🧵Indoctrination by entrapment looks like:
“Good people support this, only racists oppose it. Are you a good person or a racist??”
“If you ask questions you are LITERALLY endangering the lives of marginalised people- do you want all x people to die?? DO BETTER”.
Key points:
-Bullying
-False dichotomies which force your answer.
-You will get dog piled on if you hesitate, which ensures you don’t hesitate again.
-The dog piling also teaches you that it’s acceptable to treat people who get it ‘wrong’ like this.
-Most people do not want anyone to die & most (especially white) people are terrified of being labelled a racist or a bigot- because it’s an abhorrent thing. So they’re docile and just comply.
Not only is not ‘the way’, it’s an amalgam of bad ideas & false narratives that is creating problems not solving them.
In case you weren’t aware:
-You can care about racism, sexism, gender issues et al without subscribing to this ideology.
It is these well meaning people who think they’re supporting ‘good’ movement that form the instrument of enforcing its beliefs.
Not only is not ‘the way’, it’s an amalgam of bad ideas & false narratives that is creating problems not solving them.
In case you weren’t aware:
-You can care about racism, sexism, gender issues without subscribing to this ideology.
-You are allowed to ask questions, gather evidence and come to your own conclusions.
-It is unacceptable to be subject to antisocial behaviour bc you don’t agree.
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🧵 Thread on the NHS:
Last night I had to go to A&E (emergency room). I was being sick & after speaking to my doctor (I’m fine now) there was reason to worry I might have an active bleed in my GI tract.
2/ I phoned my GP surgery after a couple of days of symptoms, and a GP phoned me back in the afternoon. He took details of my symptoms, said he would discuss it with the medical team (centralised NHS team) & phone me back.
3/ He called back shortly after & said the safest thing would be to go to the ER, and rule out a bleed. I took an Uber over, and was seen shortly by 2 nurses who did triage & took blood.
What indoctrination looks like: 🧵 1. You say something innocuous. 2. You’re informed you’re ‘problematic’ and told to ‘do better 🤬’. 3. You’re taken aback, flustered, on the back foot because you’re confused. You apologise profusely for causing offence & say it wasn’t
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intentional. 4. You’re essentially attacked & told with great vitriol that ‘impact ALWAYS trumps intent’. 5. You feel shamed, wonder how you didn’t know this & everyone else seems to, vulnerable (key emotion)- and you internalise the ‘rule’.
6. Soon after you see something ‘problematic’ & the person also says, ‘I’m sorry it wasn’t my intention’. 7. You repeat what was done to you, and inform them ‘impact ALWAYS trumps intent’. 8. Other people back you up this time, you’re part of the group, & it feels really good to
Why I am anti-woke:
I believe in liberal values like equality, individual autonomy, civil liberties, tolerance of other perspectives & people, secularism, democracy, openness, freedom of thought & speech.
Wokeness is illiberalism. It restricts freedom of thought & speech 1/
by coercion, intimidation, & threats of cancellation.
It has divided people into ‘right think’ & ‘wrong think’,
It actively seeks to cancel the latter.
This is intolerant & vengeful.
It censors free speech & inhibits civil liberties.
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It goes against MLK’s dream & judges people by the colour of their skin not the contents of their character.
Keeps people in line threat of cancellation, public shaming.
It encourages violence.
This is antisocial behaviour.
Nothing about this aligns with my values.
Honour your intergenerational pain, I would never suggest otherwise- but draw from your intergenerational resilience.
My grandparents & ancestors lived through genocides, colonisation, emigrating, racism, patriarchy- more than I can imagine. My maternal grandmother was married
at 14, she wasn’t literate, my Grandfather educated her. She died in 2017 the author of multiple books, recipient of awards, a matriarch in the British Asian community.
My paternal grandmother was widowed at 50, and took on more responsibility than women of her generation were
allowed to even think of. She lived austerely like a nun almost, stoic, courageous, and always in good humour- after losing everything.
Immigrants often have no option, but they’re also brave & adventurous of spirit.
After partition so many displaced Indians & Pakistanis