I‘m sorry, did I say “helpful?” I meant “so convoluted that the diagram-maker eventually gave up drawing lines between boxes because even he couldn’t figure out how all these things allegedly relate to each other.”
I should note that in addition to being a mess, this diagram is also complete bullshit, and that “Cultural Marxism” only exists in the fevered imaginations of neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists, #Gamergaters and Bernard Chapin? For an actual history of “Cultural Marxism” as a boogeyman of the far right, see here. For more lovely “Cultural Marxism” infographics and memes, several of which do include “Le Happy Merchant,” see my earlier post on the subject.
Oh, ok. Here (after the jump) is a crapload of BONUS images I found by searching for “cultural marxism,” this time on Twitter. [CONTENT WARNING: All the bigotries, actual pro-Hitler Tweets, cartoon semi-nudity.]
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/561162949771796480
https://twitter.com/KSWhiteChick/status/558844948507021312
https://twitter.com/ofugidsabenis/status/555965219194040324
There is nothing wrong with white pride, white love, and white culture. Stop #CulturalMarxism and #WhiteGenocide. pic.twitter.com/r6WzOzIjnJ
— Andy Williams (@AndyWilliam1975) January 23, 2015
He said communism & marxism was Evil, Political correctness Multi'CULT' urism, cultural Marxism also soul destroying. pic.twitter.com/YKyLKgRPRb
— )))Wolfseig((( (@OdinnMitUns) January 22, 2015
Smashing cultural marxism pic.twitter.com/2gfNpKdBtN
— )))Wolfseig((( (@OdinnMitUns) January 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/555877869771960321
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/555818340061421569
https://twitter.com/OccidentalApple/status/555418219796635649
https://twitter.com/SuperKaosIzHere/status/554807204050518017
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/560287993597288448
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/555783240456613888
https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/556970290375557122
Note: This last image, as you’ve probably gathered, is not an actual SPLC poster. A Google image search shows that pretty much the only people who’ve posted it online have been right-wing asshats. For example, this guy, who regularly posts images even worse than the ones I’ve got here.
H/T — @jason_a_w on Twitter, for posting the convoluted diagram, sent to him by someone who thought it actually made sense, and maistrechat, for linking to Jason’s Tweet in the comments here.
These schmucks are against interracial adoption? Because GOD FORBID orphaned children find loving homes with people who aren’t the exact same skin color.
Arson, murder and jaywalking.
Seems I’m in good company with my thoughts on that elaborate European building, versus the functional, but plain, African one. Cuz I went “well, yes, it’s prettier, but is it remotely functional? Cuz it looks like she’s got herself a nice weather proof home right there”
The best meme is the Trek one, because you’ve just gone “HITLER WAS RIGHT” with two characters who beat up Nazis in one of their episodes and live on a mixed-ethnicity, female-officer ship with a Russian ensign.
And one of them is mixed race.
In addition to the Star Trek oopsie, I’d like to point out that the Ideal Aryan in the “race is not a social construct (but totally a biological hierarchy with whites on top*)” pic is actor Luke Macfarlane who is openly gay. With their shmorgishborg of bigotries, probably not what they were going for.
*I think this is what they’re trying to say.
I don’t see how side-by-side photos of two men who are both pale-skinned but have few other facial features in common are supposed to prove that race is not a social construct. If anything, it serves as a very good demonstration of how arbitrary the boundaries of “race” really are.
I love how that Wolfseig guy misspelled the “Sieg” half of his name. Dumb Nazifuck.
As it’s been pointed out, I’m pretty sure that if there was such a thing as a “culturally Marxist” society, you know with total multiculturalism, “political correctness”, and all the other progressive ideas the ‘neo-reactionaries’ loathe it might look a little like ‘Star Trek’. Not to mention Nimoy and Shatner are both Jewish…
With all that being said, who the PHUCK decided to make a meme of Spock and Kirk holding a sign that says ” Adolf Hitler was Right”?!?! I mean, that means there’s at least one Neo-Nazi fan of Star Trek who likes to blend his passions. I just figured all Nazi nerds just liked the ‘Gor’ series and heavy metal…
That’s like if there exists a meme where Hitler’s holding a sign that says “‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ is better than ‘Star Trek: The Original Series'”.
Ah hell, there are ‘Simpsons’ neo-Nazi fans too…
Wait … hold up … *squeegees eyes* Is that Simpsons one actually saying something positive about the UN !?
Also, that “Race is a Social Construct” one looks like it’s comparing a glamor shot with a mugshot. Way to stack the deck, there, buddy.
And do women still take their shirts off at protests? ‘Cause I’ve been to a few and I’ve never seen that happen.
Re: Star Trek vs right-wing dumbasses:
Don’t forget that these are the sort of people who buy gold from Glenn Beck in the name of Ron Paul because the communists want to abolish money! Secret government straw person bank accounts! The Amero! JEWS JEWS JEWS!… And Star Trek is the only fictional universe I can think of that actually has abolished money as we know it.
About Leonard Nimoy being Jewish …
I know someone who’s got a little story about her dad walking in on the middle of “Patterns of Force,” seeing this on the television screen,
http://www.theviewscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/patternsofforce1-300×220.jpg
and asking out loud what an Ashkenazim was doing wearing an SS uniform.
