Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: "The Strategy of Maoism in the West: Rage and the Radical Left" 20
Book review at American Greatness
This sounds like a great explainer for recent decades in this country:
Wokeism is conventionally traced back through progressivism and Marxism to the fake liberalism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The histories of wokeism have failed to focus on Maoism, even though some observers noticed the similarity between Mao Zedong's cultural revolution of the late 1960s and the West's cultural revolution of the late 2010s.
In 1966, China's students rallied for "rebellion," against "reactionary" teachers and courses, and against Mao's "four olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits).
Then came the witch hunts, show trials, groveling apologies for vague crimes, over-compensatory denunciations of the other, oppressors pretending to be oppressed, mobs pretending to be righteous, and the empowered pretending to be victims.
Sound familiar?
Read the whole review, which recommends reading the book's chapters out of order.
This is an interesting theory, which may have a great deal of explanatory power.
d_r will, of course, ritually denounce any deviation from CRT, DEI, or ESG as a "conspiracy" in short order.
fusty will, of course, ritually oscillate between both-sides-ism and same-as-it-ever-was-ery.
In contrast, National Conservatism: A Statement Of Principles offers a coherent worldview and is signed by a who's who of thinkers I esteem. I will need to pore over this in detail.
:-) What's this "both-sides-ism" you speak of? (Score:1)
I see only one side. Where's the other?
As far as reviews go, I'll check for a second opinion
the West's cultural revolution of the late 2010s
Most amusing.. must be some "Obama" thing
I guess few will acknowledge the institutional corruption that is the real cause of the decline you so lament
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Yeah, like a hundred percent, everything expect style, or lack thereof. Sad to see you still fall for the "good cop/bad cop" routine, works so good that half of you all picks one and the other half picks the other. Obviously "good" and 'bad" is not a settled issue amongst humans
"Wokeism" (Score:2)
My goodness. You know for sure that when you see some right-wing thought leader use the word "wokeism" you're in for a joy ride of reactionary hysteria, exaggeration, and flabby bad faith arguments. The review of the book by David M. Jones and M. L.R. Smith and the manifesto from (among others) Victor Orban fan and prissy whiner Rod Dreher, N.S. Lyons, and R.R. Reno do not disappoint in this regard.
And boy, those effete semi-fascists sure do love using lots of initials, don't they? One wonders what their
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Wait, what? (Score:2)
d_r will, of course, ritually denounce any deviation from CRT, DEI, or ESG as a "conspiracy" in short order.
Ctrl-Del-Esc doesn't do much on my keyboard. Maybe it unlocks a special function on yours? Maybe I didn't press them in the right order since Del and Esc aren't usually modifiers?
That said it's really interesting how you and other GOP cheerleaders like to keep trying to apply terms that better fit your own team to the team you're trying to pick on. Not long ago you told us how on point the book "Liberal Fascism" was, while your team was scaling up their own fascist efforts. Around the same time we sa
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CRT- Critical Racist Theory- became segregationist, which became corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (sustaining useless people like Ibram X Kendi and Robin Di Angelo as they destroy stock prices by charging extortionist fees) has now become Equity Social Governance scores (used by hedge funds to destroy any company that doesn't conform to the new world order).
Just in case you have not kept up in your "CRT is only for law schools" head-in-the-sand ignorance.
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Just in case you have not kept up in your "CRT is only for law schools" head-in-the-sand ignorance.
I know it's not a popular position in your party but words do have meaning. Similarly acronyms have meaning as well. CRT is defined as Critical Race Theory. Just because you want to change it to
Critical Racist Theory
Doesn't make it so. At that point we might as well go back to discussing Cathode Ray Tubes as they have as much to do with your attacks in the culture wars as anything.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
I have never in my life heard that described that way before. Just because your friends use that jargon doesn't mean the rest of the world do
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And the paranoia you attach to it.
Ain't paranoia if it's unfolding in plain view, oh gaslighter.
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And the paranoia you attach to it.
