🧵The most substantive difference between the woke and their ‘colorblind liberal’ forebears is that the latter believe in political neutrality and the former do not

This is why ‘the horseshoe theory’ has superficially validity “The far-left and the far-right both reject liberal values like neutrality and total human equality, so they’re actually just two variants of the same thing”, or so the thinking goes

🧵The problem with conspiracy theories is that they often end up absolving liberalism, Civic Nationalism, Civil Rights, demo change, etc, from their culpability as the drivers of US decline

It bolsters the claims of people like James Lindsay who blame everything on “subversion” If our present predicaments are only the fault of some secret society of evil machinators or the coordinated efforts of effete Frankfurt School intellectuals, then we would merely need to oust them from academia or politics or finance (or whatever) to “return to normalcy”

“The Son of Man came for the deliverance of the lost tribe
of Islam, and not to serve the Caucasian as the white man is the devil… and that is why he must be killed, and we Moslems must kill him.”

A 🧵 on the Nation of Islam (NOI) and their wild beliefs: The NOI was founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1930 by William Fard Muhammad (WFM), a prolific criminal and race charlatan, who was half British and half Polynesian.

Per his FBI file, WFM deceived his followers about his race and described his teachings as “strictly a racket”.