The question the right needs to answer is this: "The left captured all of our cultural institutions so they could use their credibility, prestige, and ability to confer legitimacy, to advancing the left's social and political agenda. Now, what are we going to do about it?" This is a much harder nut to crack than people think, because the credibility, prestige, and legitimizing functions of our social institutions depends on those institutions being oriented by truth rather than a pre-determined political agenda, and the truth seeking capability...

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NPR and PBS are publicly funded media outlets that have been taken over by radical leftists and turned into Progressive advocacy organizations

These outlets use taxpayer dollars to hire woke activists to do progressive advocacy

Here's why we should defund @NPR and @PBS

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NPR doesn't seek to provide honest information to listeners.

NPR's role in the media ecosystem is to bury stories that harm progressive causes while amplifying stories that hurt conservative causes

That's why NPR buried the Hunter Biden Laptop Story:

https://x.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096

The meta-level problem at the heart of the @DouglasKMurray/@ComicDaveSmith controversy is that legitimate expertise in the form of deep and genuine knowledge, and the credentialing process through which people get degrees and certificates have become completely divorced... Universities have been taken over by political activists who use them as a vehicle for advancing radical leftist politics (typically of the neo-marxist variety). Now many professors value loyalty to their political causes more than they value knowledge and competence...

What @DouglasKMurray was saying is that Darryl Cooper, Ian Carrol, etc, are happy to wield a degree of influence in public historical discourse that is typically reserved for experts, but refuse to be held to the intellectual standards we hold experts to.
What @DouglasKMurray is trying to get people to understand is that if one wields a high degree of influence, then one must also take responsibility for that influence. This is accomplished by holding to the highest standards of scholarship and ensuring proper rigor and accuracy.

Universities were conquered by leftist political activists who tactically deployed postmodern theories in the service of eroding our confidence in the standards of legitimacy and rules of evidence that stood in the way of the radical left implementing their ideological program... These activist professors engaged in the cynical deployment of a caustic discourse in order to cast aspersions on any body of scholarship whose knowledge claims might serve to impugn the moral sensibility and political orthodoxy of the radical left...

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Atrium Health is a $9 billion dollar hospital network that gives "gender affirming care" to children.

Atrium owns a Children's Hospital with a gender clinic for kids that gives puberty blockers, hormones, and referrals to surgeons.

Exposing Atrium Health

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Atrium owns own Levine's Children's hospital, which houses "Levine Children's Center for Gender Health," and they are very clear that they offer service specifically to CHILDREN.

They make it very clear that CHILDREN are the ones they perform their interventions on.

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Kaiser Permanente gave gender-affirming care to a 3 year old.

Kaiser Permanente is a $115 Billion corporation that provides gender-affirming care to Children with no age-limits, and their youngest patient was only 3 years old.

Let's talk about Kaiser Permanante,

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A medical journal published in 2019 claimed there is a 3 years old patient among Kaiser Permanente's gender affirming care patients.

In 2023 CBS reported a 3 years old trans patient was mentioned in Kaiser Permanente employee training:

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Centene is a $155 Billion Dollar Healthcare corporation. They specialize in administering government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Centene runs their entire business using DEI, ESG, and "sustainability" frameworks created by progressive activists

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Centene uses and ESG framework to run their entire business. ESG is a framework that makes it easier for companies to get capital (loans, credit, etc) if they have policies that align with the "Environments, Social, and Governance" priorities of the ESG score creators.

Conspiracy theories are the rights' version of Critical Theory

Critical Theory says hidden/unnoticed systemic forces (discourse, capitalism, racism, etc) control people - Conspiracy theorists say hidden/unnoticed cabals of powerful people control people

It's the same structure In both cases there is some hidden or unnoticed thing that is controlling people in ways they don't realize, and is operating against the interests of the people being controlled.

And in both cases the solution is to "wake up" and learn to see the forces that are controlling you

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UnitedHealth Group is a *$379.5 BILLION dollar* healthcare corporation that's gone completely woke:

-Sex Change surgeries for minors
-Hormone Therapies for teens
-DEI programs and training
-Employee groups segregated by race

Let me show you how deep the rot goes

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Let's begin with sex change surgeries for teenagers.

UnitedHealthcare's Gender Dysphoria Treatment Policy allows Sex Change Surgeries up to a year before a person turns 18, if the person has 1 year of hormone therapy.

