Monday, September 11, 2023

Reich vs Peterson

 

Robert Reich
@RBReich
The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition. They won't have any. "Woke." "Critical race theory." "Cancel culture." "Socialism." They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.

Woke: A pseudo-intellectual pastiche of postmodern and neo-Marxist tropes, dedicated to the idea that categories themselves do nothing but privilege and oppress; Critical Race Theory: The proposition that all differences in outcome by race, ethnicity or virtually any other identifiable group difference are a consequence of systemic, conscious and unconscious prejudice on the part of the privileged (see Woke); Cancel culture: The widespread utilization, primarily on the left, of female-typical patterns of antisocial behaviour such as reputation savaging, gossip, innuendo, mobbing and exclusion to isolate, demoralize and destroy political or personal enemies; Socialism: a political/economic system which when applied anywhere, ideally or badly, immediately destroys wealth, while failing utterly to remediate inequality; alternatively, the political expression of envy disguised as compassion. Any more stupid questions?

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