The sad future of the democratic party

[TaraJo]

I think the time has passed though, where minorities are content or willing to treat racism and bigotry like some abstract concept that has no originator or purveyor.

It is hard to tell a community that continues to be oppressed and victimized that it has to keep being nice and reverent to its oppressors in order to make change.

Being nice to oppressors is one thing.  Making enemies out of people who should be allies, or at least neutral parties, is another. 

We've seen some of that in atheist communities.  I mean, atheists tend to be allied more with leftie politics, seeing as how we don't exactly tend to get along with the religious fundamentalism that goes on in right wing circles.  Then PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson came in, started telling all the atheists we're a bunch of misogynists and rape apologists and, suddenly, I start seeing more and more libertarian identified atheists.  Which tends to mean they're atheists, but they don't vote with progressives; after all, the progressives are the ones calling them misogynists all the time.

I've been watching it happen in gamer circles, too.  4 years ago, gamers were a pretty politically neutral bunch, politically speaking.  I would have thought it would be easy to turn gamers liberal since we don't exactly want religious fundamentalists to start dictating how games are made, but instead we get the opposite: authoritarians on the left side are telling us the proper way to enjoy gaming.  Zoey Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian and their whole crew came in, told gamers that we're all a bunch of shitty misogynist neckbeards who live in our mothers basement.  And the progressive media went along with them.  Know who didn't go along with them?  Milo Yiannopoulos.  Guess how that worked out come election time?  Gamers, who just wanted to be left alone to play their games were turned into a wing of the alt-right by liberal bullies.  

And the thing is, I can see the progressives points.  I mean, there do tend to be more men than women in most atheist circles and, yeah, it was worse than this 10 years ago.  And, yeah, when I go into a gamestop or Vintage Stock (a retro/used video game chain) or pretty much any gaming environment, it's a sausage fest up in there.  There are gender imbalances there and dealing with them isn't a bad thing at all, but what we've been getting from progressives is an example on how NOT to fix those problems.