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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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The Strange Death of the University, Part 4: The Strange Death of Knowledge
Published on: 25 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends
Published on: 23 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
The Marxification of Education Workshop: All Sessions
Published on: 22 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Marxism and Holistic Thinking
Published on: 21 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Marxism and Holistic Thinking
Published on: 21 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 3: The Strange Death of Science
Published on: 14 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 3: The Strange Death of Science
Published on: 11 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Published on: 10 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) | James Lindsay
Published on: 10 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Theft of Education
Published on: 9 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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The Theft of Education
Published on: 9 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
by New Discourses
How to Kill a Science: The Process of Dialectical Inversion
Published on: 8 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
Can We Trust Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Published on: 7 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Can We Trust Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
Published on: 7 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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“Groomer Schools”
Published on: 3 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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“Groomer Schools” | James Lindsay
Published on: 3 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Totalitarianism and the Progressive Impulse
Published on: 2 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Totalitarianism and the Progressive Impulse
Published on: 2 Nov 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name
Published on: 1 Nov 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
Paulo Freire’s “Critical” Method of Education
Published on: 31 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Paulo Freire’s “Critical” Method of Education | James Lindsay
Published on: 31 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Systemic Trauma and Harm
Published on: 27 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Systemic Trauma and Harm
Published on: 27 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Critical Turn in Education
Published on: 20 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
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The Critical Turn in Education | James Lindsay
Published on: 20 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Riddle of History, Solved
Published on: 18 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
What Does It Mean to Be Freirean?
Published on: 17 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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What Does It Mean to Be Freirean?
Published on: 17 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by New Discourses
Data is the New Oil
Published on: 13 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by New Discourses
Data is the New Oil
Published on: 13 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
by New Discourses
Rejoice in the Day the Lord Has Made
Published on: 12 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
The Strange Death of the University, Part 2: A New Sensibility
Published on: 10 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
by New Discourses
The Strange Death of the University, Part 2: A New Sensibility
Published on: 10 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by New Discourses
“Lived Experience,” Explained
Published on: 6 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
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“Lived Experience,” Explained
Published on: 6 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: The Defining Ignorance of the Left
Published on: 5 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
The Many Faces of Marxism
Published on: 4 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
The Strange Death of the University, Part 1: The Red Thread
Published on: 3 Oct 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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The Strange Death of the University, Part 1: The Red Thread
Published on: 3 Oct 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Understanding the Dialectic
Published on: 29 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
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Understanding the Dialectic
Published on: 29 Sep 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Open Letter Regarding Equity Propaganda Presented at North Carolina Board of Education Working Session
Published on: 28 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
by Nancy Andersen, MD
OnlySubs: ESG Is for Everyone!
Published on: 28 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
How Paulo Freire Made Marxism Stupid
Published on: 26 Sep 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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How Paulo Freire Made Marxism Stupid
Published on: 26 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
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The Dialectic of Global Citizenship
Published on: 22 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
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The Dialectic of Global Citizenship
Published on: 22 Sep 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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OnlySubs: Does Academia Have Ideological Rabies?
Published on: 21 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
by James Lindsay
Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society
Published on: 19 Sep 22 in New Discourses – YouTube
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Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society
Published on: 19 Sep 22 in New Discourses – Website
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OnlySubs Episode 111: Stop Wanting Fake Friends is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Thinkspot One of the main ways
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Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 27 Holistic thinking isn’t just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it’s also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking. For Marxists (like all Hegelians),
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 99 We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we’re not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply,
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The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 4 of 4 The hottest buzzword in education today is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), but it’s not just a buzzword. It’s a huge program with
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 26 Education is being stolen from our kids and our society. In fact, for the most part, it has been stolen already. The way it’s being
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One of the “key goals” of the Woke Marxist movement is to “decenter the natural sciences” (e.g., Carey et al. 2016). How on Earth is someone supposed to “decenter” the
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 98 Schools all across the United States and wider Western world are rapidly incorporating Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into all aspects of the
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The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 3 of 4 The word of the year in education and regarding our children has been “groomer,” which is widely banned across social media
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 25 With the possible exception of our would-be overlords, we all know Nazis were bad. Fewer of us, especially in the younger generations, understand that Communists
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As a theory of “political economy,” Marxism isn’t at all complicated. At the very bottom, it is the belief that human beings are fundamentally social beings whose true nature shapes
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The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 2 of 4 How on Earth did education get so messed up and stolen from our society and our kids? While the critical turn in education
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 24 Trauma and harm. Trauma and harm. Harm and trauma. It seems virtually everything Woke these days is justified on the back of some obviously nonsense
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The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 1 of 4 Education has been stolen from us and from our children. Yes, stolen. It was deliberately transformed from within into something that is
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“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.” –Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 As you can see, according to Karl
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 97 We have devoted a lot of time on the New Discourses Podcast to breaking down the work of the Brazilian Marxist
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 23 You have probably heard the quip: “data is the new oil.” What does that mean, and what does it imply? In this episode of New
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OnlySubs Episode 110: Rejoice in the Day the Lord Has Made is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Thinkspot Psalm
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 96 We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we’re not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply,
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 22 We’ve all heard it and done everything we can to avoid rolling our eyes now. “It’s my lived experience!” as though that’s evidence or, actually,
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OnlySubs Episode 109: The Defining Ignorance of the Left is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Locals Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Thinkspot If we boil
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There’s a great and frustrating irony about Marxism. On the one hand, it is extremely simple—almost cartoonishly so. On the other hand, millions of pages of extremely complicated writing exist
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 95 We all know academia is in trouble. In fact, we’re not even sure it can be saved. To put it simply,
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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 21 Leftist thought for at least the past 250 years has taken a particular form that is not the usual form of thinking and understanding we know and
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“It only works when everyone who is still alive believes it.” -James Lindsay On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay gives an example of how a contemporary police abolitionist activist has made almost exactly this same argument perfectly explicitly and walks you through how you can spot it for what it is.