Ain't paranoia if it's unfolding in plain view,
It is amazingly easy to find examples of things, when you remove the meaning of the thing you're looking for.
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Just because you call it critical race theory, doesn't make it any less segregationist, nor does it keep the basic theory from repeating all the talking points of the KKK.
Corporate HR departments have DEI training all the time. https://builtin.com/diversity-inclusion/what-does-dei-mean-in-the-workplace [builtin.com] A basic google could have told you that it means Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Where have you been?
And ESG is actually not only real, but tracked by most stock brokers today. https://www.fool.com/investin [fool.com]
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Just because you call it critical race theory, doesn't make it any less segregationist,
CRT is not segregationist. You are simply lying when you claim otherwise. Just because you have substituted in some other catchphrase that makes you feel bad doesn't mean that CRT is the same thing. CRT is an actual defined item, and what you are talking about is not CRT.
Corporate HR departments have DEI training all the time.
I've never encountered it. I work in a company with over 10,000 employees and I've never once heard of it.
And ESG is actually not only real,
I never accused them of not being real, I merely said I've never heard of them. Granted the "CrTxYz" that your friends have ma
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CRT is segregationist because it demands different treatment based on skin color.
All the DEI seminars *start* with "creating safe space" by segregating workers by skin color for training.
What is your ESG score in your company? Might you not have DEI training because your governance score is rotten?
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CRT is segregationist because it demands different treatment based on skin color.
The non-CRT that you keep selling as CRT might do that, because it has no meaningful definition and only means to people like you whatever you want it to mean this week. The actual CRT does not do that, and you're lying to claim otherwise.
All the DEI seminars *start* with "creating safe space" by segregating workers by skin color for training.
I've never encountered anything like that. Maybe you have, or maybe you've read blogs telling you about it doing that. I can't comment on what this fantastical thing you're so concerned about does or doesn't do because I've never heard of it before you mentioning it.
What is your ESG score in your company?
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MIGHT do that? Is doing it is more like it. When you take a segregated population and refuse to do law enforcement in their neighborhoods- heck, even go so far as to loudly demand that law enforcement is evil and must be eliminated- that is asking for different treatment based on skin color.
And just because you've been privileged enough never to be told you are scum for existing with white skin, does not mean other people haven't.
Go Educate yourself on ESG scores since you clearly have ZERO idea what is r
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MIGHT do that? Is doing it is more like it.
The actual CRT is absolutely, positively, without any slight degree of doubt, NOT doing what you are discussing. The weird "alternative facts" fueled "CxRxTx" that you are shouting about is doing whatever you want it to be doing, because it is just a conservative fantasy/boogeyman.
even go so far as to loudly demand that law enforcement is evil and must be eliminated
There are so few people who actually want law enforcement eliminated that discussing them is rather pointless. They have less impact on the society of the USA than do the Sentinelese people.
And just because you've been privileged enough never to be told you are scum for existing with white skin, does not mean other people haven't.
I'm willing to wager it's never hap
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Too many lawsuits against HR departments for discrimination say differently. You're living in a dream world.
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Too many lawsuits against HR departments for discrimination say differently.
Can you provide an example of one that supports your alternative facts?
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you and other GOP cheerleaders like to keep trying to apply terms that better fit your own team
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Your repetition of "I know you are, but what am I?" is amusing but seldom in line with facts.
"Your Team's" butt is so vast after Martha's Vineyard that we'll just keep pointing and laughing.
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Your repetition of "I know you are, but what am I?" is amusing but seldom in line with facts.
"Your Team's" butt is so vast after Martha's Vineyard
Indeed, it was terrible how the non-conservatives at Martha's Vineyard - after being used as the targets of your team's political theatrics - showed hospitality towards the migrants and helped them find the best resources available to them under the law. But keep on reaching for new conspiracies any way you can, I'm sure you'll find one somewhere. Perhaps one of them was secretly a Benghazi operative, and another was actually Hillary's former IT guy?