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Kids"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children,\" Walt Disney once said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalt’s unique strategy of building an entertainment empire for kids once made Disney a trusted source of family entertainment. That didn’t last long after Walt's death as Disney started releasing R-rated movies and adult television programming under the Touchstone label.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s700\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"524\" data-original-width=\"700\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s320\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA decade later, Disney bought Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax. During the 90s, while Disney's more family friendly brand was releasing animated cartoons, Miramax featured Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, and the Scream sequels. During this time Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assaults. Some of this was taking place even as Disney’s “family friendly” brand released The Hunchback of Notre Dame with its depiction of a lecherous Catholic villain praying before a cross while ranting about his lusts. This was what Disney had become.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the new century the barrier between the two schizoid faces of Disney has come down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney isn’t for kids anymore. Its movie business is dominated by Marvel blockbusters. Half of Disney+ subscribers, its big bet on the home streaming future, are adults with no children. ‘\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat about the theme parks?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E60% of Disneyland visitors were adults with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.streetlightdata.com\/measuring-travel-behavior-by-demographics-disney-world\/?type=blog\/\"\u003Eno children\u003C\/a\u003E. Only\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/fun\/should-adults-go-to-disney-without-kids-the-internet-rages-20190731\/\"\u003E 36.7% \u003C\/a\u003Eof Disney World visitors had children under 18. The largest demographic for the theme parks, like the movies, are millennials. They are also members of the fandoms who are likeliest to spend money on licensed merchandise, and on toys and movie tie-ins that are Disney’s bread and butter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Disney is rapidly adapting with theme parks and resorts that emphasize its Marvel and Star Wars properties more than classic fare. Its Galactic Starcruiser hotel, aimed at Star Wars fans, costs $4,809 for two adults. Why bother with kid stuff when you can sell $13 beers?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney may have started out feeding the imaginations of children, but now its business model is acquiring intellectual properties with active fandoms and milking the adult fans for every cent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts political opposition to a Florida law barring teachers from pushing sexual issues on kindergarteners might be out of tune with the old family values Disney, but the company’s actual base, like that of virtually every entertainment corp in the country, is a narrow slice of upscale urban millennials with lots of disposable income and no families. Wokes are Disney’s base.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1966, the idea that a single adult would spend more money on Disney merchandise than a family of four would have seemed ridiculous. In 2022, it’s just the new normal. If you doubt that stop by a theme park and see how many of the adults with no children wearing every single piece of Disney merchandise on sale would love to lecture you about queer theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are the people Disney caters to now. Not little girls who want to be princesses. That’s why its theme parks will no longer address little girls as princesses. That’s also why rides like Pirates of the Caribbean or Jungle Cruise are being revamped to be more politically correct. Disney’s new woke demographic is much pickier than even the pickiest child could be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s also sexually creepy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney’s new demographic are adults who have never properly grown up and on some level still think of themselves as children. That’s also the profile for the average child molester. And of the kind of adult who insists that schools force children to “explore their sexual identities”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealthy adults raise, protect and care for children. Deeply unhealthy ones erase the barriers between themselves and children in ways that can be merely immature or outright evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney is a messed up company with a messed up base. This is no secret to theme park employees who will, anonymously, spout about it at forums. But some of those employees have also been caught up in\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/disneys-child-predator-problem\"\u003E child sex investigations\u003C\/a\u003E. Disney has the clout to make much of that go away through its advertising budgets and the incredible power its theme parks wield over local governments in California and Florida (though Gov. DeSantis has warned that’s going away.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe growth of Disney paralleled a post-war child-oriented family culture. The collapse of that culture into counterculture sent the company astray. And after decades in the wilderness reemerged with cartoons full of show tunes that catered as much to Broadway lovers as to children, to an indie film movement with a seamy underbelly, and finally perpetual fandom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney found its post-Walt success in moving beyond selling universal family entertainment to tapping into obsessive subcultures. As a company that had nurtured fandom in children, it was uniquely positioned to capitalize on the transformation of adults into overgrown children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this is good for adults, for children, or for the culture. Neither is Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican birth rates are lagging and the family is in a poor state. Only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2020\/05\/27\/as-millennials-near-40-theyre-approaching-family-life-differently-than-previous-generations\/\"\u003E3 in 10 millennials\u003C\/a\u003E are living with a child and a spouse. Much of the demographic growth is coming from immigrant childbirths, not Americans. Seen from this vantage point, Disney’s bet on diversity in children’s entertainment and on catering to adult fans willing to drop $5,000 on a hotel with lightsaber training or sing-along sessions to cartoon show tunes from their childhoods makes sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Walt Disney business model depended on a healthy national family. Shareholders are not going to bet on a growth segment in the American nuclear family that doesn’t exist. Betting on dysfunctional adults with sizable disposable incomes makes a whole lot more sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans are more atomized than ever. Families are drifting apart. Religious faith is imploding among millennials and zoomers. The fictional characters and entertainers of popular culture are taking the place of family and faith. Fandom provides a sense of belonging and culture that community no longer does. Main Street is being replaced by The Avengers and Mos Eisley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd who can blame a generation born into a broken nation for choosing fantasy over reality?