#Wokeness

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

The concept it seems everyone is missing right now is "conflict theory." This idea is why everyone keeps pointing at MarxISM and keeps getting correctly told this isn't MarxISM. It's

Jeff Giesea🌴

jeffgiesea

Stop deluding yourselves. This is a neo-Marxist insurgency operating with tacit consent of major institutions to extralegally destroy property, attack American history, and dispossess historic Americans. It’s a soft revolution.

John-Paul Pagano

johnpaulpagano

This is the logical equivalent of saying, “Jews instigate anti-Semitism because so many of them support Zionism.” It’s a textbook moral fallacy that people concerned with combating anti-Semitism have been

zara ♀

cache_pas

Part of my peaking and retreat from wokeness has been leaving behind a whole mode of infantile behaviour and thinking. The “zero tolerance of disagreement” mentality. The “labels as identity”

Mr. Possible of Oxbridge💫

Mrpossidez

If the love you claim to have for someone can always be suppressed and temporarily suspended so you can satisfy other guilty pleasures, then love is overrated.We may avoid the

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

I've said it before, and I'll repeat it now. The cryptowoke are right that the *cultural* conditions are much more favorable to pushing back on Wokeness than they were under

evangelical feast observing elijah craig

bourbonbaptist

i still firmly believe the wokeness fight in the chirch is a culture war, and not a theology war. it won't be settled through biblical exegesis. the BWS video and

antihero_kate

antihero_kate

As far as I can tell, Marxism was cooked up by the same resentful middle class strivers we’re dealing with today. It can only dream of creating the type of

Ben Winegard 🌲🌲

BenWinegard

Trump derangement syndrome is real and has sadly afflicted many, but culture war derangement syndrome is equally real. I am as anti-woke as anyone, but there are other issues that

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

I think we need less social media in everything. I don't necessarily mean Twitter. I mean workplace Slack channels, GroupMe, Hangouts, etc., as the cyberbullying that makes Wokeness effective almost

Wilfred Reilly

wil_da_beast630

I bash 'wokeness' b/c so much of it DIRECTLY interferes with actually helping people. If bad study habits cause low test scores for urban and especially Black kids, telling them

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

How do you not yet understand that the point of Wokeness isn't to make anything better? It's to make everyone hate everything as much as possible while enabling some grift

mensch on a bench

misandrywitch

something I recommend doing that I have spent a lot of intentional energy practicing with myself this year is decoupling your taste in media from moral rightness. like, you don't

Matthew Travis Barber

Matthew__Barber

1) A Harris/Biden ticket represents everything wrong with the Democratic party today: on the part of Biden, the absence of real progressive reforms (corporate regulation, healthcare for all, dismantling of

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

This is the kind of response that simply *sharing* unfamiliar histories often generates from both owners and followers of "IDW" and associated accounts.They are not concerned with defending "history" or

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RokoMijicUK

Do you agree with the following statement:"Jews are overrepresented in positions of authority vis-a-vis whites for the same reason whites are overrepresented vis-a-vis blacks."Credit: @nathancofnas (b/c = "because") Your

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