Sunday, September 08, 2024

The Best Thing About Queer Theory

 ... is that you don't need to know much of anything. All you need to know is which groups are doing well and which are not. Nothing else matters.

Unlike gay identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, "queer" does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. (Halperin, 1995, p. 62, italics in original) 

If a group is doing well, it is because the "system" and the "norms" were designed by them and favor them at the expense of the groups who are doing poorly. The exercise of group power is the only factor determining success or failure. To eliminate injustice, then, you only need to recognize who is doing well and then make every effort to tear down everything about them.

In Scotland, they recently had a rally against racism and hate. It featured the usual suspects - Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs) doing what they do best - making incoherent noise.

Meanwhile, the reality of the "migrants" is something a bit more complicated.



Queer Theory ensures that the AWFLs never need to reconcile their embrace of "migrants" and "diversity" with the realities of Islamic or African culture. All they need know is that white Europeans have done better than just about everyone else for centuries. That's it.

Queer Theory is enforced ignorance. It's why apostates like JK Rowling are immediately canceled. There isn't room for even a sliver of doubt. Feminists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali who grew up in Somalia and experienced the worst of Islam are silenced as much as possible. There is only one measure and one way of assigning blame. Success or failure at the group level is all that matters.

This is also why you see interviews with the college kids protesting for Hamas where they can't explain what "From the river to the sea" means geographically. What river? What sea? They don't know and they don't need to know. In fact, knowledge only gets in the way, clouding the issues with unnecessary details that obscure injustices.

Once you see that ignorance is essential to Queer Theory and Queer Theory dominates the progressive left, it all makes sense. In other posts, I've ranted that there is no plan and indeed there isn't. It's not about taking over the world or globalism or multinationals, it's all about the destruction of the very idea of "normal."

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