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Connections: From the European Frankfurt School to Black Lives Matter and Critical Theory, an exploration https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 1/
We are in the midst of a battle of ideas against an adversary that is skilled and has been hard at work over decades in our academic and cultural institutions. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 2/
Marxism predicted the inevitable transition from capitalism to communism through class struggle and the internal contradictions of the capitalist system. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 3/
When this failed to happen, & instead the working class, & society in general grew richer within a capitalist framework, the Frankfurt School came into existence in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923, & following the rise of the Nazis moved to @Columbia Univ in the USA in 1933. 4/
They developed a critique of the capitalist system and the culture that makes it possible to exist and thrive. Critical theory seeks to change the culture to bring about the Marxist revolution that material and economic forces alone could not achieve. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 5/
We are in the midst of a battle of ideas against an adversary that is skilled and has been hard at work over decades in our academic and cultural institutions. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 2/
Marxism predicted the inevitable transition from capitalism to communism through class struggle and the internal contradictions of the capitalist system. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 3/
When this failed to happen, & instead the working class, & society in general grew richer within a capitalist framework, the Frankfurt School came into existence in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923, & following the rise of the Nazis moved to @Columbia Univ in the USA in 1933. 4/
They developed a critique of the capitalist system and the culture that makes it possible to exist and thrive. Critical theory seeks to change the culture to bring about the Marxist revolution that material and economic forces alone could not achieve. https://t.co/ojp1kC7TaB 5/
🧵RACISM IN MEDICINE: This is disgusting! @KPMedSchool claims to be committed to diversity, equity & inclusion but SUSPENDS Dr. @ayshakhoury hours after being asked to teach med students about racial disparities in medicine wearing a "I can't breathe" t-shirt 1/10
@DrMarkSchuster
"When facilitators were asked to incorporate topics on bias & racial health disparities into the August 28, 2020 class, I decided to show up fully as a Black woman & physician. That morning, I paired a t-shirt with the words “I can’t breathe” with my usual African print attire"
For six weeks, Dr. @ayshakhoury was removed from both the clinic and the classroom. She remains suspended from her teaching role at the medical school. 3/10
"How is it possible in the same summer that racism is repeatedly confirmed as a public health issue, I was placed on a now 18 week suspension after facilitating a medical school class incorporating topics of bias & racial health disparities?" @ayshakhoury
https://t.co/hO3RNmgH4v
Doctor at Kaiser Medical School Claims She Was Suspended for Talking Race
@DrMarkSchuster
"When facilitators were asked to incorporate topics on bias & racial health disparities into the August 28, 2020 class, I decided to show up fully as a Black woman & physician. That morning, I paired a t-shirt with the words “I can’t breathe” with my usual African print attire"
For six weeks, Dr. @ayshakhoury was removed from both the clinic and the classroom. She remains suspended from her teaching role at the medical school. 3/10
"How is it possible in the same summer that racism is repeatedly confirmed as a public health issue, I was placed on a now 18 week suspension after facilitating a medical school class incorporating topics of bias & racial health disparities?" @ayshakhoury
https://t.co/hO3RNmgH4v
Doctor at Kaiser Medical School Claims She Was Suspended for Talking Race
There is very little glamorous about the average western woman. No grace. No subtlety. No shyness, cuteness or warmth. Not sophisticated nor classy.
Coarse, obnoxious, aggressive, and openly, shamelessly promiscuous.
This is what "women's freedom" looks like.
Take a good look.
Perhaps if she had been a little less free to live life on her own terms, she may have retained some of the natural features of femininity that could endear a man to marry her for life.
The moral of the story here is too much freedom is even worse than too little for a woman.
Yes we may denounce the practices of more authoritarian cultures in how they limit their women, and how those women suffer at the hands of abuses of patriarchal power. But at least those women still resemble something that actually looks like a woman. They stay feminine & unugly.
Free women suffer an altogether different abuse, one only comparable to something akin to childhood neglect. Unattended, they lose their warmth and grace in their bid for self-reliance, stripping their femininity bare of all but its ugliest parts.
Free women are feral women.
And a feral woman is what you see in the video at the beginning of this thread.
An unmarriageable husk, an abomination that has all the negative qualities of the feminine, and all of the negative qualities of the masculine, with none of the positives of either
Neglect is abuse.
Coarse, obnoxious, aggressive, and openly, shamelessly promiscuous.
This is what "women's freedom" looks like.
Take a good look.
