Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker)

Western Civilization didn't flourish because "white males" stopped other groups from succeeding. The West thrived because of rational thought, individual rights, and free enterprise. "White males" that invented the steam engine, electric generation, the combustion engine, flight, and space exploration did not do so because they "stole" the ideas of minorities. These inventions helped lift mankind out of ignorance and hardship, improving the quality of life for all of humanity. "White males" didn't oppress the entire world, they helped make it a better place. "White males" didn't oppress everyone's rights, they invented the idea of rights and paid in blood to liberate tens of millions of people. "White males" didn't invent slavery, they ended it. "White males" didn't invent tyranny, they devised a form of government to end it. Destroying Western Civilization isn't about empowering groups that were "oppressed." It is about tearing down civilization itself so that globalist parasites can rule over all of us.

"Diversity" is not even a real value. It is a completely made-up pseudo-value that radical leftists have instrumentalized to attack Western culture. The foremost issue with artificial "diversity" is that it contrives an "oppressed vs. oppressor" narrative by implication and sows it into works where it is foreign. Secondly, this fetishizing of "diversity" does not extend to individuals. There are few sympathetic conservatives or villainous radicals. This reeks of political motive and it is obviously by design. Critically, there is a lack of ideological diversity. Stories that do not surrender to DEI and other leftist tropes are explicitly cut out of Hollywood awards. This is obviously driven by a push for ideological conformity, not diversity. Additionally, the supposed fascination with "diversity" does not extend to European subcultures or Christian schools of thought. Notice how Hollywood doesn't recognize the "diversity" of Europeans? Are the Orthodox Greeks the same as the Catholic Italians? Are the Jesuit French the same as the Lutheran Germans? No, but this kind of diversity is not relevant to radicals who are simply weaponizing the pseudo-value of diversity to attack Western culture. So, critically speaking, the artificial "diversity" introduced by Woke Hollywood corrupts the natural diversity inherent in classic literature, and obscures it, thereby damaging these texts' ability to illuminate the human condition.