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeter Pan, like the Narnia books, concludes with the reality that children have to leave fantasy behind, grow up and become adults. But what happens when the children never grow up?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney still has a profitable kids segment, but its real profits come from overgrown children born into broken families, prematurely coming of sexual age, who are eager to embrace leftist utopian causes and fantasies, who are seeking an identity and an escape at the same time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe company isn’t for kids, it’s for broken adults. And it’s only natural that Disney would seek to create more broken adults to perpetuate its business model. A healthy functional adult isn’t nearly as profitable for the entertainment giant as a dysfunctional one addicted to its product.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvocating that schools push sexual identity on kindergarteners is a cause that the entire entertainment industry, which wouldn’t exist without dysfunctional adults, can get behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s bad for America is great for Hollywood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunctional people don’t spend all of their time in front of a television set. And functional families don’t plant their children in front of one and then buy them whatever they want to get them to shut up. Functional people are not very profitable for Disney or for the rest of Hollywood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entertainment industry went from a leisure enterprise to one that thrives on dysfunction, that is less interested in having 60% of the country watching something for an hour than having 10% of the country binge watch it for six hours. Ratings and demographic profiles of the industry reflect a profound shift away from entertainment as a past time to entertainment as a lifestyle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even an identity.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2803444390623789416\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/disney-isnt-for-kids.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2803444390623789416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2803444390623789416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/disney-isnt-for-kids.html","title":"Disney Isn't for Kids"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8386082579483320790"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-09T03:05:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-09T03:24:33.080-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Who Really Cancelled Dr. Seuss?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAfter canceling six Dr. Seuss books on spurious charges of racism, the massive German publishing giant and the secretive company that owns the rights to the deceased author’s work announced that they would be unveiling new “inclusive” Seuss books by diverse writers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeuss, or Theodor Geisel, an old dead white man is insufficiently diverse for his publishers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgn81Vh8clWAjtEbiHDm8ACzePrLjzZeAXYVgEY0SpChMQ_2yXI8QaRN5kMojbHgH7myLkbkLouOKjZUtPujtOhAjxyFOEVdn14pRIOugh5sAE557_z4iMKbiV5XaQ6a1Q9e3kTKrpArm8mQNhyhwfwtYiEi15xA3PfUu4Ec5t3Ln7pUV7Km54=s657\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"498\" data-original-width=\"657\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgn81Vh8clWAjtEbiHDm8ACzePrLjzZeAXYVgEY0SpChMQ_2yXI8QaRN5kMojbHgH7myLkbkLouOKjZUtPujtOhAjxyFOEVdn14pRIOugh5sAE557_z4iMKbiV5XaQ6a1Q9e3kTKrpArm8mQNhyhwfwtYiEi15xA3PfUu4Ec5t3Ln7pUV7Km54=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the names of the new stable of “inclusive” writers haven’t been made public, Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German Nazi-linked Berteslman giant, also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/02\/german-ceo-behind-kendi-and-diangelo-funds-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epublishes or distributes prominent racists\u003C\/a\u003E like Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECEO Markus Dohle \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/02\/german-ceo-behind-kendi-and-diangelo-funds-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Erecently\u003C\/a\u003E announced a $500,000 fund to fight against parents trying to keep critical race theory hatred and racist books, like those promoted by Penguin Random House, out of schools. The German subsidiary has also published “Anti-Racist Baby” and other racist children’s books by Ibram X. Kendi through Random House Children’s Books.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERandom House Children’s Books is also publishing the new “inclusive” Seuss skinned books.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe line between Penguin Random House and Dr. Seuss Enterprises is hazy at times. Seussville, the cutesy book site, is run by Random House. The two organizations appear to closely collaborate together on finding exciting new ways to strip mine Dr. Seuss’s legacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Dr. Seuss was reluctant to embrace merchandising and exercised careful control over his work during his lifetime, he left behind no real family or children. Since then he has become, in the words of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, a “brand” to be licensed for movie deals, clothes, NFTs, and every kind of junk that those who knew him believed that he would have absolutely hated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce told that he could be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the writer who had been paid the most money per word, he had retorted, “I'd rather be in the book as the writer who refused to be paid the most money per word.”. But these days he’s not around to protest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so there’s an NFT, a partnership with the anti-American women’s soccer team to promote “girl power”, the Dr. Seuss Experience, and a steady stream of “new books” and “lost stories”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe launch of Seuss Studios with its “inclusive” authors basing entire books around a single Seuss sketch disguises the cynical strip mining under the veil of identity politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the original six Seuss books were canceled and banned, some conservatives defended it as a decision by a private organization. Dr. Seuss Enterprises is certainly private. It’s so private that there’s surprisingly little information available about its basic composition. For good reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESusan Brandt, the CEO and president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, used to be the VP of Home Entertainment at 20th Century Fox. The board allegedly includes only one family member, Ted Owens, a great-nephew of Geisel, who disagreed with the purge of the author’s work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Seuss Enterprises was originally set up by Geisel’s former mistress, a neighbor who snapped him up after Helen, his beloved wife, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/objectwisdom.