As I started thinking about this issue yesterday, my daughter told me about students and faculty on her campus at her private university who are upset by the end of that university’s DEI program, which was, of course, government-mandated. Now, the Trump Administration is demanding an end to all those programs and targeting a variety of universities.
Because of the Trump Administration, DEI is receding from the Pentagon to private institutions. Woke is going broke. It has been pernicious, and a reckoning has been building. This is it.
The press and left call the right “culture warriors,” but we were not the ones who put pornographic material in elementary schools. We were not the ones who demanded kids in colleges attend seminars to learn about their inner racism. We were not the ones who demanded boys get into girls sports.
The left and press call us “culture warriors” solely because we said no and fought back against them.
And this is what it looks like for them to lose.
The press, infested by the left, sees horror and destruction all around it. What I see, as a conservative, is an effort to raze the purportedly neutral institutions irredeemably infected with progressivism. Government bureaucracies, academic institutions, and non-governmental entities were all formed as neutral institutions, but the left chose institutional capture. The left chose to advance its agenda from within these otherwise neutral institutions, infecting them, and now the only cure is tearing them down.
Academia became reliably progressive and deeply hostile to alternative viewpoints. USAID started funding trans-kids in Uganda. The press rushed to call pregnant women first “pregnant person,” then “birthing person.” The homeless became “unhoused.” And non-profits threw money at media outlets to subsidize left-wing activists as reporters to scare everyone about climate change. Progressives demanded diversity so long as the skin colors, genders, and sexual identities were different and the thinking was all homogeneously, uniformly progressive.
The left spent so long calling those of us on the right culture warriors, we finally decided to declare war. This is us fighting back, tearing down the ideologically captured institutions, and making it hard for them to rebuild or restore their trust.
You people on the left pivoted to censorship and press coverage of misinformation and disinformation — all while getting stuff wrong. We have used the internet to weaponize your lies against you and destroy your credibility with your own reporting. Trust in the media is now lower than even freaking Congress.
And you brought it on yourselves. You chose to embrace the left, be infiltrated by the left, be co-opted by the left, and finally taken over by the left. Along the way, you became arrogant and sclerotic.
I’m a pretty reasonable person — so much so I often get criticized for daring to criticize Donald Trump in the comments here and on radio. I am frequently, by his supporters, accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome or being too filled with ill-intentioned “Never Trump” motives. I try to give a fair hearing to both sides, explain both sides as fairly as I can, and then offer my opinion. I am willing to criticize Donald Trump and do so frequently from his personal behaviors to tariffs to Ukraine. That draws massive piles of criticism directed at me from Trump supporters.
But you will not find me criticizing the razing of these institutions or the hard-charging approach to burning them all down.
It is time. The hubris of those involved from the left shows that reform is not possible, only destruction.
This is what it looks like when the right has had enough and starts fighting back. And right now, you progressives are, very deservedly, losing.
We would have accepted neutral institutions. But you foisted DEI on us all. The New York Times declared the country is systemically racist and rewrote the founding history of the nation, which some of you then pushed into public schools for re-education. You used your cultural, institutional, and media clout to chase advertisers and revenue away from right-leaning institutions and voices. You attacked productive industries with media outlets subsidized by progressive environmental groups. You captured the government-funded national radio network and turned it into soft-spoken progressive hacks. You took over academic institutions and started discriminating against Asian kids. You took over public schools and decided learning the colors of the Pride Flag was more important than learning math. When COVID happened, you people shut down schools, kept those schools shut down, and when the inevitable collapse of learning occurred, you lied about keeping schools shut down and tried, with willing accomplices in the left-controlled press, to shift the blame. In Illinois, progressive educators dragged girls into bathrooms and forced them to change in front of boys. You even got the Voice of America to explain white privilege while refusing to call Hamas “terrorists.”
So now you’ll watch the rest of us wipe out those institutions. You could have had neutrality. Instead, you called us culture warriors all while waging war to capture and use neutral institutions against everyone else. You could have chosen to embrace diversity of thought. Now, you can embrace the rubble.
This is what it looks like when the right fights back. When Trump is done, you’ll eventually take power again. There is no permanence in American politics. But you will find rubble and learn it is faster to destroy than to build. You brought this on yourselves. I have plenty of words of caution to the right and Trump supporters about overplayed hands, going too far, etc. But I can save those thoughts for later.
Burn it all down—also, L. O. L. at this. I’m sure that’ll get us to change our minds.
Erick Woods Erickson is an American conservative talk radio host, blogger, and former politician. This article was sourced HERE
Because of the Trump Administration, DEI is receding from the Pentagon to private institutions. Woke is going broke. It has been pernicious, and a reckoning has been building. This is it.
The press and left call the right “culture warriors,” but we were not the ones who put pornographic material in elementary schools. We were not the ones who demanded kids in colleges attend seminars to learn about their inner racism. We were not the ones who demanded boys get into girls sports.
The left and press call us “culture warriors” solely because we said no and fought back against them.
And this is what it looks like for them to lose.
The press, infested by the left, sees horror and destruction all around it. What I see, as a conservative, is an effort to raze the purportedly neutral institutions irredeemably infected with progressivism. Government bureaucracies, academic institutions, and non-governmental entities were all formed as neutral institutions, but the left chose institutional capture. The left chose to advance its agenda from within these otherwise neutral institutions, infecting them, and now the only cure is tearing them down.
