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The Woke never apply their Critical Theory *to their own claims about what constitutes Social Justice.* They never examine how their beliefs might "contain the grubby little fingerprints of self-interested people who designed and built all those things according to their own biases, prejudices, and self-interests." A rich white man like Abraham Lincoln was able to use the tools of Enlightenment Critical Thinking to examine 1860s American society through the goals and assertions of the Declaration of Indepence and The Constitution, and determine a society committed to those ideals could not support the continued existence of slavery. The Woke sound much more like the 1860s Democrats who asserted that slavery was right because of unexamined assertions about blacks that perpetuated their power. The upper middle class Woke like Robin DiAngelo never examine how eliminating objective measures like the SAT for college admissions benefit people in her economic class, who can afford to construct their children's lives around a 'holistic' admissions decision, over middle class to lower income parents, who can't give their children those advantages but can provide them the time and space to study and learn.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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What is aggravating to me is the co-opting of the word “critical” which nudges impressionable minds from critical thinking directly into their woke garbage thinking. I am sure this is by design. We’ve become a poorly educated populace with no ability to distinguish truth from propaganda.

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The linguistic games played by the woke are 100% intentional. It's how linguistic deconstruction works. And they do it all the time.

Take a word that evokes an emotional response. Your example: "Critical" -- for those who are educated, we think of the intelligent, careful, examination of whether a claim is true or not. We have a favorable and intellectual response to this kind of thinking. By deconstructing the term and creating a new and often contradictory meaning, the woke get the same emotional response at the exact same time they hide that they are talking about something different.

Or take the word "Inclusion." We think of the kid with Downs Syndrome invited to participate on the school basketball team. We think of the kid who has a hard time making friends being invited to participate in an activity. Our emotional response is significant. We care about this word. We WANT our kids to be inclusive. So the woke deconstruct and then reconstruct into their own meaning: "inclusive" means banning all speech, ideas, or thought that makes certain groups feel "unsafe" (another reconstructed term). But they use the word "Inclusive" so they generate the warm, positive, and strong emotions associated with the word AND hide that they mean something completely different and sinister.

It's a way to manipulate people into fighting passionately for something that is terrible. Change the meaning but keep the emotional response, all while you hide what you are really doing.

The linguistic strategies are sinister, manipulative, and completely intentional.

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A key strategy in countering woke infection must be to identify, expose and refute the emotive terms that have been hijacked. Another obvious one is "justice", as in social justice ... after all, (the Christian) god is a god of justice, how can a believer in Judeo-Christian morality argue against justice? Again, what they are referring to is a transfer of power - removing power from, or subverting, existing institutions (eg police, courts) and assuming power to themselves (usually NOT to the oppressed who might benefit from it!).

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Progressives and post-modern academics are masters at the naming game. "Progressivism" itself is the prefect example. Anything promoting itself as progressive is actually *regressive* in regards to the Enlightenment values that motivated the Founders.

"Social Justice" is another great example: Justice is justice; Social Justice is a very particular political agenda.

It takes a lot of effort for a non-academic to get a grasp on these ideas, and the average busy person takes in these words without a second thought. Too many people think "Critical Race Theory" is the Big Idea that's been blown out of proportion by nasty right wingers (it's only taught in law schools, you know). Too few know that, as WD points out, CRT is just one of many fields that falls under the Critical Theory umbrella. They are further surprised to find out that Crit Theory has been the lingua franca of the liberal arts academy for over thirty years now.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Very good. One way of summarizing wokery is that they’re a *cult*, locked in a closed intellectual and feedback loop. They can’t be engaged in honest dialogue. They can only be deprogrammed.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Excellent read. Seems a good example of circular reasoning but perhaps that's giving the woke too much credit.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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I think it's important for people to realize that the Social Justice movement presents itself as a moral project first and foremost, and once a group of people is able to install their morality/ideology as an official belief system, they have essentially seized the high ground and become almost impossible to dislodge.