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Despite the stem “aggression,” people who commit microaggressions do not need to have any negative intentions but simply speak their socialization into systems of oppressive power imbalances. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Microaggressions.”
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“Everything has to be twisted to serve Theory. That is the hallmark of totalitarianism and that is the objective of the Woke.” -James Lindsay What is the end-game of the Woke ideology? It’s a hard question to answer, mostly because it’s hard to tell where it will stop, but a proximate answer to that question is easy and needs to
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🎙️ Don’t miss the new podcast episode from James Lindsay, now available early for supporters! Locals: https://newdiscourses.locals.com/post/3113300/the-strange-death-of-the-university-part-4-the-strange-death-of-knowledge Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/strange-death-of-75099534 Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/posts/761017 Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/newdiscourses/p/the-strange-death-of-the-university-13d YouTube: https://youtu.be/KclXqEj2TUQ Thinkspot: https://www.thinkspot.com/discourse/76uEa7/post/new-discourses/the-strange-death-of-the-university-part-4-the-strange-death-of-knowledge/LZtN72J
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Science cannot survive this long-sought-after push by activism into its domain, and it will usher in nothing less than a new era of “sustainable” Lysenkoism.
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A “counterstory” is a story or narrative-creating rhetorical device that presents anecdotal evidence that seems to contradict an established explanation when that established explanation is believed by Theory to uphold an oppressive systemic power dynamic. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Counterstory.”
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“Conversation and debate are part of our game, and they are not part of their game.” -James Lindsay I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views.
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There are two interrelated primary reasons that Social Justice increasingly uses the term “minoritized group” in place of “minority group,” which it functionally replaces. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Minoritize.”
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“It is purposed. It is intentional. It is a strategy, and it uses our children as pawns for achieving a nightmarish agenda, no matter how much damage it does to them to achieve it.” -James Lindsay Here, in the third part of the series, Lindsay puts these two pieces together, explains their purpose, and illustrates how Critical Race Theory works
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“Womxn” means “woman” (and is pronounced like “wuh-minx”), except with the “man” removed as an act of symbolic feminist activism. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Womxn.”
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🎙️ Supporters on multiple platforms can now listen to the new episode of the OnlySubs Podcast from James Lindsay! One of the main ways we got into this Woke Marxist mess in the first place is that people started to care way too much about what their fake friends think of them.
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“Where did all of the radicals from the 60’s go? The classroom.” -James Líndsay Here, New Discourses Founder James Lindsay summarizes this “turn” in this first of four presentations on the Marxification of Education delivered in late July 2022 in Arlington, Virginia, on location in the now-famous Loudoun County, ground zero for the fight for America’s schools.
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ICYMI Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and fight against.
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“Yt” is a racial slur against white people that can be read either as “white” (whyte) or as “whitey” (y-t). It is a more derogatory version of the related slang racial slur “wypipo” (white people). This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Yt.”
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“We can refuse this scam, whether we call it ‘sustainable capitalism’ or ‘productive socialism’ (which is an oxymoron) and get back to living history as it unfolds instead of falling on our faces by thinking its a riddle we can or should solve.” -James Lindsay According to Karl Marx, Communism, true and proper, is the self-conscious solution to “the riddle
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ICYMI Holistic thinking isn’t just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it’s also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking.
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Ultimately, no one will ever be viewed as an individual under Social Justice. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Individualism (Ideology).”
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Watch all sessions from James Lindsay’s Marxification of Education Workshop with this single, easy-to-use link: Something has gone very badly wrong in education. Our schools are filled with divisive identity politics rooted in Marxist Critical Theory, but it seems almost impossible to nail down and fight against.
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“Something is rotten in the state of Western education. The name for that rot is ‘Critical Pedagogy,’ which could also be called ‘Critical Education Theory,’ the infusion of Critical Theory into all aspects of education.” -James Lindsay In this episode, second in this series, James Lindsay reads through the book that documents this horrific turn, The Critical Turn in Education,
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In a perfect example of how Social Justice will eventually problematize everything, the term “people of color” has recently been recognized by Social Justice adherents as a way to lump non-white people together as a single identity group that isn’t white. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “People of Color.”