Academia became reliably progressive and deeply hostile to alternative viewpoints. USAID started funding trans-kids in Uganda. The press rushed to call pregnant women first “pregnant person,” then “birthing person.” The homeless became “unhoused.” And non-profits threw money at media outlets to subsidize left-wing activists as reporters to scare everyone about climate change. Progressives demanded diversity so long as the skin colors, genders, and sexual identities were different and the thinking was all homogeneously, uniformly progressive.
The left spent so long calling those of us on the right culture warriors, we finally decided to declare war. This is us fighting back, tearing down the ideologically captured institutions, and making it hard for them to rebuild or restore their trust.
You people on the left pivoted to censorship and press coverage of misinformation and disinformation — all while getting stuff wrong. We have used the internet to weaponize your lies against you and destroy your credibility with your own reporting. Trust in the media is now lower than even freaking Congress.
And you brought it on yourselves. You chose to embrace the left, be infiltrated by the left, be co-opted by the left, and finally taken over by the left. Along the way, you became arrogant and sclerotic.
I’m a pretty reasonable person — so much so I often get criticized for daring to criticize Donald Trump in the comments here and on radio. I am frequently, by his supporters, accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome or being too filled with ill-intentioned “Never Trump” motives. I try to give a fair hearing to both sides, explain both sides as fairly as I can, and then offer my opinion. I am willing to criticize Donald Trump and do so frequently from his personal behaviors to tariffs to Ukraine. That draws massive piles of criticism directed at me from Trump supporters.
But you will not find me criticizing the razing of these institutions or the hard-charging approach to burning them all down.
It is time. The hubris of those involved from the left shows that reform is not possible, only destruction.
This is what it looks like when the right has had enough and starts fighting back. And right now, you progressives are, very deservedly, losing.
We would have accepted neutral institutions. But you foisted DEI on us all. The New York Times declared the country is systemically racist and rewrote the founding history of the nation, which some of you then pushed into public schools for re-education. You used your cultural, institutional, and media clout to chase advertisers and revenue away from right-leaning institutions and voices. You attacked productive industries with media outlets subsidized by progressive environmental groups. You captured the government-funded national radio network and turned it into soft-spoken progressive hacks. You took over academic institutions and started discriminating against Asian kids. You took over public schools and decided learning the colors of the Pride Flag was more important than learning math. When COVID happened, you people shut down schools, kept those schools shut down, and when the inevitable collapse of learning occurred, you lied about keeping schools shut down and tried, with willing accomplices in the left-controlled press, to shift the blame. In Illinois, progressive educators dragged girls into bathrooms and forced them to change in front of boys. You even got the Voice of America to explain white privilege while refusing to call Hamas “terrorists.”
So now you’ll watch the rest of us wipe out those institutions. You could have had neutrality. Instead, you called us culture warriors all while waging war to capture and use neutral institutions against everyone else. You could have chosen to embrace diversity of thought. Now, you can embrace the rubble.
This is what it looks like when the right fights back. When Trump is done, you’ll eventually take power again. There is no permanence in American politics. But you will find rubble and learn it is faster to destroy than to build. You brought this on yourselves. I have plenty of words of caution to the right and Trump supporters about overplayed hands, going too far, etc. But I can save those thoughts for later.
Burn it all down—also, L. O. L. at this. I’m sure that’ll get us to change our minds.
Erick Woods Erickson is an American conservative talk radio host, blogger, and former politician. This article was sourced HERE
4 comments:
My young adult children are bombarded with anti Trump rhetoric, skits and fake videos on various social media platforms. I am not convinced the Right's fightback will last long.
It is insane how determined the left are peddle mental illness, fetishes & child abuse, & strip women’s sex-based & children’s human rights. Why do they, including the left hugging women, hate themselves, facts & common sense so much? Why do they take their children to see men dressed up as sexualised caricatures, sometimes gyrating (at least in the US), read to them at libraries? WHY? What on earth do they hope to achieve by subjecting their kids to this, to enabling sexual harassment in the changing rooms, to allowing men to kick them off the podiums, to dehumanise women, & subject their kids to porn & abuse via ‘inclusive’ alphabet BS in their school curriculum. WHY?
>"You took over academic institutions and started discriminating against Asian kids."
I suspect at least some readers will not cotton on to what is being alluded to here so allow me to explain. Once upon a time, under 'affirmative action', the SAT scores of Negroes were bumped up by 240 points and of Latinos by 175 points while those of Asians had 50 points DEDUCTED because too many of them were attaining full scores. That last bit came to a stop after a 2006 court ruling. But favouritism towards Negroes in particular continued. Asian Americans continue to feel discriminated against as they are now being treated like Whites i.e. put at a disadvantage in the competition for places in programmes such as medicine by virtue of their race.
DEI goes beyond race to encompass sex and sexual orientation etc. So if you are a sexually normal Asian you go to the back of the queue alongside the sexually normal Whites.
Yep, so correct. The silent majority are waking up to the far left and it's only just starting. We have had enough. They are in for a rude awakening.
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