These terms are everywhere, and they do not mean what most people think they mean. These terms are loaded, and I'd like to show you what under the surface of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" initiatives.
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2/ When most of us hear "diversity," we might think: "make sure our group has people with different ideas, perspectives, and viewpoints, so we can look at whatever problems we face from many different angles."
This is *NOT* what Social Justice means by diversity.
3/ Sometimes people hear "diversity" and think: "make sure not to discriminate against people because of what they look like; if you do you'll end up rejecting good people and leaving 'talent on the table'."
Again, this is also *NOT* what Social Justice means by diversity
4/ Finally, some people hear diversity and think "we need people from all walks of life, with all kinds of experience, because different types of experience will help us solve a wide variety of problems."
And yet again, this is *NOT* what Social Justice means by diversity.
5/ To understand how social justice thinks about diversity, you have to remember that Social Justice places a heavy emphasis on group identity, and think of people in terms of their cluster of identities. So, are you a straight white male, or are you a black Muslim woman?
6/ Social Justice thinks the different identities you have are what determine your "social location." In other words, your race, sex, religion, and so on will determine your access to resources (money) and social capital (clout).
You could think of it like a video game where...
7/ there are different levels of difficulty. Social justice says "straight white men" play life on easy mode because society was built by and for straight white men, where "black disabled transgender lesbians" play life on the most difficult mode for exactly the same reason.
8/ Your identity list, and ONLY your identity list (IE, black, bisexual, woman) determines where you are on the social ladder. How much money you have is irrelevant. Your score in the game doesn't matter, it's the level of difficulty you play on.
Read that again.
9/ Social Justice thinks our social position, the level of difficulty we play on, is the lens we see the world through. So a gay person sees reality through a lens only available to gay people, and the same would apply to black, woman, lesbian, trans, and all other identities.
10/ Further, Social justice thinks everyone must adopt the Social justice ideology or they are decieved. They think anyone who doesn't agree with Social Justice has been "duped" by the system, or has "false consciousness," and must be woken up. Hence the term "woke."
11/ This is the kind of thinking going on when a black person gets called an "oreo" (black on the outside white on the inside) or when Nikole Hannah Jones (1619 project editor) said there is a difference between being "racially Black" and being "politically Black."
12/ So you can't just hire people in your organization that have Black skin, they must also have a Black political ideology. If you hired a Black person who thought Social Justice was nonsense, that would not count as diversity because that person has a "white mindset."
13/ This means "diversity" according to Social Justice occurs when you have a group of people of "marginalized" identities (black, gay, trans, female) who all completely agree with Social Justice and are sufficiently "woke." Non-woke minorities don't count toward "diversity."
14/ So, for example, if you hired a non-woke Black person they would call them a "token," "uncle Tom," or "race traitor." Only woke people thinking in terms of oppressed identity according to Social Justice count toward diversity.
They think everyone else is "false diversity."
15/ Once we see the game that is played, we can explain inclusion and equity in short order:
According to Social Justice, Inclusion is *NOT* making everyone feel welcome, and it is *NOT* merely ending discrimination.
16/ Woke people think an "inclusive" space is where no member of a marginalized group will feel, attacked, pressured, out of place, unwanted, or experience any other form of social discomfort. This means people with marginalizes identities must be supported at all times.
17/ The result of this is that anything that you might say which would offend a marginalized person is not allowed. For example, an Atheist could not, in an inclusive space, say Allah does not exist, because that may offend Muslims. Social Justice would see that as...
18/ an attack on a marginalized person. If you attempted to prove it using science, they would say you're just using the white western idea of science to attack the poor marginalized Muslims. (if you said "but science is true" they would claim your only saying that to get power)
19/ Now, Social Justice would say eventually ALL OF SOCIETY must be an inclusive space. That means that if the woke Social Justice advocates get their way free speech is gone, and no one would be allowed to say anything offensive to "marginalized people" lest anyone feel excluded
20/ I would note, this does not apply to white people, and the reason why brings us to "equity."
Equity is *NOT* equal opportunity. Equity is *NOT* equality under the law. And equity is *NOT* judging everyone by the same standard.
Equity is something far different...
21/ Just like diversity and inclusion, equity is concerned about who has social power, and wants to do something incredibly expansive. It is described as "adjusting shares in order to make citizens A and B equal." What they mean by this is that they want to take from those...
