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https://twitter.com/jhk_______/status/1920471301254217753If you take it for granted that this work is committed to combatting false claims, everything appears above board. But the devil is in the details - look closely, and you’ll reliably find evidence that they’re developing tools to engineer opinion. 2/n
https://twitter.com/pegobry_en/status/19128203046461239282/ In 1977, Chomsky co-wrote Distortions at Fourth Hand in The Nation, accusing Western media of a "vast propaganda campaign" against the Khmer Rouge. He questioned refugee testimony, claiming it was exaggerated or fabricated.
In an audacious hoax project, @peterboghossian, @HPluckrose, & @ConceptualJames submitted ludicrous research papers to highly esteemed journals in DEI-related fields to expose the activist racket. 7 absurd papers were published, most in top-tier journals. 2/n
I’ll start by drawing a comparison between a scientific theory & a Critical Theory (CT), which is the theoretical work that underlies DEI administrations, most student activism, & the disingenuous testimony we heard at the hearings. 2/n
Her decision to adopt Christianity was more than personal, Ayaan worries that the faithless “dislocated masses” of the West will not fare well in a civilisational war against The CCP, Islamism, Putin’s Russia, & the religiously Woke. 2/n
These seemingly different interest groups are held together by Woke Identitarian ideology, which has a grand unifying theory of oppression called "Intersectionality". Here's an explainer montage I cobbled together from different NGO resources. 2/n
This was a time between the world wars when innovations in radio, the telegraph, industrial printing, & cinema were being honed as powerful tools for propagandising the masses. 2/n
https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1683769706472144898They proceed from a new form of social 'expertise' that reframes our natural instincts as culturally conditioned biases that ought to be suppressed. If you track the assumptions to thier source you find a bizarre & cynical perspective on human beings. 2/4

The arrangements become warm, coherent, & fit for human consumption. Hermeneutical tribes are large networks of people & organisations that reify a shared moral worldview by consistently creating & signal-boosting particular arrangements of facts. 2/6


The irresistible Sirens of Greek mythology were sea nymphs, part woman, and part bird, who lived on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. They'd lure passing sailors with irresistible songs and get a perverse pleasure from watching the men perish on thier rocky shores. 2/n
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1497377508408410114As @KonstantinKisin suggests this phenomenon is more prevalent on the left. I genuinely think this is a knock-on effect of the Critical Theory mindset that has come to dominate left-wing political culture. 2/n
https://twitter.com/MikeNayna/status/1431868368496119812?s=20
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1476610636897472517The crudest way to understand woke doctrine is that the experience of oppression is felt sacred. Everything else is complicated theoretical gymnastics to avoid encroaching on victim experience or positing that marginal identity groups take responsibility for unequal outcomes. 2/5
https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/14355762540742205522/4
https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1431820688394838017Often recruited as cannon fodder by chickenhawk intellectuals, young people are the most susceptible to losing themselves in a movement. Their identities are malleable & simplistic ideological explanations have little real-world experience to conflict with. 2/3