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The purpose of New Discourses is to meet the need that the problem of political alienation and homelessness has created. It is especially for those who feel like they’ve been displaced from their political homes because of the movement sometimes called “Critical Social Justice” and the myriad negative effects it has had on our political environments, both on the left and on the right. It is a place where dialogue is possible and encouraged, regardless of differences in politics, aiming to be responsible with our speech and thought while not feeling fettered by restrictions of political correctness in any of its myriad manifestations. It also hopes to inspire dialogue—both new ways to discuss old topics and new conversations in their own right.
New Discourses is not interested in conservative, progressive, left, right, center, or any other particular political stances. It is, in this regard, only broadly liberal in the philosophical and ethical stance.
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James Lindsay is an American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory.
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Woke Terms Conceal Agendas
Published on: 25 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Woke Terms Conceal Agendas
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OnlySubs: How Do You Sleep at Night?
Published on: 24 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Maoism with American Characteristics
Published on: 22 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Maoism with American Characteristics
Published on: 22 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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How to Fight a Tyrannical Movement
Published on: 18 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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How to Fight a Tyrannical Movement
Published on: 18 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: You Should Be Reading and Doing
Published on: 17 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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New Discourses Merch Sale
Published on: 17 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Absolute Zero and the Western Holodomor
Published on: 15 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Absolute Zero and the Western Holodomor
Published on: 15 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Cult Language of Woke
Published on: 11 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Cult Language of Woke
Published on: 11 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: Why You’re Not Failing
Published on: 10 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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James Lindsay Goes to Oxford
Published on: 8 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Reformers: A New Film About the Grievance Studies Affair
Published on: 7 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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As Below, So Above
Published on: 5 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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As Below, So Above | James Lindsay
Published on: 5 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Structure of Cults
Published on: 4 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Structure of Cults
Published on: 4 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”
Published on: 3 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Intersectionality Is American Maoism
Published on: 2 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Sand in the Gears
Published on: 1 May 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Sand in the Gears
Published on: 1 May 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Gnostic Parasite
Published on: 28 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Gnostic Parasite | James Lindsay
Published on: 28 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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When to Stand Up
Published on: 26 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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When to Stand Up
Published on: 26 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Negation of the Real
Published on: 24 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Negation of the Real | James Lindsay
Published on: 24 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Power of Opting Out
Published on: 21 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Power of Opting Out
Published on: 21 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism
Published on: 19 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism | James Lindsay
Published on: 19 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism
Published on: 17 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism
Published on: 17 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Anti-Communist Education
Published on: 13 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Anti-Communist Education
Published on: 13 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History
Published on: 12 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay
Published on: 12 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism
Published on: 10 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism
Published on: 10 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Thought-Terminating Clichés
Published on: 6 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Thought-Terminating Clichés
Published on: 6 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism
Published on: 5 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay
Published on: 5 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Marxist Roots of DEI Workshop: All Sessions
Published on: 4 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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The Queer Gnostic Cult
Published on: 3 Apr 23 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Queer Gnostic Cult
Published on: 3 Apr 23 in New Discourses – Website
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Mao, Criticism, and Unity
Published on: 30 Mar 23 in New Discourses – Website
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 52 Every Woke term conceals an agenda. That’s a crucially important fact to understand. Yes, you may be familiar with the actual words in use, words
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OnlySubs Episode 124: How Do You Sleep at Night? is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members I was recently
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 117 Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn’t that
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 51 How can we fight a tyrannical movement trying to take over our society or mislead people into traps? One key thing to do is to
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OnlySubs Episode 123: You Should Be Reading and Doing is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members I get asked
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 116 You have probably heard of “Net Zero,” the unrealistically ambitious target of having no net greenhouse gas emissions by some point
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 50 Woke Marxism is a cult. In being a cult, it operates like an “initiate society,” and the initiation into the cult is largely but not
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OnlySubs Episode 122: Why You’re Not Failing is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members I recently had an encounter
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The Grievance Studies Affair has never been more relevant. Back in 2017 and 2018, when we did it, it was obvious that the part of academia sometimes called the “theoretical
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The Secret Religions of the West, Session 3 of 3 In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 49 Cults have a structure. The Woke Marxist cult is no exception: it is structured too. In general, there are three types of layers in cults,
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OnlySubs Episode 121: “I Can’t Do This Anymore” is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members I hear it all
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It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 48 One of the most powerful tactics against totalitarianism, one that worked to stop regimes from taking over and that broke existing regimes from within, is
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The Secret Religions of the West, Session 2 of 3 In his first talk at the Sovereign Nations Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, James Lindsay introduced
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 47 When is it time to stand up against Woke Marxism? Yesterday. Actually like five years ago. The next best time is right now. In this
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The Secret Religions of the West, Session 1 of 3 If you want to impose a totalitarian system, you have a problem on your hands: reality. The real is in
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 46 Maybe about a fifth of American adults decided not to get the shot (you know, THE shot). Maybe it was a quarter. Either way, that’s
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In that Marxism is a theology that gives birth to a religion of Communism, it has to also have a process of conversion. That process was not well-developed under Karl
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 115 In Simone de Beauvoir’s famous work The Second Sex, she wrote one of the most famous lines in feminist thought: “One is
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 45 Know what the Woke Marxists really don’t want? Anti-Communist education in our schools. They do not want our children to learn about the true history
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In this session of Sovereign Nations’s “The Theology of Marxism” conference, James Lindsay addresses the titular theme of the conference: The Theology of Marxism. For a century and a half,
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 114 What in the world is “Christian Nationalism,” and how in the world is it supposed to work? For those who don’t
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 44 A powerful tool in the Woke Marxist toolbox is something called a “thought-terminating cliché.” These are short, pithy statements, demands, or slogans that are designed
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🚨 Join us on this Memorial Day for the release of our latest ND Podcast from James Lindsay! Premiere starts at 2pm ET. The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 118 One of Mao Zedong’s most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled “Combat Liberalism” (ht…
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The theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical underpinnings of Critical Social Justice Theory are not compatible with the practice of therapy. Its hermeneutics of oppression undermines the ground on which counselling and psychotherapy stand. Critical Social Justice Theory is now rapidly establishing itself within the theory and knowledge of the counselling and psychotherapy disciplines.
