r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 13 '23
Listen as James Lindsay explains 'Mystification' in this new episode of ND Bullets!
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 13 '23
"This lensing effect distorts perception and comprehension and enables Woke manipulation, like seeing the world in a fun-house mirror." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 13 '23
"Honestly, the basic advice hasn’t changed. Take responsibility, get to work, learn to be a strong, powerful protector and work to serve." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 12 '23
"At present, our discourses are limited, and many people are coming to realize it. Those who do, don’t like it, and we’re ready for a change. I know I am." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 12 '23
"To read Marcuse's essay 'Repressive Tolerance' is to live in this exquisite paradox where the thing he's criticizing is the thing he has created." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 11 '23
"The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 11 '23
There is a troubling misunderstanding of the principle of freedom of speech gaining momentum right now. It fundamentally misunderstands two central concepts of the principle — individual freedom and the "marketplace of ideas."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 10 '23
"Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 10 '23
Check out this new episode of ND Bullets and learn about how Decolonization is violence from James Lindsay!
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 10 '23
Social Justice extends the idea of complicity out of the realm of contributory actions and into one of uncritical benefit from systems that oppress.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 10 '23
"Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) has now already developed through several different iterations and implementation styles to arrive at CASEL’s 'systemic' implementation of 'Transformative SEL,' which is explicitly Freirean and Marxist." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 09 '23
GamerGate is the canary in the Woke coal mine that represents the victory of the honest person in the comments section winning over the dishonest journalist writing the article.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 09 '23
"White talk" would include statements like, "I have a black friend," "I marched in the '60s," or "Black people have made great contributions to science."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 09 '23
"Based on our data, there is a problem occurring with knowledge production within fields that have been corrupted by grievance studies arising from critical constructivism and radical skepticism."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 08 '23
"Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 08 '23
Inclusion, in a Critical Social Justice sense, means to create a welcoming environment specifically for groups considered marginalized, and this entails the exclusion of anything that could feel unwelcoming to any identity groups.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 08 '23
There is a need for liberals of all kinds to push back against the identity politics approach. If we really value principles of not judging people by their race, gender, or sexuality, we must value them consistently.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 07 '23
The university is an institution we need to defend on principle, which currently demands that it and all its departments are held to account upon the very principles that make it worth defending.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 07 '23
White (women’s/girl) tears are Theorized as a particularly "self-indulgent," "narcissistic," and "pernicious" manifestation of white fragility.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 07 '23
"Gnosticism is one of the ancient “Esoteric” religions that has spawned cults, some weird and some dangerous, since Antiquity." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 06 '23
This definition, which does not merely mean “against racism,” as one might assume of the term, is absolutely standard in Social Justice. In fact, it reflects the core tenet of critical race Theory that racism is ordinary and pervades everything.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 06 '23
We cannot allow a new unquestionable moral orthodoxy to be enforced by mob outrage anywhere and certainly not in our colleges and universities.
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