The ruse is up pic.twitter.com/Wq68n9QIwE
— CCide (@chimericide) January 19, 2021
Perhaps if she had been a little less free to live life on her own terms, she may have retained some of the natural features of femininity that could endear a man to marry her for life.
The moral of the story here is too much freedom is even worse than too little for a woman.
Yes we may denounce the practices of more authoritarian cultures in how they limit their women, and how those women suffer at the hands of abuses of patriarchal power. But at least those women still resemble something that actually looks like a woman. They stay feminine & unugly.
Free women suffer an altogether different abuse, one only comparable to something akin to childhood neglect. Unattended, they lose their warmth and grace in their bid for self-reliance, stripping their femininity bare of all but its ugliest parts.
Free women are feral women.
And a feral woman is what you see in the video at the beginning of this thread.
An unmarriageable husk, an abomination that has all the negative qualities of the feminine, and all of the negative qualities of the masculine, with none of the positives of either
Neglect is abuse.
The FBI arrests local cops surprisingly frequently, but this often looks more like a genteel gang applying pressure on a trashy gang than anything to cheer. Let me give an example from the 2008 RNC, and how the FBI pressured the local cops to raid/torture/etc us for them...
Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher has been in the, ah, news recently, but back in 2008 he was the arch villain of the RNC protests, raiding all my "co-conspirators," doing interrogations where he acted like he was on 24, and screaming to the media about terrorism.
Because Fletcher is a quintessential dipshit chud you may be tempted to believe this was all him going off half-cocked. Indeed this became kinda the media narrative, insofar as they pushed back on him at all.
The reality however is more that Fletcher was a useful tool to the FBI
First, it's important to note that the RNC (and the DNC) as a rule donate massive piles of money to local police forces at their conventions to *insure* them against lawsuits. This was the case in 2008, I don't remember the exact figure but on the order of 10 million USD.
Now the Welcoming Committee was an anarchist project to organize protest infrastructure and was aboveground and open to the public. This meant we had to deal with multiple undercovers / informants from jurisdictions often competing with each other. You just make them wash dishes!
Let\u2019s not forget that the former #1 and #2 at LA County Sheriff are doing time in Federal prison for interfering with an FBI investigation.
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) January 14, 2021
Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher has been in the, ah, news recently, but back in 2008 he was the arch villain of the RNC protests, raiding all my "co-conspirators," doing interrogations where he acted like he was on 24, and screaming to the media about terrorism.
Because Fletcher is a quintessential dipshit chud you may be tempted to believe this was all him going off half-cocked. Indeed this became kinda the media narrative, insofar as they pushed back on him at all.
The reality however is more that Fletcher was a useful tool to the FBI
First, it's important to note that the RNC (and the DNC) as a rule donate massive piles of money to local police forces at their conventions to *insure* them against lawsuits. This was the case in 2008, I don't remember the exact figure but on the order of 10 million USD.
Now the Welcoming Committee was an anarchist project to organize protest infrastructure and was aboveground and open to the public. This meant we had to deal with multiple undercovers / informants from jurisdictions often competing with each other. You just make them wash dishes!
When they say that transwomen are at more risk than women, when they say transwomen live in a state of perpetual victimhood, when they hold women morally responsible for what men do to transwomen - what they mean is that transwomen's experience is more significant.
Examples:
says "I would guess". He guesses wrong but that's not the point. The point is that the "trans" part makes it more significant and important for him. Femicides are just femicides - an every day occurance. Just women.
says "the statistics are staggering". They are.
Because for some reason 28 murders of transwomen in 1 year in the US is an epidemic, but 6 femicides A DAY isn't.
I asked one of the "transwomen suffer more than 'cis' women" people why things became more significant when it was males who were killed. He blocked
It's not a competition, of course (unless you are Jolyon Maugham and want to override female consent, then it really is a competition that you cheat to win) but the argument is the force behind transactivism. Without the perpetual victimhood, it's just men making demands of women
Examples:
says "I would guess". He guesses wrong but that's not the point. The point is that the "trans" part makes it more significant and important for him. Femicides are just femicides - an every day occurance. Just women.
says "the statistics are staggering". They are.
Because for some reason 28 murders of transwomen in 1 year in the US is an epidemic, but 6 femicides A DAY isn't.
I asked one of the "transwomen suffer more than 'cis' women" people why things became more significant when it was males who were killed. He blocked
I asked @Colmogorman if the threats of rape and murder that women face when debating issues that affect them were as abusive as women not believing transwomen are women. He blocked me.
