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It's been a theory of mine that US intelligence agencies are involved in pushing identity politics as well, but I haven't seen hard evidence. Do you have any a
by colordrops 6y ago
It's been a theory of mine that US intelligence agencies are involved in pushing identity politics as well, but I haven't seen hard evidence. Do you have any articles or other links?
- dragonwriter 6y agoA pretty key element of the entire Cold War was US intelligence agencies pushing racial, ethnic, national, religious, and other identity politics — and pushing groups embracing them to violent extremism — as a tool against Communism and Soviet-aligned regimes. Of course, another big part of that was the USSR doing to the same thing against western capitalism and US-aligned regimes.
- kneel 6y agoA lot of people have made connections between the office of strategic operations and the Frankfurt school of sociology. A lot of reading material down that rabbit hole. Very interesting.
- mmmeff 6y agoThis goes back to Soviet cold-war-era psy-ops. They planted the seeds in the US and now the US is exporting it to the rest of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
- slibhb 6y agoThere are rumors that Foucault was promoted by CIA money. If it's true, it's likely because he was an anti-USSR French leftist as opposed to all the pro-USSR French leftists.
- 13415 6y agoAs if Foucault has had any major influence. He's literally one among thousands of philosophers and by far not the most popular one. I'm working in a philosophy institute and of all 60+ researchers there is but one postdoc who takes Foucault as a basis of his own theorizing.
- slibhb 6y agoFoucault has had a huge amount of influence, though mostly not in philosophy. In my experience he's inescapable in the humanities. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Influence_and_reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Influence_and_...
- 13415 6y agoI work in the humanities and disagree. I know plenty of people in neighboring disciplines, too, and can assure you that you won't need to read Foucault in any of them if you don't want to.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoApart from “hard” evidence, have you seen any evidence at all?
- colordrops 6y agoJust circumstantial: * Politicians using it as a technique to divide people. It definitely ramps up around elections * Bots on twitter and Reddit pushing it * Meeting several "woke" people deployed by the state department in foreign countries * The narratives are all usually very flawed and crafted to cause outrage rather than right previous wrongs or bring people together