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Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika.

Posted by ceemac666 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=ceemac666' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 1:43 am

This is an observation on my part,not a call to run around with your hair on fire.

Re: Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 3:18 am, in reply to "Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika."

Cluster-B? Cluster-Fuwck surely?

The writer interestingly doesn't seem to be interested in how this happened.

It wasn't some organic growth of "society" that did it: it came to society top down through our esteemed politicians who imported it from the US.

Likewise the idea that this whole crock is "leftist" is yet another idea being sold to us by the US. Identity politics by its very nature is guaranteed to fracture left wing unifying notions of social or class solidarity: common-wealth or common good, which is what I presume its promoters intended.

It's narcissistic in the way that most right wing libertarianism is: to do what they wish with no restraints put upon themselves by government or other bodies: yet apparently have no qualms about depriving others of their own rights through their actions: no idea of the obligations of the social contract by which they claim their very own "freedom".

Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein

Posted by Chris Rogers <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Chris+Rogers' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 9:58 am, in reply to "Re: Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika."

Here's Norman Finkelstein's latest on Ibram X. Kendi who's run into a few money issues at his Boston University Ops centre, notice the layoffs - nothing about this in The Grauniad - I wonder why?
https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/you-read-it-here-first-race-hustler

"Space racism"....;O)....nm

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 10:06 am, in reply to "Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein"

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: "Space racism"....;O)....nm

Posted by Dovetail Joint <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Dovetail+Joint' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 1:41 pm, in reply to ""Space racism"....;O)....nm"

It's a crass caricature to think that all Libertarians are advocates of societal chaos or anarchy, will no rules for them... kind of thing.

Their 'utopia' would theoretically work just as well as the other 'utopias' would.

lol, finally got the Fink's book on order, looking forward to it! (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 1:43 pm, in reply to "Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein"

Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously
http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/

Re: lol, finally got the Fink's book on order, looking forward to it! (nm)

If I didn't have baby on the way, I'd consider writing a book called... 'How the mainstream Left and Liberals, lost their minds'

Re: Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 4:40 pm, in reply to "Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein"

"Objectivity doesn’t exist; everything is subjective; just tell the truth..." Kendi.

"I think this therefore it is..."

As right wing libertarianism's exemplar Karl Rove similarly expressed:

'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.

-We can make up "reality" as we go along and trample the rest of the world in our Libertarian-woke wake.

It's the most pernicious "philosophy" ever.

The consequences are of course literally "barking mad" here's a protest at Berlin Potsdamer Platz railway station by 'trans-species activists", who apparently "think" they are dogs:

-Well, under the woke dispensation, why not?

The Brown/Rainbow Alliance? (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 22, 2023, 5:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Ibram X. Kendi/Norman Finkelstein"

Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously
http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/

Re: Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika.

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 23, 2023, 12:07 am, in reply to "Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika."

Very fast narrative .. and I agreed with many points, I think(?), and then he complained @ 09:00 odd that left-wing authoritarianism spoils the broth, so to speak. I recall Parenty speaking on that subject, way back. Essentially baloney. So, why is he saying that?

Trying to have his cake and eat it.... nm

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 23, 2023, 2:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Like it or not there is a rising anti-Woke backlash,at least in Amerika."

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

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