"Emerging Cracks In The Woke Elite"

By artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:47am |

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The Atlantic and The New Yorker have just published long essays that push back against the woke's genetics denialism and personal cruelty. What's going on? https://t.co/nwmLCMHZx1
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 10, 2021

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https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/emerging-cracks-in-the-woke-elite-a85

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an attempt at reafirming meritocracy against "Woke" -

Update: Parents Sue School System for #Discriminating Against High-Achieving #Asian Kids at #Montgomery County, #Maryland.

The Court #denies motions from the defendant, Board of Education, and moves the case into #discovery phase. #meritocracy https://t.co/78mHvGPZ0L pic.twitter.com/Iuet4dk1H4
— ChineseAZ (@ChineseAZ) September 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 1:12pm

‘Decolonizing the curricula’ fail:

“After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found 'overwhelming' evidence [of] the practice.” https://t.co/1iQYbUCzDA
— Radical Centrist, wrathful tantric deity (@RadCentrism) September 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 12:07pm

Yes, lets get back to our roots.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 12:13pm

Kind of related in a very strange way; current western civilization has this underlying principle of protecting unrelated young over grownups, at least medical professionals, who undoubtedly reported this reason for the baby's death:

California Mom Convicted of Killing Newborn Baby with Lethal Amount of Meth ‘Passed Through to the Child in Her Breast Milk’https://t.co/oRe2w9pP2c
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) September 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 12:54pm

The story is the same everywhere, though the particulars vary. Where it hasn't happened yet, it will soon.

"Others, including prominent historians, acknowledge privately that the project is riddled with errors and omissions but refuse to say so publicly." https://t.co/OQwP2kd4h6 pic.twitter.com/E3xSe4iU60
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 4:38pm

could it just be strength in numbers, that other elites are just now realizing how unpopular the ideas of The Woke really are, and they therefore don't have to kowtow any more?

Between this and 96% of US Hispanics thinking 'LatinX' is dumb, I'm beginning to think 'wokeness' is really an elite white project being foisted undemocratically on the nation as some bizarre quasi-religious revival from former mainline Protestants.

But maybe I'm just crazy... https://t.co/EVApgCQWDh
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) September 15, 2021

One of the great mysteries is how every elite institution, from universities to corporations to media to even Sesame Street, all spontaneously coalesced on the same narrow set of values all of a sudden. https://t.co/j53zySG17Y
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) September 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 2:43pm

but not the ACLU, they're still hot and heavy on woke minutia:

The ACLU fixed RBG's quote because it referenced women https://t.co/v94XK95NtH
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 1:04am

It'd be pretty unbearable for those bleeders to be recognized for their completepersonhood rather than their body functions, skin color, or if need be their well-documented hysterical emotional state. Why do they have to be so divisive?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 4:21am

Yglesias doing his bit to try to help move this along with "Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Democrats":

The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn't go to college.https://t.co/n6vQkvzDIN
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 1:10am

I honestly can’t tell whether or not this is a parody/hoax. https://t.co/bTQV3goXbl
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) September 24, 2021

It’s mainly just ridiculous, IMO. I do think it’s self-limiting, kind of like how the malolactic bacteria that eat sugar and poop ethanol eventually drown in their own excrement when the booze reaches about 15%.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) September 24, 2021

https://t.co/f5W4BcFKrD
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 25, 2021

the top tweet is wishful thinking, BTW, as I've seen other tweets showing that the current Scientific American editor is a woke wackadoodle that also favors things like attacking Disney iconography...real over the top stuff...

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 9:28pm

the problem is that what's old is new again is getting old again:

"Imperialism and Religion. Missionary priests use a poisonous religious drug to pave the way for capital to imperialist oppression in the colonies" Soviet poster, 1920s pic.twitter.com/C1dE1qX8wz
— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) September 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/26/2021 - 3:17am

Some classic Ferrari there. And people are going to keep on asking until they don’t get results like this. https://t.co/hSS9f3BCFv
— David Paxton (@DavidDPaxton) September 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:12am

Not everyone really wants to get along with others, and playing around with racial theories is a good way to rationalize it.

by Orion on Tue, 09/28/2021 - 12:10pm

A comment that I thought was relevant. I read it on a song on YouTube:

I grew up in South Africa post-apartheid, the resentment still held and old Boer battle stations like Cannon hill are left in ruins because it's a culture that was viewed as unsavoury. And now, living in the UK, you can see the same things happen. History is torn down because the past is messy. I fear for what we as a people will become. Willing to throw away yesterday's genius because it won't solve today's problem in the way we want.

There was a movie that came out in 2016 - The Legend of Tarzan. Instead of a simplistic adventure through the jungle like most Tarzan incarnations, it was politically and historically charged - Tarzan becomes involved in fighting off the Congolese slave trade. Samuel L. Jackson plays George Washington Williams, a real life figure who was involved in exposing Belgium's exploitation of the Congo.

The movie was excellent, in my opinion, but like most woke movies, it failed at the box office. And it was so certainly powered by the weaponized shame that the above comment describes. That's why most audiences didn't like it.

by Orion on Tue, 09/28/2021 - 12:33pm

Not to sound harsh here but Andrew Sullivan's liberalism or conservatism or whatever it is that he subscribes to doesn't propagate itself. It might be completely rational to him but in absence of handing anything down to a new generation or a new group of people, it just represents the magical kingdom in his head.

Individualism allowed him to live a unique life of his choosing but unless he can talk to the people that wokeism or populism appealed to, his ideology is in the past.

by Orion on Tue, 09/28/2021 - 10:06pm

Ah, the Yankees, always were an elite white supremacy operation (even tho taking the name of the north vs. the south) with adjacent enabling minorities, beating up on the Dominican guy with dark skin, keep then in their place. Amirite?

Wandy gets attacked as he gets taken out of the game pic.twitter.com/bqQCMkHIFC
— Gabe (@PlayoffTanaka_) October 3, 2021

Wandy Peralta gets beat up by the Yankees infield while exiting the field and we were dying of laughter https://t.co/rGxwgLH6Zv pic.twitter.com/z1XXM3F0Ys
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) October 3, 2021

Wandy needs some public school reform types to come in and install one of those "no grades. no tests" systems where eveyrone gets a trophy no matter how they perform? And the team needs inclusivity training...

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/03/2021 - 5:47pm

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by artappraiser on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 11:15pm

The tide is turning against gatekeeping. pic.twitter.com/3B092WgUL7
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) October 8, 2021

"The story of Black and white Americans frequently centers on abuse, dismissal and conflict, as it must. Beyond this, though, there has always been cultural melding, both above and below the radar," writes @JohnHMcWhorter. https://t.co/yTVWRwf0M6
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) October 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 11:21pm

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