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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
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
https://twitter.com/maxwillens/status/1420732154959605763Letter co-founders, @DayneRathbone, @ClydeRathbone, & I first collaborated on a comedy series about a South African idiot savant (Dayne) who produces a musical play about Nelson Mandela. 2/12
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1414903865997201408There's a kind of ideological feudalism afoot where the extremely wealthy fund intellectual battles & "knowledge" production to shape the culture toward a personal vision. The ones I've met are well-intended but, as you can imagine, change of any kind is a messy business. 2/4