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Deconstructing "Wokethink"

Posted by markjr 4 years, 2 months ago to Culture
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It turns out that when you look at it, the four pillars of "Wokethink" (structural racism, climate alarmism, anti-capitalism and cancel-culture) are scaffolded by the 10 Cognitive Distortions therapists identify to treat mental illness.


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  • Posted by Stormi 4 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I first thought of "Anthem", when Obama banned incandescent light bulbs, as they did in the book. Rand knew where we were headed if we did nto hake heed, which the shcool system made sure we did nto take heed.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 2 months ago
    "Sites like HumanProgress would be very educational (possibly jarringly so) to those who think we wallow under the jackboots of an irredeemably oppressive system."
    If you share ideas from Human Progress to leftwinger or rightwingers, they reject them, just as this articles say. They say by admitting something good is happening, you're condoning and encouraging all the imperfections in life.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's all about dividing people into groups and discrediting them based on group identity instead of reason.
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  • Posted by Stormi 4 years, 2 months ago
    I have seen in the school system, consistent psychological abuse of children, from Maslow group therapy by teachers on grade leveka, to attempts to cause cognitive dissonance. I soon concluded that all kids need a course in logic, and a copy of "Anthem" to fortify them with, When one is taught to look for logical fallacies, and to suspect someone at any time is attempting to create a dystopia, one tends to look for the motives and to do the research. Our kids have been taught to believe and trust, just what the UN wanted, as they set themselves up as a world goevrnment using UN Agenda 21 as they lie to create it, now called the Green New Deal in its plagiarized form. AOC does not even know where her handlers got it, nor anything about science. Logically, we know the Earth is not ending in 7 years, Kerry, not sure, but it works for the agenda.At worst, the poles may switch and we mostly all freeze to death, but Earth will be fine. Pelosi may become an icicle, but that is life.
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  • Posted by bubah1mau 4 years, 2 months ago
    Ten defining aspects of woke-ness. A concise, logical analysis clarified by diagrams and charts.
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  • Posted by skidance 4 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not ascribing causality or responsibility, merely naming a fact. However, I do appreciate your sarcastic comment.
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  • Posted by chad 4 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Politically correct: Metabolically Challenged. It's not her fault, its those pesky slave owners.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 4 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll add a quibble about misspelling "permissible" as "permissable" in the chart. That "black chick" was certainly morbid in her pronouncements.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 2 months ago
    I thought this was a really good article. That list of ten is definitely going in my arsenal moving forward.

    Minor quibble: In his section on all-or-nothing, his political spectrum puts communism on the far left and Nazism on the far right. Nazism is a leftist doctrine - not a conservative one.

    I loved the picture with the overweight black chick standing there with a frown. What a perfect example of wokeism.
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  • Posted by starguy 4 years, 2 months ago
    Just keep telling yourself, "Atlas Shrugged" is only a novel, it's just a novel...."
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  • Posted by $ BobCat 4 years, 2 months ago
    Great thesis.... and liberalism is indeed a mental disorder. Passed the article on to some lefty psyc types, but I am repeating myself...
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