Inauthentic

What does that mean?

What are authentic selves?

Why? Everybody deserves to be protected in the sense of shielded from violence and exploitation, but nobody “deserves” to be celebrated. That’s a silly claim, or slogan – it’s a slogan rather than a claim but it’s in the form of a claim, which makes it both pernicious and ridiculous. We might as well run around saying [insert random set of people here] deserve immortality, or a car, or a lifetime ticket to Disneyland, or a slap-up meal at Taco Bell.

Sane progressive campaigns have sane goals. Feminist campaigns, labor campaigns, anti-racism campaigns all focused on genuine, specific rights and reasonable, achievable goals. They did not demand pampering and flattery and ass-kissing.

These campaigns sound more like Trump than like the SPLC or the Feminist Majority Foundation.