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/more-on-mrs-dr-seuss.html\"\u003Ecommitted suicide\u003C\/a\u003E over the illicit affair. While Geisel’s original wife had closely partnered with him in creating his beloved works, his new wife allegedly sent away her own daughters and took over his life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAudrey Diamond, two decades younger than the author and illustrator, who allegedly had an affair with Seuss while he was still married to his first wife, became Audrey Geisel. After his death, she set up Dr. Seuss Enterprises. After her death, the organization became even more money hungry and generically woke, leading to the purge of works by its golden goose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which is far more interested in movie deals and licensing agreements, had no particular use for the six books like “If I Ran the Zoo” which it purged. It keeps “discovering” new Seuss books and the newly inclusive Seuss books will likely be quickly spun into more movie deals and toy licensing agreements that will make everyone even richer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget “If I Ran the Zoo”, it’s “If I Ran Dr. Seuss Enterprises” that’s much more offensive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most vocal board member of Dr. Seuss Enterprises is Kyle Zimmer. Zimmer, a leftist activist, has been dubbed a \"social entrepreneur\" and writes about “racial equity”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the 2020 race riots that murdered police officers and devastated communities, Zimmer declared that, \"America is on a critical journey: from identifying racism, to deeper understanding – and finally to dismantling systemic racism.” Racist material aimed at teachers distributed by his organization quoted racist author Ta-Nehisi Coates and ranted about “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not hard to understand what happened to Dr. Seuss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat better way to get rid of whiteness than by replacing Dr. Seuss, recasting him like so many movie and television characters, and swapping him out for a more diverse Dr. Seuss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFictional characters have been racially recast before, but this may be the first time that a real human being was recast because he was too white and insufficiently diverse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Seuss entertained millions and his brand is worth a fortune, so much so that the greedily litigious Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to sue over a Star Trek parody comic, Oh The Places You'll Boldly Go, and spent 5 years battling it all the way to the Supreme Court until the comic publisher, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/oh-the-places-youll-boldly-go-lawsuit-settlement\/\"\u003Ewas suffering\u003C\/a\u003E from Stage 3 cancer, decided to give in and settle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(It’s not hard to imagine a Dr. Seuss parody about the sociopathic social justice monsters who did that, but if you dare to write it out, Dr. Seuss Enterprises will sue you until you’re dead.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut despite how lucrative owning a human being as a brand may be, Seuss was too white and too old. To the Hollywood and toy people who own his name, he’s just another character to be recast, the way that Spider Man or Iron Man might be replaced to be more diverse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the money will really come rolling in from the NFTs, the movie studios, the Kohl’s and Target deals, the Dr. Seuss Experience, and the newly diverse Seuss Studios.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Seuss is much too white to play himself. It’s time for a more diverse Dr. Seuss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoodbye Dr. Seuss, Hello Ibram X. Kendi.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8386082579483320790\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/who-really-cancelled-dr-seuss.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8386082579483320790"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8386082579483320790"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/who-really-cancelled-dr-seuss.html","title":"Who Really Cancelled Dr. Seuss?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgn81Vh8clWAjtEbiHDm8ACzePrLjzZeAXYVgEY0SpChMQ_2yXI8QaRN5kMojbHgH7myLkbkLouOKjZUtPujtOhAjxyFOEVdn14pRIOugh5sAE557_z4iMKbiV5XaQ6a1Q9e3kTKrpArm8mQNhyhwfwtYiEi15xA3PfUu4Ec5t3Ln7pUV7Km54=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6070509569829175607"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-17T12:04:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-17T12:04:47.842-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Science"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No Objectivity Please, We're Leftists"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The American Left has never been this in love with science and the class of experts who claim to dispense it. Any of its obsessions gains a glow of legitimacy when it attaches, “according to science” somewhere in the sentence, usually preceded by “do this” or “if you aren’t.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet there’s a great deal of interest in science in China, but it’s on the way out in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8AZ5Fkw6ssA\/YC1MnLGEGhI\/AAAAAAAAS3o\/fCzTw8aCCaUXlBCnlA3dfsoB9rvYLNiuQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s791\/1984%2Bframe%2Bcancel%2Bculture.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"494\" data-original-width=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8AZ5Fkw6ssA\/YC1MnLGEGhI\/AAAAAAAAS3o\/fCzTw8aCCaUXlBCnlA3dfsoB9rvYLNiuQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/1984%2Bframe%2Bcancel%2Bculture.