In this essay, guest columnist Dwayne Monroe gives his response to Slavoj Zizek's essay in Compact Magazine--and he has a little help from a very famous detective.
Everyone knows what wokeness is. It's everywhere, whether in the BLM movement, DSA meetings, progressive homelessness policies, or even the army. Pretending like there is no such thing makes it hard to believe that Zizek doesn't know what he's talking about - but you do.
"throw around unmoored assertions, such as the existence of a "trans lobby” with reckless abandon? What is the meaning of this essay and who is the guilty party?"
"oh, just one more thing Professor, where is this trans lobby?"
"there is no path from declaring that a group, the ‘woke’, possesses the power to sway governments and corporations and a well worn appeal to the ¨superego¨ as an explanation for it all."
this is a very bizarre argument. somehow that no person ever has ever influenced government ever totes trust me. transgender medicine is a big money maker, why wouldn't corporations lobby for a greater acceptance of something they believed is both moral and profitable? mermaids, a charity in the uk, as well as stonewall too i believe, often pushed back on the lgb alliance for transphobia while endorsing these process and clinics which ended up not being affective. the mermaids charity is now having its charitable status questioned i believe, something which it wanted done to lgb alliance. but getting hundreds of thousands in donations from a twitch stream endorsed by aoc is not lobbying at all, no sir
"the topic of trans rights and the challenges faced by trans people with a series of tricks and rhetorical maneuvers (deeply irresponsible, indeed, dangerous, during a time when trans people are under intense and escalating attack)"
and there the penny drops. 'no evidence of mass support for unpopular trans policies, they were just implemented out of thin air' says I, someone who happens to support all these policies to such a degree that I think not implementing them is an attack on a minority group's moral character or existence
"spent a moment talking to, or reading the statements of trans individuals."
what if the trans individuals are wrong, or agree with him? trans people aren't a monolith
" in the wake of the ´Wokeness´ article and the anger it aroused, this group rushed to develop complex apologies and academic defenses, intended to convince those of us who simply read what is before us that we fail to understand the nuances of Zizek´s argument."
I hate this 'damn you used to be cool and then you said something I disagreed with and now you're evil' thing that radical liberals posing as left wing revolutionaries do. I love friendlyjordies, the guy defended china's camps, i don't disavow the guy for one blind spot if I think he's a genius 99 percent of the time
"What´s on the page, written in a moment of emergency, as reactionaries seek to eliminate trans people and liberals offer soft defense"
not having puberty blockers for minors and not having transgender women in women's prisons is not seeking to eliminate trans people, just like wanting puberty blockers for minors or transgender women in women's prisons is not proof of grooming. I support puberty blockers, hormones and maybe even surgery for some minors on a case by case basis, but I am less supportive of transgender women because they tend to be stronger than the other prisoners and are statistically more likely to be in there for sex crimes. what am I doing: half-a genocide?
Everyone knows what wokeness is. It's everywhere, whether in the BLM movement, DSA meetings, progressive homelessness policies, or even the army. Pretending like there is no such thing makes it hard to believe that Zizek doesn't know what he's talking about - but you do.
"throw around unmoored assertions, such as the existence of a "trans lobby” with reckless abandon? What is the meaning of this essay and who is the guilty party?"
"oh, just one more thing Professor, where is this trans lobby?"
"there is no path from declaring that a group, the ‘woke’, possesses the power to sway governments and corporations and a well worn appeal to the ¨superego¨ as an explanation for it all."
this is a very bizarre argument. somehow that no person ever has ever influenced government ever totes trust me. transgender medicine is a big money maker, why wouldn't corporations lobby for a greater acceptance of something they believed is both moral and profitable? mermaids, a charity in the uk, as well as stonewall too i believe, often pushed back on the lgb alliance for transphobia while endorsing these process and clinics which ended up not being affective. the mermaids charity is now having its charitable status questioned i believe, something which it wanted done to lgb alliance. but getting hundreds of thousands in donations from a twitch stream endorsed by aoc is not lobbying at all, no sir
"the topic of trans rights and the challenges faced by trans people with a series of tricks and rhetorical maneuvers (deeply irresponsible, indeed, dangerous, during a time when trans people are under intense and escalating attack)"
and there the penny drops. 'no evidence of mass support for unpopular trans policies, they were just implemented out of thin air' says I, someone who happens to support all these policies to such a degree that I think not implementing them is an attack on a minority group's moral character or existence
"spent a moment talking to, or reading the statements of trans individuals."
what if the trans individuals are wrong, or agree with him? trans people aren't a monolith
" in the wake of the ´Wokeness´ article and the anger it aroused, this group rushed to develop complex apologies and academic defenses, intended to convince those of us who simply read what is before us that we fail to understand the nuances of Zizek´s argument."
I hate this 'damn you used to be cool and then you said something I disagreed with and now you're evil' thing that radical liberals posing as left wing revolutionaries do. I love friendlyjordies, the guy defended china's camps, i don't disavow the guy for one blind spot if I think he's a genius 99 percent of the time
"What´s on the page, written in a moment of emergency, as reactionaries seek to eliminate trans people and liberals offer soft defense"
not having puberty blockers for minors and not having transgender women in women's prisons is not seeking to eliminate trans people, just like wanting puberty blockers for minors or transgender women in women's prisons is not proof of grooming. I support puberty blockers, hormones and maybe even surgery for some minors on a case by case basis, but I am less supportive of transgender women because they tend to be stronger than the other prisoners and are statistically more likely to be in there for sex crimes. what am I doing: half-a genocide?