When I do a thread about why enlightenment liberalism is better than critical race theory
"So you see, Critical Race theorists accept the postmodern worldview, but deny the skepticism of meta-narratives, and they think that gets them off the hook for their postmodernism"
"This is why they think they avoid the charge of relativism. Isn't that right @ConceptualJames ?"
"That's right Wokal. As Helen and I wrote in Cynical Theories, it was Critical Race Theorist Kimberlee Crenshaw who said intersectionality was a conceptual bridge between postmodern theory and progressive politics."
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1/ Woke "Social Justice" activists have hijacked and weaponized public health!
The CDC and the American Public Health Association made a Climate Change manual about putting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into everything they do.
The Woke healthcare takeover,
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2/ Critical Social Justice (AKA "woke") activists take over organizations in order to use them as vehicles for spreading woke ideology.
This is why the APHA and the CDC, which is supposed to focus on health, has pages focused Social Justice, Racism, Climate Change, and Equity.
3/ So how exactly are the woke hijacking health?
Let's look at that.
The CDC has created the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), which serves as a vehicle for using CDC resources to focus on such things as Racism, Climate Change, and Equity.
2/ Leftists don't pick up issues because they want to solve problems. They only pick up issues they can use todevelop leaders, train activists, and grow their "Grassroots Community Organizations."
For the left, solving the problem isn't the point....the point is to get power.
3/ The forward to the book that I have been quote was written by Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven.
Cloward and Piven are long time activist/academics and have been members of the radical left since the 60's.
They are very important names that you should know because....
1/ The ex-CEO of wikimedia, said a free and open internet is a "White Male westernized construct." Now She's CEO of NPR and is paid with your tax dollars to decide what information people see on NPR.
Woke activists hijacked every government institution.
2/ The first thing to realize is that this is not a isolated case. Let's look at some examples:
Kelisa Wing was a Pentagon official in charge of DEIn for the Defense Department’s schools. She gets paid to brainwash people with DEI while taking sarcastic shots at white people.
3/ The Center for Disease Control decided to make *Health Equity* core to its mission, they say that means advocating for:
-Free internet access
-Free access to bikes
-Policy changes in housing
They're advocating for woke policy using taxpayer funded government institutions
The incentive structure of the online attention economy is optimized for conflict. As such, there is no way for a purely online movement to obtain the stability required for long term political success.
1/ I have seen the New York piece about the @hubermanlab and I want to briefly comment.
I speak here as a Christian FWIW.
The correct way to deal with interpersonal moral failings is not to publish the sin of a man in public as a form of humiliation. That isn't right.
2/ IF someone sins against you then, if it is possible to do so safely, you should go to that person directly. IF they repent, apologize, and change, then you have won the person over and addressed the matter. IF this works, you have won them over, and brought repentance...
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As Paul says "If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over."
This is the goal. It is our job to seek repentance and reconciliation...not revenge and humiliation.
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.