By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 May 23
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 like “diversity” or “resilience,” but the Woke are misusing them and tucking an agenda in them, every time. You have to ask. Every time. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay covers this simple fact and gives you some strategies for what to do about it. Join him so you can counter this form of Woke word magic. Additional episodes of New Discourses Bullets can be found …
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 like “diversity” or “resilience,” but the Woke are misusing them and tucking an agenda in them, every time. You have to ask. Every time. In this episode of New Discourses …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 May 23
As Angel Eduardo writes, the word woke “has lost all useful meaning when it comes to communication between people on opposite sides of the culture war.” We do, however, need… View Post The post Compassionism appeared first on Areo.
As Angel Eduardo writes, the word woke “has lost all useful meaning when it comes to communication between people on opposite sides of the culture war.” We do, however, need… View Post The post Compassionism appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 May 23
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 wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language. As it turns out, this is a pretty consistent feature of cults, especially gnostic cults like Woke Marxism is. In technical language, gnostic cults are esoteric cults, and their language often has two meanings at once. One of these meanings is the everyday meaning they want you to think of when they use words like diversity, inclusion, belonging, sustainability, and so on: the exoteric meaning. The …
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 wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language. As it turns out, this is a pretty consistent feature of cults, especially gnostic cults like Woke Marxism is. In technical language, …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Feb 23
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 36 In Woke Marxism, “all” means “some.” Not just any some, but a very specific some: the some that the Woke holds out as suffering from systemic oppression. You see, Woke Marxism maintains that society is contoured entirely by systemic power, and that creates an “unlevel playing field” that they have to “level” through redistribution schemes like equity and inclusion. When they say they want to devise an education system that benefits “all students,” then, for example, what they’re telling you is that because of systemic power dynamics, some kids don’t benefit under the current system, …
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 36 In Woke Marxism, “all” means “some.” Not just any some, but a very specific some: the some that the Woke holds out as suffering from systemic oppression. You see, Woke Marxism maintains that society is contoured entirely by systemic power, and that creates an “unlevel playing field” that they have to “level” through redistribution schemes …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jan 23
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 33 Woke works through reframing, and much of the reframing occurs by passing every bit of relevant information through what they refer to as “theoretical lenses.” These “lenses” might include Theories like Critical Race Theory or Queer Theory, agendas like Sustainability, or focuses like diversity, equity, and inclusion. This lensing effect distorts perception and comprehension and enables Woke manipulation, like seeing the world in a fun-house mirror. Understanding that all information that has been passed through Woke sources has been “lensed” is crucial to understanding it accurately and engaging it in a smart way. In this …
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 33 Woke works through reframing, and much of the reframing occurs by passing every bit of relevant information through what they refer to as “theoretical lenses.” These “lenses” might include Theories like Critical Race Theory or Queer Theory, agendas like Sustainability, or focuses like diversity, equity, and inclusion. This lensing effect distorts perception and comprehension and …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Dec 22
Few things are as multifaceted or complex as personal identity. Yet, numerous social media posts and newspaper articles seem to suggest that we can somehow capture our unique individuality in… View Post The post Labels: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly appeared first on Areo.
Few things are as multifaceted or complex as personal identity. Yet, numerous social media posts and newspaper articles seem to suggest that we can somehow capture our unique individuality in… View Post The post Labels: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Dec 22
When I sat down to write my first piece for Queer Majority, I knew it would be difficult. I wanted to grow the queer movement by making it more welcoming,… View Post The post The Identifier Problem appeared first on Areo.
When I sat down to write my first piece for Queer Majority, I knew it would be difficult. I wanted to grow the queer movement by making it more welcoming,… View Post The post The Identifier Problem appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Dec 22
When I moved to the United States as a teenager, I couldn’t speak much English. I struggled to have basic conversations, even though I had studied the language for years… View Post The post Maricón: What’s In a Name? appeared first on Areo.
When I moved to the United States as a teenager, I couldn’t speak much English. I struggled to have basic conversations, even though I had studied the language for years… View Post The post Maricón: What’s In a Name? appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Dec 20
Using Google Ngram, Fisher found that the use of the phrase “long-term” has declined since the 01990s. When we talk “long,” how long do we mean? Multiple horizons all compete for real estate in one word. MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Richard Fisher doesn’t mind, though, seeing opportunity in language’s affordances and flexibility to play, explore, unpack: his Substack newsletter, The Long-termist’s Field Guide, just introduced “Long-terminology,” a fun recursive tour of vocabulary words that offer handles with which one can grapple big ideas and their attendant practices and cultures. His entry on word “long” and its different radii explores the …
Using Google Ngram, Fisher found that the use of the phrase “long-term” has declined since the 01990s. When we talk “long,” how long do we mean? Multiple horizons all compete for real estate in one word. MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Richard Fisher doesn’t mind, though, seeing opportunity in language’s affordances and flexibility to play, explore, unpack: his Substack newsletter, …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Dec 20
Using Google Ngram, Fisher found that the use of the phrase “long-term” has declined since the 01990s. When we talk “long,” how long do we mean? Multiple horizons all compete for real estate in one word. MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Richard Fisher doesn’t mind, though, seeing opportunity in language’s affordances and flexibility to play, explore, unpack: his Substack newsletter, The Long-termist’s Field Guide, just introduced “Long-terminology,” a fun recursive tour of vocabulary words that offer handles with which one can grapple big ideas and their attendant practices and cultures. His entry on word “long” and its different radii explores the …
Using Google Ngram, Fisher found that the use of the phrase “long-term” has declined since the 01990s. When we talk “long,” how long do we mean? Multiple horizons all compete for real estate in one word. MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Richard Fisher doesn’t mind, though, seeing opportunity in language’s affordances and flexibility to play, explore, unpack: his Substack newsletter, …
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