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By focusing on immuteable characteristics (like race or sex) and making someones identity about those things wokeness, critical theory, and critical race theory ends up justifying, defending, and spreading racism and bigotry.

By dividing people into groups based on...
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things that are totally outside of someone's control (IE: nobody can select their skin color)
Wokeness/CRT makes things totally outside someone's control the central focus of their identity, even if a person doesn't want their skin color to be the foundation of their identity
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For example, I'm Jewish, white, male, and straight. I don't want people to judge my character based on any of those things. I want those things to take a backseat to who I am as an individual.

I want to be judged by what I say and do, not by things I have no control over.
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Lots of people have stereotypes about what Jewish, white, straight men think (same is true for black men, or gay women etc) I don't want people to stereotype me based on that. I don't stereotype others based on that.

People will surprise you if you don't prejudge them!!!
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But wokeness and CRT assert that people with the same characteristics must have the same shared "lived experience" and so must see the world a certain way. This leads to stereotyping and sows the seeds of bigotry, tribalism, and racism.
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You might say "but there is no excuse for bigotry." I agree, but this misses the point.
It's wrong to hit someone who call you names. If you lose your temper and hit someone who calls you names, you can't blame the person you hit.

That doesn't make name calling right.
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No one can say "he was asking for it, he called me names," but the person who name calls is still doing something wrong

The guy who calls names is not responsible for getting punched.
He is responsible for others hurt feelings *even though that doesn't justify violence*
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Similarly, a bigot can't blame propoganda for their bigotry. They can't say it's the propoganda's fault they became a bigot.

Just because m a bigot can't blame propoganda for their bigotry, does not mean we let propogandists off the hook for spreading bigoted propoganda...
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We can hold people who spread bigoted propoganda responsible for spreading bigotry *and still hold bigots responsible for believing it*

How do we do that? Easy:

1. We hold the propogandist responsible for spreading bigotry

2. We hold the bigot responsible for believing it
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And yes, we absolutely can hold people responsible for things they ought to have known, hence the saying "they should have known better."

This is how I see the relationship between bigotry and Critical Race Theory/Critical Social Justice/wokeness.
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How does this work? Easy:

1: I hold CRT/Critical Theory/CSJ responsible for using bad reasoning and faulty methods to spread stereotypes, racial scapegoating and tribalism.

2: I hold the people who buy into that stuff responsible for believing it. They ought to know better.
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The antidote to both wokeness and bigotry is Truth with a capital "T."

That means we are responsible both to spread truth, and contend for the rigorous methods that create truth.

So that's what I'll do, and I hope you'll join me.

🙂🙂🙂

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You fully endorse CRT, and defend it regularly, while calling anyone against it "chicken littles."
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Here are some examples of antisemitism against me (My mom is Jewish, which makes me a Jew by Halakha) ImageImageImageImage
That doesn't make me right (standpoint is junk) it just means I have skin in the game.
I've never once heard you speak against antisemitism on the left, or in CRT. But I'm consistent @worldviewconvos even blocked me when I called out his confederacy stuff:
But now you want to jump all over @ConceptualJames and pretend he's an antisemite?

Absolutely the hell not.
My point here is to put an end to the garbage people are spewing about @ConceptualJames.

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But that misses the point: AOC is a cultural powerhouse who gets a pass from media on her radicalism becsise she shifts the overton window to the left
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I'm Jewish, and he is gross
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David Duke even wrote an article abkut how "Jews can say to Jewish audiences what Gentiles would not dare say" and he used Eli Valley as his main example.

Have a look:
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For those attacking @ConceptualJames, here's what he's talking about:

Jenny Peto, who is Jewish, wrote a thesis "Victimhood of the Powerful" arguing white Jews have privilege but fake victimhood to get sympathy for themselves and empower Israel. The KKK could have written it:
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Where on Holocaust Remembrance Day students march from Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the Holocaust, then go to Israel to learn Israelis history is a program designed to help Jews "perform whiteness by seeing themselves as victims."

See:
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So, lets talk about power, information, and the blue check industrial complex

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@Counter_Weight_ is here!

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@Counter_Weight_ does this in three ways:

1. We focus on the individual with limited power.
2) We help people understand Critical Social Justice so they can resist effectively
3) We help people push back from within their organization in the way they want to.
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By helping people understand Critical Social Justice and how it operates, and providing insight about how to oppose CSJ, Counterweight empowers individuals with limited power to push back on an illiberal CSJ takeovers of their organization, institution, or workplace
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