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESTEM is on the social justice chopping block, under siege on and off campus with demands for equity and diversity, that also translate into less science and more social justice. Science is denounced by social justice squads as the work of dead white men and the new leftist ideology rejects the idea that the sum of 2 and 2 consistently add up to anything except systemic racism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeattle public schools contend that western math is “used to disenfranchise​ people and communities of color.” A University of Illinois education professor insisted that, \"mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Our research papers turn into media releases, books and legislation that reinforce anti-Black narratives. In STEM, we create technologies that affect every part of our society and are routinely weaponized against Black people,\" Shut Down STEM insisted. “The evidence of systemic racism in science permeates this nation,” Science, the journal, claimed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inherent problem with science is that it requires objectivity. And objectivity is the thing that leftists hate for the same reason that any cult does. Objectivity asserts that we can find the truth by stepping back from our beliefs and emotions in any field from journalism to particle physics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left insists that we don’t transcend our biases through objectivity, but subjectivity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politically correct way to discover the truth is by understanding your white privilege and deconstructing the history of human civilization, not by searching for evidence or proof. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth comes not from objective facts, but from the subjective “lived experiences” of oppressed minorities whose suffering acts as the revelation of truth. This isn’t truth in the scientific sense, but in the religious sense, with minorities as martyrs revealing our sins to us with their suffering. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be objective, lefties insist is just to deny your prejudices and evade the important work of checking your white privilege in response to the revelation of minority suffering in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if objectivity is impossible, and scientific objectivity is just whiteness and colonialism, then the only legitimate science is one that asserts that leftist beliefs and values are absolutely true. The Soviet Union attempted to police science, upholding Lysenkoism because it offered a vision of science as the Communist hierarchy wanted it to be, rather than as it was, while suppressing Cybernetics because it offered a vision of reality that the Party elite found threatening. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunist bosses liked the idea of an easily malleable agricultural system, but disliked the notion of robots replacing workers. The actual science was secondary to the ideological biases of ignorant ideologues who were convinced that they already had access to a higher truth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESound familiar? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cold War pitted Western scientific objectivity against Eastern ideological subjectivity. And objectivity won. It won to such a degree that scientists in Moscow or Shanghai don’t bother consulting ideological texts like Stalin’s articles or Mao’s sayings before doing research. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, objectivity is dying off in the West. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccusations of “whiteness” are to American academia what denunciations of reactionary, cosmopolitan, or idealism were to Soviet scientists. These signals serve the same function, warning scientists that they’re treading on ideologically dangerous territory by pursuing the truth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo why does the Left claim to love science when it hates it and is threatened by it? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarxism started out as a bastardized impersonation of a pseudo-science. Time and countless revisions hasn’t improved it any. The Left loves the idea of science, as long as it reflects its agendas, and remains subservient to its crackpot ideas. Just leave the objectivity out of it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same war rages in journalism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“American view-from-nowhere, ‘objectivity’-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment. We need to fundamentally reset the norms of our field. The old way must go. We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity,” Wesley Lowery of the New York Times ranted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMoral clarity is what the Communist apparatchiks also wanted. Their morality and their clarity. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrasting moral clarity and objectivity asserts that we can either be moral or search for the truth, but we cannot do both. Moral clarity demands unquestioning allegiance to a belief system. And that belief system must permeate whatever work we do, otherwise our work is immoral. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis quintessentially Communist idea was once relegated in America to certain cultural and academic bywaters, but is now becoming the central requirement for operating in public life. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why corporations have rushed out absurd statements endorsing Black Lives Matter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMorality, in leftist ideology, comes from politicising everything because the central struggle of humanity, which used to be class, and is currently race, and might, tomorrow, be sexuality, pervades everything in a pseudo-religious struggle for the redemption of mankind. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be apolitical or objective is to deny the revelation that we must all join the struggle. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is at stake is more than abstract ideas. The legacy of the Enlightenment divided individual morality from objective truth. Morality became personal and communal, instead of collective, and those beliefs became all the more precious when confronting a universe that did not always reflect them. The reaction to that universe destroyed the faith of some and upheld the faith of others. And some of those who lost their faith used false reason to manufacture another one. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is where the Left came from. Its ideas sought to fuse together a collective morality and reality by insisting that it had discovered the principles that would make the world into utopia. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe seduction of the pseudo-scientific and pseudo-religious cult of the Left is that it offers  theocracy without god. Its followers believe that they are battling for a moral order that is absolutely true, and that submitting to that moral order will resolve the conflicts of theodicy, restoring a moral universe that accords with our moral views. This is the tragic lie of the Left. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe utopian kingdom of heaven never arrives. The worse things get, the more society has to be purged of its evil ways to atone for its social sins. Pre-revolutionary era ideology reduced social failures to a single root cause, but even once the revolution arrives and the root cause of class warfare or racism is done away with, the system begins hunting for someone else to blame. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is what we are living through now. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn its pseudo-religious and pseudo-scientific folly, the Left believes that suffering, that of its martyrs of class or race, or of the designated oppressors, represents truth. It attacks science by insisting that the suffering of the working class or of trans people of color represents a truth beyond the flawed reasoning of the human mind to which everyone is obligated to kneel. