BreadTuber Thought Slime recently uploaded a video essay that linked together a lot of problems that I have with the state of American political discourse, and he forged those connections into a coherent argument that I think requires only a basic grasp of current events to track. It's a conceptual argument, presenting different viewpoints and showing how they interact when compared in specific ways, and the facts he uses are things pretty much all self-identified liberals and most urban and suburban conservatives would agree are true - or at least very easily looked up.
I showed it to Lady M this morning and she said it was "mind-blowing," so I copied the auto-transcript and cleaned it up below (I start at the meat of his argument and skip the Eyeball Zone). I highly recommend the video, it's only 27 minutes long and the transcript is so that you can come back to certain parts or read it without NSFW audio. Enjoy!
Transcription begins at approximately 4:20:
...his mind has been imprisoned. His imagination has been suppressed by the most insidious and ubiquitous brainwashing program the world has ever seen. It's called "liberalism."Wait, what the frick, Thought Slime? What are you talking about? Uh-oh, I bet some of you are probably confused right now. Particularly those that are new around these parts. You may have thought, based on your understanding of the left-right political spectrum, that as a leftist, I am therefore a liberal. You might consider values like LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, anti-racism, all things that I care deeply about, to be liberal values. You might be worried at this moment, I'm about to say some real conservative shit, because you've been taught that liberal and conservative are the boundaries of serious political discourse. And allow me to set your mind at ease. Shh, shh - find calm, my friend.
I'm not a conservative, I'm not about to attack liberalism from the right. I want to attack it from the left.
