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Woke and Weaponized Bureaucracy!
I’d like to explain how wokeness has been able to take over many, if not all, of our societies most valuable institutions of culture, business, knowledge, government, and education.
So, Woke and Weaponized Bureaucracy,
A thread🧵
Woke and Weaponized Bureaucracy!
I’d like to explain how wokeness has been able to take over many, if not all, of our societies most valuable institutions of culture, business, knowledge, government, and education.
So, Woke and Weaponized Bureaucracy,
A thread🧵
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One of the biggest mistakes people make in fighting wokeness is refusing to understand how woke activists think. We need to understand how the woke worldview informs woke tactics so that we can anticipate and counter woke attempts at institutional takeover.
One of the biggest mistakes people make in fighting wokeness is refusing to understand how woke activists think. We need to understand how the woke worldview informs woke tactics so that we can anticipate and counter woke attempts at institutional takeover.
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TO understand how woke activists think about strategize we need to know how the woke think about “discourses.” When a woke person talks about discourses, they mean all of the discussion, conversation, messaging, communication, art, and so on that occurs around any given topic.
TO understand how woke activists think about strategize we need to know how the woke think about “discourses.” When a woke person talks about discourses, they mean all of the discussion, conversation, messaging, communication, art, and so on that occurs around any given topic.
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Now, on woke theory “discourses” are responsible for determining which ideas become popular, gain prominence, become credible, which people become credible, which ideas get dismissed, which concepts get used, which viewpoints become “central” to a discourse, and so fourth.
Now, on woke theory “discourses” are responsible for determining which ideas become popular, gain prominence, become credible, which people become credible, which ideas get dismissed, which concepts get used, which viewpoints become “central” to a discourse, and so fourth.
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If you take all of that together, the picture that emerges is that the discourses are responsible for at least these two things:
1. Which ideas become influential, popular, credible, and powerful, and which ideas to do not.
2. The ways that ideas are communicated, and to who
If you take all of that together, the picture that emerges is that the discourses are responsible for at least these two things:
1. Which ideas become influential, popular, credible, and powerful, and which ideas to do not.
2. The ways that ideas are communicated, and to who
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If you can control the “discourses” of a society you can control which ideas are believed and which ones are not, which ideas gain legitimacy and which do not, which people get to spread their ideas and which don’t.
If you can control the “discourses” of a society you can control which ideas are believed and which ones are not, which ideas gain legitimacy and which do not, which people get to spread their ideas and which don’t.
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Basically since according to wokeness all thoughts are communicated via discourses, if you control discourses you can control ideas, and if you can control the ideas of a society you can exercise a lot of power.
And gaining social power is basically the game they are in.
Basically since according to wokeness all thoughts are communicated via discourses, if you control discourses you can control ideas, and if you can control the ideas of a society you can exercise a lot of power.
And gaining social power is basically the game they are in.
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Corporations try to take over institutions by purchasing the majority of the shares of a company, or try to get their people on the board of directors of companies; woke activists try to control the ideas, concepts, plans, goals, values, (the discourses) that run the company.
Corporations try to take over institutions by purchasing the majority of the shares of a company, or try to get their people on the board of directors of companies; woke activists try to control the ideas, concepts, plans, goals, values, (the discourses) that run the company.
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This means woke activists will try to change all of the rules, regulations, policies, directives, values, goals, and mission statements of any institution they take over. If the woke can control all of that they can hijack that institution in the name of woke ideology.
This means woke activists will try to change all of the rules, regulations, policies, directives, values, goals, and mission statements of any institution they take over. If the woke can control all of that they can hijack that institution in the name of woke ideology.
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They do not need to “own” a corporation, or be in charge of it in order to hijack it. If they are able to engineer a change in the rules, regulations, policies, directives, values, goals, aims, direction, and mission statement of the institution they control that institution.
They do not need to “own” a corporation, or be in charge of it in order to hijack it. If they are able to engineer a change in the rules, regulations, policies, directives, values, goals, aims, direction, and mission statement of the institution they control that institution.
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The main way they do is through “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives. The woke activist will use DEI as the excuse to bring woke ideas into the institution, and then will seek to make those ideas the ideas which dominate the institutional culture.
The main way they do is through “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives. The woke activist will use DEI as the excuse to bring woke ideas into the institution, and then will seek to make those ideas the ideas which dominate the institutional culture.