That means starting hormones at 16 and surgery at 17

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Trinity Health is a $20 BILLION dollar healthcare company with a DEI program which tells employees that society is systemically racist and racism is a "public health crisis"

They might be the most woke healthcare provider in America. Lets see how deep the rot goes

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Trinity Health is a HUGE not-for-profit corporation.

They have $23.9 BILLION dollars in revenue each year, and they have gone all in on "Critical Social Justice" (AKA: woke), as evidenced by the fact they implemented DEI across the entire company, including all services

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Head Start is a $12 BILLION dollar early childhood education program that's been hijacked by activists who use it to indoctrinate kids.

Head Start says *babies* and 4 year-olds are racist, implements DEI, and has "Challenging conversations about race" with Kids.

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The Head Start program thinks that education is systemically racist, and believes that this systemic racism causes non-whites to become sick because systemic racism is a "social determinate of health for children"

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The medical system has been hijacked by woke activists who use its resources to pursue a political agenda while ignoring evidence, and making treatment decisions based on the "Gender Unicorn"

Let me show you how deep the rot goes.

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Universal Health Services is one of the largest health care providers in the U.S.

They made DEI a central component of UHS, and they "invest in hiring people from certain targeted groups" which just means hiring people based on race or gender identity to meet unstated quotas

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American Hospitals have been hijacked by woke activists who use Hospital money for

-race based groups for patients and providers
-DEI training across the board
-environmental activism.

They're taking money meant for medical care and using it to advance wokeness.

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Common Spirit is one the largest healthcare providers in the U.S., with annual revenue in excess of $35 *Billion* dollars.

A good chunk of that money is used to fund the "Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" (ODEIB)

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Andrew Tate is a test....

Tate presents himself as the antidote to a culture that pathologizes masculinity and abusively tears down men, but he's really presenting a mirror image of feminism that unchains masculinity from virtue and then celebrates the resulting pathologies 2/
The result is a form of masculinity that is every bit as harmful and damaging as the radioactive feminism to which he is a response.

Tate is the collective id of every young man whose life was destroyed by pathological feminism/femininity and who sees no way forward.

This is, again, the countercultural idea at the heart of the critique of mass society.

This version claims the "Christofascist conservative" vision requires repressive conformity, and thus creativity can only be found by those who rebel against the culture of Christofascism.

https://twitter.com/JebraFaushay/status/1887613275463909433

Since the 60's the political left has thought that there is a "mass society" that depends upon homogeneity and conformity in order to reproduce itself, and that the system brainwashes the masses so that they accept the repressive conformity the system demands.

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As Trump abolishes DEI departments, de-funds woke NGO's and non-profits, and removes woke activists from government, a large group of well trained political and social activists will watch their industry be destroyed, leaving them unemployed with no plausible career path... 2/
Activists, administrators, bureaucrats, and other credentialed members of the professional/institutional social justice left will be left without a job, and a resume that's only suitable for finding work in the very Social-Justice government-NGO complex Trump is shutting down

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The left is demoralized and exhausted, but they are not going away and will try to maintain their hold on cultural, education, and government institutions.

This is what happened in the 80's. Reagan won, but the left took over universities, schools, and cultural institutions. 2/
The fact that the right had won a significant political victory only made the left more desperate to take over the social institutions that make up our society.

So they went about taking over our colleges, universities, public schools, accreditation boards, and so fourth.

The left owned our cultural institutions (Journalism, televsion, advertising, Universities, entertainment, social media, medicine, publishing, non-profits/NGO's, education, government) and used them to flood the culture with anti-trump messaging for a decade.

Trump still won.🧵 They spent a decade using a vertically integrated messaging apparatus to run anti-Trump messaging in every inch of the culture, 24/7, for a decade, while censoring, deboosting, suppressing anyone who pushed back against their extreme leftist ideas.

Trump still won.

In 2012 a weird form of identity politics mixed with "social justice" emerged from academia and used social media to take over of journalism, the Arts and culture industry, NGO's, Non-profits, news media, and the government; and used that power to censor the rest of society.... Then, for the next decade, anybody who thought men and women are different, believed kids can't pick their gender, or judged people by character rather than race, was driven out of our societies institutions by mobs of online social activists screaming social justice slogans.

Christianity began to recede because the plausibility of its claims had been degraded on multiple fronts by attacks from both postmodernism and secular humanism.

Part of what @jordanbpeterson has done is restore the plausibility of the Christian understanding of the world. @PaulVanderKlay has been saying that @jordanbpeterson has been excising the spirit of secular materialism from the culture.

I agree with that, but what interests me is the way Peterson has done this. It isn't by providing a point by point refutation of Dawkins style atheism...