On this account I unpack and explain how wokeness and cancel culturs work. I explain the jargon they use (IE: deconstruction, systemic racism, unconscious bias, gender binary, etc) and their ideology.
I also expose hypocrisy of woke people...
2/ I explain how wokeness got started, how it operates, the tactics of ghe woke left and their activists. I explain how they use social pressure tactics to take over buisnesses, colleges, universities, k-12, governments and other institutions.
I also explain how to fight back.
3/ I explain the academic underpinnings of wokeness, it's roots in Critical Theory (a neo-marxist way of analyzing society) and it's roots in postmodernism (a philosophy that challenges the objective nature of logic and reason, and challenges the possibility of objective truth)
4/ I'll show you how seemingly contradictory academic ideas were harnassed by leftist academics to create the woke ideology that says everything is racist, men can become women, and you should be cancelled and lose your job if you don't agree.
The threads can be long, however...
5/ This is needed to make things clear so everyone understands the ideas. I always cite academic sources, and anyone can read them and check to see if I am correct. I don't take the woke out of context or smear them. I explain them on their own terms, with their own sources...
6/ The woke don't like this (if most people knew what the woke really think and how crazy it is, they'd reject wokeness entirely) and so they try to nitpick at details, and pretend they don't really think this stuff. Rest assured, I'll cite their own words so there is no mistake.
7/ I am also an ethnic Jew (Jew by birth) who converted to Christianity.
Because I'm Jewish I have zero patience for anti-semitism. Because I'm a Christian from time to time I expose wokeness in the Church (wokeness tries to take over everything, including religion)...
8/ So I write about that as well.
Please comment *AT THE END OF THE THREAD* with any questions about wokeness you might have, and I'll begin setting uo a list of threads to write to explain it.
Finally, here are some people you should follow...
2/ Leftists don't pick up issues because they want to solve problems. They only pick up issues they can use todevelop leaders, train activists, and grow their "Grassroots Community Organizations."
For the left, solving the problem isn't the point....the point is to get power.
3/ The forward to the book that I have been quote was written by Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven.
Cloward and Piven are long time activist/academics and have been members of the radical left since the 60's.
They are very important names that you should know because....
1/ The ex-CEO of wikimedia, said a free and open internet is a "White Male westernized construct." Now She's CEO of NPR and is paid with your tax dollars to decide what information people see on NPR.
Woke activists hijacked every government institution.
2/ The first thing to realize is that this is not a isolated case. Let's look at some examples:
Kelisa Wing was a Pentagon official in charge of DEIn for the Defense Department’s schools. She gets paid to brainwash people with DEI while taking sarcastic shots at white people.
3/ The Center for Disease Control decided to make *Health Equity* core to its mission, they say that means advocating for:
-Free internet access
-Free access to bikes
-Policy changes in housing
They're advocating for woke policy using taxpayer funded government institutions
The incentive structure of the online attention economy is optimized for conflict. As such, there is no way for a purely online movement to obtain the stability required for long term political success.
1/ I have seen the New York piece about the @hubermanlab and I want to briefly comment.
I speak here as a Christian FWIW.
The correct way to deal with interpersonal moral failings is not to publish the sin of a man in public as a form of humiliation. That isn't right.
2/ IF someone sins against you then, if it is possible to do so safely, you should go to that person directly. IF they repent, apologize, and change, then you have won the person over and addressed the matter. IF this works, you have won them over, and brought repentance...
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As Paul says "If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over."
This is the goal. It is our job to seek repentance and reconciliation...not revenge and humiliation.
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....