Jordan Peterson: You must stand up against woke ideologies
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You might have noticed me telling the people who say "They are never going to take my guns!" that in that case the Regime is not just going to destroy their lives, but also they will come for your friends and family, and they will do this because most of the people who are willing to destroy/end their own lives through disobedience are not willing to be the cause of other peoples destruction. The honor of conservatives and others is used against them.
Damnation through faint praise.
No damnation, I genuinely like him and most of the time agree with him.
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Do yourself a favour and get a copy of Woke Racism by Prof. John McWhorter.
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.
Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re told to read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is “appropriation.” We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being Black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we’ll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labeled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion—and one that’s illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist.
In Woke Racism, McWhorter reveals the workings of this new religion, from the original sin of “white privilege” and the weaponization of cancel culture to ban heretics, to the evangelical fervor of the “woke mob.” He shows how this religion that claims to “dismantle racist structures” is actually harming his fellow Black Americans by infantilizing Black people, setting Black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage Black communities. The new religion might be called “antiracism,” but it features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past.
Fortunately for Black America, and for all of us, it’s not too late to push back against woke racism. McWhorter shares scripts and encouragement with those trying to deprogram friends and family. And most importantly, he offers a roadmap to justice that actually will help, not hurt, Black America.
https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America/dp/0593423062
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You're just impossible, the thread is about Jordan Peterson ffs!!
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A white man is quoting an uncle tom, we know what that's about don't we
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Wokeism's Assault on the Enlightenment
Wokeism's Assault on the Enlightenment
with John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt
GLENN LOURY
1 MAY 2023
Debates about wokeness often frame the issue as one of identity, identitarian groups, and representation. How central to our personal identity are racial, gender, and ethnic categories? What role ought those categories play in determining how we apportion public resources and benefits? To what degree should the historical experience of groups determine identity in the present?
These are all relevant questions, but they don’t address a more essential problem underlying these identity-based questions: Should we credit the subjective experience of reality as much as we do objective, empirical fact? In some sense, it depends what we make of these terms. Of course, subjective experience is “real.” Our emotions are real, and most of the time the accounts we give to others of these emotions are sincere. A problem arises only when we try to treat those emotions, impressions, and feelings as equivalents to or substitutes for objective facts. I may feel in my gut that, say, a given policy is racially biased. I may be sincere in that stated belief. But unless I can demonstrate through reasoned argument and the presentation of evidence that the bias is objectively real and demonstrable, I will have given an account of my own emotional state, and nothing more.
My guest, Fashion Institute of Technology Professor Mark Goldblatt argues that wokeness prioritizes those accounts of subjective states over and above objectivity and reason. In doing so, he says, wokeism is chipping away at the basic principles of the Enlightenment on which so much of modern society—from science to democratic governance to the justice system—is premised. In that sense, the woke obsession with identity is the product of a troubling epistemological position that, if it goes unchecked, threatens some of the basic tenets of how we—all of us modern Western humans—live our lives.
Normally, I would tell you that, if you want more, you can watch our entire conversation here. But you can’t. YouTube, which hosts all of our video content, has declared that the full episode violates their community standards, and they’ve pulled it down. We appealed the decision, but we’ve just been told that the appeal was rejected. We’ve reuploaded the video directly to Substack. I have more to say about this outrageous act of censorship in that post.
https://glennloury.substack.com/p/wokeisms-assault-on-the-enlightenment
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Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
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Note to self: Add Joe Crapitalist to the Loony Toon list.
Its all about the driving his agenda with that fuck....you me and the truth are irrelevant.
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Why? Feeling lonely?
Sure is. I was responding to Life is Golden’s post, however.
You’re getting a little grace here, pal. But you’re rapidly approaching the point to where you’re not worth any more responses.
Coming from you that's a blessing.
Monad Portal
Was it me?
totalitarian ignorance is their downfall.