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The “ #Skeptics ” Are Crashing Out HARD
When people who claim to be defending #science and #rationalthinking are calling for the #censoreship of scientific fields of research that irritate their often blind #ideological spot or the dismantling of programs aiming at increasing #diversity in #sciences, if they are supporting #authoritarianism and #totalitarian regimes, you know they are they have everything but a scientific agenda. #antiwoke #ExtremeRightWing

youtube.com/watch?v=mfh75ezwi2

Marc Maron speaks on one of the troubling aspects of today's "political discourse" is the gateway to the #NewFascism has partially emerged from the flanks of #AntiWoke #Comedy ...

Maron:"The anti- woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by #comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self- serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn't matter. Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt #racists doesn't matter. They are part of the public face of a #fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea.’

Revolut°Permanente🚩 Neuf étudiants pro-Palestine arretés : Trump accélère la chasse aux militants dans les universités: Ce mercredi 5 mars, neuf étudiants ont été arrêtés par la police sur le campus du Barnard College à New-York. Une offensive qui vise à terrifier les étudiants et s'inscrit dans la continuité de l'offensive « anti-woke » de Trump.International / États-Unis / Université revolutionpermanente.fr/Neuf-e 🚩RP #ProPalestine #Étudiants #Trump #BarnardCollege #AntiWoke

Totally agree with this. Trump supporters are the true defenders of political correctness, only that this correctness has a very peculiar meaning this time - namely witch-hunting and NeoMcCartysm.

"What we call “wokeness” is a very real phenomenon, and as this magazine has pointed out repeatedly, it is both annoying and genuinely damaging. For the past decade, neoliberal Democrats have been particularly insufferable in wielding it as a weapon to advance pro-corporate politics, whether it’s Hillary Clinton saying that breaking up the big banks wouldn’t end racism and sexism, or MSNBC anchors and politicians like Barack Obama endlessly complaining about Bernie Sanders being a white man who didn’t talk enough about race and gender.

But what we’re seeing take shape in Trump’s second term is not the antidote to that; it’s that exact same cynical strategy, only flipped on its head. While Democrats turned to woke rhetoric to defend corporations and push neoliberal policies that benefit their bottom lines, Trump and his people resort to equally lazy “anti-woke” rhetoric to do the same thing.

In each case, the basic assumption is the same: you are a gullible rube who will fall for this obvious play and promptly forget that they’re working against your interests. Prove them wrong."

jacobin.com/2025/02/donald-tru

jacobin.comTrump Is Ripping Off America and Calling It “Anti-Woke”The Trump team has hit on what it thinks is a winning formula: every time it wants to rip Americans’ health care away or let a predatory corporation off the hook, it just says it’s fighting “wokeness” or “DEI.” It’s lazy, cynical stuff.
#USA#Trump#Woke
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'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-y

@writing @sociology

Yours, Inigo · the liar's languageBy Inigo Laguda
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@esrtweet continues

“On the meta-level, having that as a positively asserted community value would have made it far more difficult for the Marxists/wokies to do their entryism thing. They would have been recognized as a fundamentally toxic phenomenon sooner. Failure of leadership on my part. …on this I screwed up, and I feel bad about it.” — @esrtweet ( x.com/esrtweet/status/18868943 )

X (formerly Twitter)Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) on XOne of my regrets about my years of being Mr. Famous Guy, when I had maximum leadership leverage, is that I didn't foresee the political threat to open source. I thought it was enough to be apolitical, invite everybody to be part of our development community, and that everybody

x.com/esrtweet/status/18868943

“One of my regrets about my years of being Mr. Famous Guy, when I had maximum leadership leverage, is that I didn't foresee the political threat to open source.
I thought it was enough to be apolitical, invite everybody to be part of our development community, and that everybody would continue to keep politics out of the coding. Including even my own libertarian politics.
If I had known what was coming, I would have made a big deal about insisting that the open source community had to have one positive political value: free speech and opposition to censorship. That would have been justified on the object level, because we can't function when those political conditions are violated.” — @esrtweet (x.com) @esrtweet

X (formerly Twitter)Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) on XOne of my regrets about my years of being Mr. Famous Guy, when I had maximum leadership leverage, is that I didn't foresee the political threat to open source. I thought it was enough to be apolitical, invite everybody to be part of our development community, and that everybody

#Trump announcing that the #UnitedStates will “own” #Gaza and commit massive and illegal #EthnicCleansing there, has United Sunni and Shia #Islamic countries against #America.

The unprovoked #TradeWar launched by #Trump against #Canada and #Mexico has started #BoycottUSA campaigns in those countries, our largest trading partners.

#ElonMusk and his #AntiWoke #AntiScience #DOGE #incels are creating a #BrainDrain from vaunted #American institutions.

#Putin is pleased by his Orange Puppet. #USpol

nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazin

here: No matter what substantive issue I’m engaging on, whether it’s Hungary’s continued dependence upon Vladimir Putin for its energy supply despite intensive efforts to encourage them to diversify or the independence of the judiciary in Hungary, the way that the Hungarian government tries to respond and publicly contextualize our critique is by making it somehow about woke, liberal, Democratic activists. I remember my very first meeting with a senior Hungarian official, a really nice guy, but he began the meeting by saying, Ambassador, I know that you want to speak to us about L.G.B.T.Q. issues and gender ideology. And I actually had to interrupt the guy and say, No, actually, I want to speak to you about your relationship with Vladimir Putin. So I think that the language that they used was to encode the critique in a frame of, “This is L.G.B.T.Q.” — in their words — “ideology infecting our society,” even if what was generating the legitimate political concern didn’t have much to do with L.G.B.T.Q. issues at all.

The New York Times · ‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has SeenBy Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The tech billionaire war on "woke" is really a war on workers

salon.com/2025/01/17/the-tech-

pretending it's about masculinity is a good way to distract from the mundane fact that, like a stereotypical capitalist parasite, Zuckerberg has adopted a hostile posture towards his own workers. Perhaps, like so many of the hyper-rich before him, he doesn't like being reminded that, without his staff, he would be nothing…

Walter Inglis, Presbyterian missionary, speaks of “plunder and slaughter” by Dutch migrants to Africa. Christian missionaries could not be cajoled into silence, witnessed to the world.

Today, have too many in the church “cajoled” themselves into silence about plunder and slaughter? That the Office of the Keys is about sins that happen in the bedroom, and clergy are to focus on the Primacy of the Gospel?

How can you give testimony to the world?

Here’s a (non definitive) list of companies to avoid if you care about (or are part of) the LGBTQ+ community:
🤬 Toyota
🤬 Ford
🤬 Stanley Black & Decker
🤬 Harley-Davidson
🤬 Jack Daniel’s
🤬 John Deere
🤬 Walmart
🤬 Lowe’s
🤬 Molson Coors

thepinknews.com/2024/12/24/dei #lgbtq #dei #boycot #antiWoke

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news · The cowardly big businesses that rolled back LGBTQ+ support in 2024 amid ‘anti-woke’ backlashBy Sophie Perry

Here Come The Anti-Woke Venture Capitalists

A group called New Founding that says its “birthright is to lead Western civilization” is among firms (like 1789 Capital) building a new VC blueprint — and billionaire Marc Andreessen is in.

New Founding led by Nate Fischer has only raised $3mil (so far)

#NewFounding #NateFischer #AntiWoke #Anti-Woke

forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/20

Forbes · Here Come The Anti-Woke Venture CapitalistsBy David Jeans