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No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.
New Discourses ^ | 30 Jul, 2021 | JAMES LINDSAY

Posted on 08/08/2021 4:59:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 08/08/2021 4:59:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The schools are pumping out more of these zombies every day.


2 posted on 08/08/2021 4:59:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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They are so righteously sure they hold the final answer, that all you out there should just shut up and sit down. How can anybody work out a compromise with that attitude?

Large groups of any society are apt to become fractious when inappropriate limitations are placed upon them. When the attitudes become too intransigent, civil discourse is no longer possible.

Somebody once said, to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. Winston Churchill, I think. A man wise far beyond his times.


3 posted on 08/08/2021 5:13:46 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Poor people give rich people all their money anyway. Just as they have always done.)
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To: MtnClimber

I most likely agree with the basic views of this writer, but that is a very long article to swim through just to confirm that. Some publishers will pay by the word, so perhaps he had to use this expanded format vs something more concise.


4 posted on 08/08/2021 5:14:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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“They are so righteously sure they hold the final answer, that all you out there should just shut up and sit down. How can anybody work out a compromise with that attitude?”

Hence my tagline.

L


5 posted on 08/08/2021 5:15:55 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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They Think the System Is Rigged Against Them

In effect, what we have here is the Nazi Party taking over Germany, and Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Invading France. Invading Russia. Killing millions of Jews, Gypsies, and anyone who disagrees with their Party Politics. And, when questioned, theses Nazis get all defensive and say, "Hey, we're the victims here. The whole system was rigged against us at Versailles."

6 posted on 08/08/2021 5:16:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: MtnClimber

They don’t debate because they know they are right and we are wrong so what’s the point. They don’t need to change our minds. They control everything and are slowly changing American culture. They are winning.


7 posted on 08/08/2021 5:21:09 AM PDT by redangus
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I have several times heard, usually in a smug voice, “my truth.” I’ve also read it over and over, “my truth.” In arguments you hear “my truth” when the other side has been challenged with some irrefutable statistic. Let’s say the conservative quotes some FBI statistic to the effect that whites are shot at greater rate than blacks. The response might be, “Well, my truth is that blacks are targeted by whites.” Actually, it wouldn’t matter if for, let’s say, a year, no blacks were shot be whites at all. Well, “my truth” is there are historic wrongs meaning it’s okay for blacks to target whites.


8 posted on 08/08/2021 5:22:35 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: lee martell

TL;DR - “There ain’t no arguing with Commies”


9 posted on 08/08/2021 5:28:02 AM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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They Think the System Is Rigged Against Them>The worldview of a petulant 3-year old.
10 posted on 08/08/2021 5:28:05 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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This author is excessively wordy. My graduate school editing professor would have a field day with this piece.

The bottom line: there’s no regressive endpoint to which these idiots can point where society was “better.” They dive back to 1619, but there’s no real substantial global reason for it. Why not 1492 when Columbus set sail to the Americas? Or the beginning of the Hundred Years War in 1337? Or the conquests of the Mongols in the 1200s marked by the fall of many historic dynasties? They glom on to what they perceive as historical hot spots with no intention of explaining why those eras were better for any body.

Challenge a Work adherent with explaining their ideal social worldview or historical pivot point, and they can’t. They can’t tell you why they’re oppressed, just that they are. They can’t tell you what is their end goal, just that “something” needs to change. There’s no reason or logic to their claims or their goals. It’s change for the sake of change. I call this the “do something” cabal. But then all of this thought I’ve committed is obviously racist because I’m privileged by my whiteness and my cisnormative upbringing means I can’t understand any of their plights, but don’t ask them about their plight. It just is.


11 posted on 08/08/2021 5:31:01 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: MtnClimber

Woke=indoctrinated

They learn they are always right and do not need to listen to those that challenge their programmed mind.


12 posted on 08/08/2021 5:32:29 AM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: MtnClimber

I think this is an important article and I will read it closely.

Thanks for posting it. ‘Pod


13 posted on 08/08/2021 5:33:33 AM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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...by the black feminist epistemology heavyweight Kristie Dotson...

Literally.


14 posted on 08/08/2021 5:34:42 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: alloysteel; Lurker

That’s just it.

They don’t debate because they don’t think they need to.

Shut up and sit down, peasant/oppressor!


15 posted on 08/08/2021 5:35:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s because it is their religion. Not many here on FR would be willing to constructively debate the existence of God. It’s the same mindset.


16 posted on 08/08/2021 5:36:29 AM PDT by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats liberals. )
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The money quote:

"...As a fifth and final point, since this is getting pretty long already, remember that Critical Social Justice activists tell us more or less constantly how exhausting it is to fight this constant uphill battle in which no one takes them seriously (read: fight shadows of their own nightmarish projection)."

17 posted on 08/08/2021 5:37:02 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: MuttTheHoople

That’s not TriggleyPuff!


18 posted on 08/08/2021 5:37:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: alloysteel; Lurker; Noumenon

Further, I no longer need to debate them.


19 posted on 08/08/2021 5:38:03 AM PDT by sauropod (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
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Their self-righteousness led to the ‘20 election steal.

The hatred of Trump was so perverse and complete within Democrat America that cheating was considered noble, patriotic, encouraged, and free from prosecution.

Everybody hates him, —they assume—nobody cares if we cheat, people are pulling for us to beat him by any means necessary, so don’t worry about cheating


20 posted on 08/08/2021 5:41:19 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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