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Attacking the definition of terms and obscuring their meaning is a common move done by the woke and their sympathizers.
Here's a great example. This guy claims even the term "Critical Social Justice" itself is "made-up" and "doesn't mean much".
This is obvious nonsense
Attacking the definition of terms and obscuring their meaning is a common move done by the woke and their sympathizers.
Here's a great example. This guy claims even the term "Critical Social Justice" itself is "made-up" and "doesn't mean much".
This is obvious nonsense
https://twitter.com/DannySlavich/status/1481766349760348161
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"Critical Social Justice" (CSJ) was clearly defined in the book "Is Everyone Really Equal?" by Ozlom Sensoy and Robin Diangelo. That definition, and it's explanation, are in the screenshot below.
saying CSJ a "made-up term" that "doesn't mean much" is simply false.
"Critical Social Justice" (CSJ) was clearly defined in the book "Is Everyone Really Equal?" by Ozlom Sensoy and Robin Diangelo. That definition, and it's explanation, are in the screenshot below.
saying CSJ a "made-up term" that "doesn't mean much" is simply false.
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The authors of that book are not unheard of either. Robin Diangelo is a tremendously influential scholar whose book "White Fragility" spent at least **97WEEKS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST**, and her work has been cited thousands of times by academics:
The authors of that book are not unheard of either. Robin Diangelo is a tremendously influential scholar whose book "White Fragility" spent at least **97WEEKS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST**, and her work has been cited thousands of times by academics:
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The people who try to claim the terms like "Critical Social justice" are meaningless, or mean very little, or are "just made up" are playing a rhetorical and linguistic game with you in an attempt to undermine your views. Here's how it works:
The people who try to claim the terms like "Critical Social justice" are meaningless, or mean very little, or are "just made up" are playing a rhetorical and linguistic game with you in an attempt to undermine your views. Here's how it works:
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The goal is to try to remove your ability to describe the phenomenon that you observe. The way that this works is to torpedo any term that you use to try to "name" the phenomenon.
No matter what term you use to describe it, they'll say it doesn't count. it goes like this:
The goal is to try to remove your ability to describe the phenomenon that you observe. The way that this works is to torpedo any term that you use to try to "name" the phenomenon.
No matter what term you use to describe it, they'll say it doesn't count. it goes like this:
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From @DavidLBernstein:
Don't call it "woke," that's pejorative. Don't call it "Critical Social Justice," that's a made up term. Don't call it "Critical Race Theory," that's inaccurate. What should we call it? Don't call it anything. That's the problem.
From @DavidLBernstein:
Don't call it "woke," that's pejorative. Don't call it "Critical Social Justice," that's a made up term. Don't call it "Critical Race Theory," that's inaccurate. What should we call it? Don't call it anything. That's the problem.
https://twitter.com/DavidLBernstein/status/1479612812804739074
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See how it works? No matter what term you try to use they'll say that the term you use is wrong, or racist, or otherwise problematic.
As we saw, even a term "critical social justice" that was defined in a book written by one of their most famous scholars wasn't good enough.
See how it works? No matter what term you try to use they'll say that the term you use is wrong, or racist, or otherwise problematic.
As we saw, even a term "critical social justice" that was defined in a book written by one of their most famous scholars wasn't good enough.
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They want their ideology of wokeness to become and "invisible" part of the social fabric so it becomes like the air we breath, it's just always there.
They don't want wokeness to be "made visible." I did a thread on what "making visible" means here:
They want their ideology of wokeness to become and "invisible" part of the social fabric so it becomes like the air we breath, it's just always there.
They don't want wokeness to be "made visible." I did a thread on what "making visible" means here:
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1477492271197085705?s=20
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The short version is they don't want anyone to be able to give a name and a description to their ideology because if that happens we can "tag" their ideology with a name when we see it. This allows us to highlight it and point it out when we see it. They don't want that...
The short version is they don't want anyone to be able to give a name and a description to their ideology because if that happens we can "tag" their ideology with a name when we see it. This allows us to highlight it and point it out when we see it. They don't want that...
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They want to be able to act as though there is no coherent, thought out, well developed, worldview (ideology, philosophy, system of thought, etc) that connects all of the activism that we see around race, gender, sexuality, that thinks everything is an oppressive "system."
