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This sounds like the “intellectual matrix” the French education minister wrote about recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-ame
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This sounds like the “intellectual matrix” the French education minister wrote about recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...
> French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.
> Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWait, the American woke leftists are too far out for the French? (But it sounds like the problem isn't their position, but their actions or method.)
- treeman79 5y agoWoke culture is heading towards the cultural revolution mindset of China from 50 years ago. Its been that way for awhile but was considered fringe until recently. Not it’s at a tipping point. Don’t agree with latest woke idea. Perhaps thousands of rabbis youth attacking you will change your mind.
- throwawaysea 5y agoRelated article and video: “Mom who survived Mao’s China calls critical race theory America’s Cultural Revolution” https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/mom-who-survived-maos-china-blasts-critical-race-theory/ https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/mom-who-survived-maos-china-bl...
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoI think you mean "rabid." This may be a problem with personalized autocomplete.
- treeman79 5y agoIt was auto corrected to “rabbit”. I changed it back to “rabid”. Or so I thought.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoI think you're being down voted but you speak the truth. The current division, strife, and lack of unity in western society is in large part due to misinformation, propaganda, and psyops from adversaries. The primary goal is to make personal identity politics more important than national allegiances so that we rot from the inside out. We're not in the cold war anymore. We are in the Ice War.
- akomtu 5y agoThe interesting question is who's funding this ideology. CRT is very fundamentalist in its nature (i.e. you either blindly follow our dogma or become our mortal enemy - no middle ground) and it also has strong flavor of Marxism (I mean those calls to dissolve the family institute in favor of some communal state). Also, the woke like to hide behind blacks and women and pretend they talk on their behalf. Based on these traits, I'd say the origin of their funding is probably Hamas because their tactics is very similar.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI was with you until you linked CRT proselytism with Hamas. That seems quite a stretch.
- iagovar 5y agoHe does. Same concerns are arising in Spain as in France. American discourses are introduced through social media and this weird feedback loop some academics have with US universities. It's still not in mainstream but there's a growing resentment against this phenomena in some intellectual/political circles.
- tomp 5y ago> due to misinformation, propaganda, and psyops from adversaries. Not really. The psyops is run by insiders. Trump was undermined by Democrats, FBI and American media. The “lab leak” theory was censored by big tech and ridiculed by US media. Russia and other “adversaries” are mainly just a convenient scapegoat.
- goatse_aas 5y ago> French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. French politicians are dipshits, who cares? Are you all really dumb enough to think that woke college kids are the biggest problem on earth? Of course you are.