#egalitariansim

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Egalitarian societies blind the imagination without even satisfying envy.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[blithe-abomination]

Oppression is NOT your free pass!

Here is a thing.  The only privilege I recognize is class privilege.  Other privileges might contribute to whether or not you can achieve class privilege but the key determining factor is ultimately class privilege.  However, absolutely NO kind of privilege or oppression you face gives you a free pass to be rude without any instigation, and in no situation is it anymore okay for you to be rude than it is for anyone else.  I will not accept that minorities can't be racist because they're minorities.  I will not accept that women can't be sexist because they're women.  I will not accept that gay people can't make discriminatory remarks to straight people just because they're gay.   I don't care who you want to have sex with.  I don't care what you look like.  I don't care what bits you have in your pants.  You do NOT have a pass to be rude or discriminatory.  Stop. justifying. hypocrisy.

[lyonface]

The title is of course eye-catching and exaggerating, but this is still a very important video about the discrimination towards boys in the educational system in America.

[wrathofgnon]

"Ideological ugliness in the name of egalitarianism continues to do damage, with the paradoxical result that it increases inequality: For as it destroys beauty and elegance, so beauty and elegance become ever more rarefied and available to a smaller and smaller elite, and this is so even where income and consumption increase. The standard of living rises while the quality of life falls.”

Theodore Dalrymple