This reminds me of Peter Thiel’s The Diversity Myth. While on the one hand the intersectional movement is about growing the circle of concern to more groups there are strong assumptions about everyone having to buy into the narrative of intersectionalism.
The Black community now gets represented by people who believe “we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities [...] Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.” and for whom the rights of Black trans folks are more central to what their movement is about then rights of Black prisoners (who are missing in the list of people they care about) and any economic concerns of poverty being a problem.
When people on the right say that they fear that Muslim immigrants will likely bring ideas about how the relationships between men and women should be regulated that are written down in the Koran into our society, the response from people on the left is that they generally believe that they will be able to replace those values with their own values about how men and women should interrelate.
It seems like the left version here is inherently about colonizing other cultures while bringing them into the circle of concern which is interesting giving it’s narrative of opposing colonization.
This would suggest that there is some natural lifecycle of “how the political left treats its allies”, where the ally gradually gets noticed… first by a few voices on the fringe, then by the mainstream… then there is a peak ally moment when you can do nothing wrong (even if you mistreat other oppressed minorities, it becomes a taboo to mention that)… and afterwards gradually gets deprioritized, treated like now they owe their allegiance to the left, should follow the party line, and throw their full support behind the next peak ally.
And perhaps there is a natural end, when the former ally is abandoned. I am not paying sufficient attention to this, but seems to me that gays have more or less gone the full circle, starting with gay prides and gay marriage, through “one does not talk about abuse of gays by blacks or muslims”, coming to “a white cis male feels oppressed? you are joking, aren’t you?”.
On the other hand, not all allies are passing through this lifecycle at the same speed. For example, women and somewhat later blacks became an archetype of an oppressed group long ago, and they will probably remain so for a long time. Compared with that, homosexuals seem like a passing fad (less archetypal than women, less trendy than transsexuals).
So the question is, if the model is roughly true, how fast would muslims move through this lifecycle. They might stay at the top for a very long time. Or they might be thrown under the bus quite quickly, considering how the treatment of Uyghurs in China is already in the “one does not talk about it” phase.
This reminds me of Peter Thiel’s The Diversity Myth. While on the one hand the intersectional movement is about growing the circle of concern to more groups there are strong assumptions about everyone having to buy into the narrative of intersectionalism.
The Black community now gets represented by people who believe “we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities [...] Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.” and for whom the rights of Black trans folks are more central to what their movement is about then rights of Black prisoners (who are missing in the list of people they care about) and any economic concerns of poverty being a problem.
When people on the right say that they fear that Muslim immigrants will likely bring ideas about how the relationships between men and women should be regulated that are written down in the Koran into our society, the response from people on the left is that they generally believe that they will be able to replace those values with their own values about how men and women should interrelate.
It seems like the left version here is inherently about colonizing other cultures while bringing them into the circle of concern which is interesting giving it’s narrative of opposing colonization.
This would suggest that there is some natural lifecycle of “how the political left treats its allies”, where the ally gradually gets noticed… first by a few voices on the fringe, then by the mainstream… then there is a peak ally moment when you can do nothing wrong (even if you mistreat other oppressed minorities, it becomes a taboo to mention that)… and afterwards gradually gets deprioritized, treated like now they owe their allegiance to the left, should follow the party line, and throw their full support behind the next peak ally.
And perhaps there is a natural end, when the former ally is abandoned. I am not paying sufficient attention to this, but seems to me that gays have more or less gone the full circle, starting with gay prides and gay marriage, through “one does not talk about abuse of gays by blacks or muslims”, coming to “a white cis male feels oppressed? you are joking, aren’t you?”.
On the other hand, not all allies are passing through this lifecycle at the same speed. For example, women and somewhat later blacks became an archetype of an oppressed group long ago, and they will probably remain so for a long time. Compared with that, homosexuals seem like a passing fad (less archetypal than women, less trendy than transsexuals).
So the question is, if the model is roughly true, how fast would muslims move through this lifecycle. They might stay at the top for a very long time. Or they might be thrown under the bus quite quickly, considering how the treatment of Uyghurs in China is already in the “one does not talk about it” phase.