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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another foreigner here attempting to navigate the D.C. private school landscape.

Two terms that are tortured by U.S. progressives are "liberal" and "BIPOC." Liberal used to mean someone who was open to new ideas; based conclusions on empirical facts; rejected dogma; and was a humanist. Today, "liberal" is used as a pejorative by the right to mean anyone who is on the left politically, and is used a badge of honor for those on the left who accept "the agenda" (which is ever-shifting): today it's race essentialism, anti-male bias, and a post-gender world. True liberals who remain focused on shared humanity and accept biological science have been left out in the cold in the U.S. (and the U.K.--this might be an English speaking world phenomenon), and are now labeled with terms like "TERF" (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and "Karen," (which is such a misogynistic term, it disgusts me, I guess I am a Karen.) [b]The coalition behind this seems to be made up of mainly nasty super-online men and impressionable teenage girls. It's insane to me as a parent that we've all just accepted it. [/b]

"BIPOC" is another one that is mystifying to a non-U.S. liberal. It means "Black, Indigenous, People of Color". So, in the U.K., for example, I guess people with Celtic blood are BIPOC? But they're not, because the POC trumps the I, which any good progressive knows, LOL. What color qualifies as POC, btw? Are we bringing back color lines? To someone approaching this without context, it is simply insane, and wildly totalitarian... but Americans just can't seem to see this. It's this weird collective guilt / Kabuki theatre that America seems to have to perform continuously to make up for the fact that is a powerful, prosperous democracy that most people around the world would do anything to live in.[/quote]

Well said.

The bolded in particular is well said. The unchecked rise of misogyny in the progressive left has been terrifying to watch. The discourse has changed such that open misogyny is acceptable in progressive circles now. My only disagreement is that I don’t blame the teen girls you reference; they are exercising survival instincts in an era when overt misogyny is acceptable discourse.

Years ago, Susan Faludi wrote a book detailing how the fight for women’s equality in the US is characterized by periods of intense backlash against that progress, and that the backlash transcends political alignment. I think that we are in the backlash period now. The misogynist ends of the right and the left are joining forces in response to ten to twenty years of significant advancement by women.  Yes, their means are different; no progressive is aligning with the right on abortion rights, for instance. But the end goal is the same: the subjugation of women and reversal of the progress they’ve made. [/quote]

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