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Sep 19

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This U.S. government report is the most insane thing I've ever seen. It calls for:

-Men in women's prisons
-letting boys use girls washrooms in k-12
-cross-sex hormone access for foster kids
-lawsuits to help minors get hormones and surgery

It's way worse than you think /🧵

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In the section on School and education on the chief concerns is making sure people "use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity."

In practice this means letting boys who identify as girls use the girls bathroom even if they have fully biology.

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The report says transgender inmates should be allowed to access facilities that align with their gender identity.

In practice this will mean fully functioning biological males who *identify* as female will have a right to be housed in women's prisons.

That's totally absurd

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@wokal_distance

Sep 9

I think Critical Theory is a lot like what Robert Nozick called Normative Sociology: "The study of what the causes of things *ought* to be"

Critical Theorists analyze problems in terms of what they *want* the cause to be, rather then what the cause of that problem actually is.

The result is that there are large number of errors because rather then dealing with the thing that is actually creating the problem, they end of trying to solve the problem by analyzing the thing that they were hoping was the cause of the problem.

A problem occurs when Critical Theorists doing "Normative Sociology" think everyone is obligated to agree that the cause of the problem is whatever the Critical Theorists say it is; and then go about morally shaming and scolding anyone who disagrees about the cause of the problem

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 5

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The attack on Winston Churchill and the revisionist WWII history is a the right wing version of the "everything is problematic" move the woke have been using for years.

It's a right wing 1619 project that wants to destroy the "Post-war consensus" by making America look bad.

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This is a right-wing "Critical Theory" of America's involvement in WWII.

The goal is to delegitimize the American order that emerged in the wake of WWII, and so the people doing this magnify America's mistakes during WWII and minimize the horror of what the Nazi's did.

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Doing this allows them sow doubt as to who was really responsible for WWII and this then allows them to go about undercutting and subverting the moral authority that America gained by helping to defeat the Nazi's.

They want to drain the moral authority of post-war America.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 4

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Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses.

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The average persons understanding of WWII does not have a high enough resolution to historically locate and properly contextualize the points Cooper brings up, so they aren't properly equipped to determine the relevance, importance, or implications of the facts Cooper presents

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When someone can't integrate a set of facts into their understanding of something, they can become intellectually disoriented and begin looking for a way to make sense of the new facts.

This disorientation is what Cooper is trying to create with his deluge of minutia.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Sep 3

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Critical Theory gets almost everything wrong. Here's Why:🧵

There is a certain type of argument one often hears coming from the “woke” Social Justice left (often associated with Critical Theory), which claims that quite literally everything is political.

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The argument is that the intellectual force of every justification depends on accepting the value structure that is assumed by whatever it is one is defending. The defense of anything relies on values pre-supposed by what one is trying to defend.

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This argument is taken by Critical Theorists to be proof that rational justifications merely assume the values and validity of the very thing they are justifying, and so the justifications only work if you already accept the validity of the thing in question.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Aug 31

Imagine how bewildering the world must seem to 10 year old boys:

Boys shirts are about being lazy and playing video games while Girls shirts are about being future CEO'S and leaders.

They call masculinity toxic and say boys are privileged while also saying the future is female

On the one hand if all the boys win, thats very bad cause boys winning is not fair to girls, but girls only like the boys who win.

And also, all girls winning is good, all boys winning is oppression.

How are 10 year old boys supposed to make sense of this?

I'm genuinely asking this because the male S U I C I D E epidemic is at an all time hight, and the rates of men offing thenselves starts to take off at 15.

This is a serious problem

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