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Tim Anderson's avatar

As always you are very good at clarifying the terms. Maybe it is because you approach the woke right from a different perspective, but I appreciate that you could make their "woke" behavior clear. Thank you for the aid. Now I must go back and read it again and again.

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I still follow Carl Benjamin’s work though not like I once did since his ideological shift. His anti James Lindsay crusade is quite interesting. I left my own comment which was a series of questions:

What do we call it if a person uses postmodernist methods to define or defend their chosen worldview, be that progressivism or traditionalism?

What do we call it if someone uses top-down control to redistribute ownership of things?

What do we call it when folks are pushed out of groups or smeared with lies or cancelled by swarm tactics because they break with a given orthodoxy?

What do we call it when someone awakens to a system of oppression and views the current system as operating a dialectical conflict between an oppressor group and an oppressed group?

What do we call it when we require people to be morally onside?

What do we call it when someone advocates for an ideology which is identity + nationalism, or ideology or religion + nationalism?

What do we call it when politics and political ideology is centered on grievance?

That post garnered a “fair” from one reply. Other conversations I participated in were either in agreement on the woke right matter or immediately ad hominem in nature; which further reveals the similarity to the woke left.

Either way I have to remain thankful to Helen for her templates. back in 2021 I adapted one for an American audience when I had to express my concern for choices my company made at that time. They decided to bring in a firebrand of a DEI trainer for some seminars, and he was the exemplar of we’d have expected.

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