Frank wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 3:49pm:


Better: police working with elders and government to fix problems before they turn into riots.

(...Won't cost you a thing, promise...)

Weiss is correct in her diagnosis and in her identification of the underpinnings of the new ideology replacing liberalism. She describes it as “a mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality,” to which we should add at least a few drops of the Rousseauian assignment of primacy to instinct, emotion, intuition, feelings, and passion over reason and evidence. The only place her description leaves anything to be desired is in her claim that “No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism.” That may well be the case in that we haven’t decided on the name we’ll use for this ideology, but it does have a name. This ideology is called by at least some of its proponents by the name “Critical Social Justice.” In short, Critical Social Justice—colloquially “Wokeness”—is a toxic fusion of cherry-picked aspects of the many lines of thought just identified, each chosen for its practical utility in advancing its particular line of fundamentally anti-liberal activism.
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Society is divided into many different cultural groups defined in terms of the members’ homogenized identities, meaning low-resolution “socially constructed” demographic categories like “white,” “black,” “gay,” “trans,” “brown,” and so on. These are said to “intersect” in “complex” ways, and each lies upon an axis that places some groups on opposite sides of a simplistic Marxian oppressor-versus-oppressed conflict. Oppression is understood only systemically and is indicated only by the phenomenological “lived experience” of harm, offense, and discomfort identified by any member of a group Theory defines as oppressed. Such a claim is unassailable and falls upon society with a warrant to reorganize itself to avoid any possibility of that sense of hurt ever arising again. All of those who are sufficiently oppressed are as a single capital-O “Other,” and everyone else has a moral obligation to be in solidarity with them in all possible circumstances.

This worldview has a consequence: “victimhood,” defined as above and only as above, becomes high currency that will be vied for. Intersectionality, now arguably 43 years old (and certainly at least 31), is the set of ideas and practices, for as a practice it is defined, that grades claims of victimhood according to an outline laid down formally in 1990 rather ominously (or histrionically) called The Matrix of Domination. It is in this place that Critical Social Justice’s Jewish problem exists, because Jews present an intolerable paradox to the Theory.




The rest here: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/10/critical-race-theorys-jewish-problem/

Good analysis.

Frank wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 4:46pm:


Not likely, I will demolish this conservative RW harangue, as I always do, though the prospect of your usual reply (eg "go f**k yourself"....doesn't inspire me.  Nevertheless, someone has to do the work of revealing the horrific outcomes of the Right's un-thinking self-interest, and "freedom values" based on "rights" which don't exist in nature. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 5:00pm:

So no more of the welcome to country genuflections to useless 'elders', then.

Frank wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 4:46pm:


Re the "new ideology' replacing  "liberalism"... in Weiss's estimation? ie, the liberal "Left"?  What about the "liberal" (conservative) Right?

Can you please clarify what strawman she is banging on about?

Certainly, Conservatism has itself to blame for the 40% of Americans who are, at best, living paycheck to paycheck, the very definition  of chronic financial stress. .
Hence the search for a "new ideology.

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Ahha, so liberalism seems to mean conservatism (which is being unseated)... see what wankers these self-proclaimed intellectuals are. 

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No kidding, we have been asking every day for definitions,  from ideologues like freediver and Meister who always duck for cover .

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Why not simply : "an economy that works for all"(B. Sanders)

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er...she means  anti-conservative activism...

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That's because the Left and the Right don't understand the reasons - namely,  the current dysfunctional mainstream neoliberal economics - why a very large minority of the population are in permanent chronic financial stress; and hence everyone goes looking in the wrong places, eg, race, gender, class, education, identity etc. 

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All this confusion, rancour, verbacious intellectualism,   and diversion are explained above: neoliberal economics, accepted as economic truth, pitting everyone against one-another, in a dog eat dog competition for survival, under the cloak of  "Conservatism".   

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I told you I would demolish it with ease.

Now...surprise me with your well considered response (.....)

AiA wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 10:28pm:


What and regress to a point to be more like Australia?

Frank wrote on Jul 19^th, 2022 at 2:37pm:


so what?

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Jul 19^th, 2022 at 2:39pm:


Maybe blue isn't Frank's colour