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Wokeness leverages it’s view of society in order to create an obligation on institutions to adopt policies which place that institution under control of wokeness. It claims institutions have a moral obligation to use DEI to come in line with "Social Justice" (AKA wokeness)
Wokeness leverages it’s view of society in order to create an obligation on institutions to adopt policies which place that institution under control of wokeness. It claims institutions have a moral obligation to use DEI to come in line with "Social Justice" (AKA wokeness)
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The woke argue that society is rigged so that almost everyone who has power (or is at the top of the food chain) is a straight white male, and everyone who is not a straight white male is excluded from access to resources, prestige, clout, success, wealth, and power.
The woke argue that society is rigged so that almost everyone who has power (or is at the top of the food chain) is a straight white male, and everyone who is not a straight white male is excluded from access to resources, prestige, clout, success, wealth, and power.
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In order to fix institutions so they no longer “uphold” the oppressive system institutions must make diversity, equity, and inclusion a consideration in everything it says or does.
But the terms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are not used how you and I use them
In order to fix institutions so they no longer “uphold” the oppressive system institutions must make diversity, equity, and inclusion a consideration in everything it says or does.
But the terms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are not used how you and I use them
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Equity is not making sure everyone is treated equally. Inclusion is not making sure that people are not unjustly excluded. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, are terms of art in woke ideology and they don’t mean what we think they mean.
Equity is not making sure everyone is treated equally. Inclusion is not making sure that people are not unjustly excluded. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, are terms of art in woke ideology and they don’t mean what we think they mean.
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In practice:
Diversity means hiring people of different races, genders, abilities, and so fourth who are woke.
Equity means making sure that outcomes (not just opportunity) are the same.
Inclusion means never doing anything that might make any woke person feel uncomfortable.
In practice:
Diversity means hiring people of different races, genders, abilities, and so fourth who are woke.
Equity means making sure that outcomes (not just opportunity) are the same.
Inclusion means never doing anything that might make any woke person feel uncomfortable.
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The result of this is that the institution has to hire woke people, it has to stop using merit as the metric by which people are hired and promoted, and it has to make sure that everyone adopts woke views and walks on eggshells around woke people so they don’t feel offended.
The result of this is that the institution has to hire woke people, it has to stop using merit as the metric by which people are hired and promoted, and it has to make sure that everyone adopts woke views and walks on eggshells around woke people so they don’t feel offended.
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Once this process has been completed by adding DEI requirement to every aspect of the institution it results in a radical shift in the culture of the institution, and the goals of the institution.
Once this process has been completed by adding DEI requirement to every aspect of the institution it results in a radical shift in the culture of the institution, and the goals of the institution.
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Adopting DEI as a part of every part of the institution is going to require redirecting resources towards DEI initiatives at a cost of the effectiveness of the institution while directing resources away from the original mission of the institution.
Adopting DEI as a part of every part of the institution is going to require redirecting resources towards DEI initiatives at a cost of the effectiveness of the institution while directing resources away from the original mission of the institution.
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All of this makes the institution less effective as it’s ability to draw talent, promote competence, and focus on it’s original mission are sacrificed on the altar of woke ideology.
Do you all see how this works?
All of this makes the institution less effective as it’s ability to draw talent, promote competence, and focus on it’s original mission are sacrificed on the altar of woke ideology.
Do you all see how this works?
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I hope that now have the basic outline of how this institutional process works. In the next few weeks I will be writing a series of essays which will go through each member of the woke trinity: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
I hope that now have the basic outline of how this institutional process works. In the next few weeks I will be writing a series of essays which will go through each member of the woke trinity: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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I will give you all a full explanation of each of these terms, how they function, and the role they play in handing over control of an institution to woke activism and bringing the institution under woke control.
I hope you all find this useful 🙂
I will give you all a full explanation of each of these terms, how they function, and the role they play in handing over control of an institution to woke activism and bringing the institution under woke control.
I hope you all find this useful 🙂
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I have expanded this thread into an essay which you can find on Substack at the link below.
All my essays are free for everyone. However, if you find my work useful please consider supporting me with either a paid for free subscription
Thank you🙂
wokaldistance.substack.com
I have expanded this thread into an essay which you can find on Substack at the link below.
All my essays are free for everyone. However, if you find my work useful please consider supporting me with either a paid for free subscription
Thank you🙂
wokaldistance.substack.com
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