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[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely not.

Absolutely so! The NeverTrump establishment Republicans absolutely despise their former base.

No. The "left" reads everything.

Nope. Decolonize the curriculum. Anything by DWEMs (dead white European males) is out.

There is no good reason to defund the EPA, not one.

Attempting to define every mud puddle in the country as a waterway in order to be able to regulate the surrounding area (i.e. cut off farmers and ranchers from their livelihoods).

The descendants of oppressors are not themselves oppressors

Huh? Yes they most certainly are! You know damn well that under Critical Theory, the left's current philosophy, that oppressor status is passed down in families, and that blame most certainly does fall on people today for things that happened centuries ago.

No - Chipit - the Taliban restrict culture, music, dance, women &c, some of which agrees with those on the far-right.

Restricting culture? That's the left you're talking about. Restricting women? Women’s Rights are now a Hate Crime in Scotland.

No - the "left" are not in power and haven't been for 4 decades in the US.

As if political power is the only kind of power. Nice fallacy there. Who has been silencing free speech with enthusiasm ever since they were able to? Free speech is a right-wing value. Remember, the only people who ever claim free speech freedoms are racists.

On the other hand, it's probably worth some deep thought as to why when people are allowed to vote, they overwhelmingly reject the far left. Weird, eh?

No. This is perhaps the most paranoid disinformation in any of your responses. I don't know how to say this politely.

It's not paranoid disinformation, it's Critical Theory, as you know well. CT is a complete rejection of the Enlightenment, and as such it rejects reason and logic for "lived experience" and problematizing arguments morally, on their own terms. The white man came up with the idea there is "objective truth" and used it to oppress peoples of color. White supremacy as enabled by the Enlightenment is most commonly conceptualized as a way for lower-class whites to feel socially superior to people from other ethnic backgrounds. More important, though, white supremacy is a tried-and-tested means for upper class whites to grow their wealth and power. This thought is all over the place on the Left and I am astonished that you claim to be not familiar with it.

No. This is not a proper "movement" and if more than 200 online paranoid schizophrenics are claiming that it is a movement

Now you are just outright lying. Critical Theory powers our universities with tens of thousands of professors who are teaching millions of students to find oppression in everything.

noting that these are indeed false assumptions.

All 100% true, but you're here to spread disinformation. Not a surprise.

if you were to argue in most places about a “critical social justice movement" destroying liberal democracy, most people would not take you seriously.

Racism is not a matter of opinion. When people are allowed to vote, they will vote for fascists and racists. Trump proved that once and for all. Two things structure society: discourses and systems of power maintained by discourses. society is divided into oppressors versus oppressed, and the oppressors condition the beliefs and culture of society such that neither they nor the oppressed are aware of the realities of their oppression. This “irreducible” epistemic oppression requires a “third-order change” to the “organizational schemata” of society (i.e., a complete epistemic revolution that removes the old epistemologies and replaces them with new ones) in order to find repair.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2013.782585

the tools of the critical-thinking tradition (for example, validity, soundness, conceptual clarity) cannot dismantle the master’s house: they can temporarily beat the master at his own game, but they can never bring about any enduring structural change. They fail because the critical thinker’s toolkit is commonly invoked in particular settings, at particular times to reassert power: those adept with the tools often use them to restore an order that assures their comfort. They can be habitually invoked to defend our epistemic home terrains.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12354

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Thanks for the response