Thread by @ConceptualJames

The three step waltz of Marxist agitation:
1. Induce emotional vulnerability/anguish in an issue;
2. Problematize the issue to shift from facts to values (or worse, feelings);
3. Say that the resulting future is the direct responsibility of those put into manufactured anguish.

You'll likely recognize this method of brainwashing in climate change, Covid, and Trump Derangement Syndrome in particular,but it's a standard Marxist agitation tactical move. That means it's used repeatedly with all their issues. In fact, it's the basis of "Critical Education."

Critical Pedagogy, which is the Woke method of education that is now standard across all North American education, is designed to do this program deliberately. Hear it in their own words. Paulo Freire called it "conscientization," awakening consciousness.
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Here, Critical Pedagogue Joe Kincheloe, father of "critical constructivism" (the formal name for "Woke"), explains how the method works by beginning from familiar points of contact that also elicit emotions. Anguish (fears and anxieties) is one, hopes and dreams are in contrast.

Queer Critical Pedagogue Kevin Kumashiro makes it much more explicit here, indicating that Critical Pedagogy proceeds by deliberately putting students into a state of crisis and then leading them to resolve that crisis "productively," meaning through activism. It's undeniable.

This method is derived directly from Paulo Freire,who in turn adapted if from Mao Zedong in Communist China. Mao referred to the practice as "ideological remolding," which often gets translated in English as "thought reform." That is, it's brainwashing, thus child abuse.

Freire characterizes his method of ideological remolding in identical terms to Mao: it "requires a profound rebirth." The point of that rebirth is to adopt the "people's standpoint" (Mao's term), which is the class consciousness of Lukács and the critical consciousness of Woke.

The rebirth is an awakening to a consciousness of being an oppressed "historical agent" who has the ability and responsibility to liberate themselves and their oppressors from the system of oppression itself through revolutionary action. That's what Critical Pedagogy teaches.

It's undeniable that Freire took these ideas from Mao, who was quite explicit about all of it. Intellectuals must ideologically remold themselves (businessesmen too, btw) and must not slide back. The change must be fundamental. It's the basis of your true soul. Matches Freire.

Freire is very serious about what this rebirth looks like: a "personal Easter" to be reborn on the side of the oppressed, i.e., with the people's or proletarian standpoint demanded by Mao. He means the Easter thing quite literally, claiming the true mantle of Christianity.

A modern term for "the people's standpoint" or "the side of the oppressed" is "through an equity lens," as you can see. This is how they teach in schools, often with a rubric of "inclusion" that manipulates the students emotionally.