22/ who have a lot, and they want to give to those who do not. However, THEY ARE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT MONEY, they are talking about social power, social capital, and social influence. They mean clout...they mean POWER, and they say so explicitly:
23/ Further, they don't mean just making things equal now, they mean making up for past injustices. It isn't enough to make sure (for example) Black and White people have equal shares of society, Black people must be given more to make up for the times White people had more...
24/ In the minds of the Woke, society must give the garden of the marginalized extra water and fertilizer to make up for the social drought that they went through due to white western capitalist oppression. However, since this is according to identity lines that means...
25/ Oprah, Obama, and Jay-Z are entitled to reparations because they are members of a marginalized group, and poor white opiate addicts dying in the rust belt must help foot the bill because they are white males and part of the oppressor class.
This is how Woke people think.
26/ So, when you are at work, church, university, or school, and you see these terms used keep in mind that what is behind them is an entire worldview that has cloaked itself in language that mimics liberal equality and justice, but is very far from both. Keep in mind what is...
27/ hiding under the surface of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
It's a fitting coincidence that Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity form the acronym "DIE," which is exactly what happens to any organization or institution that adopts the ideas of Wokeness and Social Justice.
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There's a story behind the squirrel story everyone's missing.
A man had his home searched for 5 hours until officials found his pet squirrel, which they took and then killed.
The problem isn't that government broke the law, the problem is that it *didn't* break the law
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2/ People analyze this story as an abuse of power or as government over-reach, but that's not the problem.
The problem is that everything the government did, including killing the mans pet, was LEGAL.
And that's what people find scary: the government is allowed to act that way
3/ The problem is not that the government broke the law, the problem is that the government terrorized a man and his family, disrupted his life, destroyed a source of his income, killed his pet, and left him heartbroken...and doing this was totally legal.
I've been documenting how American government institutions have been hijacked by woke activists, and I've put all my threads in one big thread so you can see how bad things are/🧵
1/ When lgbtq+ activists talk about 'queer' they don't mean "being different."
The lgbtq+ activists definition of "Queer" is about opposing and abolishing *ALL* social norms, and abolishing the idea that anything should ever be declared to be "normal"
2/ "Queer Theory" is an academic discipline which claims to study human sexuality, except that it does not use *science* to study secuality.
Queer Theory analyzes sex, gender, and human sexuality using a method of engagement created by neo-marxists called "Critical Theory."
3/ In 1937 Max Horkheimer wrote an essay called “Traditional and Critical Theory” which explains the difference between "traditional theory" and "Critical Theory."
According to Horkheimer, traditional theory is purely descriptive; its only goal is describe the world as it is...
1/ To show you how captured by wokeness Government institutions are, here's a list of insane things published by *JUST* the National Institutes for Health. /🧵
They hired a "fat activist" to write about "fatphobia, and say there's no evidence for safe weight loss.
2/ The NIH has an article about "Hari discrimination" and the prospect of living with "Black Hair in an Unjust Society"
3/ They have a 3 part series on "intersectionality," a term coined by Critical Race Theorist Kimberlee Crenshaw.
The entire series is about how institutions are systemically biased against women in various ways, and how employees ought to advance DEI as a way to fix this.
1/ The National Institutes of Health hired an activist who claims:
-obesity doesn't cause poor health
-safe weight loss isn't possible
-poor outcomes for obese people are caused by fatphobia, and anti-fat bais
America's largest Health organization is captured by activists/🧵
2/ These ideas come out of an academic field called "Fat Studies," which has it's own academic journals. The ideas from Fat Studies come almost entirely out of Critical theory and Postmodernism.
Those who work in Fat Studies call themselves "Fat Scholars" and "Fat Activists."
3/ Fat Studies is postmodern, and as such is accepts the postmodern idea objective absolute, universal truth does not exist.
Postmodernism says all truth claims are socially constructed, and are thus polluted by the biases, interests, and agenda's of the people who created them.
1/ Critical Social Justice (woke) activists don't see legitimacy as a product of competence, knowledge, merit, and and high standards rigorously and consistenly applied
They think legitimacy is a form of social capital that allows privileged people to accrue prestige and status
2/ According to wokeness, legitimacy is not given to institutions, ideas, or people because they have met the objective standards of merit, competence, knowledge, and truth
Rather, legitimacy is a social convention that gatekeeps access prestige, status, power, and resources.
3/ Woke activists accept the postmodern idea that there are no objective standards for knowledge, truth, merit, rationality, and competence.
They think all standards of judgement are socially constructed according to the interests amd values of the people who constructed them...