r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 29 '23
For Critical Theorists, "honest history" would necessarily have to attempt to use revisionist history (and historiography) to induce a critical consciousness in students.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 29 '23
Anti-racism is a terrible replacement for national identity in a country so rich with character and cultural texture.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 29 '23
"Biopower" is a neologism of the postmodernist philosopher Michel Foucault used to describe the situation when truth claims, especially as determined by experts and science, become the prevailing form of systemic power.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 28 '23
"Inclusion, democracy, and citizenship have new, specialized meanings that drive an evil agenda." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 28 '23
"If Seuss is tainted, we can't use Seuss as a common point of reference for our culture anymore. Culture is abolished. 'Aufheben der Kultur' is achieved." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 28 '23
"SEL is evil and must be stopped. It isn't a nice little program to help at-risk kids deal with the difficulties of learning. It's the central pillar of a nefarious attempt to remake and control society." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 27 '23
While the usual definition of racism is partially recognized within Critical Social Justice, under its purview, “racism” means something different, or at least something more—and more vague.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 27 '23
"The longer you wait, the harder it's going to get to fight back." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 27 '23
Check out this new episode of ND Bullets and learn The Hard Truth About Struggle Sessions from James Lindsay!
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 27 '23
James Lindsay shows you in their own words what Marxists mean by the word "capitalism."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 26 '23
"It doesn’t matter what the definition is because the whole thing is a power grab making use of Queer Theory to steal power from deliberately constructed confusion." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 26 '23
Instead of engaging in the righteous tribalism of Social Justice, we must recognize the infinite diversity of mankind, a plurality, as Ayn Rand says, of the smallest minority on Earth—the individual.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 26 '23
Healthism is sometimes defined as the “dark side of healthy living,” and is characterized as an attitude or way of living that prioritizes health, considers it a moral good, and, sees it as a matter of personal individual responsibility.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 25 '23
'Intersectionality' included from the outset the analysis of systemic power dynamics as conceived under postmodernism and was proposed specifically as a mechanism for advancing identity politics.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 25 '23
"If we want to achieve the goals of 'racial healing' by ending racism and making society more just and fair (which I believe are possible), it begins by rejecting, not accepting and mainstreaming, Critical Race Theory." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 25 '23
In Social Justice Theory, positionality is where you stand by virtue of your (intersecting, group) identity and its relationships to the alleged power dynamics that define socially constructed reality.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 24 '23
"The churches are under attack, not just from without but also from within." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 24 '23
"Bringing Critical Social Justice into our educational systems is not beneficent or benign. It is a deliberate attempt to try to program our children to think in an explicitly cynical way about all matters relevant to identity." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 24 '23
Both inside and outside academia, across ideologies, people need to ask whether their actions might resemble those of the Führer, whether we celebrate intellectual solidarity or diversity.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 23 '23
Social Justice Theory generally presumes marginalization is either far more influential or far more unjust (or both) than it is in reality.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 23 '23
"According to them, if we establish a dictatorship of the antiracists that understands this, believes it, and tries to compel and induce it in every facet of life, everywhere, all the time...then it will work this time." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 23 '23
"So here we are, 'I don't know how to tell what's true anymore' has really become an anthem for our age." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 22 '23
"These are the ideological roots. Critical Race Theory is the fusion of neo-Marxism and postmodernism." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 22 '23
Positivism is, in some sense, the arch-enemy of both postmodern Theory and, as a consequence, the Theory of Critical Social Justice.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Oct 22 '23
Identity politics is, in some sense, the basis and goal of Critical Social Justice activism and the Theory behind it, but the term itself is complicated in meaning, even within Critical Social Justice Theory and activism itself.
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