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It may be optimistic merely to suggest that racial or ethnic issues can be discussed rationally. Evidence to the contrary is all too abundant in the strident and sweeping condemnations directed against many who have tried to do so.
“And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“The Reverse Motte & Bailey Trojan Horse strategy involves three elements. First, unlike the Motte & Bailey, a motte (uncontroversial) position is proposed by one or multiple Woke participants. Second, the motte position is usually inserted through the use of a Woke crossover word. Third, once the Woke crossover word has been accepted and integrated into the situation (this can take a long time), it is then maintained by the Woke participant(s) that the correct interpretation of the crossover word is the extreme Critical Social Justice meaning. As such, the Trojan horse is the Woke crossover word, which goes unnoticed until the overt advance is made.”
― Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond
― Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond
“The overthrow is undertaken in much the same way as a virus infects a cell. The allegory of the virus has been used both by proponents of the Critical Social Justice perspective (e.g. Fahs and Karger (2016)) as well as its detractors (e.g. Lindsay (2020a)). Viruses attach and then infect cells thanks to receptors on host cells. Receptors recognize and attach to proteins useful to host cells, but viruses can mimic the proteins and thereby attach to host cells. Once a virus is attached to a cell, it can enter it and use the cell's own machinery to replicate itself. Once replicated, copies of the virus can break free from the host cell to infect others and continue its spread (Freudenrich and Kiger; 2020).”
― Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond
― Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond
“The problem is not changing people's consciousnesses---or what's in their heads---but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth.”
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“The important thing here, I believe, is that truth isn’t outside power or lacking in power: contrary to a myth whose history and functions would repay further study, truth isn’t the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted solitude, nor the privilege of those who have succeeded in liberating themselves. Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth, its “general politics” of truth—that is, the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances that enable one to distinguish true and false statements; the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true.”
― The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
― The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
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