… And I somehow got stuck in moderation. Not sure how I did that. o.O Sorry, David.
Leonard Nimoy…an AshkeNAZI.
Conundrum solved!
Argenti
Yeah, I thought of that too. “Our houses are bigger and prettier, and therefore better!” Classism at it’s worst, methinks.
On top of that, someone else made a good point that most of the wonderful buildings that existed in Africa and in other countries were destroyed by white people colonizing the place.
So, yeah. Those guys can fuck off.
I call fake geek boy. A REAL Star Trek fan would know Kirk and Spock beat up Nazis in Patterns of Force.
I recently watched the 70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and had completely forgotten that Leonard Nimoy was in it.
Women usually go topless at protests that are against the sexualization of women’s breasts even when inappropriate. (breast feeding, for example, shouldn’t be seen as sexual or inappropriate.) Nipples are something that everyone has, so it’s weird that women aren’t allowed to show them even as men are frequently casually topless. To bring attention to this issue, some women stage topless protests. So it is a thing that happens, but usually at protests that are specific to that cause. Not at, say, an Occupy Wall Street or Ferguson protest.
I never understood the thing where supposed liberty loving libertarians are in reality such authoritarians fuckers. Right lobertarians in particular
Oh good, someone already mentioned Great Zimbabwe. Dry stone construction: The whole city was built with no mortar. Still standing.
I read a novel recently set in the Kingdom of Aksum. It was pretty excellent.
@Ellie: It’s pure misdirection. They like to omit the fact the “liberty” they love so much is largely economic, which is generally something that only benefits corporations as it removes any limits imposed on them for one reason or another (including environmental regulation that might protect a town from, y’know, having a poisoned water supply due to waste being dumped in it). They’ll bring up legalization of marijuana or gay rights as something they support but, in reality, could give less of a shit about either. They’re often the same group of people who think “state’s rights” should precede such laws being ratified nationally – many of which would (some already do) severely punish possession of weed and make any act of homosexuality illegal.
If they were honest, they’d just call themselves “Corporatists.”
There’s the Big L libertarians that align with the Ron Paul mouth piece and official Libertarian Party(Ron Paul runs as a Republican, but his talking points are libertarian). They are authoritarian and racist but try to do everything to hide it. They have a couple of think tanks working on sleazy fronts for their propaganda. Think of the worst, corrupt Republican politician. These people will make him/her look like Mother Theresa. At their core Big L libertarians and those that support them knowing what they are, are opportunists. If they can get away with anything, it’s okay. That’s what they mean by “liberty”.
Small l libertarians, also lefty libertarians, usually come from populist working class roots and have a cultural aversion to aligning themselves with the traditional left(Labor /Democrats). They’re socially liberal, fiscally conservative, or rather, cautious. They’re very frustrated with what they see as the traditional left dragging it heels or making compromises.
The first group ruthlessly exploits and manipulates the second group. In 2008, many lefty libertarians bailed from membership after Ron Paul’s racist newsletters –which they had never heard of—were brought to people’s attention. But it was too late. They’d already helped the party get national recognition.
IMHO the Official Libertarian Party is a front for reactionary racists who are too cowardly to admit their real goals. It would be great if it was abolished, but I don’t think that’s feasible now.
Links for more reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_presidential_campaign,_2008#Ron_Paul_newsletter_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Liberty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2000/summer/the-neo-confederates?page=0,1
What a bunch of bullshit in that diagram. Some other points have already been mentioned, but as a philosophical anarchist, I feel it necessary to point out one particular misstep: Abolishing the traditional concept of property in the way we understand it would not lead to a welfare state, since a welfare state still pretty much runs on the traditional concept of property. The people who are on top now are not the ones who worked hardest to get there, but those who started out with the most opportunities and privileges, so taxing them more is not “unfair”, but an acknowledgement of the disproportionate share they’ve received from society’s common efforts.
It’s like some people can’t imagine a world where people work together for the common good, instead of pointlessly gathering wealth to gain an upper hand in a constant, merciless struggle against other people who want to destroy you and steal your stuff. Thinking like a capitalist must, by its very definition, lead to a very miserable, lonely existence.
@Ellie:
As everyone who loves using “freedom” as a buzzword to rally people to their cause, glibberglobbertarians are for freedom for people as much like them as possible (white, straight, neurotypical, economically privileged, etc.), but not to those pesky non-humans (everyone else), who will apparently just randomly turn into criminals, murderers and rapists if “granted” freedom. Best just to hold them under our thumb. Privilege makes one pretty fucking near-sighted. And often hypocritical.
Oh, and as someone who loves comics as a medium, I need to ask about the one meme: Why the hell are Burns and Smithers speaking in thought balloons?
Ah shoot, I only wanted the links. Please delete my previous post, if possible.
http://imgur.com/71y48IR
http://imgur.com/QgYJ0iN
http://imgur.com/PaaQFmL
http://imgur.com/bqY9xBF
Sorry about my inability to post properly. Let’s try this one last time:
Long time reader, first time commenter (read the Welcome Package).
I just spend some time (probably too much) making those images, reversing the “white = beautiful” and “Africa = poor” type of images:
http://imgur.com/a/P0yzQ