Eli Steele Identifies the Hidden Root of Leftist Violence

I'm concerned that Eli Steele has correctly pointed out a problem that has no obvious solution. Certainly no quick fix:

One unique aspect of Leftist-driven violence often goes unnoticed. The recent bloodshed, vandalism, and intimidation that we’ve seen aren’t random but the predictable fallout of a worldview that reduces human complexity to fixed ideological identities. The Left’s obsession with immutable traits -- race, gender, sex -- creates a victimhood hierarchy where dissent feels like an existential threat. When challenged, responses spiral into denial, defensiveness, or even violence from those unable to defend their dogma. This isn’t mere political disagreement, but the grim consequence of a belief system that rejects the Enlightenment’s focus on reason and individuality for rigid orthodoxy.

Recent events expose this pattern. The assassination of Charlie Kirk by Tyler Robinson, radicalized through Leftist politics and his transgender partner’s identity struggles, shows how loyalty to identity can turn lethal when faced with opposing views. School shootings like Audrey Hale’s 2023 Nashville attack and Robin Westman’s 2025 Minneapolis shooting reveal how issues with or challenges to gender identity can ignite rage. Elias Rodriguez’s 2025 murder of two Israeli Embassy employees, accompanied by cries of “shame on Zio-Nazi terror,” reflects a worldview -- shared by many pro-Hamas supporters -- that reduces Jews, Israeli or not, to whites and oppressors. The decade-long wave of Black Lives Matter protests, grounded in claims of systemic racial oppression, fueled riots that caused billions in damages, claimed lives, and pressured countless American institutions into adopting reductive racial identity politics as dogma.

Beyond violence, this ideology breeds intimidation, silencing dissent with threats of job loss or social ostracism. Rooted in identity determinism, this intellectual dead-end leaves no room for nuance or growth, increasing the potential for violence among those trapped in its logic -- a logic now taught to young minds through ethnic studies in K-12 schools.

If we cannot force the Left to retreat from its fixation on identity politics through the ballot box and all legal means, this ideology will only sow ever-increasing division and violence. This challenge is daunting because it demands stripping people of their very identities grounded in immutable characteristics and showing them their worth lies elsewhere -- their character. They will fight with everything they have.

To break this cycle, we must reject the notion that immutable traits dictate moral worth and recommit to reason and individuality. Until the Left abandons its dogma, it will continue to fuel conflict—a stark reminder of what happens when ideological orthodoxy drowns out dialogue.

One way to reject the notion that immutable traits dictate moral worth would be to make sure we remove all financial and social status incentives for enshrining immutable traits. But I am pessimistic that that we can make any headway by engaging in conversation. Where to start?

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Capitalizing on Race

I'll start with this post by Mike Benz:

If one really wanted to diminish the importance of "race," one would not capitalize only one "race" but not others. But this is a minor skirmish. As I've written before, the very concept of "race" is a grift; the usage of the concept of "race" has never enhanced human flourishing. It only pits us against one another. It's time for all of us to wake up and abolish the use of "race." We can talk about each other perfectly well without use of the term "race," which, at best, serves as a proxy for other things.

Sheena Mason argues that "race" is not biologically real—she points to evidence showing extensive human migration and mixing, where traits like skin color do not reliably correlate with ancestry (e.g., two dark-skinned South Africans can be more genetically divergent than one is from a light-skinned Swede).

She argues that "race" serves to perpetuate racism, a hierarchical system that disguises itself as innate differences. She critiques both "anti-racist resistance" (which centers race in analysis, as seen in thinkers like Ibram X. Kendi) and "color-blindness" (which ignores race but still treats it as real) for inadvertently reinforcing racial categories.

For Mason, undoing racism requires dismantling the belief in race altogether. A central tool in her approach is the "racelessness translator," which "translates" race-based language into non-racial terms to reveal underlying issues (e.g., reframing "racial disparities in policy effects" as class-based inequities).

There is no such thing as "race," even though racism can still be found. There are people who will nevertheless assure us that "race" is a meaningful term and who discriminate against those of a particular "race." They should be prosecuted under civil rights laws. It's time for the rest of us to move on.

For more, see my previous post, "Race is like Astrology."

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Self-Centered Activism

Some political activists do not actually strive for social justice and the support of under-privileged groups or people but rather endorse or express violence for the satisfaction of their own ego-focused and antisocial needs . . . [P]eople with narcissistic and/or psychopathic personality traits are attracted to certain ideologies and forms of political activism. They...use activism as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually working toward social justice.

From Scott Barry Kaufmann's book, Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential.

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The U.S. War Machine is Itching to Go to War Against Iran

Jimmy Dore's Tweet shows that the U.S. Warmongers plan to go to war against Iran and they also plan to lie about why it happened:

This will never be shown on Corporate news channels.

Here is how the U.S. War Machine is going to start a war with Iran.

Patrick Clawson, a U.S. foreign policy insider, just blurts it out

I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States President can GET US TO WAR WITH IRAN. Which leads me to conclude that if, in fact, compromise is not coming, that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests”

He’s telling us that the U.S. war machine wants a war with Iran, they have been planning it for decades, & the way they start it is by instigating a crisis they can use as the pretext to go to war.

This video should be taught in classrooms, but will never be shown on corporate news channels because they work for the war machine & this would make their job of lying us into war a lot harder.

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