Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ It's a mistake to fight Woke totalitarianism with a toolkit of civil rights

The temptation is to say "Look, once upon a time we were all committed to the logic of equal rights, and by that logic XYZ policy is barbaric, so let's abandon it"

This is backwards...

2\ A framework that enshrines individual liberties is a fragile and unnatural thing

It's a sort of acme performance that can only be sustained by a community that already knows who it is and what its values are

It's historically bizarre. It's precarious.

3\ The problem is not that we let this baroque spinning orrery get slightly out of true, and the solution is not to have a stern judge nudge it gently back into alignment

The problem is that you can't build ornate rights structures on top of multi-culturalism

4\ So, cries about liberty and so on are just a rearguard action. We aren't going to get an open society again by rehearsing Enlightenment platitudes

The unpleasant task for the anti Woke is to first discover who they are, and to answer:

"What prejudices do you value?"

5\ Only after the anti Woke have an identity, which is to say a set of *prejudices proudly embraced*, can they return to the task of erecting a rights structure atop that identity

Today the anti Woke don't stand for anything. But I'm fascinated to see what identity they evolve