Curiosity Is a Cult Killer
I have a nagging question, one that I haven’t been able to shake since the very early days of my research: what happened to curiosity?
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Resilience & Woke Brainwashing
Host James Lindsay draws from a UNESCO source and explains that "resilience" refers to the opposite of "fragility," which means taking your brainwashing well. Join him to understand why these initiatives are not at all what they seem to sell themselves to be.
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The Power of Opting Out
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay discusses the strategic power of opting out and the role it can play in stopping the madness of the Woke Marxist cult.
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Mao, Criticism, and Unity
Mao Zedong wanted to thought-reform, that is, brainwash, the whole Chinese population, and he had a formula for doing it: "Unity - Criticism - Unity."
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Lies, Damned Lies, and SEL
Like virtually everything in Woke Marxism, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is sold through lies and deception. The packaging is always pretty. What's in the box is always a catastrophe.
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The SEL Cycle
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is a dangerous scam being forced into our education system at every level and in every possible way.
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The Dialectic of Social-Emotional Learning
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through the incredibly well-funded initiative to transform Social-Emotional Learning even further into the Communist by reading through the majority of this "radport" from the Communities for Just Schools Fund.
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Dialectical Inversion
One of the most pervasive techniques used by Woke Marxism is "dialectical inversion."
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WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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The Marxification of Education Workshop: All Sessions
Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and fight against.
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
New Discourses Founder James Lindsay gives a deep, concerning, and thorough (but mere) introduction to the topic of Social-Emotional Learning in this last of four presentations on the Marxification of Education.
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Can We Trust Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through portions of two documents about Social-Emotional Learning, one from UNESCO and one from USAID, and makes a strong case that however much you currently trust SEL, you should trust it less.
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Data is the New Oil
You have probably heard the quip: "data is the new oil." What does that mean, and what does it imply?
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)."
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The Dark Truth About Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Host James Lindsay walks you through a number of sources promoting and describing Social-Emotional Learning in unprecedented depth, breadth, and clarity in this long but crucial episode of the podcast.
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21st Century Re-Education, The Digital Gulag
In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains not only what digital gulags might look like but how they're already being built, primarily using our children as guinea pigs under the "educational" brand name of systemic Transformative Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).
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Social-Emotional Learning Explained
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is one of the hottest scams in academia, but what is it?
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Critical Education: Transformative Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
In this long, detailed episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay helps you understand the most Marxist version of SEL, Transformative SEL, by reading a full academic paper describing it and the (complete lack of) evidence for its implementation.
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Critical Education: What Is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through this latter paper, “Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” to expose what this menace to education is (hint: it’s not very clear, but it’s obviously Marxism).
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Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James Lindsay as he explains the long history of the sexual grooming that has come into our schools through Critical Gender Theory and Queer Theory as they have crept into educational programs.
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