Hello all. It seems that Twitter has restricted my account and has provided no explanation so far as to why. I'm trying to regain access, so far with little success. Stay tuned. -James Lindsay (
@ConceptualJames
)
"Critical Race Theory flourishes in part by making people believe it is complicated and sophisticated when, in fact, it is neither." -
@ConceptualJames
"You're hardly more of a racist because of accusations of 'white complicity' in 'systemic racism' than you are a murderer or manslaughterer because car accidents sometimes happen & you live in a society where people drive cars." -
@ConceptualJames
Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism. That we have failed to understand this fact over the 175 years since The Communist Manifesto was written is one of the most damaging analytical errors in human history." -
@ConceptualJames
Update: Still locked out of
@conceptualjames
. So here's a funny irony you will appreciate: I was literally editing the Encyclopedia entry for "exclusion" when it happened. -James
"They don't care if your child can read, do science, or knows what a molecule is. All they want to do is raise critical consciousness and use every subject in the school to do it." -
@ConceptualJames
Everything you hold dear is under threat of corruption. Your job, your home, your husband or wife, your children, your beliefs, and most important — your identity itself. If they claim that, the rest is won. Who are “they” you ask? They are The Woke.
"Wokeness is a cult. It might even be, in its broadest functions, a proper religion at this point with a describable and fanatic cult element within it and protected by the relative reasonability of the broader faith." -
@ConceptualJames
"Wokeness is a cult. It might even be, in its broadest functions, a proper religion at this point with a describable and fanatic cult element within it and protected by the relative reasonability of the broader faith." -
@ConceptualJames
"There's genuine diversity in this room, but it's the kind of diversity that the social justice movement cannot stand. It's diversity of ideas." -
@andrewdoyle_com
"Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted." -
@ConceptualJames
He sends the following message of hope to his friends and supporters: fascism will not win if we stand up to it! Have courage! And to his enemies, he says their moms are all disappointed in them but not in him!
We have just spoken with
@ConceptualJames
in Twitmo, and he says his spirits are high but his captors have not allowed him his attorney or offered any food or drink.
"Based on our data, there is a problem occurring with knowledge production within fields that have been corrupted by grievance studies arising from critical constructivism and radical skepticism."
"You’re hardly more of a racist because of accusations of 'white complicity' in 'systemic racism' than you are a murderer or manslaughterer because car accidents sometimes happen & you live in a society where people drive cars." -
@ConceptualJames
Murray calls the inability to listen to contrary points of view a "generational phenomenon" which has been adopted by children who believe that "speech is harm, and harm is not harm, that silence is violence and that violence is fine."
Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism. That we have failed to understand this fact over the 175 years since The Communist Manifesto was written is one of the most damaging analytical errors in human history." -
@ConceptualJames
"Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility, and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty, and tribal authoritarianism." -
@HPluckrose
"There's genuine diversity in this room, but it's the kind of diversity that the social justice movement cannot stand. It's diversity of ideas." -
@andrewdoyle_com
He says he intends to use his time in Twitter prison productively, writing a series of notebooks intended to destroy the Regime and its ideology and policies. He's calling them his Prison Notebooks.
"Spoiler alert: The infected monkey is loose in the city, and just like in the movie, people don't believe the threat is real. The problem is that the contents of social justice don't match the pretty diversity picture on the box." -
@ConceptualJames
"Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted." -
@ConceptualJames
He reports that the fascists might have been able to diminish his voice, but they only strengthen his resolve against their tyranny and the ideologies that drive it.
"Spoiler alert: The infected monkey is loose in the city, and just like in the movie, people don't believe the threat is real. The problem is that the contents of social justice don't match the pretty diversity picture on the box." -
@ConceptualJames
Robin DiAngelo’s emotionally and financially manipulative manuscript for "racism education" should be soundly condemned by anyone who truly seeks to end racism and enjoy a unified and peaceable future.
"There's genuine diversity in this room, but it's the kind of diversity that the social justice movement cannot stand. It's diversity of ideas." -
@andrewdoyle_com
"Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted." -
@ConceptualJames
"There’s a great and frustrating irony about Marxism. On the one hand, it is extremely simple—almost cartoonishly so. On the other hand, millions of pages of extremely complicated writing exist trying to make it true." -
@ConceptualJames
"How one of the least commendable and, frankly, dumbest ideologies in the history of mankind has managed to present a legitimate threat of laying low one of humanity’s greatest and, on the whole, most beneficent societies." -
@ConceptualJames
"The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse." -
@ConceptualJames
"Wokeness is a cult. It might even be, in its broadest functions, a proper religion at this point with a describable and fanatic cult element within it and protected by the relative reasonability of the broader faith." -
@ConceptualJames
"If we want to achieve the goals of 'racial healing' by ending racism and making society more just and fair (which I believe are possible), it begins by rejecting, not accepting and mainstreaming, Critical Race Theory." -
@ConceptualJames
"Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility, and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty, and tribal authoritarianism." -
@HPluckrose
"The slogan 'white silence is violence' is best understood as an emotional manipulation by people who want you to understand the world in their particular way and to push their particular form of activism." -
@ConceptualJames
"If you want to impose a totalitarian system, you have a problem on your hands: reality. The real is in your way and will eventually veto your project." -
@ConceptualJames
"There's genuine diversity in this room, but it's the kind of diversity that the social justice movement cannot stand. It's diversity of ideas." -Andrew Doyle
"Who is the god of Marxist Theology? Man, perfected. Man who only truly exists in that perfected utopian future that Marxism upholds as a necessary historical possibility. Marxism is a theology." -
@ConceptualJames
"GamerGate is the canary in the Woke coal mine that represents the victory of the honest person in the comments section winning over the dishonest journalist writing the article." -
@DamienCarlisle
America cannot survive as a self-loathing and internally divided country that has rejected truth and morality. Such derangements are the foundation stones of a coming dark age.
"Wokeness is a cult. It might even be, in its broadest functions, a proper religion at this point with a describable and fanatic cult element within it and protected by the relative reasonability of the broader faith." -
@ConceptualJames
"Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted."
@ConceptualJames
"I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University," William F. Buckley notoriously remarked.
"I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University," William F. Buckley notoriously remarked.
While surveys show a rapid decrease in racist attitudes throughout white populations in the US over the last few decades, diversity training, which seeks to make people more aware of racial issues, actually seems to make them worse.
"Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility, and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty, and tribal authoritarianism." -
@HPluckrose
"If we want to achieve the goals of 'racial healing' by ending racism and making society more just and fair (which I believe are possible), it begins by rejecting, not accepting and mainstreaming, Critical Race Theory." -
@ConceptualJames