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Mar 25

The key word to understand when it comes to wokeness is **SUBVERT**

Woke activists destroy what they don't like (truth, facts, the constitution, etc) by SUBVERTING them.

That is, the woke undercut the power and authority of institutions and concepts they don't like.

The goal is never to show that a thing is bad, and idea is wrong, or an institution is not doing it's job. Rather, the goal is to try to obliterate the social and moral authority of the idea, goal concept, etc in order to delegitimize that idea, goal, concept, etc.

What the woke do, and what the dialectical left (including Marxists, neo-Marxists, Critical Theorists, communists, etc) do is to try to win social and political fights by subverting the validity, legitimacy, and authority of any idea they don't like.

This is how they proceed.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Mar 21

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I never want to hear another word from this @kkdumez about saving democracy, or cynicism in politics.

The people that she has joined with here, particularly Rick Wilson are the most utterly nihilistic, dishonest, self-interest and Cynical people in all of politics: right or left.

Let's demonstrate this with a few words directly from Rick Wilson

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Rick Wilson says, we're in a culture war, and the way to win is not dialogue or discussion: it's through the use of emotion and spectacle.

he says that when someone says they worry about CRT, you don't discuss facts, you say "they're using the N-word"

That's a direct quote👇

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Rick Wilson was trained by Lee Atwater (video 1) And it was Lee Atwater who was responsible for the infamous "Willie Horton" ad (video2)

That's who trained Rick Wilson.

And You can see the jaded cynicism of Atwater was absorbed by Rick Wilson in the next video....

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Mar 5

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"The very people in charge of disseminating education and challenging young minds have completely abandoned that task and are now wholesale focused on promoting this ideology."

@joerogan is right: woke activists hijacked education so they could indoctrinate kids.

A thread🧵

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In his book "The Critical Turn in Education" education professor Isaac Gottesman explains how leftist activists brought Marxism into universities and radicalized the field of education in the 70's. They wanted to put Marxism into the foundation of American education.

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In his book "Teachers as intellectuals" education professor Henry Giroux said his goal was to use Neo-marxism as his framework for how to do education, and that his goal was to use education as a vehicle for leftists social transformation.

He says this explicitly:

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Feb 29

https://twitter.com/VinesMatthew/status/1762944469777752433

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This is exactly correct:

Queer theory doesn't just want to destroy *some* rules, norms or socual conventions ablut what is normal...Queer theory want to **abolish the legitimacy to social normitivity itself**

This is HUGE point.

https://twitter.com/VinesMatthew/status/1762944469777752433

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Normativity is the idea that some behaviours are good, appropriate and proper so society should make those behaviours *normal*

As @VinesMatthew explains here, queer theory *opposes the very idea of normativity itself* and thus opposes the legitimacy of ANY social norms at all

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What this means is that queer theory is going to deconstruct ALL normativity:

-moral norms
-social norms
-norms dealing with rationality and reason
-scientific and academic norms including norms around rigor and evidence
-Political norms

Queer Theory wants it all gone.

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Feb 25

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Christian conservatives often get accused of trying to force their worldview on other people.

But here Tim Keller explains beautifully how secular progressives decided to impose their ideology and worldview on society.

A brief thread🧵

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The problem here is a problem of values neutrality. It goes like this:

"Governments must enforce laws, adjudicate civil disputes, and keep order, but that requires set of values to determine which laws pass, how to adjudicate disputes, and what kind of order to keep."

So...

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That proves (so the argument goes) that neutrality is a mirage, governments cannot be neutral with respect to values, on value set must triumph.

Progressives want to win, Catholics want to win, Neo-cons want to win...but there is no neutrality.

This argument is mistaken...

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Wokal Distance

@wokal_distance

Feb 22

In postmodernism, the goal of news commentary is not to add context or explain how events actuslly unfolded.

The goal of news commentary is to provide the most morally satisfying interpretation of events as a way to validating a worldview by demonstrating its explanatory power.

Various groups are battling over whose worldview our society will use to interpret and understand what is going on in the world.

News commentary is not about getting the facts right: it is a battle over HOW facts are interpreted and what conclusions will be drawn from the facts.

So, what we see on news shows, in magazines, and in the opinion pages of newspapers is a battle over the MEANING of various news events.

The fight is over what we think various news event MEAN. The battle isn't over facts....it's over what the facts MEAN.

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