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Let's discuss woke double standards 🧵
IE: Kristin Du Mez wants her book judged on the merits but she endorses the idea conservative Wayne Grudem is a best seller because publishing/distribution networks supported by white patriarchial power structures protect their interests
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Woke authors (like Kristin) wants their books judged on the merits of the book, but when it comes to conservstives they switch the standard. Instead of looking at the merits of what a conservative book says they look at "whose interests does the book serve and who benefits?"
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Woke writers want their books to be judged fairly using the standard of merit and truth, but she wants conservative authors to be judged cynically according by the standard "whose interests are served and who benefits?"
Pay careful attention to the framing here....
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By demanding their books benjudged on the merits, woke suthor invite a fair intellectual reading of their own work, by suggesting conservstive books be judged by "who benefits" they suggest and invite a cynical reading of conservative work.
This is exactly the goal...
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The goal is to get you to read the right in the most cynical and least charitable light imaginable, while at the same time demanding that their own work read in the most charitable and fair way possible.
This is a strategic move. It isn't just random...
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The goal is to create a situation where the central claims of woke books are engaged thoughtfully, but the central claims of conservative books are ignored.
Woke *books* get thoughtfully analyzed for truth, and conservative *authors* get cynically analyzed for interests...
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In this way, conservstive suthors claims never get a fair shake. Conservative claims are always analyzed according to whose interests they might serve or who benefits...whether or not the conservstives claims have merit never gets looked at.
This is, of course, the goal.
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In other words, conservatives are to be eyed with suspicion and distrust, woke peole are viewed as respected experts.
If I were a cynical Critical Theorist might borrow a move from Kristin Du Mez and ask "whose interests are served by this double standard and who benefits?"
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The way to deal with a double standard is to make the double standard the lerson is trying to use it so obvious that it starts eroding that persons credibility.
One a person sees that invoking a double standard is ruining their own credibility they will usually stop...
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So you need to make it blindingly obvious, and then when they play victim (and they will) you need to be so clear in what you are saying that the victimhood shtick falls flat.
Thats the key.
Stop letting them away with their double standards and start exposing them in...
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A way that forces them to stop using those double standards.
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