Behind Blue Photo-receptors

If you want a good example of the leapfrogging loyalties of the Cathedral, check out The Atlantic's, Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People.

Writer Noah Berlatsky writes almost totally from the perspective identifying with colonized people and alienated from the colonizers. I suppose that his Central European heritage makes him think he's neutral in the history of whites v. browns.

Then, there's this:

 In Terminator, as well, the fact that the robots are treating us as inhumanly as we treated them doesn't exactly create any sympathy. Instead, the paranoid fear of servants overthrowing masters just becomes a spur to uberviolence (as shown in Linda Hamilton's transformation from naïve good girl to paramilitary extremist). The one heroic reprogrammed Terminator, who must do everything John Connor tells him even unto hopping on one leg, doesn't inspire a broader sympathy for SkyNet. Instead, Schwarzenegger is good because he identifies with the humans totally, sacrificing himself to destroy his own people.

What?

Perhaps it was Skynet that Pete Townshend sang about in "Behind Blue Eyes."

This is where progressivism will lead you, folks, to sympathize with a genocidal computer on the basis that, Hey, at least he's not human.

At least we now know in what order we should be eliminated once our superiors arrive. Americans, British and Germans first. I'm sure that Berlatsky will be first in line after the last German is vaporized. I only hope that he gets his deepest wish, to shake his alien killer's hand and tell him how much he admires him, before he enters the death chamber.