The Hypocrisy of Neoliberalism.
Neoliberal ideas are really weird: The trick is that they masquerade as “empowering” or even “liberating” only to show their true intent when they have full control. Neoliberal ideas are very debilitating ideas to any society.
There’s no one society built upwards from neoliberal ideas. What they say is never what they actually mean.
Take for just one instance: When a traditional man in Ghana, proposes that women should not have to pay a personal cost to live as women and that we ought to provide certain items free of charge to women, the liberals change the topic to “empowering” women by giving them “factory” jobs so women can pay for their own things.
The neoliberal idea of “empowering” this group or that group is not even that they actually want to empower anyone. They don’t. We see this kind of hypocrisy play out neatly where most of the neoliberal ideas come from, i.e. from the USA.
The idea of “giving jobs” is itself, to the foolish, a nice thing. To those who actually understand what it means, it is dangerous.
First the assumption is that every woman has a job in the US and in every place else, the women just don’t have jobs (and that the men do!). Second, that jobs are vital to liberation, and that the men are liberated, but not the women. Third, that women everywhere else outside the USA are enslaved and not empowered.
The Savior Trope of Neoliberalism is weird. Very weird.
But by jobs, by “empower,” and by “liberate,” what they really want to do is to divide and conquer the might of the African Family!
