(07-06-2021, 09:33 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-05-2021, 04:10 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Sigh. It's not complex. It's just deeper than you seem to realize. Let me give you the short version, which can be easily documented, if necessary.

Hegelianism>Marxism>Neo-Marxist>Critical Theory>Post Modernism>Intersectionalism>Social Justice>Critical Race Theory

Basically, the Frankfurt school looked at the pillars that they believed supported the cultural beliefs that allowed the oppressor class to control society. They wished to apply the Hegelian dialectic to these pillars to collapse said culture. Post Modernism came along and, having been completely disillusioned by Marxism, basically said it is impossible to know what is true. Intersectionalism, took those ideas, combined them with Neo-Marxism, and said, since we can't know truth, the oppressed class should have the biggest voice as it  pertains to their issue, which conveniently allows them to co-opt the "oppressed" to implement systemic change in the form of Social Justice. Critical Race Theory has been around since Post Modernism (maybe even earlier), but has been repurposed as a trojan horse to push these ideas into society. Laced throughout all of these ideologies is the concept of sexual liberation. It has it's own subcategories, but none of them have dominated academic thought like the ones I mentioned, but it has the common thread of cultural subversion.

Now most people aren't aware of the intentionality of any of this. They are capable of picking up the meme'd version of these concepts, which purposefully leave out the end goal. It creates a horde of people that operate based on their feeling without regard to the impact of those feelings, both on the left and the right. The left attaches to the victimhood or social concepts, while the right attaches to the traditional or patriotic aspect. Each believing the other to be radical. Either way, it is a fight for cultural influence, and the right, especially, is keen enough to pick up on it, even if they don't understand the finer details. The problem is that they use their gut instincts and lash out at the plebes on the left who aren't aware of the intentionality of this either, and both sides get reduced to "traitor" and "bigot."

As for the corporations, again, they are being weaponized by China. One of the shortfalls of the American public is their limited attention span. China is fully aware of the ideologies listed above. They used something similar to topple the traditional structures after Mao won the revolution. They even have a word for "wokeness" in America. They set up the Confucius institute in American schools and Universities, and withdraw funding if they don't play by the rules. The same is true of our corporations. Follow the money, man. These businesses are not losing money hand over foot, or they wouldn't be doing this. China has learned to exploit corporate greed.

You are right in that this isn't that complex. You're just wrong in thinking it's organic.

I think you are too smart for your own good.  It takes a lot of brains to come up with some of the most convoluted conspiracy theories I've ever seen.  It takes a lot of creativity, too.

I'm against teaching so-called "critical race theory" in public schools, too.  But I think the simplest explanation of this whole debacle is probably the correct explanation.   My opinion is, the movement to teach "critical race theory" in the public schools is really just a bunch of liberals who think they know the unarguable settled truth.  That's the simplest explanation.

And the movement to ban it is simply people exercising their right to control how their children are educated.

These ideas don't fall out of the [BLEEP] sky. I get that most people are unaware of how they come to believe certain information, but it's not just coming from your gut. There is almost always a trail of ideas that is built upon and reordered to create a mode of thought. Seriously. I can't tell you how annoying it is for otherwise smart people to bury their heads in the sand with regards to knowledge. We are always building on ideas that shape our values. In this way, cultural values are often no different than religion. 

You know who knew this? Gramsci. Here's an exact quote: "Socialism is the religion that must overwhelm Christianity." Why? Because he thought Christianity was one of the major obstacles to people accepting communism. His solution? To create a different religion that would overwhelm Christianity... which was socialism. You know who ran with that? The Frankfurt School.

All of this information is out there. None of it is conspiracy. I could easily link you to their works, but are you going to read it? You seem like you don't want to take the time to study this for yourself, but literally every single thing I wrote can be traced. You can also track the spread of these ideas in education and academia. It's not that hard to see, dude. It just takes time, and I am going on year 3 of studying this.

There are two types of leftists in this country. The first are Constitutional leftists, which are traditional JFK democrats who believe in social welfare, federalism, science, and individual liberties, The second are progressives, who value equity (not equality), systemic change (which is a complete overhaul of the US government), totalitarianism, activism, and social justice. Progressivism is LITERALLY shaped by the philosophies mentioned above. It's not a conspiracy theory, and, if you read ANY of the philosophy I was mentioning, you would realize that.

Progressives now dominate the academic, cultural, and journalistic institutions in this country, with a growing presence in wall street and the scientific institutions. Even though they are a minority, their public influence is extremely powerful. From everything I have read about your beliefs, you are a constitutional leftist (to which I am completely sympathetic), but you are slowly being converted to the latter, because of your unwillingness to acknowledge the change that's happening before your very eyes. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. You don't know how many people I know are duped because the assume the Atlantic is not subject to this kind of takeover, even though you can see that their editorial board is now progressive. Same with the NYT. When the editors change, the content changes. 

I know you think you weren't influenced that way, and neither do most people, but let me see if I can put this in which you can relate: One of the accurate theories behind Russiagate was that the Russian government was taking true sentiments that people felt about politicians, turning them into memes, then posting them on Facebook so they could be shared for the purpose of dividing the public and, mostly, to keep Hillary Clinton from winning the election. Russia supported Bernie and Trump. The left railed against this kind of foreign election interference. This is all true, and you probably don't have a hard time believing that. But why? According to you, that would just be a convoluted conspiracy theory. However, you make room for that idea, because it doesn't conflict with your world view. I am proposing nothing different. 

You have intellectual and cultural elites who are creating memes based on the philosophy above that resonates with certain individuals. They don't need to understand the ins and outs of it. I am going to make a follow up post that describes Critical Race Theory from a leftist point of view.

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