The Pushing of Poly Pride

Back in May 2013, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d been noticing a concerted push in recent years by the New York Times to prepare the media, which tends to slavishly follow the agenda set by the NYT concerning what is news that fits to print, to make the Next Big Thing in the wake of the imminent triumph of their gay marriage campaign (what I called World War G) be the promotion of transgenderism (World War T).

Since that accurate prediction, I’ve often been asked: “What’s next?”

Many assume it must be pedophilia, but I see little evidence for a trend in that direction compared to two generations ago when, weirdly, Nabokov’s Lolita could be a colossal bestseller. These days, progressives are even trying to shame 40 year old men into not marrying women in their 20s (so they can marry women in their 40s.)

Finally, in this decade I came around to forecasting publicly that polygamy/polyamory, World War P, seems like the next big thing on the elite agenda.

Indeed, mentions of the word “polyamory” in the bellwether New York Times went from rare to routine when transgenderism took off in the mid-2010s. This year appear on track to double last year’s record

On the other hand, what has not happened yet is the polygamy/polyamory link-up I’ve predicted in which polyamorist tech dudes born without the jealousy gene form a political alliance with polygamist African patriarchs who want to import all their various wives and children based on the notion that “Love is love.”

Compared to the 26 articles so far in 2024 mentioning “polyamory,” the New York Times has only run four articles so far this year referring to “polygamy.”

At this point, the existence of polygamy in African and Muslim countries apparently strikes the media class as a “trope” and thus should be mentioned as seldom as possible to keep potential Bad People from developing a stereotype about certain kinds of immigrants.

But, I could see Poly Pride taking off as an alliance of swingers and Africans/Muslims if Trump gets back in and then immigration policy becomes, as during the last Trump Administration, a favorite media club with which to tar Trump as cruel. Remember the “kids in cages” media mania of 2018?

Biden just announced the legalization of illegal immigrants if they are married to an American. Presumably, it’s assumed that will get only one spouse in. But, considering the titanic jobs of socially constructing absurd fads like transgenderism among teenage girls that the media have pulled off in recent years, the idea that a few years from now it will be considered hatefully racist and Islamophobic to restrict the number of spouses let in to only one hardly seems outlandish.