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 incubator of woke theories was Universities, but the incubator of the cultural expression of woke ideas was *TUMBLR*
Bluesky has the same energy, and the same mixture of academics, cultural creatives, and journalists Tumblr had in 2024...
2/ You can mock Bluesky all you want, but it has a VERY potent mixture of:
-Academics to create new woke theories
-activists to organize and develop new tactics
-bureaucrats to make institutions
-Artists to make/spread woke cultural products
-journalists to drive woke narratives
3/ Bluesky is a cultural ecosystem for creative class woke professionals, and it will facilitate the creation of new woke ideas, culture, tactics, and messaging.
If woke is a mind virus, Bluesky is the laboratory where it will undergo it's next round of gain-of-funtion research
1/ This teacher says he uses Critical Race Theory in the classroom, and anyone who doesn't want CRT in schools is racist.
So.... Let's talk about how the Department of Education spent millions of dollars putting Critical Race Theory in k-12 schools.
A Thread🧵
2/ Many on the left claim there is no CRT in education, but that isn't true.
Two of the founders of CRT (Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic) explain that while CRT started in law, it quickly moved into education. They even say CRT is more lively in education than it is in Law!
3/ Now, the person who is most responsible for moving CRT from law into education is probably Gloria Ladsen Billings.
LAdsen Billings wrote a book called "Critical Race Theory in Education" which explains the history of CRT in education and her role in making that happen.
1/ This teacher admits she doesn't know when America was founded. She also says she doesn't teach her students the curriculum, but instead teaches about protesting anti-racism, activism, and Black Lives Matter.
So....Let's talk about the Department of Education.
A Thread🧵
2/ The entire education system, including the Department of Education, is full of activists, professors, teachers, and other people who thing teaching is a political act, and that Social Justice (AKA: woke ideology) should be the foundation of all learning and education.
3/ In his book "The Critical Turn in Education" Isaac gottesman, explains how leftist brought marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory into universities and used them to radicalize the field of education in the 70's and 80's
1/
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...