Thread by @FreeBlckThought

👉 MOMENTOUS NEWS: @Musa_alGharbi's book

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN WOKE, due in 2023, should make *all* readers uncomfortable:

It will show how wokeness is used "as a weapon, often at the expense of those who are actually marginalized & disadvantaged in the prevailing order...

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The new book "will dismantle popular (and self-serving) narratives about the ‘losers’ in the system – leaving readers with a totally different understanding of social inequality, and unnerving questions about what it would take to meaningfully address it.

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The book shows that "the primary producers & consumers of content on antiracism, socialism, feminism, etc. also happen to be among the primary beneficiaries of gendered, racialized & other forms of inequality – and not passive beneficiaries [but] active participants.
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"The core tension roiling U.S. society is fundamentally not about whether science, education or journalism are good, or whether minorities should enjoy basic civil rights. [The elite 'symbolic analyst' class likes] to frame the conflict as being ‘about’ these things...

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"...because it allows them to position themselves as being ‘on the side’ of truth, reason, the vulnerable and the disadvantaged, while their opponents are portrayed as being ‘on the side’ of ignorance, fanaticism, oppression, exploitation and the like.

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"That is, the ‘losers’ in the system are portrayed as being somehow responsible for most social problems, and it is implied that giving still more power or authority to those who currently dominate the system will somehow ‘solve’ those problems."

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Al-Gharbi's new book subjects his own class (our class!) to "reflexive" soc sci analysis, revealing the real origins of social inequality & asking "unnerving questions" about what we'd need to do to *truly* address it.

Read the preview here: musaalgharbi.com/2021/05/05/boo…