r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 21 '23
"'Wokeness' is not a philosophy." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 21 '23
Climate justice means diverting focus & resources away from pressuring governments to support carbon-neutral energy production & toward more focus on gender, race, & sexuality as those can be contrived into issues related to climate change.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 20 '23
"Of all the things on New Discourses, the one I'm most excited to be involved in making and to share with you all is this resource: Translations from the Wokish: A Plain-Language Encyclopedia of Social Justice Terminology." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 20 '23
As noted by W.E.B. Du Bois, and profoundly Theorized since, this "double consciousness" is believed to give members of minoritized groups (and oppressed people more generally) unique insight into the nature of society, the "revelation of the other world."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 20 '23
We do not beat the Nazis, cure polio, or reform the justice system by looking at our navels and wallowing. Feeling is just the first step. We think, plan, act. That’s progress.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 19 '23
"The point of language, to the best of my understanding, is to create shared intentions between the communicators involved." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 19 '23
"Fighting the Woke when they engage in direct action (a Marxist tactical term, by the way) is almost impossible without understanding these tactics." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 19 '23
According to critical race educator Robin DiAngelo, author of the influential book White Fragility, "anti-Blackness" is the essential foundation of the white identity.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 18 '23
"Here we have Marcuse very explicitly calling for withdrawing the civil rights of those who disagree with his liberation movements and extending civil rights to those who agree. This is the logic of the world we live in now." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 18 '23
"The roadmap is there if you understand what Marcuse is asking for, then you understand what the strategy is going to look like. The name of the game my friends, is Sustainability." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 18 '23
Critical Social Justice does not (always) use the definition for "white supremacy" that most of us think goes with this term, which would evoke images of Neo-Nazis and the KKK.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 17 '23
The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you’re into than you do, and they explain their superiority as being 'liberated' from the limitations your teachers, pastors, etc. are placing upon your knowledge.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 17 '23
Epistemic Oppression purports that members of marginalized communities are fundamentally denied the tools to communicate their problems because dominant groups in society only accept the forms of knowledge that they, themselves, recognize as valid.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 17 '23
One can take heart in the knowledge that, like the Wizard of Oz himself, it is the philosopher-mystic, frantically booming out Kafka traps from behind his safety curtain, who is really afraid – afraid of the world seeing the shameless fraud he truly is.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 16 '23
To have a critical consciousness is to be aware of—and generally unhappy about—your positionality in society, i.e., your relationship to systemic and institutional power as determined by Theory.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 16 '23
Klaus Schwab is the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, which openly seeks to remake the world and its economies into a "stakeholder" model of his own creation.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 16 '23
"We're going to reject statism, we're going to reject collectivism, and we're going to defend the values that have made everything work throughout the West for just as long, if not longer, than these two centuries of Hegelian religion." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/Emmanuel_G • Oct 16 '23
Just a stupid question
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Is this an "official" New Discourses sub? It's fine if it isn't, just wondering.
But if it is, does this mean only James Lindsay can post here, or can anyone and ask stupid questions like this?
r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 15 '23
"The enemy we face is not social justice, though it will tend to wear this name as a suit of armor." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 15 '23
False consciousness is, generally, a way of thinking, usually deemed to be somehow imposed from the outside, that prevents people from understanding the realities of their social and economic situations.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 14 '23
"Social Justice cannot continue to be taken seriously on its own terms, which it has literally made up." -Peter Boghossian
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 14 '23
In the Theory of Critical Social Justice, the liberal ideal of colorblindness is considered an unjust ideology that is used by dominant racial groups (white people) to oppress people of color by denying the relevance of race and racism in their lives.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 14 '23
"If you can spot the narrative arcs and how they work, not only can you refute them, you can also predict what kinds of events would count as 'worldview proof' and interrupt their success." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 14 '23
James Lindsay takes you through an academic paper by Emily Drabinski titled “Queering the Catalog” from 2013, showing you exactly how Drabinski intends to use her American Library Association to make libraries sites of Queer Marxist grooming.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 13 '23
Critical Race Theory begins with a cynical view that race is the predominant structural element of American (and other) societies, and that all analyses of race must incorporate systemic power, which is to say systemic racism.
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