempting to conserve. And if the faults are there, an open form for discussion and correction are among the values being promoted. Pointing out the mistakes of the past is a fundamentally absurd and meaningless argument against conservatism, yet it somehow remains a staple of "progressive" rhetoric. It is both a strawman and hypocrisy. They are saying, "look at the bloody past and reject your whitewashed myth in favor of our whitewashed myth". Part of the absurdity of it is that the trick is so obvious. It is the cup and ball routine but with glass cups. They are expected to believe the Pocahontas-Fern Gulley-Avatar trope that native people (any location) were an utterly peaceful people at one with nature and each other, rather than a diverse group of people, of whom many were as atrociously violent and territorial as violent and territorial whites - precisely because they were humans. The British have no right to the land, neither do the Spanish or French who would have conquered it, neither do the tribes which stole it from other "native" people which arbitrarily happened to arrive here first.

Anglo-centric - They are expected to believe that