Kanye Broke Progressivism With Seven Words

This seven-word tweet by Kanye West will be looked back upon as the straw that broke the back of progressivism.

I love the way Candace Owens thinks

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018

Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) and Scott Adams understand this. In a Twitter thread Rubin observed:

 “[Candace] doesn’t view victimhood as a virtue. And this is where the modern Left is exposed.” And “Now they’ll call Candace far-right and anti-gay, all the while waking up millions to how they are the ones who practice true prejudice and bigotry. Kanye sees this and now the jig is up. More and more people, regardless of skin color, sexuality or gender will see this too.”

Adams explains the synergistic effect of (presumably) liberal Kanye’s support of Owens who is conservative:

Forget about whether you think Candace has everything right or everything wrong. That’s not the story. The story is that, that these two people that shouldn’t be in the same conversation, in seven words, Kanye just changed that. And he just freed a lot of people from a mental prison. Kanye, in seven words, unlocked a mental prison and is bringing you to the Golden Age.

My perspective is that Kanye’s tweet and the reaction to it by Rubin and Adams are small pieces of a much larger scenario.  The following list identifies some of the other pieces. Together they convey an idea that grows ever clearer as the days, weeks, and months pass.  A spontaneous grass-roots movement is growing; spreading like a forest fire that is about to consume progressivism.

– Trump’s electoral victory.

– Brexit’s electoral victory.

– The resistance to the coddled, cognitively distorted, thinking of progressivism by people and organizations like the following who collectively are known as the intellectual dark web:

“Thanks to the internet, millions now have access to views mainstream media considers ‘forbidden’.”  – Specator, Inside the Intellectual Dark Web

Sam Harris did a podcast about it.  Intellectuals are speaking directly to people and bypassing the stranglehold that traditional media and progressivism (but I repeat myself) formerly had on the flow of ideas. The tremendous attention, popularity, and support they garner are evidence that they’ve tapped into a sentiment that’s been simmering for years and is finally boiling over.

— Jordan Peterson (@jordanbpeterson)

— Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt )

— Michael Rectenwald (@antipcnyuprof )

— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein )

— Nicholas Christakis ( @NAChristakis)

— Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin)

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro)

— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers)

— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza )

— Milo Yiannopoulis [ Yes. Milo. ]

— Heterodox Academy (@HdxAcademy )

— The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (@TheFIREorg)

— Young America’s Foundation (‏@yaf )

— William F. Buckley Program at Yale (@BuckleyProgram)

Rubin’s entire Twitter thread from which the quote above is excerpted is worth a read:

Couple thoughts on Kanye and Candace, which sounds like the title of a 90’s sitcom is NBC…

1. As an artist, Kanye is a a true mover of culture. He says things you will like and dislike. If you turn on him for daring to be different, you don’t understand the nature of art.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

2. I know Candace. She has been on my show, we’ve had dinner at my house, we’ve traveled and done gigs together, we’ve spent hours taking and debating. We agree some, disagree some. She’s passionate and strong and actually wants to learn.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

3. More importantly though, she cares deeply about what has happened to the black community and wants others to see what Sowell, Elder and others before her have already seen. She doesn’t view victimhood as virtue. And this is where the modern Left is exposed.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

4. Through intersectional groupthink they believe they own all minorities be it black, gay, Muslim or other. This actually pits these groups against each other and is why there’s nothing the Left hates more than black, gay or Muslim people who dare think for themselves.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

5. So they will always purge all their free thinkers in the name of diversity and tolerance, which is really nothing more than totalitarian control of people based on their immutable characteristics.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

6. This flaw in regressive leftist thinking is what I was trying to talk about as a lefty when I started my show. Sadly the Left has only embraced this toxic ideology even more and it isn’t done yet. So that leaves anyone who dares to think for themselves on the outside.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

7. Now they’ll call Candace far-right and anti-gay, all the while waking up millions to how they are the ones who practice true prejudice and bigotry. Kanye sees this and now the jig is up. More and more people, regardless of skin color, sexuality or gender will see this too.

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

8. They are a snake that will eat it’s own tail and for all of you who have had enough of it there’s an incredible alliance of classical liberals, libertarians, conservatives and more waiting to embrace you for what you think, not how you look.

OK, let’s get to work…

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

Bonus: This is why in my first video of the year I said that 2018 will be the year of Unusual Alliances: https://t.co/npCRQkdRAG

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 23, 2018

Adams’ YouTube video, transcript here, is also time well spent: