3/ Basically, someone edited together a video of @joerogan saying the N-word in his podcast.
The account that did this is acting in bad faith. We know this both because they edited out the context, and because that account supports Joe Biden, who also said the N-word on camera:
4/ In that video, Joe Biden is quoting someone else for a senate hearing, which is why he said it.
Context matters.
The fact that the context of the Rogan video is edited out is all the proof we need that this video was created, and circulated, in bad faith.
Now...tactics...
5/ The woke use a very simple, yet powerful, set of socail pressure tactics to get their way. They are done by different people, in different arenas (business, politics, media, etc) but they always use those tactics with the same goal:
Advancing wokeness and *silencing dissent*
6/ This is how it works
It all starts with "Power Mapping."
In their words: "Power Mapping is a tool to not only identify who holds that power, but, crucially, who holds influence over that person, and, therefore, who to target with your direct actions"
7/ Power mapping lets wokies determine who has the power to give them what they want, and how they can be vulnerable to pressure. Remember, wokies want to take power, to do that they need to know WHO to take it from and how. This is how wokies "survey the battlefield"
8/ They want to figure out how to attack, so they map the power dynamics: who has the power to do what and the weakness of each relevant person or institution.
Sometimes the target has no direct weaknesses, so you have to go after them by some other means. This brings us too...
9/ "Choose Your Target Wisely"
In their words: "You might not have enough power to push your primary target at first, but your actions may help you identify a secondary target...that can be pressured to leverage their influence on the primary target."
10/ If done correctly, wokies can determine smaller more vulnerable targets that can be pressured and leveraged to go after progressively larger targets. Like a domino effect where we knock over ever larger dominoes. (Pic 1)
How it is being used here is illustrated in pic 2:
11/ Once they pick a target they analyze the "spectrum of allies" and separate everyone into 5 groups: active allies -who fight with them passive allies -who agree but don't act neutrals, passive opposition- who disagree but don't act active opposition - who actively fight them
12/ The goal of the woke is to determine the social blocs at play on a given issue, and shift them closer to the woke position. If they can shift each group over one notch the the entire political spectrum moves, and they can shift their targets support out from under them.
13/ You see, if people mildly opposed to wokeness shut up and people who are in the middle pretend to like wokeness (to avoid cancellation) it *LOOKS* like the woke have majority support.
They threaten cancellation to shut people up and move each group one notch to the left...
14/ See how this works? They find the target, find out who has power over that target, and figure out what they can do to pressure that target.
Once they do that, they apply pressure as they see fit to shift the whole situation to their position.
That's what happened here
15/ They wanted to Cancel Joe Rogan because he has more power then the woke do.
So they tried to use Alex Jones and "Vaccine Misinformation" to cancel him. When that didn't work, they used an out of context video to call him racist, and tossed it at @TheRock in order to get...
16/ @TheRock to throw Rogan under the bus. The woke knew that the Rock doesn't want to be associated with racism in any way, and if they could make Rogan look racist the Rock would have to drop Rogan to save his own "Rock" brand.
What the Rock is doing is understandable....
17/ He has many employees depending on him so he can't afford to have his brand destroyed.
My point is that the woke know this, and they use this to their advantage. That's why Don Winslow did what he did: he wanted to force a response from The Rock.
And it worked.
18/ The woke are a well oiled machine of protest, mobbing, intimidation and social pressure. Until we realize that and begin organizing to fight back we will always be on our back foot.
Rogan needs our support, and @Spotify needs to know if they cancel him it will cost them...
19/ Nothing the woke do is authentic, organic, or spontaneous. It's all cynical, pre-planned powergames dressed up as an organic movement.
Every time they get a cancellation their power grows.
Everytime a cancel attempt fails their power decreases.
That's how this works...
20/
So take a stand now and start making these woke activists take some L's before it's too late.
/fin
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The key word to understand when it comes to wokeness is **SUBVERT**
Woke activists destroy what they don't like (truth, facts, the constitution, etc) by SUBVERTING them.
That is, the woke undercut the power and authority of institutions and concepts they don't like.
The goal is never to show that a thing is bad, and idea is wrong, or an institution is not doing it's job. Rather, the goal is to try to obliterate the social and moral authority of the idea, goal concept, etc in order to delegitimize that idea, goal, concept, etc.
What the woke do, and what the dialectical left (including Marxists, neo-Marxists, Critical Theorists, communists, etc) do is to try to win social and political fights by subverting the validity, legitimacy, and authority of any idea they don't like.
1/ I never want to hear another word from this @kkdumez about saving democracy, or cynicism in politics.
The people that she has joined with here, particularly Rick Wilson are the most utterly nihilistic, dishonest, self-interest and Cynical people in all of politics: right or left.
Let's demonstrate this with a few words directly from Rick Wilson
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2/ Rick Wilson says, we're in a culture war, and the way to win is not dialogue or discussion: it's through the use of emotion and spectacle.
he says that when someone says they worry about CRT, you don't discuss facts, you say "they're using the N-word"
That's a direct quote👇
3/ Rick Wilson was trained by Lee Atwater (video 1) And it was Lee Atwater who was responsible for the infamous "Willie Horton" ad (video2)
That's who trained Rick Wilson.
And You can see the jaded cynicism of Atwater was absorbed by Rick Wilson in the next video....
1/ "The very people in charge of disseminating education and challenging young minds have completely abandoned that task and are now wholesale focused on promoting this ideology."
@joerogan is right: woke activists hijacked education so they could indoctrinate kids.
A thread🧵
2/ In his book "The Critical Turn in Education" education professor Isaac Gottesman explains how leftist activists brought Marxism into universities and radicalized the field of education in the 70's. They wanted to put Marxism into the foundation of American education.
3/ In his book "Teachers as intellectuals" education professor Henry Giroux said his goal was to use Neo-marxism as his framework for how to do education, and that his goal was to use education as a vehicle for leftists social transformation.
Queer theory doesn't just want to destroy *some* rules, norms or socual conventions ablut what is normal...Queer theory want to **abolish the legitimacy to social normitivity itself**
2/ Normativity is the idea that some behaviours are good, appropriate and proper so society should make those behaviours *normal*
As @VinesMatthew explains here, queer theory *opposes the very idea of normativity itself* and thus opposes the legitimacy of ANY social norms at all
@VinesMatthew 3/
What this means is that queer theory is going to deconstruct ALL normativity:
-moral norms
-social norms
-norms dealing with rationality and reason
-scientific and academic norms including norms around rigor and evidence
-Political norms
1/ Christian conservatives often get accused of trying to force their worldview on other people.
But here Tim Keller explains beautifully how secular progressives decided to impose their ideology and worldview on society.
A brief thread🧵
2/ The problem here is a problem of values neutrality. It goes like this:
"Governments must enforce laws, adjudicate civil disputes, and keep order, but that requires set of values to determine which laws pass, how to adjudicate disputes, and what kind of order to keep."
So...
3/ That proves (so the argument goes) that neutrality is a mirage, governments cannot be neutral with respect to values, on value set must triumph.
Progressives want to win, Catholics want to win, Neo-cons want to win...but there is no neutrality.
In postmodernism, the goal of news commentary is not to add context or explain how events actuslly unfolded.
The goal of news commentary is to provide the most morally satisfying interpretation of events as a way to validating a worldview by demonstrating its explanatory power.
Various groups are battling over whose worldview our society will use to interpret and understand what is going on in the world.
News commentary is not about getting the facts right: it is a battle over HOW facts are interpreted and what conclusions will be drawn from the facts.
So, what we see on news shows, in magazines, and in the opinion pages of newspapers is a battle over the MEANING of various news events.
The fight is over what we think various news event MEAN. The battle isn't over facts....it's over what the facts MEAN.