One thing your humble author has tried to do is look at the more fundamental underpinnings of Leftist thinking, and not just the more noticeable superficial effects that others tend to focus on. One of these is the belief that all cultures are different, but somehow equal with their own “way of knowing” of equal validity and worth… except for those inferior cultures that distinguish the good non-Western “ways of knowing” from the bad Western “ways of knowing”. It is this fundamental point of view that underlies the Left’s world view. Increasingly it is becoming a view accepted by many on the Right, except with the good and bad reversed like two of the same coin but with one side showing heads and the other side showing tails.
America does have its distinct values and culture. I don't think it's superior to other Western nations. I think they are different and complementary.
— Marshal Thane (@Marshal_Thane) October 6, 2024
Notice that they try to diminish the superiority of America over the rest of Western Civilization be denying it has its own distinct values and even culture that is worth preserving. This is why you see such belittlement of America as an idea—they want to replace it with foreign and alien ones. After all, if two different things are of equal value, then they can be but equally valueless. And woe to those who are the on the receiving end of that void getting filled.
James Lindsay terms these individuals the “Woke Right”. It is a rejection of what makes America separate and distinct from Europe, specifically continental Europe. Such rejection allows those Alien European ideas to be offered as a substitute of equal value despite those demanding the change clearly valuing those alien values more than America’s!