— \U0001d413\U0001d421\U0001d41e \U0001d411\U0001d41e\U0001d42c\U0001d42d \U0001d428\U0001d41f \U0001d414\U0001d42c (@therestofus5) December 5, 2020
I guess that means no, threats against women aren't as significant. https://t.co/taLX80T6Jq pic.twitter.com/HfYeyzs1sB
It's not a competition, of course (unless you are Jolyon Maugham and want to override female consent, then it really is a competition that you cheat to win) but the argument is the force behind transactivism. Without the perpetual victimhood, it's just men making demands of women
ECI @ECISVEEP, is it true that EVM-VVPAT is connected to an external device, SLU, through a 9 pin serial cable?
And SLU is connected to a laptop through a serial cable?
Then what about EVM-VVPAT are stand alone machines not connected to external devices claim @SpokespersonECI?
This is from a BEL technical document for M3 VVPAT available at https://t.co/piKfFICKUX
Now please don’t get this also taken down @ECISVEEP. Why trouble the wayback machine? :)
ECI @ECISVEEP can you share what is this symbol loading software on the laptop that needs to be opened to connect the Laptop, SLU/VVPAT?
Why publicly available EVM-VVPAT manuals on your site does not talk about any of this? @SpokespersonECI
ECI @ECISVEEP, what are these poll sessions on VVPAT slips?
Does the VVPAT remembers sessions.
How it gets incremented with each power ONs?
Does it also have date/time info?
Won’t it render the entire mock-poll process useless? @SpokespersonECI
https://t.co/08YKZY0eqt
And SLU is connected to a laptop through a serial cable?
Then what about EVM-VVPAT are stand alone machines not connected to external devices claim @SpokespersonECI?
This is from a BEL technical document for M3 VVPAT available at https://t.co/piKfFICKUX
Now please don’t get this also taken down @ECISVEEP. Why trouble the wayback machine? :)
ECI @ECISVEEP can you share what is this symbol loading software on the laptop that needs to be opened to connect the Laptop, SLU/VVPAT?
Why publicly available EVM-VVPAT manuals on your site does not talk about any of this? @SpokespersonECI
ECI @ECISVEEP, what are these poll sessions on VVPAT slips?
Does the VVPAT remembers sessions.
How it gets incremented with each power ONs?
Does it also have date/time info?
Won’t it render the entire mock-poll process useless? @SpokespersonECI
https://t.co/08YKZY0eqt
I'm going to knock out that white supremacy & abortion discourse thread for you today, but before I can get to that, we've got to talk about the 'religion' issue.
Some people are reacting to the Capitol and Christianity in the worst possible way - ethically and strategically.
Several people responded to Christian Identity / white supremacist theology thread with calls to eradicate religion.
Let's just get one thing out of the way:
1) that won't ever happen
2) you're assuming religion is the problem (spoiler; it's
Not only do non-religious ideologies prove equally lethal, but in many cases, religious observance - like regular attendance of mosques, for example - is inversely correlated with political violence.
Also: generalizations are always a very bad idea; they lack analytic depth.
I also had people read the Christian Identity thread, and then write to me to ask:
"I heard a politician open his/her remarks with the name of God / Jesus, and it worried me. Is he/she a Nazi?"
Okay, let me stop you RIGHT there.
The answer here is not “every Christian politician is a Christian identity Nazi, and every mention of ‘the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘God’ is the ‘Christian Taliban’” (or whatever Islamophobic term is in current use).
That ain't it.
For a couple of reasons.
Some people are reacting to the Capitol and Christianity in the worst possible way - ethically and strategically.
Several people responded to Christian Identity / white supremacist theology thread with calls to eradicate religion.
Let's just get one thing out of the way:
1) that won't ever happen
2) you're assuming religion is the problem (spoiler; it's
Brief thread on the white supremacist Christian Identity theology you asked in response to this thread.
— The Provost / \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0646\u0629 (@MsEntropy) January 15, 2021
Incoming. https://t.co/TM4pDI3jcC
Not only do non-religious ideologies prove equally lethal, but in many cases, religious observance - like regular attendance of mosques, for example - is inversely correlated with political violence.
Also: generalizations are always a very bad idea; they lack analytic depth.
I also had people read the Christian Identity thread, and then write to me to ask:
"I heard a politician open his/her remarks with the name of God / Jesus, and it worried me. Is he/she a Nazi?"
Okay, let me stop you RIGHT there.
The answer here is not “every Christian politician is a Christian identity Nazi, and every mention of ‘the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘God’ is the ‘Christian Taliban’” (or whatever Islamophobic term is in current use).
That ain't it.
For a couple of reasons.