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Until and unless enough thoughtful, liberally-minded people fight back, nutty woke concepts will continue to take root and metastasize. Here is my admittedly somewhat subjective list of the five most absurd and outrageous woke ideas being discussed in 2020. I owe a debt of gratitude to New Discourses for its Social Justice Encyclopedia, which allowed me to easily pick from
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Truths, in postmodern Theory, are socially validated statements about reality, which means that they are, ultimately, products of not just the cultures that produce them but of power within those cultures. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Truth.”
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Everything you hold dear is under threat of corruption. Your job, your home, your husband or wife, your children, your beliefs, and most important — your identity itself. If they claim that, the rest is won. Who are “they” you ask? They are The Woke. You are a soldier in a war being waged right now.
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The body-positive movement is a component of contemporary fat activism that, depending upon its focus, attempts to overcome attitudes of “fatphobia,” “fat shaming,” “thin privilege,” and “thin-normativity.” This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Body Positivity.”
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“Understanding this feature of Woke language manipulation not only clarifies their behavior but also makes clear that we’re dealing with a cult.” -James Lindsay Woke Marxism is a cult. In being a cult, it operates like an “initiate society,” and the initiation into the cult is largely but not wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language.
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🎙️ Supporters get the new ND Podcast episode from James Lindsay early! Sign up and listen now at one of the links in the comments.
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Just as sharks, dolphins and ichtyosaurs look similar due to adaptations to similar environments and ecological niches, the ideology of different radical activists will tend to become similar since it always serves similar needs. In recent years, there has been an ongoing controversy about the origins of currently fashionable social justice ideology. Terms like Cultural Marxism and postmodernism have been
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To be “critical” in the Social Justice sense is to be aware of and resist (systemic) power and disrupt established systems and ways of thinking. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Critical.”
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Just released! Don’t miss the new ND Bullets podcast from James Lindsay. Every Woke term conceals an agenda. That’s a crucially important fact to understand.
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In an increasingly multi-ethnic society, does it really make sense to view the multitude of inequalities we see across the board through a binary lens of white racism and black victimization? Kendi’s central intellectual contribution has been a redefinition of “racism” and how it works.
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“In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded ‘As above, so below,’ but this is only half of the principle.” -James Lindsay In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the
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New OnlySubs Podcast from James Lindsay, check it out! I was recently asked how I sleep at night. Now, I intentionally misinterpreted this question and answered “like a baby.”
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Galileo lived during a time when views that were contrary to certain universally accepted truths were censored, and their advocates punished. We, too, live in such a time. Ironically, today’s activists closely resemble Galileo’s inquisitors.
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In Critical Social Justice, “aversive racism” is a term that is used to describe ways in which racism is expressed through coded language because the white people (or relatively more racially privileged people, in general) involved are racists but know it’s not acceptable to participate in racism, even though they cannot help themselves. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’
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You can lead your organization forward in a productive direction instead of into the mire of constant institutionalized identity politics. The 1960s ended, in fact, some half a century ago. Nonetheless, they all share a concern that their employer, university, or children’s school seems to think otherwise and is therefore requiring an affirmation to a very specific understanding of “racism”
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In practice, deconstruction is a method by which meaning is either broken down or problematized, specifically for the purposes of either showing meaning to be arbitrary or to expose and rearrange the power dynamics believed to be carried by the ways words relate to one another. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Deconstruction.”
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Murray calls the inability to listen to contrary points of view a “generational phenomenon” which has been adopted by children who believe that “speech is harm, and harm is not harm, that silence is violence and that violence is fine.” As is the case with all truly interesting people, the least interesting thing about Douglas Murray is his sexuality.
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As indicated, methodological rigor has essentially nothing to do with the worth of a “way of knowing” (epistemology) in the Theory of Critical Social Justice. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Ways of Knowing.”