They want to be able to act as though there is no coherent, thought out, well developed, worldview (ideology, philosophy, system of thought, etc) that connects all of the activism that we see around race, gender, sexuality, that thinks everything is an oppressive "system."
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Once a worldview can be named and defined, it can then be pointed out, highlighted, and subjected to criticism. You can't criticize something you can't get your head around or properly describe.
However, once we can clearly see and understand a worldview, we can examine it.
Once a worldview can be named and defined, it can then be pointed out, highlighted, and subjected to criticism. You can't criticize something you can't get your head around or properly describe.
However, once we can clearly see and understand a worldview, we can examine it.
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And this is what wokeness wants to avoid. It wants to avoid our criticisms. After all, our criticisms are not legitimate, they are just an attempt by us to protect our views so we can hold on to our power and privilege.
So they seek to insulate themselves from criticism...
And this is what wokeness wants to avoid. It wants to avoid our criticisms. After all, our criticisms are not legitimate, they are just an attempt by us to protect our views so we can hold on to our power and privilege.
So they seek to insulate themselves from criticism...
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By acting like there is no worldview to criticize. They want hide their worldview behind a veil of rhetorical moves, linguistic sleights of hand, and word games. Then they can pretend they are "just doing history" or "just talking about gender." when in fact they are...
By acting like there is no worldview to criticize. They want hide their worldview behind a veil of rhetorical moves, linguistic sleights of hand, and word games. Then they can pretend they are "just doing history" or "just talking about gender." when in fact they are...
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engaged in the use of a postmodernism and critical theory as the lens through which they do their criticism.
When they do criticism, they don't do what we do. They are not looking to find truth, they view claims as power moves, as ways of trying to control the conversation:
engaged in the use of a postmodernism and critical theory as the lens through which they do their criticism.
When they do criticism, they don't do what we do. They are not looking to find truth, they view claims as power moves, as ways of trying to control the conversation:
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(the paper from tweet 14 is "Tracking Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback in Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy Classes" by Allison Bailey)
As you can see, they view everything through the lens of power and do their analysis from that perspective, truth be damned...
(the paper from tweet 14 is "Tracking Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback in Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy Classes" by Allison Bailey)
As you can see, they view everything through the lens of power and do their analysis from that perspective, truth be damned...
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In order to hide this fact they play word games to try to undercut your ability to connect the dots of their worldview and then connect that worldview to woke activism like "defund the police," Critical race Theory in schools, and radical gender ideology (queer theory).
In order to hide this fact they play word games to try to undercut your ability to connect the dots of their worldview and then connect that worldview to woke activism like "defund the police," Critical race Theory in schools, and radical gender ideology (queer theory).
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STOP LETTING THEM DO THIS.
stop letting them play hide the ball with their Critical Social Justice Worldview.
Stop letting them play hide the ball. Make them defend what they actually believe.
One last thing...
STOP LETTING THEM DO THIS.
stop letting them play hide the ball with their Critical Social Justice Worldview.
Stop letting them play hide the ball. Make them defend what they actually believe.
One last thing...
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If they claim that they themselves are not involved in CSJ, then you have to get them to define their terms. Require them to give solid and clear definitions of what they mean when the discuss things like "systemic racism."
If they are using the ideas of CSJ, then...
If they claim that they themselves are not involved in CSJ, then you have to get them to define their terms. Require them to give solid and clear definitions of what they mean when the discuss things like "systemic racism."
If they are using the ideas of CSJ, then...
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you can simply inform them those ideas have a history in the academic literature, and that those ideas have a name and can be analyzed as such.
either way...
you can simply inform them those ideas have a history in the academic literature, and that those ideas have a name and can be analyzed as such.
either way...
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Stop letting them pretend their worldview can't be named and all the bits of woke activism we see are just disparate unconnected phenomenon. The activism is the result of a well thought out and clearly defined worldview don't let them play games and say otherwise.
/fin
Stop letting them pretend their worldview can't be named and all the bits of woke activism we see are just disparate unconnected phenomenon. The activism is the result of a well thought out and clearly defined worldview don't let them play games and say otherwise.
/fin
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