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth, it tells us, comes from empathy and guilt, not from stepping away from our emotions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow we feel about something can represent a moral truth. But what we do about it requires objective reasoning. The Left’s rejection of that reality is why it always ends up failing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left exploits other people’s misery for power and ego. It doesn’t want answers. It wants to transmute idealism into hate, fear, and guilt. That’s why it hates truth. Its bastardization of religion and science is a lie and its prophets and experts never explain their failures. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObjectivity enables a moral society to solve its problems. The Left is at war with objectivity because it doesn’t want those problems solved. Objectivity would take away its power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6070509569829175607\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/07\/no-objectivity-please-were-leftists.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6070509569829175607"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6070509569829175607"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/07\/no-objectivity-please-were-leftists.html","title":"No Objectivity Please, We're Leftists"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8AZ5Fkw6ssA\/YC1MnLGEGhI\/AAAAAAAAS3o\/fCzTw8aCCaUXlBCnlA3dfsoB9rvYLNiuQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/1984%2Bframe%2Bcancel%2Bculture.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4683928847101112636"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-30T14:05:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-30T14:05:35.044-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Baltimore"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Woke Museum in an Illiterate City Goes for Broke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Baltimore is overrun by murders, rats, and rampant illiteracy. Then its art museum went woke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a medieval monastery after the fall of Rome, the Baltimore Museum of Art is a relic of another time filled with the relics of another era. The Baltimorean merchants, bankers, and railroad tycoons who decided a century ago that their city needed an art museum to boost its civic pride are long gone and Charm City’s favorite work of art is its mascot: a giant rat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes a city where a third of the population is functionally illiterate need a large collection of French impressionists? And does one of the nation’s murder capitals need Andy Warhol?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s639\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"423\" data-original-width=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen the woke Visigoths took over the BMA, they came for the white men first. And the museum’s collection is full of the works of white men: precious and worthless both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"At the BMA we have a singular vision for our immediate future, which is to put equity, diversity, and justice at the forefront of every decision,\" Christopher Bedford, the museum's very woke curator, declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsma Naeem, a Pakistani immigrant and the BMA's new art curator, attacked a critic for not understanding the “equity-based vision, values and considerations that undergird our decision.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArt, schmart. Who needs art when you’ve got the creative fires of social justice that made Soviet art into an influential movement that changed the world as we know it burning in your soy belly?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBedford, who is an extremely white man, announced that the museum would no longer be buying art by white men this year. Between Rembrandt, Titian, and Durer, they've got too many.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You don’t just purchase one painting by a female artist of color and hang it on the wall,” he insisted. “To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBedford had already begun purging the collection by putting seven major paintings on sale, including by Warhol, to buy “art” by “artists of color”. Since Bedford wouldn’t know art if it fell on his head, which at the BMA is a possibility, that part was easy. The rest was complicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPesky questions about the sale reared their head, like did Bedford even have a right to sell the art. The sale or ‘deaccession’ as they call it in the art world, was happening under regulations meant to help museums deal with the pandemic. But the BMA wasn’t reacting to the Wuhan Virus, but the Woke Virus, and it wasn’t selling art because it needed money, it needed woke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it was unclear if the paintings had been gifted under conditions that would allow the sale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProminent voices in the art community, including former key figures at the BMA, protested. Sothebys blinked, announcing the auction would be postponed, and then unblinked, claiming that the postponement had been an error in which it confused an Islamic museum in Israel with the BMA. That’s the sort of natural mistake that happens at a major auction house all the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally, the BMA’s own board canceled the auction at the last minute blaming the public outcry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore importantly, the Association of Art Museum Directors made it clear that the BMA was abusing its relaxed guidelines during the pandemic to do something pandemic-unrelated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our vision and our goals have not changed,” the BMA unapologetically declared “It will take us longer to achieve them, but we will do so through all the means at our disposal.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BMA will lose $50 million with former board chairs pulling \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/news\/baltimore-museum-of-art-loses-50-million-planned-gift-over-deaccession-84269\"\u003Etheir donations\u003C\/a\u003E in order to make $65 million. But it’s about the destructiveness of the act more than the actual money. How else can the BMA’s new leadership prove that they’re revolutionary visionaries than through a round of politically correct épater le bourgeois virtue signaling and racial divisiveness by a white man?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The most important artists working today, in my view, are black Americans,” Bedford declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy “important”, Bedford and the museum of an illiterate city don’t mean talented or aesthetically pleasing. When your “lens” is social justice, then important means anti-American. And so the most important artists are the ones who have the most moral leverage for hating this country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are few aesthetics at stake in trading one set of nonsensical childish images for another, the broad abstract brushstrokes of Franz Kline’s Green Cross and the green finger painting splatters of  Andy Warhol’s Oxidation Painting, for Mark Bradford's hyperkinetically colorful  visual gibberish, or Amy Sherald, who produced the notoriously terrible Michelle Obama portrait.