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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

My first experience with the Social Justice egalitarian steamroller was when I went to college to study Literature but was faced with something called "Cultural Studies", which states that no "text" or cultural artifact can be considered superior to another (High/Low is an oppressive imposition), thus a comic book is as worthwhile as Tolstoy and a fortune cookie is no different from one of Shakespeare's sonnets.

My first reaction was shock/surprise, because this was being taught by supposed English profs (meaning that they seemed to hate the subject they had been hired to teach), but then anger at the implication. For the Cultural Studies premise/project to work and be true requires the erasure and demonization of skill, rigor, talent, beauty, wisdom, erudition, transcendence etc.

The entire postmodern project is purely destructive (it's no coincidence that its signature product is called Deconstruction) and the goal seems to be the destruction of society, of everything lasting and beautiful, of tradition and history, of the sacred.

When people tell you nothing exists but Power and Oppression it is important to believe them and act accordingly: their greatest desire is to have the power to oppress you and it doesn't matter who or what gets destroyed in the process.

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Peter Dawson's avatar

An excellent overview of how wokeness is indeed designed to end in nihilism and anarchy - this is the "all cultures are equal" narrative which is clearly and demonstrably wrong.

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