There's a ton of question begging happening in this. It takes a lot of histrionics to build the parallels being drawn here.
Mostly it reeks of lazy contemporary anti-left generalizations and tired tropes.
For example, (fairly) lambasting the claim that race-related violence is solely rooted in white supremacy makes an un-cited claim against a cited claim in the first graf of the linked article. The linked article states (admittedly spotty because these things cannot be fully validated) that 90% of anti-Asian incidents were perpetrated by white people. This UM study could very well be flawed but it at least exists and is cited.
The counter claim has largely been this deflective and defensive "actually it's black people doing this, look at this video." Well, yes. Some of them are. A larger amount aren't.
Again, I think there's a better rebuttal to "white supremacy is the root of all racial violence in the US" than:
1. Actually, blacks are racist, too!
or
2. Why are you so obsessed with race?
This quickly diverges into a laundry list of other overused right-wing tropes such as:
1. Denouncing and demeaning identity terminology
2. "Everyone's a victim!"
3. Reminding people that other races ethnicities engaged in slavery, a famous strawman counter. Why? Did someone assert otherwise?
And then summed up with:
"Progressives and right-wing Christians aren’t ideological enemies, they’re co-religionists. "
Oooh this one's been making the rounds for a few years now! It's an evolution of the recently-retired "atheism is itself a religion!" An attempt to turn the tables on those liberals by just randomly redefining things so they feel like they've engaged in some weird form of hypocrisy. Has this approach ever worked? Why does it keep getting trotted out?
As a bonus our conclusion includes classic slippery slope fear mongering we'll be hearing until the end of days:
"Under liberalism as it currently exists in the West, the arrow of history only runs in one direction, and that’s ever further to the left"
Yes. Liberalism is fundamentally different than any other ideology of man. We're reasonable, but those liberals are sucked into an unending vortex; a tidepool to Hell.
It's wordy but mostly empty. If you've read a few right-wing comments section you've got this laundry list checked off already. These techniques - often verbatim - have been used extensively to dismiss or diminish real issues in this country that could benefit from continued attention.
> lazy contemporary anti-left generalizations and tired tropes.
As soon as I hit "woke progressives" in the subtitle I knew I was unlikely to find anything worth my time, on top of the doubts I already had just based on the source.
I skimmed the rest, but I think I've had enough of The Pull Request to just ignore it from now on.
I would like to suggest that the atheism-as-religion idea isn't completely off-base. If you haven't read When Atheism Becomes Religion by Chris Hedges, I recommend taking a look at it. It's not a polemic against atheism from a conservative evangelical perspective, it's about how the prominent atheists and the communities that gather around them have cult-like aspects.
Mostly it reeks of lazy contemporary anti-left generalizations and tired tropes.
For example, (fairly) lambasting the claim that race-related violence is solely rooted in white supremacy makes an un-cited claim against a cited claim in the first graf of the linked article. The linked article states (admittedly spotty because these things cannot be fully validated) that 90% of anti-Asian incidents were perpetrated by white people. This UM study could very well be flawed but it at least exists and is cited.
The counter claim has largely been this deflective and defensive "actually it's black people doing this, look at this video." Well, yes. Some of them are. A larger amount aren't.
Again, I think there's a better rebuttal to "white supremacy is the root of all racial violence in the US" than:
1. Actually, blacks are racist, too! or 2. Why are you so obsessed with race?
This quickly diverges into a laundry list of other overused right-wing tropes such as:
1. Denouncing and demeaning identity terminology
2. "Everyone's a victim!"
3. Reminding people that other races ethnicities engaged in slavery, a famous strawman counter. Why? Did someone assert otherwise?
And then summed up with:
"Progressives and right-wing Christians aren’t ideological enemies, they’re co-religionists. "
Oooh this one's been making the rounds for a few years now! It's an evolution of the recently-retired "atheism is itself a religion!" An attempt to turn the tables on those liberals by just randomly redefining things so they feel like they've engaged in some weird form of hypocrisy. Has this approach ever worked? Why does it keep getting trotted out?
As a bonus our conclusion includes classic slippery slope fear mongering we'll be hearing until the end of days:
"Under liberalism as it currently exists in the West, the arrow of history only runs in one direction, and that’s ever further to the left"
Yes. Liberalism is fundamentally different than any other ideology of man. We're reasonable, but those liberals are sucked into an unending vortex; a tidepool to Hell.
It's wordy but mostly empty. If you've read a few right-wing comments section you've got this laundry list checked off already. These techniques - often verbatim - have been used extensively to dismiss or diminish real issues in this country that could benefit from continued attention.