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe art world dispensed with aesthetics and tradition, leaving nothing but abstract concepts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Baltimore Museum of Art is another scene on the woke battlefield, replacing abstract sneering at American culture and religion with abstractions that rage against America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican wokeness is just pop Marxism. Our cultural revolution is a rerun of Russian and Chinese totalitarianism with corporate sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Bavarian Soviet Republic, there was an abortive attempt to set fire to the museums. The Russian Futurists declared in one of their manifestos that the creative works of the past had to be “thrown overboard from the steamship of modernity.” But all of this posturing ended with the Futurists and everyone else being forced to produce Socialist Realism for propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing totalitarian regimes really want when it comes to art is mass communications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Baltimore Museum of Art, like many institutions public and private, is being reimagined as the projection of a new political order, each part of it meant to articulate a single ideology. The result isn’t an art museum, just as socialist realism’s propaganda posters weren’t art. Art, as a painting or a museum, is meant to inspire and reflect, while propaganda short circuits both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPropagandists don’t want people to think. What they want is for them to agree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn art, as in life, the initial revolutionary thrill of destroying the old gives way to the stultifying reality of the totalitarian order. Totalitarian revolutions don’t create, they destroy, and their only message is the familiar one from Shepard Fairey's old \"Obey\" giant stickers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFairey would become much more famous for creating the iconic Obama “Hope” poster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"How did this work, no matter how righteous or well-intentioned, help George Floyd as he was pinned to the ground by a white man in a uniform, in broad daylight, surrounded by onlookers, as his life faded away over almost nine minutes?\" Bedford demanded to know in the Baltimore Museum's new vision statement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat Baltimore really needs is less traditional art and more art to inspire race riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndy Warhol probably wasn’t much use to George Floyd on account of being dead. Floyd might have tried to hit the officer with a copy of Warhol’s The Last Supper, one of some hundred distotrted yellow reproductions of the famous painting, the BMA wanted to sell for $40 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of the artists being sold off would have helped George Floyd because they’re also dead or fairly elderly. None of them are located in Minneapolis. The BMA’s largest Matisse collection in the world would have been even more useless as Matisse is dead and also not in Minneapolis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot to mention every BMA artist from Rembrandt to Picasso. If the purpose of art is to save career criminals high on drugs when they get into confrontations with police, then art is useless.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s activism, not art. And when art melds with activism, it becomes propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the BMA’s director was saying is that art is useless unless it’s agitprop. Nothing is of any value unless it serves the cause of Black Lives Matter. Or, as Stalin once put it, artists are the “engineers of souls”. Behind the feeble attempt at poetry was the reduction of art to machinery. Engineers were needed to service tractors and artists would have to service their operators. The goal of art, like farm equipment, was to keep the vast failing machine of socialism running.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaltimore is almost as much of a disaster as the Soviet Union and needs its own propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe declaration that art is useless unless it serves a racial agenda is the familiar one of Socialist Realism which declared that art which doesn’t serve the working class is worthless.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as the All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers declared, “the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the BMA credo has become that of American culture. Everything, from standup comedy to fashion to literature to journalism to education, must serve a single political purpose. If your comedy routine or your capri pants wouldn’t have saved George Floyd, they must do better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke culture transformed comedy into hysterical political screeds (not in the funny sense) and everything else into a seesaw of pandering and indoctrination that conscends to minorities and badgers white people without ever creating anything of lasting value or merit because it exists purely for the needs of the moment. The irony of jettisoning Warhol for woke agitprop is that the woke art is as disposable as the commercial advertising culture that he was mocking. When everything is a slogan, then nothing has a message that lasts beyond momentary manipulation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd an art museum, a university, or a national culture built on such things has no future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask the Soviets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Baltimore, like so many American cities, has no future. The old Baltimore that built the BMA envisioned a booming tomorrow and dug into its pockets to show it was as good as New York City. Where is Baltimore headed besides gangs murdering each other on broken streets, sewers full of dead rats, drug deals, corrupt politicians and mobs ravaging what’s left of the fallen city?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you’re already broke, you might as well go woke. It makes the ride down more interesting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe looting of the BMA is a perfect coda to a looted city. The old BMA was meant to inspire and some of the museum’s impressive art collection still can and does. But culture can’t thrive without a culture. The Greeks and Romans didn’t lack for great works of art, what they lacked at the end was the character and vision to sustain a culture that had been founded on great things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn art museum in a national disaster of a city is little more than a medieval monastery holding on to some fragments of civilization while outside warlords and their mobs loot and pillage cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the woke Visigoths have come for the museum even if they don’t understand what’s in it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Museums are not mausoleums or treasure houses,\" a letter co-written by Asma Naeem snippily concludes. Unfortunately, not for Naeem, but for the human race, the BMA is a treasure house of French art, one of the greatest such treasure houses in the country, that is now at risk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woke age is a dark age and the pillaging is underway.