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A Permission Structure is a set of ideas, concepts, and reasons, that provide a *SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE* justification for someone to hold their views without losing their *SOCIAL STANDING* or becoming a pariah.
Right now the "woke" own all our societies permission structures...
A Permission Structure is a set of ideas, concepts, and reasons, that provide a *SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE* justification for someone to hold their views without losing their *SOCIAL STANDING* or becoming a pariah.
Right now the "woke" own all our societies permission structures...
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Thus, in institutions of government, education, business, arts, media, and culture, the only views which can be justified without losing social standing, being labeled a bad person, and becoming an outcast are woke views.
This is because the woke own the permission structures
Thus, in institutions of government, education, business, arts, media, and culture, the only views which can be justified without losing social standing, being labeled a bad person, and becoming an outcast are woke views.
This is because the woke own the permission structures
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There's a Pernission Structure that makes it socially acceptable to teach kids they can be born in the wrong body. It goes like this: "a kind compassionate person won't force people to agree with them,so if someone eants to change their body, even a child, that's their choice"
There's a Pernission Structure that makes it socially acceptable to teach kids they can be born in the wrong body. It goes like this: "a kind compassionate person won't force people to agree with them,so if someone eants to change their body, even a child, that's their choice"
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That idea iswrong, but IT IS A *SOCIALLY ACCETABLE* BIT OF REASONING SOMEONE CAN USE TO CHANGE A CHILDS GENDER WITHOUT LOSiNG THEIR SOCIAL STANDING.
Permissions Structures function SOCIALLY to allow people to dold views without losing their social standing or moral authority.
That idea iswrong, but IT IS A *SOCIALLY ACCETABLE* BIT OF REASONING SOMEONE CAN USE TO CHANGE A CHILDS GENDER WITHOUT LOSiNG THEIR SOCIAL STANDING.
Permissions Structures function SOCIALLY to allow people to dold views without losing their social standing or moral authority.
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Belonging to a religion *WAS* a Permission Structure a decade ago. You could say: "I oppose gay marriage because of my faith" and that was a SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE reason to object to gay marriage.
But now, religion no longer provides a Permission Structure for holding views...
Belonging to a religion *WAS* a Permission Structure a decade ago. You could say: "I oppose gay marriage because of my faith" and that was a SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE reason to object to gay marriage.
But now, religion no longer provides a Permission Structure for holding views...
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The woke left, has invested a LOT of energy in the meme "don't hide behind your religion" precisely because they wanted to destroy the Permission Structure that allowed you to oppose gay marriage without becoming an outcast and losing your social standing.
See how this works?
The woke left, has invested a LOT of energy in the meme "don't hide behind your religion" precisely because they wanted to destroy the Permission Structure that allowed you to oppose gay marriage without becoming an outcast and losing your social standing.
See how this works?
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This isn't just about controlling the blundaries of acceptable opinion, It's deeper then that
It's about controlling the social mechanisms that allow a view to be held by someone without that person becoming an outcast and losing both their social standing and moral authority
This isn't just about controlling the blundaries of acceptable opinion, It's deeper then that
It's about controlling the social mechanisms that allow a view to be held by someone without that person becoming an outcast and losing both their social standing and moral authority
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Today there's no Permission Structure that allows anyone in higher education, government, arts, media, culture, etc to say "trans women are not actual women and biological males shouldn't compete in women's sports" without losing social standing and becoming a hated outcast...
Today there's no Permission Structure that allows anyone in higher education, government, arts, media, culture, etc to say "trans women are not actual women and biological males shouldn't compete in women's sports" without losing social standing and becoming a hated outcast...
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There's no set of ideas, concepts, and reasons, that provide a SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE justification for someone to say "trans women are not actual women, and kids can't pick their gender," without losing their social standing, being branded a bigot and becoming an outcast
Why..?
There's no set of ideas, concepts, and reasons, that provide a SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE justification for someone to say "trans women are not actual women, and kids can't pick their gender," without losing their social standing, being branded a bigot and becoming an outcast
Why..?
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Because the left owns all the Permission Structures.
The right and center MUST build Permission Structures that provide *SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE* justifications for rejecting wokeness, so people can reject wokeness and "keep their head up" and not lose their social standing.
Because the left owns all the Permission Structures.
The right and center MUST build Permission Structures that provide *SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE* justifications for rejecting wokeness, so people can reject wokeness and "keep their head up" and not lose their social standing.
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Permission Structures are what is going to allow normal, everyday people who cannot afford to lose their social standing (and thus thsir job, economic opportunities, and social connections) to vocally say no to wokeness...so we MUST begin building Permission Structures.
Now.
Permission Structures are what is going to allow normal, everyday people who cannot afford to lose their social standing (and thus thsir job, economic opportunities, and social connections) to vocally say no to wokeness...so we MUST begin building Permission Structures.
Now.
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So long as the woke control the Permission Structures, the woke will control who gets moral authority, which views are socially acceptable, and who has social standing.
As long as they control all that, they can win.
So what do we need to do?????
So long as the woke control the Permission Structures, the woke will control who gets moral authority, which views are socially acceptable, and who has social standing.
As long as they control all that, they can win.
So what do we need to do?????
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We need to build Permission Structures that allow people to say no to wokeness without losing their social standing.
/fin
We need to build Permission Structures that allow people to say no to wokeness without losing their social standing.
/fin
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