I recently learned that one of my neighbors is a little bit of a woke activist. She’s not outspoken or loud. Her job prevents that. There would be consequences among her clients and people she works with. But she does quiet things. For example, she refuses to shop at businesses that have outed themselves as being supportive of non-woke ideologies. And she votes in every election, big or small, for the most woke candidates. She doesn’t have any kids, but she was very concerned about the upcoming school board election in the neighborhood.

One of the candidates lives on our street, and in a passing conversation, this candidate let her know that she wasn’t a fan of the fact that every single classroom in the neighborhood elementary school has a “choose to include” rainbow diversity sticker stuck on the classroom window.

So this neighbor, playing the dumb liberal language game, was telling me “I don’t get how anybody can be against inclusion.”

So I say like I’m lecturing a teenager, “You know that the rainbow sticker with the word inclusion is code for acceptance of gay and trans people, right? It’s not about inclusion. It’s about gay and trans issues, and our neighbor's a churchgoer. You're surprised by her view?” There was some big issue a couple years ago where some high school kid came out as trans, and people were in a tizzy over which bathroom and locker room this kid used, which is what led to the stupid sticker thing.

“Nuh uh!” she insists. “It’s about inclusion of everybody! Who can be against that?”

“Nuh uh!” I reply, mimicking her. “It’s about inclusion of everybody the same way ‘all lives matter’ is really about all lives mattering.”

“That’s completely different!” she exclaims.

Like most liberals, this woman is an unconscious victim of liberal arrogance.

Deep down, she knows that some people like our neighbor, even if she doesn’t agree with them, have a moral stance against alternative sexual lifestyles. Maybe they’re religious, or maybe they just have a non-religious but conservative set of family values they choose to follow and to impart to their children. And for these people, alternative sexualities are morally wrong, and people who allow and support these alternative sexualities are morally wrong. And in their world, teaching elementary school children to be “inclusive” about alternative sexualities is undermining the family values they’re trying to impart to their children. They believe teaching of these alternative values has no place in school, and school should focus on math and reading while leaving the teaching of values to the parents.

Even though these people are non-woke and against “inclusion”, which is clearly wrong in the eyes of any liberal person, they sleep well at night and believe themselves to be morally superior to these woke liberal people, which irritates the liberal people to no end.

The root problem with progressive liberal beliefs is that the progressive liberal people don’t recognize that their beliefs are just beliefs. They don’t consider their beliefs to be a moral position or a political position, or really a position at all. They consider their beliefs to be common sense. Something nobody could possibly oppose. They consider their beliefs to be a baseline moral standard that obviously applies to everybody, universal truths that nobody can deny. So obviously, in their eyes, there should be no problem teaching young children about tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, because in their world, these are not beliefs or values or political stances, but are just common sense baseline universally-applicable truths that apply to everybody.

They have no sense of history, of course. Otherwise, they’d know that these common sense universal truths that are obvious to everybody were actually a very, very radical position less than 20 years ago. Within their lifetimes.

But never mind that.

So certain are they that their beliefs aren’t beliefs and are actually obvious common sense universal truths that apply to everybody, that they are willing to extend their beliefs across the globe. Other countries with their own cultures and sovereignty? Fuck that. They need to comply with the universal liberal truth. Whether it’s burning coal or enforcing dress codes or making certain sexual practices illegal, these cultures that are ten times older than the United States need to comply with these obvious woke universal truths that the woke people just came up with this decade.

So certain are they that their beliefs aren’t beliefs and are actually obvious universal truths that apply to everybody, that they are willing to extend their beliefs across time. George Washington, who was a scholar and hero by the standards of the 1770s, was actually an evil man by the standards of the 2020s. He owned slaves, and his 1770s viewpoints about sex and women were pretty backward by 2020s standards. Because these progressive liberal beliefs are not beliefs, but are instead an obvious universal standard that applies to everybody, it is okay to judge George Washington by today’s progressive liberal universal standards and declare that this hero and scholar who overthrew tyranny should have known better, and was in fact an evil man who represented all that is wrong with oppressive white male American culture.

How arrogant must a group of people be, to think that their mere beliefs, some of which they just came up with recently, are so obvious and so universal that they apply to anyone and everyone, across the entire globe and across all of time?

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