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4683928847101112636\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/a-woke-museum-in-illiterate-city-goes.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4683928847101112636"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4683928847101112636"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/a-woke-museum-in-illiterate-city-goes.html","title":"A Woke Museum in an Illiterate City Goes for Broke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6172509820425357501"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-05T15:22:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-11T23:40:02.925-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"entertainment industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sacrificing Children to Identity Politics"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OGhC7nz80xA\/X3tyeULBVsI\/AAAAAAAASdU\/hnp1WuNrZvo26ULf1NbC-iaYs8Rd8NaKQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1480\/2020-04-gov-gavin-newsom-CVJOBLESS-01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1480\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OGhC7nz80xA\/X3tyeULBVsI\/AAAAAAAASdU\/hnp1WuNrZvo26ULf1NbC-iaYs8Rd8NaKQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/2020-04-gov-gavin-newsom-CVJOBLESS-01.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe media shot back at public disgust with Cuties, a Netflix film, with sneers about QAnon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDismissing objections to Cuties, a movie sexualizing young girls that would have been illegal to film in this country, as a right-wing conspiracy sums up a poisoned marketplace of ideas in which nothing is so unacceptable that it can’t be normalized by associating it with the other side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot even pedophilia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe normalization of pedophilia is usually accompanied by references to QAnon, as if only conspiracy theorists could possibly object to the sexual exploitation and abuse of children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe release of Cuties comes as California, where Netflix's headquarters and that of the entertainment and tech industry that it intersects, is located, turned SB-145 into law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike a lot of California bills which have dramatic names, SB-145 carries a bland tag: “Sex Offenders: Registration.” Its digest curtly states, “This bill would exempt from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA 24-year-old year-old sexually abusing a 14-year-old would qualify.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This bill has no application to anyone under the age of 14,\" Senator Wiener assured.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECount your blessings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bill, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco in the State Senate, was passed by its Democratic majority, while the media sympathetically presented it as fighting anti-gay discrimination, and Weiner, as being targeted by QAnon harassment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just fictional pedophilia that can be normalized through ideological tribalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESB-145 passed the California State Senate by 41 to 25, and Governor Newsom signed it into law even while massive wildfires were turning the skies of San Francisco an ominous red.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModern leftists, like members of any fundamentalist faith, are capable of seeing a message in a firestorm, but only the one that accords with their theology in which sexually abusing children is a step forward for civil rights, while failing to set up enough solar panels is a grave sin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Mother Earth is angry. She's telling us -- whether - she's telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, whatever it is, that climate crisis is real and has an impact,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC while playing oracle to her imaginary goddess.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats can hear Mother Earth, they can’t however hear the cries of abused children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENormalizing pedophilia is the inevitable outcome of the leftist shift from individual rights to identity politics. Children are only protected from abuse by the vestiges of a criminal justice system that is being dismantled by leftists because it oppresses those groups who disproportionately engage in criminal behavior. In a worldview in which criminals are victims and victims are criminals, the rights of pedophiles are more morally compelling than their victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChildren are not an oppressed group and their rights are often sacrificed to the demands of identity politics, whether it’s Somali Muslims engaging in female genital mutilation in Minnesotta, a bill tackling the question was opposed by Ilhan Omar, or chemically castrating young boys to make them identify as girls, there are always collective issues of identity politics, the assertion of some oppressed group’s rights, that are more important than the bodies and lives of children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen ideas are more compelling than people, then people are sacrificed to ideas. And a society that is increasingly uninterested in the old family structures is sacrificing children to its ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModern Molochs have many ideas for saving the world by passing children through the flames.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnvironmentalists insist that people shouldn’t have children to save the planet. Feminists argue that people should abort children for gender equality. Activists who claim that there is no gender are tinkering with children to demonstrate their ideas. Critical race theorists are indoctrinating children with their poisonously racist ideas in kindergarten. Why not throw in a little pedophilia?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo parallel moral systems are inhabiting the same country, the vice of one is the virtue of the other, and only one of those moral systems is shocked and horrified by the abuse of children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the United States attempted to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, an army of famous celebrities signed a Free Roman Polanski petition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe list included everyone \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/10\/05\/why-does-hollywood-keep-defending-roman-polanski\/\"\u003Efrom\u003C\/a\u003E Martin Scorcese, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman, Harrison Ford, and, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/why-media-covered-harvey-weinstein-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eobviously\u003C\/a\u003E, Harvey Weinstein, with the sexual predator calling Polanski’s rape a “so-called crime”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In Roman Polanski case, is it Hollywood vs. Middle America?