I think Biden won. Unless something comes out of left field (any thing can happen in 2020 I suppose)...he won.
I understand the media double standard. I do. But the answer is not to adopt their tactics. We can't do that.
2/ Let the legal process happen if there is one, but don't delegitimize elections without evidence.
What the media does is a problem. That they let certain people cast doubt on election results is bad. I know. I really do. I totally get it.
But...don't adopt those tactics
3/ It hurts. I know, I've been there.
And I know many of you are afraid to watch wokism sweep through the government bureaucracy. In understand. I do.
But the solution is not attacking the electoral process.
4/ If evidence surfaces that shows voter fraud then clearly it must be investigated.
But if I am right and Biden really did win, no one will gain a single thing by behaving like Stacy Abrams or Al Gore. It won't change anything and it sucks up energy.
5/ My job here, my goal, is to stop wokeness. I want to end postmodernism because I think it is the biggest threat we face.
Vote, but don't depend on political solutions.
A Trump win was never going to defeat wokeness or postmodernism. Neither is Biden's win....
6/ A Trump win keeps wokeness out of government for 4 years. That's it. I hope Biden will do the same. Maybe he won't. I don't know.
What I do know is that the woke are not stopping, and they continue to run rampant in the culture. We have to meet them there and start winning.
7/ I stopped my threads during the election run up because everyone was paying attention to that.
Next week I will be back at, explaining more about how the woke operate so we can defeat them.
8/ For the Biden voters: I hope you are right that he is a moderate that can control the woke wing of the party.
I really do.
And I hope he sends a message to the woke that their toxicity is bad. I hope he does that.
9/ For Trump voters: I know it hurts but you gained in the house and can hold the senate and gains with hispanics and other minorities mean you can build a genuinely multi-racial party that isn't beholden to woke corporations or woke elitists. That would be a good idea
10/
There is much to be done to fight against the Social Justice Warriors and the woke left. We need to out pressure on both sides to protect our liberal democratic republic the acid of Critical Theory, wokeness, postmodernism, and Critical Race Theory.
11/ So I will focus there.
Keep your heads up, and let's fight together
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1/ -Trump wins the most non-white voters by a Republican since 1960
-A possible Biden win
-11 new Republican WOMEN in congress
If you think any of that ends wokeness let me introduce exhibit A.
Eddie Glaude dresses up racial guilt as humility and pours it on everyone:
2/ The woke are NOT going to stop with the racial gaslighting. If anything, it may receive less media coverage in terms of news stories, but takes like this one claiming Cubans are "white' not hispanic are going to continue.
3/ People like Nikole Hannah Jones still have their positions of power in places like the New York Times. In light of all the Cubans and Venezuelan ex-pats who voted for Trump, they will pump out content that claims people aren't "really" Latino unless they vote the right way:
1/ @roderickgraham claims @HPluckrose and @ConceptualJames" lied and took advantage of an honest process" when they got several papers, which argue for absurd positions, published in respected journals. This is a dishonest redescription of what happened...
3/ scholarship using methods which were not rigorous. They wrote public essays about this long before it was revealed that they had gotten absurd papers into academic journals.
1/ AOC is on the cover of vanity fair and no one says a word
The Girl Scouts made a nice tweet about Amy coney Barret, then got mobbed and had to delete it.
This👏 isn't 👏about 👏free 👏speech
This is about Discourses.
A THREAD🧵
2/ The "discourse" refers to the discussion that occurs around a topic or idea. This includes the words used, how the ideas are conveyed, and the ways in which various points of view gain traction in the conversation and become dominant or become the "default" view.
3/ So included in the idea of "the discourse" are:
1. the words, signs and symbols used in a discourse 2. The ways in which ideas are conveyed and communicated 3. How particular ideas are used in a given discourse 4. The idea that certain views come to dominate the conversation
Most of you have been told postmodernism contradicts other key elements of wokeness like critical race theory, neo-marxism, and standpoint epistemology, which means wokeness can't be postmodern.
This is wrong, and I'll explain why:
A thread🧵
2/ We need to understand the objection before we can show why it is wrong, and show just how completely postmodern wokeness is.
The objection revolves around the idea that postmodernism is relativistic, nihilistic, and skeptical of meta-narratives. This needs unpacking...
3/ A meta-narrative is a theory that tries to give a comprehensive account of how the world works, and how society works and functions, by appealing to universal truth or universal values. So a meta-narrative appeals to absolute truth to try to explain "the arc of history."
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 ?"
The woke: "tHeRe'S nO PoStMoDeRnIsM iN cRiTiCaL RaCe ThEoRy"
Critical Race Theorists:
Hello philosophy Bro's and CRT people:
The point here is to show Critical Race Theorists have absolutley made use of postmodern ideas and tools even though many of them claim a commitment to liberalism, and have been aware and discussing the tension since the early 90's
This shows CRT has been trying to figure out how to use postmodern theory for a long time.
And, as it turns out, intersectionality was how they brought postmodern theory and politics together. From Kimberlee Crenshaws essay "mapping the Margins":