1/ The woke are not trying to win the culture war against liberals intellectually, they are trying to win SOCIALLY.
The woke don't fight academically with evidence and reason.
They fight SOCIALLY using power moves to take over institutions and bullying tactics to shut us up.
2/ The woke do not want to merely participate in liberal democratic society; allowing their ideas to be carefully scrutinized by our academic, cultural and democratic institutions.
The woke want to SEIZE POWER in those institutions, and mutate them into institutions of wokeness.
3/ So the tactics adopted by the woke were developed for seizing institutional, cultural, and political power, not for discovering the truth. If it works to send social media mobs after people to get them fired so woke people can take their jobs works, then that is what they do.
4/ Since the goal of the woke is to seize social and political power so they can wield it in the name of their ideology, they are not interested in being kind, civil, or "nice."
In fact Robin DiAngelo actually says "niceness" is bad, and claims it reproduces white supremacy:
5/ The result is that when the woke try to get into positions of power, they do not typically do so by demonstrating they have the MERIT to be in those positions. They are not, to be frank, interested in meeting the standard of merit that liberals use in selecting their leaders.
6/ This is because the woke think liberals and other non-woke groups don't really care about merit, and just use merit as an excuse to keep "marginalized groups" out of positions of power. The woke think leadership requirements are little more than poorly disguised power hoarding
7/ As such they think meeting liberal standards accepts the logic of liberalism, which they reject and want to replace with wokeness.
So, rather than follow liberal rules of civility, merit, reason, and democracy; they follow woke rules and play cynical social power games.
8/ They will accuse, imply, and insinuate all kinds of things about anyone in order to socially destroy whoever dares to get in their way.
They're not going to tell you you're wrong, they're going to tell everyone else you're a racist, sexist, homophobe.
That's how it works.
9/ Here, @BretWeinstein explains how false accusations of racism were used to try to intimidate him into going along with a woke takeover of College where he was teaching at the time.
Please pay close attention here:
10/ In this Clip Reihan Salam (@reihan) response to comments by Eddie Glaude (@esglaude) and while he is talking Eddie interrupts him to insinuate that Reihan is not being genuiune and is merely trying to score political points in a debate.
This is a typical woke tactic.
11/ The point he is that if you think you're going to push back on wokeness with arguments according to the rules of civility, fairplay, evidence and reason you are sorely mistaken.
This is not how this works.
12/ The woke don't play that game. Theirs is a contest for power, and they use cynical social tactics in order to try to browbeat people into doing what the woke want them to do.
Push back requires we recognize what game the woke are playing, and make that clear to everyone else
13/ Wokeness has a vulnerability: being understood.
When people understand the game the woke play, they stop going along with it and the woke lose power.
So make their game clear, make it transparent, and call it out. The sooner you do the sooner they woke lose power.
/fin
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The U.S. General Services Administration, which supports the basic functioning of federal agencies by supplying things like office space and transportation, has adopted DEI policies.
The Hijacking of Government by DEI
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2/ The GSA's Job is supposed to be "to provide stewardship of the way the government uses and provides real estate, acquisition services, and technology"
However they have decided to make "environmental Justice," "economic justice," and "Advancing Equity" part of their mission
3/ The government agency that is supposed to be focused on stewarding the federal governments property, is instead focusing on environmental and economic justice.
This is a very clear case of a government agency being hijacked in the name of woke ideology.
1/ Of all the stories I've heard of people hitting their "woke breaking point" @elonmusk's may be the most heartbreaking
He was tricked into going along with trans ideology, and in doing so lost his son to woke ideology
You can feel his pain as he speaks
2/ I can't imagine what it is like for @elonmusk....the pain must be unbearable. I can't put myself in his shoes.
But I do want to give him some encouragement, to let him know that his purchasing of X and his social activism has been effective.
So, here goes....
@elonmusk 3/
@elonmusk,
your purchase of @x gave a platform to @ChoooCole @onedonebun @thepeacepoet99 @LauraBeckerReal and other detransitioners to sound the alarm and to warn others about the horrors of the woke mind virus, and what childhood transition really does to a person...
1/ DEI activism takes resources away from the mission of any company it gets a foothold in, and it uses those resources as a vehicle to spread DEI propaganda
This leaves less resources available for mission-critical tasks, leading to an increase in mistakes, errors, and failures
2/ DEI does not cause immediate catastrophic failures. Rather, what DEI and other "Woke" initiatives do is twofold:
1. Slowly drain resources from mission critical areas such that there are less resources dedicsted to accmplishing important organizational objectives
And...
3/ ....
2. DEI/Woke initiatives change the hiring standards so instead of hiring the most competent person, they restrict to a specific race, sex, or gender identity (lgbt, women, POC, etc) and hire the best person who has those characteristics.
1/ There are two Executive orders that enabled the DEI take over the US government
These orders gave DEI activists the power to implement their ideology, and understanding how this works is key to getting woke ideology out of government
Woke takeover of government:
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2/ The first order was signed by President Obama.
It orders the Office of Personnel Management and the Deputy and the Office of Management and Budget to establish a coordinated Government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the Federal workforce.
3/ This means that Obama's order requires that people within ever government agency are hired specifically to do DEI.
Obama's order has another provision which *requires* the Chief Human Capital Officer of each agency to ensure DEI is implemented at their agency:
1/ The Department of Homeland Security (which oversees the secret service) says Inclusive Diversity, is one of its top priorities the "heartbeat" of DHS
@RealStevefriend is right: government hires for Diversity, not merit, and this leads to failure and incompetence.
2/ In 2018 Angela Bailey, the Chief Human Capital Officer at the DHS, said Inclusive Diversity was one of her highest priorities, and that she used the "inclusivity Index to measure her progress in achieving diversity.
3/ This goes hand in hand with the DHS Inclusive Diversity Strategic Plan from 2016-2019 which again states that the DHS is committed to advancing Diversity and Inclusion.
What you are seeing here is that merit and competence are being set aside in favor of achieving DEI goals.
2/ Critical Social Justice (AKA woke), the ideology behind DEI, has captured the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), and now the USSS wants to make Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion part of "every action, every day"
This makes DEI the fundamental governing framework of the Secret Service
3/ For this reason the Secret Service now has an entire office dedicated to DEI (pic 1)
Additionally, the Secret Service offers access to an entire suite of programs that divide people up into racial groups rather than looking at competence, talent, experience, and merit (pic 2)