New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 70
“Diversity” and “Inclusion” don’t mean what they sound like they mean. People are catching on to this all around the world, but we need to go deeper. It’s necessary not just to know something is wrong with these ideas and their implementation but also to know how and why they’re wrong. Ultimately, this means grasping the Left’s Woke Marxist mindset, namely the idea of cultural hegemony. You see, “Diverse” means “outside of the culturally hegemonic viewpoint,” and “Inclusion” means “including and protecting counter-hegemonic perspectives and the people who promote them.” Understanding that the Left always thinks in terms of the evil spirits they call “systemic power” is necessary to understand all of their terms, especially these two for practical reasons. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he explains it all.
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Radical far-Left website Wikipedia says this about James Lindsay:
“Lindsay has promoted the far-right Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, which alleges a concerted effort by Marxist critical theorists to infiltrate academic and cultural institutions in order to destroy Western civilization. The theory has been wholly rejected by mainstream scholars… [and] the Southern Poverty Law Center…”
Here’s an entire university institute, and its three day (12th annual!) conference happening this week, that uses that “rejected conspiracy theory” to literally destroy Western civilization openly, loudly, proudly and maniacally. All “rejected conspiracy theory” Marxist critical theorist Conference attendees will be marching/screaming/smashing capitalism at the Hamas-Communist (red-green alliance) Riot to Destroy the Western World planned for this weekend in downtown Toronto conveniently located mere steps from the site of the “Annual Decolonization Conference”.
“12th Annual Decolonizing Conference
Toronto, Canada (In-Person) November 9-11, 2023
The Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS), in collaboration with Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity, New College, University of Toronto; the Centre for Leadership and Diversity (CLD), OISE, University of Toronto; the Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement; and the Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute, issues a world-wide invitation to scholars, researchers, Elders, community leaders, artists, activists, and educators to participate in an in-person dialogue that critically analyzes fascism resurgence, the politics and logics of dehumanization, and the possibilities of anti-colonial praxis in ‘fugitive spaces’.
About CIARS, The Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies:
As a research Centre, CIARS brings together faculty, students and community organizations whose research interests and political commitments are in anti-racism and critical race studies.
Our focus is anchored in the critical study of race as they relate to Indigeneity, decolonization, and anti-colonial education. CIARS’ mandate, namely the fostering of interdisciplinary anti-racism studies in education, embraces a broad view of education. In CIARS’ view, education can be understood as the processes that influence and contribute to how individuals and their communities come to know the world and act within it. CIARS’ faculty and students are deeply committed to an integrative view: all systems of oppression are interlocked and a study of one such system, racism, necessarily entails a study of class exploitation, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, gender and colonial violence.
The Centre is housed in Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and is part of the Department of Social Justice Education (SJE).”
decolonizingconference.ca
As a lifelong (but hopefully not for much longer) resident of downtown Toronto (who is ashamed to admit taking Master’s level courses at OISE at U of T in the 1980s) I will be spending this upcoming Riot-packed weekend locked inside my home watching “I Love Lucy” dvds and having a good long cry for the decline and fall of humanity.
What I don’t understand is why people would want the whole emphasis on groups and social things and viewing the world in power-dynamics and wanting to do everything “together”. I despise that stuff, it’s all so suffocating.
It all seems so anti-enlightened, anti-individualistic, and even anti-human from a certain perspective. I think part of what makes one human is to perhaps have certain idiosyncracies, specific talents, original ideas, “following one’s path”, and all that stuff. To me, talking about groups and power structures and all that stuff just covers that beautiful stuff with a dark layer of dust. F#ck that sh!t.
I wonder about the people involved with all this DEI-stuff, and “activism”-stuff. I wonder more and more whether it’s largely a psychological thing. I have two hypotheses concerning this possibility that I could come up with at this point in time (that may even both be valid perhaps):
1) The people who think like this are somehow wanting acceptance from “society” and want to therefore transform “society” in such a way as to make “society” be more like they are. This may explain why “marginalized” people might be attracted to this movement and ideas.
2) The people who think like this are somehow psychologically infantile and haven’t developed a true sense of individuality, responsibility, agency, or whatever the appropriate terms are. Being part of a group, and having “society” take care of them and make decisions for them, in a way might fit with this infantile psychological state in several ways.
@Anonymous,
Collectivists regard groups qua groups as primary units of a society, that they comprise undifferentiated, egalitarian cells. They either flat-out deny that individual, volitional human beings exist–they condemn anyone who asserts the fact that individuals are primmary in society as being “atomistic”–, or that people “secrete” a superhuman entity called “Society”, “Society as a Whole”, “the nation” The People”, “The State”, “The Tribe”, or some other collective ad nauseum when they congregate, an entity with a life, consciousness, will, and rights of its own that subsumes and subordinates to it every individual. Think of The Borg. THAT is what collectivists admire and advocate and aggress to bring about. And like The Borg, they will claim that resistance to their collectivistic agenda is futile.
The fundamental reason for their commitment to collectivism–and consequently Statism in any one of its expressions: Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Theocracy–is that they are pathological, infantile narcissists. They are sociopaths or psychopaths who “think” themselves entitled by “right” to bully, rule, rob, enslave, and kill whomsoever they desire to achieve their dream of being King of the World.
Quote from above: “They are sociopaths or psychopaths who “think” themselves entitled by “right” to bully, rule, rob, enslave, and kill whomsoever they desire to achieve their dream of being King of the World.”
I recently came across some papers that presented findings which suggests that certain “activism” might be positively associated with narcissism and psychopathy (if I remember correctly). That did not surprise me, and I think this is a very important field of study considering the present times.
I think narcissism and psychopathy are usually seen as something more individualistic, but perhaps there is also a way for these personality characteristics and issues to present themselves in more collectivistic and group processes and views.
This might aactually be an interesting research topic, should this not exist yet. I would reason that you could develop questionnaires concerning this all and see, for instance, whether established measures of narcissism might be positively correlated with certain collectivistic views and processes.
Anyway, the whole thing reminds me of a group of girls/women ostracising a single girl/woman or a group of boys/men fighting a single boy/man. I despise that kind of behavior. It’s unfair, low, weak, animalistic, and disgusting to me.
The woke activists are self-righteous virtue-signallers. They are 100% certain they are right and want everyone to know it.
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
Thank you. I’m such a silly fish shoe hasn’t learned to recognise the bait.