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Holistic thinking isn’t just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it’s also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking.
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We’re celebrating the return of James Lindsay to Twitter with a new ND Bullets podcast! Listen now! Holistic thinking isn’t just a feature of the weird New Age and spiritualists; it’s also a centerpiece of Marxist thinking.
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“Freire is the great revivalist of the Marxist faith.” -James Lindsay In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay offers a summary of what it means to be “Freirean” in education, following from his detailed explanation on the Social Justice Encyclopedia, Translations from the Wokish.
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The Theory of Critical Social Justice and the activism (praxis) that moves it is Utopian in character while carefully in denial of that fact. This entry in ‘Translations from the Wokish’ is an explanation of the term “Utopia.”
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RT @AdamBaldwin: “The two heads of the dragon are Social Emotional Learning (SEL) & Environmental Social Governance (ESG); the heart of the dragon is the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of Agenda 2030.” – @ConceptualJames @NewDiscourses https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-discourses/id1499880546?i=1000585386661
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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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“The Woke would tell you that you thinking ‘it’s racist to say white people can’t understand racism’ shows that you don’t understand ‘racism,’ as they mean it.” -@ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/can-white-people-understand-racism/
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RT @Moms4Liberty: “What has happened is that education has been Marxified, which is to say it has been turned into a Marxist program running on Marxist logic to achieve Marxist ends by brainwashing and programming our children to become Marxist activists.” @conceptualjames https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/the-marxification-of-education-workshop-all-sessions/
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RT @conquesttheory: The Marxist transformation of education has been “deliberate, strategic, and rooted in both Theory and activism all along.” This workshop from @ConceptualJames on @NewDiscourses breaks it all down. Preorder the “Marxification of Education” book ⬇️ (7/8) https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/the-marxification-of-education-workshop-all-sessions/
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RT @ConceptualJames: This is going to be one hell of a podcast. https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1596349985616171008
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“Critical Race Theory flourishes in part by making people believe it is complicated and sophisticated when, in fact, it is neither.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2021/12/five-key-points-to-understand-about-critical-race-theory/
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RT @AdamBaldwin: On his outstanding @NewDiscourses podcast, @ConceptualJames has exposed and detailed Friere Schools’ evil marxist curricula and distilled marxist Queer Theory: the abolition of normal. So, the latter; a genius. https://twitter.com/joshzepps/status/1596345330454626304
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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 @SovMichael: A vital resource for making your way through the minefields of disinformation. https://twitter.com/newdiscourses/status/1596533218467262464
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“The point is to show the public that, like so much else in their repressive order, the label ‘systemic racism’ is just another arbitrary tool, another potent bit of calculated rhetorical malice.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2021/08/on-the-absence-of-systemic-racism/
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RT @ConceptualJames: Coming soon! A new exciting book by yours truly that will make the Leftists go nuts. I expose how the theory of education was retooled by Critical Pedagogy to STEAL education from our kids and our society. Must read to save ed and protect our children! https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY
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Pre-order @ConceptualJames’s new book! https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY
RT @iamlisalogan: You won’t want to miss this episode when it comes out. Subscribe to @NewDiscourses https://twitter.com/conceptualjames/status/1596349985616171008
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RT @kellyske: @ConceptualJames If you’re not already subscribed to @NewDiscourses you really should be.
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Overwhelmingly, the central topic of interest in Critical Social Justice is identity. Indeed, it is obsessed with identity both in Theory and in activism. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-identity/
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“What this man’s work has done in terms of creating a revolution in education cannot be overstated.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freire-birth-of-groomer-schools/
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RT @ConceptualJames: Once you see it, you’ll see it everywhere. The defining ignorance of the Left. https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/onlysubs-defining-ignorance-the-left/
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RT @ConceptualJames: Whole, whole, whole, whole, whole… https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/marxism-and-holistic-thinking/
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RT @ConceptualJames: They’re all the same theory: Marxism. https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/crt-queer-theory-and-marxism-by-any-other-name/
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“Friere didn’t necessarily teach Marxism. He made education into Marxism.” – @ConceptualJames https://newdiscourses.com/2022/05/paulo-freires-schools-new-discourses-bullets-ep-7/
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🎙️ Don’t miss the new podcast episode from @ConceptualJames, now available early for supporters! Locals: https://newdiscourses.locals.com/post/3113300/the-strange-death-of-the-university-part-4-the-strange-death-of-knowledge Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/strange-death-of-75099534 Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/posts/761017 Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/newdiscourses/p/the-strange-death-of-the-university-13d YouTube: https://youtu.be/KclXqEj2TUQ
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The chief occupation of critical theories and other critical methods, including the Theory of Critical Social Justice, is to identify “problematics” and make recommendations for their remediation. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematics/
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