\" the Los Angeles Times asked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the Cuties situation again. And Hollywood has a way of winning these fights. Roman Polanski may have successfully avoided extradition from France to America, but Harvey Weinstein has spent the better part of the year fighting extradition from New York to LA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDue to the pandemic, the extradition hearing has been delayed until December.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd by the time Harvey gets shipped over to Los Angeles, California Democrats may find a way to change the law to make it more accommodating toward these so-called crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECulture is more compelling than law. It’s why Harvey Weinstein was able to get away with it for so long. Rape might be on the books as a crime, but in an environment in which no one thinks it’s a crime, no one will report it, and hardly anyone one will enforce the laws if they do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the entertainment industry is at least as abusive toward children as it is to women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENetflix, with a market cap in the neighborhood of $200 billion and 200 million subscribers, has far more power than any mere studio, and Cuties is a test of that power in the same way that Harvey Weinstein tested his power. After a certain number, money becomes meaningless. The degeneracy of absolute power comes from powerful men pushing their appetites to the limit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there’s no place where the ruling elite push their power to the limit as much as California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average person, even perhaps the average Netflix subscriber, may be disgusted by Cuties, but a brief history of the entertainment industry and the nation’s morals shows that Americans have been adapting their tastes and tolerances to those of their entertainers for 70 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot the other way around.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComplaints like “Shut up and sing” or “Don’t preach to us” are hollow protests when pitted against the power of someone like Netflix CEO Reed Hastings or Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe live in Hollywood’s world where marriage, family, and religion are on the decline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMere law, as California showed us, won’t stop the normalization of pedophilia, and public revulsion won’t either. Is there reason to think that the same cultural machine that convinced a majority of the country to support men showering with young girls will fail for the first time?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2016, a majority of Americans opposed the idea. By 2017, a slim majority supported it, and by 2019, a majority were in favor of a law that would force transgender bathroom use.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's the rate of speed at which these battles are fought and lost these days. The Bostock decision, in which Gorsuch and Roberts joined the leftists in inverting the meaning of sex, was inevitable if you were paying attention to the polling, not in rural Arkansas, but in New York, D.C. and San Francisco, and the major cities that act as incubators for the ruling class.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(And if you want conservative judges, try looking in rural Arkansas, not the Ivy League.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow fast can actual pedophilia be normalized? We may find out sooner than we think.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica is undergoing a catastrophic clash between two incompatible moral systems, one of which, as Yeats wrote, lacks conviction, while the other is full of passionate intensity. Both moral systems are highly detailed ways of explaining the world and the place of human beings in it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut only one of them believes that what we do as individuals, apart from the group, matters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly one finds value in the existence of a child, not as a prop for an idea, but as a person.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA religion with a personal God makes personal morality innate and inescapable. But the secular religion of the wokes has no god, no personal morality and no sins except the social kind. A religion that encompasses the universe can be localized in the confines of the human soul, but the social religion of leftists is enmeshed with charts and graphs about the social status of all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir messianism of the collective liberation of all has no room for individual rights or morals. Decadence isn’t a sin, it’s revolutionary. Liberation requires the destruction of the old mores, and, even when practiced on a child, sweeps away the old repressive order with its false ideas about sexual morality and replaces it with the creative destruction of the endless revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why prominent figures in the German, French, and British Left openly endorsed pedohphilia in the seventies, only to have the awkward fact swept under the rug afterward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left is not a mere ideology. It is a belief system with its supernatural elements, like Mother Nature, with redemption, damnation, and a crusade whose value system is being perpetuated through government institutions, schools and universities, and through the entertainment industry that has become the common culture of a country whose people have little in common.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not enough to cancel Netflix, turn off the NFL, or skip the latest movie. We must restore the soul of a nation, its values, purpose, and meaning that popular culture displaced and replaced.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr we will find out that what’s coming up next is a thing worse than we can even imagine.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6172509820425357501\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/sacrificing-children-to-identity.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6172509820425357501"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6172509820425357501"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/sacrificing-children-to-identity.html","title":"Sacrificing Children to Identity Politics"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OGhC7nz80xA\/X3tyeULBVsI\/AAAAAAAASdU\/hnp1WuNrZvo26ULf1NbC-iaYs8Rd8NaKQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/2020-04-gov-gavin-newsom-CVJOBLESS-01.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}}]}});