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The premiere is starting now, join us! The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 117 Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the …
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If talking therapy professionals and educators allow themselves to be silenced by an authoritarian ideology, it does not bode well for the clients whom they serve. Wherever this process is going, it is crucial to wake up and engage with it. There is one thing that the field of talking therapies is, ironically, not talking about and this is the
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🚨Come and join us for the release of our latest podcast from James Lindsay, premiering at 2pm ET! The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 117 Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the …
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“Get your drugs and surgery and pathology and cult-like messaging away from my vulnerable kid. Stop, and really listen.” Today, I’d like you all to just take a deep breath and center some voices that are being silenced and ignored: the moms of the world.
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Positivism is, in some sense, the arch-enemy of both postmodern Theory and, as a consequence, the Theory of Critical Social Justice. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-positivism/
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“We have to remember that their game is to destroy our game and remake the game so they can never lose.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2020/05/stealing-motte-critical-social-justice-principle-charity/
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RT @LoganLancing: It’s all manupulation. It’s all a lust for power to circumvent/destroy competence. Critically Conscious (Woke) people only care about power, because that’s how they think the world works. By “affirming,” you’re joining the Outer Circle of a cult. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/wokeness-and-the-structure-of-cults/
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RT @thepalmerworm: One way to respond with reason & logic is to recognize & refuse to participate in Thought Terminating Clichés. Identify them at source, call out tactics & refuse to accept false premises. Do not get drawn into/step into 🧙♂️🪄⭕️. Discern & Desist https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/thought-terminating-cliches/ https://twitter.com/QN_EVERYTHING/status/1643971668023595012
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RT @ConceptualJames: Woke is a cult. This is a fairly detailed account of how it works. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/workings-of-the-woke-cult/
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“This bill helps support that fundamentally equal and fair treatment before the law, which is currently at risk.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/letter-supporting-bill-ban-critical-race-theory/
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🎙️Check out the new ND Bullets Podcast from @ConceptualJames and learn how the Woke use thought-terminating clichés! https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/thought-terminating-cliches/
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Identity politics is, in some sense, the basis and goal of Critical Social Justice activism and the Theory behind it, but the term itself is complicated in meaning, even within Critical Social Justice Theory and activism itself. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-identity-politics/
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RT @ConceptualJames: I cannot stress enough how important this is to understanding the Woke. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/mao-criticism-and-unity/
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“My dear, sweet, son, I’ve got to break it to you: you’re not trans, you’re just weird.” https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/youre-not-trans-youre-just-weird/
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RT @Mrs_Meowmom: Just heard James say, “You may feel like you’re a woman, but you were born with twig and berries”. Ordered some anti commie swag and going to sip my coffee in my new cup when family comes to visit…BASED… https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses/status/1643696785594933266
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RT @ConceptualJames: You need to learn what they mean by the G-word. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-genocide/ https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1636431691899351040
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RT @ConceptualJames: Look how they say “people’s rights” here. They’re not just misusing the word “rights,” but they’re clarifying it with “people.” Only those who agree with them are people who have rights. Freedom only exists under “inclusive discipline.” https://newdiscourses.com/2023/01/the-people/ https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1641909146382397440
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Social Justice doesn’t allow itself to be contradicted or even disagreed with. In order to ensure that it is never possible for Theory to be wrong, it has filled itself with concepts like privilege-preserving epistemic pushback. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-privilege-preserving-epistemic-pushback/
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▶️ Watch @ConceptualJames’s first of three presentations at the @SovNations Theology of Marxism conference! https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/the-dialectical-faith-of-leftism/
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“Once we understand what equity is about, the purposes of “Diversity” and “Inclusion” initiatives become clear.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/marxist-roots-dei-session-1-equity/
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RT @ConceptualJames: Virtually every strategic move the Left makes is a provocation using mid-level violence. Operation Arrest Trump is no different. They need us as the American people to accept their banana republic or to overreact in rejecting it. Do not give them either. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/mid-level-violence/
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Anti-racism is a terrible replacement for national identity in a country so rich with character and cultural texture. https://newdiscourses.com/2020/10/on-anti-racism-and-american-identity/
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RT @ConceptualJames: Queer Theory, trans and gender ideology, etc., are doctrines of a postmodern gnostic cult. https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/queer-gnostic-cult
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▶️ Watch all sessions from @ConceptualJames’s workshop ‘The Marxist Roots of DEI’ with this single, easy-to-use link: https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/marxist-roots-of-dei-workshop-all-sessions/
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“Somehow scholars have been studying Marx and his ideas for 150 years and we still ended up with 100 million people dead.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2022/09/three-terms-communists-redefined-to-subvert-society/
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The primary agenda of the Healthy at Every Size movement is to challenge, disrupt, subvert, deconstruct, and problematize the idea that one’s “size” status has anything necessary to do with one’s health, as believed that this association causes oppression. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-healthy-at-every-size/
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RT @ConceptualJames: You can have plenty of freedom, so long as it’s under the socialist discipline of “sustainability and inclusion.” It will be Democratic for the people, under “democratic centralism.” https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/mao-criticism-and-unity/
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