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“Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.”

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Urvashi Vaid

Urvashi Vaid is an influential lawyer and activist known for her contributions to LGBTQ+ rights and women's rights. Born on October 8, 1958, she has been a prominent advocate in these fields since the 1980s. more

“Whatever mainstream Western liberalism is--and I have no useful definition of it beyond something at its core transactional, centered on the magnanimous, enlightened image of the self and the dissonant belief that empathizing with the plight of the faraway oppressed is compatible with benefiting from the systems that oppress them--it subscribes to this calculus.”

Oppression Liberalism Oppressed Progressivism Progressives Liberals Systems Of Oppression Western Liberalism

Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“While actually intersex individuals are real and incredibly rare, and actually transgendered people are also real and very rare, much of modern "gender ideology" is dangerous and contagious, and many of the interventions (hormonal, surgical) are not reversible.”

Equality Gender Lgbtq Progressives Derrida Deconstructionism Radical Left

Book:A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

“American Progressives can not or will not make the intellectual leap that the “science” in “scientific racism” did not originate with the people they otherwise accuse of not even believing in “science” in the first place.”

Genocide Eugenics Darwinism Scientism Theory Of Evolution Progressives Scientific Racism Racial Hygiene Evolutionary Science

Author:A.E. Samaan

“In the 1920s, Anglo-American medicine was praised for its political independence...especially in comparison to the USSR and Lysenkoism. In the 2020s, Anglo-American science is mocked around the world for exchanging empirical observation for the cheap thrill of political relevance.”