The Moral Panic of the White Elite
The Moral Panic of the White Elite
“Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment,” read the Time magazine headline. The article included this:
Page’s tour de force performance in Hard Candy led, two years later, to Juno, a low-budget indie film that brought Page Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and sudden megafame. The actor, then 21, struggled with the stresses of that ascension. The endless primping, red carpets and magazine spreads were all agonizing reminders of the disconnect between how the world saw Page and who he knew himself to be.
That’s curious, because there was no Elliot Page in that movie. Here’s one of the posters for the movie.
The only person named Page in that movie is Ellen Page.
Of course, if you point out Ellen Page is the actress in Juno, Twitter will most likely lock your account until you delete it. Twitter is opposed to “dead naming,” which in non-Woke English means calling someone by their actual or birth name.
Do keep up. Ellen Page, who has for years been a disturbed individual lashing out at Christians and others, has decided she is now a he and the media is collaborating with her to retroactively make her a him. It won’t be long before Hollywood is forced to redo the advertising campaign for the movie Juno.
60 Minutes is going to cover people who “detransition,” that is they decide to revert back to their natural sex. Progressives are outraged that 60 Minutes would dare even touch the subject and the pre-spin is on that, for example, the only people who revert back are those who lack support.
“Each and every person affiliated with selecting THIS narrative for airtime should be held accountable,” says the CCO of Teen Vogue, whose publication just ditched its would-be new editor for tweets made years ago and repeatedly apologized for. The 60 Minutes report has not even aired yet.
All of this then gets to what happened in Atlanta.
A man killed multiple workers as Asian themed spas, which tend to serve as houses of prostitution, though I don’t know if these particular ones were engaged in that. He believed they were and, dealing with an addiction to pornography and sex, decided to gun them down then head to Florida to take out those associated with pornography.
The media, of course, jumped in the moment the news hit and, before his motives were revealed, immediately declared it a hate crime and white supremacy.
One thing white supremacists are actually pretty forthright about is their white supremacy. When ISIS takes credit for an attack, one can be pretty sure ISIS is involved. When white supremacists attack, they tend to be very open about their desires for a race war or racial purity.
That did not happen in Atlanta.
In Atlanta, the young man was struggling with sexual sin and blamed the spas for temptation. It was not a racist attack. The media ignored all of this until the evidence became overwhelming.
Once the evidence became overwhelming, the media never apologized for rushing out with claims of racism. Instead, they pivoted to attacking Christian evangelicalism and Biblical sexual orthodoxy. It was Christian “purity culture” to blame.
In one week, with one story, the media got to target both white supremacists and Christian evangelicals — the two groups they have attacked for four years as being to blame for Trump.
Undeterred, the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, and other major leaders still treated the violence as anti-Asian based. The media engaged in handwringing over white supremacy until awkward confronted with the fact that most anti-Asian violence is occurring in California and most often not by white people.
All of these stories are, of course, related in a particular way.
The rise of “Elliot Page,” the moral outrage over daring to tell the stories of those who detransition, and the rush to blame white supremacy only to end up blaming Christianity are all of a particular strain of rich, white elitism.
The rest of us in society are forced to guard our words lest we call someone by their name and we aren’t allowed to speak plain truths about transgenderism. Social ills are not crime, vandalism, illegal aliens flooding the border, etc. The social ills are racism, transphobia, xenophobia, and whiteness. The woke mob will come for us and the woke mob has the Fortune 500 in its corner.
If we go to a church that actually believes the Bible, we are no better than white supremacists and must be shamed.
It is part of the censorious nature of the woke left, of which rich, white elites are finding their home. Having replaced God for government and justice for social justice, they cannot win their arguments by debate. They must silence, bully, and rewrite history. They cannot accept any individual as culpable for a crime generally, but must extrapolate to intersectional boundaries. They cannot accept one of their own has issues and instead must abort the child who might scream the Emperor has no clothes.
The chief way to fight back is to not be silent. We should point out Ellen Page exists. We should point out transgenderism is a mental health issue. We should point out the media rushes to find racism where there may not be. And we should point out how the media seeks to define Christianity as morally bad while propping up dubious secular morality. We should condemn violence and hold the perpetrator accountable without extrapolating to mass societal blame.
We must stand up to Woke-O Haram.
In June of 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. The nightclub catered to a gay clientele. The media rushed out to make it an anti-gay hate crime. It turned out Mateen had sympathies to ISIS terrorists and had shot up the nightclub out of loyalty to Islamic terrorism.
In the rush to be first, not accurate, the media is weaving intersectional biases into narratives that often deviate from the truth.
The truth demands we speak up and more and more we are having to speak up against an elite that controls cultural, technological, and news outlets. At some point very soon, what the elite will find is that society has built up a seething resentment to them. It will end badly for a lot of people. The present course is not sustainable.
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I guess I missed the part where the media pivoted away from calling this an attack on Asians. That's what I keep hearing, even though the suspect has, as you said, admitted to why he did what he did.