If we look for a through-line in all of Leftism, starting from say pre-Revolutionary France, the pattern is mostly the same: find the social fault line, present yourself and your movement/ideas as representing those at the bottom of the social pyramid, and then accrue power and attack enemies from your position as Official Defender of the Oppressed.

If we fast-forward to the New Left, it begins with Marcuse's "coalition of the marginalized" and the basic unassailable fact (most esp 50ish yrs ago) that America has often been cruel to blacks, women, and gays. So this is the rock their church is built upon and everything flows from here: after a half-century of propaganda and social conditioning (some of it very necessary) the Left has built a new and flourishing religion out of their Holy Trinity (Race Gender Sexuality) and just about everyone in society reflexively knows that "Good people" share their basic belief system and know not to say or think anything bigoted or "-phobic", as this will mean social banishment.

Critical Theory basically works off a fundamentalist form of Egalitarianism, where in every possible interaction (from academic admissions to citations to jobs etc etc) the right thing to do is to weigh who has been more "socially marginalized" and view this as a moral credential and trump card. It is actually a pretty effective combination of Protestant morality and Marxist epistemology.

There can always be political and social reform, new laws and institutions etc, but I don't know how you defeat a movement that has installed its morality in at least 2 generations of the most powerful people in society. A new god has arrived and all our old gods (Jesus, George Washington, even the great God of Reason, among many others) are in the process of being dismantled.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Critical theory cannot build. It can only destroy. Once the wokes take over they eat their own.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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I wrote a somewhat similar article last year.

https://unskool.substack.com/p/academias-infatuation-with-racist

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Very fine essay and for the first time I think I can begin to understand where this woke ideology is coming from. It just seemed like nonsense before. To defeat it we must clearly understand it.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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In German (and, hey, we are talking Frankfurt School), the adjective "kritisch" is being used in a third way, which can be translated as "crucial" (and we do not have an analogue of "crucial", in the sense of visualising the meeting point of two lines). "Der kritische Punkt" can be translated as "the crucial point":

Der kritische Punkt kritischer Pädagogik sind die Machtverhältnisse.

-> The crucial point of critical pedagogy are power dynamics.

Sometimes I ask myself how much of current worries are Babylonian in nature, i.e., due to having been developed in one language and then translated. More examples:

- James Lindsay has often mentioned the German word "aufheben", which has multiple meanings.

- French is a very melodious language, and reading it aloud with a glass of red wine will even turn postmodern nonsense philosophy into something beautiful. But translate it into English or German, and the magic is lost.

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Edit needed (missing “he”)

“In 1937 Max Horkheimer wrote an essay called “Traditional and Critical Theory” in which lays out his vision for Critical Theory.”

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“Woke,” “wokeism,” “wokeness,” etc., are weasel words used to hide the truth about the Jews and the Frankfurt School.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.

Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/

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Of course, none of this would be possible without the complicity of significant numbers of whites.

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The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . .

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“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump

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What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?

So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.

The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.

It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/oh-how-fond-they-are-of-the-book

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Edit needed (spacing)

“For critical thinkers, the problem is that people fail to “examine

the assumptions, commitments, and logic of daily life... the basic problem is irrational, illogical, and unexamined living””

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For me, it’s long been a given that CRT is linked to the social engineering of our “hostile elite,” which in the context of The Occidental Observer means powerful Jews and Jewish organizations who rule over America and much of The West.

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/06/21/critical-race-theory-as-a-jewish-intellectual-weapon/

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“The traditions, however, part ways over their defifinition of “critical.””

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Strasserism – The enemy within BY KLAS LUND - July 14, 2019

Strasserism tries to highlight other things, such as the Socialism aspect of National Socialism and argues that economic matters, social matters, matters of justice and of class take some kind of precedency (over the racial principle). According to a similar way of thinking, other matters can be highlighted at the expense of the foundational principal, such as culture, ethnicity or form of government. Another way of doing this is to keep the race chained to doctrines that have proven to be destructive (Christianity) and make claims of being ”traditional”, etc.

https://nordicresistancemovement.org/strasserism-the-enemy-within/

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