A good look at the “voluntary” gender segregation that occurred at an LSE dinner.
One of the most shameful and hypocritical bits of modern liberal thinking and action is of embracing practices that are harmful to women if they are done by (mostly) brown people. Obsessed with relativism in general, it’s hard to declare absolute principles. This was seen most recently in the tortuous rhetoric of those liberals justifying North African men attacking women in Germany by blaming the women, German men for setting a bad example, or finding fault with anything other than the people actually committing the assaults.
However, I’m not that kind of liberal — Muslims who practice this sort of disgusting misogyny have no place in Western society.
Neither do white men, either, but it’s no more an option to send them back than it is to “send the Muslims back.” So a quandary. But the LSE not allowing this would be a good start.
The Left tends to embrace at the expense of women practices that are done by brown people, while white people get no pass. And they should not! No one should.
If it’s not clear, I’m in favor of equality for everyone, not equality unless you are a brown woman or the victim of an “oppressed” brown man, then fuck you, sister.
Interesting idea in the comments at Marginal Revolution (by Peter Schaeffer)
The idea is we’re witnessing the death of the “Soft society” characterized by trying to balance human rights, political freedom, the rule of law, multi-culturalism, libertarian ideas and individual liberty. It’s a mix that works great for the cosmopolitan elite but pretty badly for everybody else as such societies ultimately cannot protect their borders or enforce their laws or (I would say here) even make a principled stand for their own values.
The current squishy societies in the west are going to be replaced by something a lot harder (probably different hard systems in different places).
A Brave New World sort of world, then, with plenty of “freedom” but very little actual freedom. I can see that — that is already actualizing in many ways.
Surveillance capitalism and the general surveillance society is pushing everything in the direction that you mentioned.
I agree — I do not think cosmopolitan, egalitarian societies will exist for long without either becoming essentially walled cities à la Margaret Atwood’s MaddAdam trilogy with elites who appear to be free and the proles who lives like animals or without self-segregation on other axes. Already moving firmly that direction, and what will stop it?
Nothing that I can see.