Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me and Why He Has To Go by Milo Yiannopoulos

Author:Milo Yiannopoulos [Yiannopoulos, Milo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Bombardier Books
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

VI.

MAKE WAY FOR THE IRRELIGIOUS RIGHT

What happens if we don’t save the Catholic Church, and Christianity as a whole begins to wither and die? For one thing, the identity politics that plague modern life will never be beaten. The loss of religion in public life is what opened up the space for all these race hucksters and feminist dingbats in the first place. We are accustomed to the ugly, divisive strategies deployed by the political Left, and the effects of splitting us all up into distinct groups—gays, blacks, women. It isn’t making for a happy or harmonious polity. But as bad as the Left’s race-baiting and bullying of Christian bakers and endless hand-wringing can be, just imagine what will happen if the Right finally gives in, setting aside faith and universal moral principles and committing itself to the same ugly, identity-based conflicts. Is there a better way to win?

Yes, but doubling down on a secularized, technocratic “quest for truth” and leaning on classical liberal ideals aren’t going to be enough to reverse the damage done to the West by cultural Marxism and the progressive Left. Jonathan Haidt, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and leader of the Heterodox Academy, is regarded as a leader in the pushback against political correctness on campuses. But, as Aaron Sibarium notes in his review of that book for The American Interest, Haidt isn’t a threat to the Left, because he fundamentally misunderstands its nature and has failed to grasp the psychological implications of safe spaces and trigger warnings, which are a manifestation of “spiritual dissatisfaction,” not “imperial ambition.”171 In other words, student insanity isn’t a product of psychiatric dysfunction or fragility, but rather the product of ideology that has been brewing on campuses for decades. You can’t fix the problem without purging the poisonous ideas that created it: identifying God-hating cultural Marxism as such, and beating it to a bloody pulp. Because it lacks a commitment to universal truths, value-neutral classical liberalism just “perpetuates the moral vacuum in which PC-culture arose.” Likewise, the Church’s current crisis is theological: too many of its bishops appear not to believe in God at all, or are at least very relaxed about setting aside Church doctrine when it suits them.172

Haidt and co-author Greg Lukianoff repeatedly object to left-wing absurdities as harmful to students, but not by explaining why they are wrong, which they cannot do without committing themselves to moral principles they think will alienate the non-existent reasonable middle they seek to persuade. As Brigitte Gabriele once so memorably explained, “the peaceful majority are irrelevant.”173 Conflicts for the souls of civilizations are not won by gently taking the majority with you. They are won by pulverizing the extremes of your opposition into submission with relentless, aggressive, public displays of ritual humiliation and factual rebuttal. Haidt is probably capable of this, but, like everyone else claiming to lead the charge on campuses these days, he foolishly refuses to deploy the only strategies with any hope of success against the cultural Left.

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