You need to know history. You need some political science and political philosophy.
Because pure thought experiments like “do you think a democratically produced policy can become authoritarian?” don’t really go anywhere. 1/
Because pure thought experiments like “do you think a democratically produced policy can become authoritarian?” don’t really go anywhere. 1/
Or, I know where this thought experiment is going. I’m not going there because I know history & care about current political conditions, not about fearful thought experiments in which your personal terror of feminism & anti-racism runs away with you.
Speaking of history in relation to James Lindsay’s inane “vestigial racism” tweet (by saying “inane,” I’m being nice to a fault here, I know), read Chris’s thread:
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Also read Mansa’s responses to Chris’s thread:
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Here’s where Lindsay is going with his cascade of fearful projections about what critical race theorists say about concepts like white privilege and white supremacy. Jesus Christ. 5/ 
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