It's the failure to cancel idea launderers on the basis of tendentious, low-quality advocacy research that is the real problem in academia
Academic speech is speech that meets the standards of rigor of the respective disciplines -- the failure to enforce those standards on those who corrupt the disciplines is what began the ideological succession
Graduate students and faculty who join and lead online bullying mobs should all without exception be ejected from academia — such behavior is inherently hostile to the whole purpose of a truth seeking institution
Those whose research chiefly is in the service of extrinsic agendas distinct from the truth seeking mission of the discipline should similarly be canceled for the low quality of their research, policing of which is the whole purpose of the institution

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15 Jul
What do we call the force that compels people to speak in this way? I call it Successor Ideology.
Anybody have a screenshot I can post?
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Kendi is not a Critical Race Theorist but a monomaniac who turned CRT’s critique of racial liberalism into a demand for final authority over every law and public official in America
The chattering class is hesitant to embrace Kendi-ism in full. They know he is a fanatic with totalitarian ideas. But the institutions, the corporations, the tech oligarchs have all already anointed him. So, why the hesitation? What residual values are still in play?
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12 Jul
We all end developing a woke brain module in the course of mocking it and having to navigate around it.

An expenditure of electrical (in this case biochemical) energy as great as crypto.
Everyone of these facetious interventions either has or soon will be used in earnest
Only the first tweet is serious. The rest are mocking it, but by those deploying well-developed woke brain modules
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11 Jul
My Substack hasn’t even launched and is already the subject of a CIA conspiracy theory
The reason you know Successor Ideology wasn't created by a foreign government or intelligence agency is that you could literally watch it being manufactured in real time by teenagers on LiveJournal and tumblr in the aughts
Clearly, the appropriation of this stuff by the CIA and security state is right out in the open.

The truth is dumber and more pedestrian than one would think.

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7 Jul
I really want to know what percentage of black people 1.) agree that they are "exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared and overwhelmed," and 2.) how those who are not feel about being categorically described as feeling this way by consultants
What happened to being cool?
There are highly-paid "anti-racism" experts telling corporates employees by the thousands that black people as a class are emotional basket cases
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5 Jul
Why did we start calling executive branch officers tasked with leading multi-agency responses to discrete problems “czars”?
It’s not intuitive that a drug czar, for instance, is committed to stopping rather than hastening the spread of drug use
It’s clearly meant to refer to unaccountable power — ironically but then not
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