Several people have asked: why does ‘diverse’ content spark backlash now when it didn’t before?
I think it comes down to one thing: removal.
In the past, inclusionary moves didn’t try to clear out the previously enjoyed things. Kim Possible did not replace James Bond, she was just another secret agent you could watch alongside James Bond. In video games, serious action girls existed alongside miniskirted vixens, and everyone was fine with that. Avatar: The Last Airbender existed alongside Teen Titans. The Hunger Games existed alongside Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.
But now, the priority seems to be not addition, but subtraction.
It’s not enough to have a new Jedi; you have to remove the old ones. It’s not enough to have a female super-spy; you have to remove James Bond. It’s not enough to have serious action girls in your video game; you have to cover up or delete the vixens. It’s not enough to have new video games with modern sensibilities; you have to remove the old ones, or censor them in re-releases. It’s not enough to have new novels that fit modern ideological priorities; you have to censor the old ones.
– Rawle Nyanzi, writing on TwitterX. I think he absolutely nails a key driver behind increasing radicalisation in the culture war.
It’s not enough to be diverse… my identity group must be on top.
And when you consider the narrow definitions of identity group then the exclusion of ‘others’ is inevitable (and for no good reason).
“Replacement” used to be dismissed as a “paranoid conspiracy theory” – but now it is the open agenda.
The entertainment industry, and the international establishment generally, have a fanatical hatred for white-straight-men (as capitalist “exploiters and oppressors”) and wish to see us humiliated, indeed no longer in this world – they seem to want us to be dead. And the haters include white-straight-men in the establishment – everyone from Bob Iger of the Disney Corporation, to General Milley, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the idiot who pushed the Marxist book on “White Rage” – even when questioned about it by a Congressional Committee).
Bizarrely the establishment call this stuff “liberalism” – it is NOT liberalism, it is Critical Theory Marxism and it is insane that vast international corporations and government agencies (in almost all Western countries – and in the international bodies) are pushing it.
Museums show that they do not “just” want white-straight-men to be dead – they want our real history to be forgotten. For example, in London there is a museum of ordinary life – it used to have interiors of the homes of ordinary Londoners over the decades and centuries, now there is not one interior of an ordinary English family in the museum. There are plenty of interiors – but, at least since the year 1830, they are of immigrant families – or include people who are not English.
My own ancestors are shown in the museum – both Jewish and Irish immigrants (for example there is a 1913 interior which is very much like the home my father was born into in 1913), but the native ordinary English are not shown.
This is not “inclusion” it is the EXCLUSION of the history of the people who were the overwhelming majority of the population of London till only a few decades ago. They, the English, have been shoved down the Memory Hole as if they never existed.
Jews and Irish will be next – the Irish in Ireland are already seeing the history of Ireland reinterpreted to, falsely, claim that there have always been lots of black and brown people there (there were not) and that these people were exploited (they can not have been exploited – because they did not exist in Ireland, other than a handful). And increasingly Jews are the subject of hatred – Larry Fink of BlackRock has been funding radical leftist groups for many years – and is now horrified to discover that these groups hate Jews (Larry is Jewish).
Larry Fink if you had taken your head out of your backside long enough to actually study the groups you have funded for so many years – you would have known that they always hated Jews as “capitalist exploiters”.
The only leader in public life who is going to stand with the Jews when things get rough is Donald J. Trump – but do not tell Bob Iger or Larry Fink that, as “Trump is a capitalist reactionary”.
And what do you think that the groups you have been backing for so many years think that YOU are?
They think that you are “capitalist reactionaries” – after all you are straight-white-men and you are the heads of vast “capitalist” (well sort-of capitalist) corporations.
They hate YOU (Bob, Larry and the rest) just as much as they hate “Trump” – and no amount of money or other support (such as making them hero figures in television shows and films) is going to change that. They hate you – they want to destroy you, try and get that into your heads.
Save us from “liberal businessmen” – who are pushing their own destruction, and the destruction of their families, without even understanding what they are doing.
In Norway, and some other countries, governments are now putting taxpayer money into video games – Critical Theory “Woke” games (of course). That very few people presently want to buy these games, is considered not relevant.
Also the great financial entities demand that privately funded video games follow Critical Theory Marxism DEI (EDI in the United Kingdom). And the financial entities do not seem to care about what CUSTOMERS want either.
The idea seems to be that people will eventually buy leftist video games if no anti leftist video games are made – ditto television shows and films, and that “education” (indoctrination) will help in this task.
And, after the breakdown of the present monetary and financial system (which may be as early as next year – 2025) Digital Money will mean that people have to spend their income on certain products – or watch the money vanish (easy enough – as the money never really existed in the first place, it is not gold or silver or any commodity, it is just lights on computer screens which the powerful can manipulate or just turn off).
It is all supposed to be done by 2030 – it is utterly barmy (insane), but the international establishment are committed to the agenda.