The Woke make Biden’s “moderation” irrelevant by James Lindsay
(www.rocanews.com)
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I have a similar level of distrust of Lindsay as I do many other academics who simply want to turn back the clock to the late 90s/early 00s while failing to acknowledge their failure to see where this was going at the time and/or prevent it from happening, but to his credit Lindsay was at least intellectually consistent enough to vote for Trump because he thought Trump's stance against Wokeness was more important than "twitter decorum".
Agreed. I would simply ask all these people why we should listen to their advice when they showed themselves to be completely blind to what was coming before and why we shouldn't expect them to exhibit a similar blind spot again if we did in fact turn back the clock.
This is my issue with at least half the people here. I might be mean about it, but people really need to reconsider their politics sometimes. It absolutely bores me whenever I have to hear someone say "I never changed my views, the left are the ones that moved away." Something in the idea of that statement. What happened to growth? Learning? How can someone just remain static if they've been around this "community", not sure what to call it, for however long. Or even how they found it in the first place.
There are so many things I want to rant about in regards to the "views(?)" of this group.
He makes a spot on analysis of the future Biden presidency nevertheless.
Good article. I appreciate how Lindsay is able to take the convoluted double speak of the woke, and translate it into normal English for the rest of us.
And I'm in agreement with his premise: the woke are not going to calm down and back off in the scenario that Trump is no longer in power — they'll see his concession as a victory, one which will spur them on to double down even harder.
Re: the CRT Executive Order,
I disagree with him on this point.
If we've learnt anything over the past years, it is that these sorts of questions which attempt to guide people into self-awareness of their mistakes, tend to not work on the people who need it the most. Cognitive dissonance and all that. And being politicians, I'd imagine they're even more well versed than the average person of deflecting these sort of criticisms.
I don't think it's about persuading the politicians, it's about exposing these beliefs to the widest audience possible.
Most people hear "Diversity and Inclusion" and think, "what's wrong with that?"
They don't understand anything about what Critical Race Theory actually means. If they start to understand the danger it presents, they may vote accordingly.
That makes a lot sense, thanks. I can just hope that enough people realise the danger it poses, instead of being content to be frogs boiling in a pot.
Biden's shady dealings and racist comments he's made in the past make him ripe for manipulation. He's the perfect puppet for the deep state and for the far left.
If he doesn't play ball, the media (who are controlled by the deep state) can easily destroy him.
Then manipulate their way to a Harris administration, although I'm expecting that anyway in a year, two tops