day no. 17,019: the right to choose and the wrong who choose rights

“In an ethnic clash, you don’t have to choose sides. The other side does that for you.” — Douglas Wilson, The Woke Right, Real and Imagined

There is no neutrality. 

If you choose to stay out of things, someone else will drag you into them. You may not have preferred pronouns, but someone will prefer that you use theirs. You may not identify as something, but someone else may insist that you identify them as something or insist on identifying you as something of their choosing. You may choose to keep quiet, but someone else may consider your silence to be violence.

If you choose, you lose; and if you refuse to choose, someone else will choose for you. Either way, the grievance-mongers will find what they are looking for. Envy looks for any opportunity to feed and if it is ravenous, it will invent foibles off which to feast. It runs on accusation and can fabricate fuel out of thin air... especially when it is already insecure about its weight.