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Korenizatsiya: Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Dec 24

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 153 Did you know the Soviet Union ran a DEI program exactly like the Woke Marxist one of today? How about Mao’s China? As it turns out, DEI isn’t an American invention. It’s a Soviet invention and Soviet export, designed, outlined, and implemented by Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in the USSR in the 1920s. The results were predictable, of course: massively increasing ethnic strife arising from within the world’s most widespread Affirmative Action program in history. Russians, then later Han Chinese, then later straight, white, Christian, males in the West, were invited to subjugate themselves to ethnic minorities to accomplish “actual equality,” which we

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 153 Did you know the Soviet Union ran a DEI program exactly like the Woke Marxist one of today? How about Mao’s China? As it turns out, DEI isn’t an American invention. It’s a Soviet invention and Soviet export, designed, outlined, and implemented by Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in the USSR in the 1920s. The results were predictable, of course: massively increasing

The Real Purpose of Safe Spaces

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Dec 24

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 104 “Safe spaces” on college campuses are not new. In fact, they’re not a very old, very tired topic. So is all of the “Coddling of the American Mind” infantilization like we recently saw on campuses across America in the wake of President Trump’s second electoral victory. The thing is, these obviously pathetic phenomena serve an educational purpose. That is, they’re pedagogical. Their real purpose is to convince young minds that it is traumatic when politics don’t go Left and then to “structure the environment to resolve that [trauma] productively” for Woke causes. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 104 “Safe spaces” on college campuses are not new. In fact, they’re not a very old, very tired topic. So is all of the “Coddling of the American Mind” infantilization like we recently saw on campuses across America in the wake of President Trump’s second electoral victory. The thing is, these obviously pathetic phenomena serve an educational purpose.

“Who I am” and the Problem of Offense

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jul 18

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