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Why Is Wokeness Winning? The astonishing and continuing success of left illiberalism
The Weekly Dish ^ | October 16, 2020 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 10/21/2020 5:02:57 AM PDT by karpov

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To: karpov

Democrats and Soros. Any other questions?


21 posted on 10/21/2020 6:24:01 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kearnyirish2

“born into our traditional culture.”

They’re winning the war because they understand that culture is learned not inherited.
Once they convinced people that women must have jobs outside the home, women left their children for the workplace and the left had unimpeded control of the future.


22 posted on 10/21/2020 6:27:25 AM PDT by Varda
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To: karpov

Most humans need a “purpose” larger than themselves ... especially when they’re bored from being locked away or restricted from normal social interaction by their local tyrant (governor; mayor; unelected bureaucrat) or when they’re frightened (again the result of the deliberate actions of politicians and, of course, “The Experts”). And since many have turned away from religion, “saving the planet” and “stopping systemic racism” become their “special purpose” in life (or in Toobin’s case his “special purpose” takes on a whole new meaning ... like Steve Martin’s in “The Jerk”)


23 posted on 10/21/2020 6:30:05 AM PDT by glennaro (Know that a muzzle is a symbol of subservience, of self-degradation and, most tragically, of fear.)
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To: mjp

“relativism + emotionalism = anything goes”

The resulting moral vacuum is filled by a demand to obey an worship the central government and the Party elite. So “anything goes” transitions to “only what we say, goes”.


24 posted on 10/21/2020 6:35:54 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: karpov

It’s not succeeding, it is failing bigtime and it’s emptiness is being exposed for all to see. The pseudo-elites are trying to shove it down our throats by convincing us it is everywhere, but it’s not working. It’s an “Emperor Has No Clothes” thing.


25 posted on 10/21/2020 6:46:46 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: karpov

Until Trump’s hostile takeover of the GOP there was no opposition party.
Bush League Republicans are Democrats in disguise.


26 posted on 10/21/2020 6:48:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: karpov

Its the result of obama’s education policies for 8 years.


27 posted on 10/21/2020 6:56:02 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: cuban leaf

Sure; it is depressing to watch. I can imagine what it is like for older people who remember better times.


28 posted on 10/21/2020 7:31:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Varda

Sure; culture must be transmitted, and they’ve worked for half a century to destroy it. I’m not a WASP, but everything that is included in “white privilege” is in fact the WASP culture - and it worked. Blacks from West Africa who learned that culture do well here, while their American cousins mock and rob them.


29 posted on 10/21/2020 7:32:48 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: karpov

Why if Meth destroys so many lives is it so popular?
Why if adultery destroys so many families...

Why if Satan is so evil do for flock to him?


30 posted on 10/21/2020 7:38:14 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: lodi90

***Communists opposed Nazism to the death.***

Two bastard sons of the same “father” Hegel, by different philosophical mothers.

“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East.

“In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,


31 posted on 10/21/2020 7:40:44 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: karpov

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32 posted on 10/21/2020 7:44:14 AM PDT by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
***Communists opposed Nazism to the death.*** Two bastard sons of the same “father” Hegel, by different philosophical mothers.

Two Rabid Dogs fighting over the same bone.

33 posted on 10/21/2020 7:45:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

March through the institutions. Liberals took over academic programs and then made it mandatory to agree to far-left values to get hired in academia OR be admitted to a college of education, social work or medicine.

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/

Note that is from 2012, and things have only gotten worse.

One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/11/08/college-administrators-are-more-liberal-other-groups-including-faculty-members


34 posted on 10/21/2020 7:46:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: kearnyirish2

Agreed. There has been some publicity of the racist anti-racist training like at the nuclear labs at Los Alamos. But I sat through similar racist training at defense companies around 2015.

Defense contractors were teaching that sort of thing because it was necessary to get a high diversity score, which resulted in preference for contractors. Way cheaper to socially engineer the workforce than build a better rocket.


35 posted on 10/21/2020 7:50:48 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Or too weak to ever oppose Democrats. As if token opposition is good enough.


36 posted on 10/21/2020 7:51:42 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: marktwain

Like Islam. The greatest good in Islam is spreading or strengthening the hold the ideology has on society. Even if you have to maim and murder people to do so.


37 posted on 10/21/2020 7:52:28 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: View from the Cheap Seats

March through the institutions. Liberals took over academic programs and then made it mandatory to agree to far-left values to get hired in academia OR be admitted to a college of education, social work or medicine.

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/

Note that is from 2012, and things have only gotten worse.

One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/11/08/college-administrators-are-more-liberal-other-groups-including-faculty-members


38 posted on 10/21/2020 7:52:39 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: MV=PY

Social justice identity politics is a reversion to tribal morality - complete with ordering people to live out their assigned stereotypes.

This is only possible because we’ve eroded traditional sources of identity like strong extended families and religion, something that can be a surrogate for family for those without.


39 posted on 10/21/2020 7:54:04 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Token opposition was the entire purpose of Bush League Republicans.
To make us think we had representation when they were in fact assisting Democrats advance their agenda.


40 posted on 10/21/2020 7:54:46 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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