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July 12, 2022 at 6:53 am
cara ryan
I find it a bizarre twist of irony of how this doctrinarian cult (especially: within the mess that is the American system), has managed to operate almost hand-in-glove alongside the worst excesses of unfettered vulture capitalism and the same old Puritanical conformity the Right is rooted in(?). It’s all nihilism at its core and, is as far from being a true liberal as you can get. I mean, I went to college in the ’90s (a small-ish school to get a degree in Business Administration) and there wasn’t the kind of abject ideological insanity (then) I can only imagine campuses today are full of.
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July 12, 2022 at 7:10 am
tildeb
Know thy enemy: illiberal religious ideology in whatever form it takes.Thanks for this, Arb.
This is why I am appalled at how poorly atheists have responded in general, on social media especially, knowing the caustic effect illiberal religious belief has on human rights, knowing how to fight it, yet utterly failing to see exactly the same effects from this regressive social ideology that shows us what it is in practice: an intolerant religion. The central tenets of the ideology brings forth the worst elements of religious belief and imposes it on the public domain using an alias. Young(er) atheists are generally falling all over themselves to embrace and promote it as its most fervent and faithful of servants to demonstrate their virtue to the likeminded by becoming the most intolerant of true believers.
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July 12, 2022 at 7:36 am
The Arbourist
@tildeb
You are welcome.
I don’t think this just sprung out of the ground. There has been serious work in the schools to make the ideological ground fertile for this sort of thing. I remember one teaching seminar I attended that encouraged teachers to break down the barriers between their roles in the classroom.
The teacher/student format in the classroom isn’t always necessary but I’d have to say the co-learner model presented wasn’t a good fit all the time either. Reflecting on what they were teaching at the seminar, they were doing the Paulo Freire model (Liberation Marxism) without the explicit decodification/codification steps. So we were being introduced to part of the model essentially, but without the explicit marxist indoctrination.
I suspect the infiltration of the schools has much to do with the appalling amount of new atheists and skeptics that don’t have a clue as to what is going on and which ideology is living inside their heads.
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July 12, 2022 at 9:12 am
tildeb
I remember being ‘schooled’ by a classmate in a teacher’s college seminar that “You can’t say that.” I told him not only could I say it, I did say it, and I said it just to piss him off. The dropped jaws were a sight to behold!
I was also told that unless I was a member of the identity group we were discussing, I didn’t have the ‘right’ to criticize the problems of empowering group identity when it came to teaching. So I added the identity to my repertoire on the spot and told the student to prove I wasn’t a ‘member’. It sucked the wind out the person who was left dangling without an identity shield and who had no other defence for my accurate criticism.
I recognized from a very age that group ideology was a necessary component for group conflict. Why others don’t seem to grasp how this framing of competing groups will always produce unending conflict is another mystery to me. It just seems so bloody obvious that using the framework for anything supposedly constructive or shared or fair has lost before anything can begin. Group ideology necessary for victims and victimizers is core to Marxism but the core idea is really just a political nom de plume for our ancient roots to tribalism.
E pluribus unum is not just a scrolled garnish to make something look vaguely intellectual; it is the core measurement against any and all ideologies for liberalism to coexist with it, and the antithesis to the easy slide into totalitarianism by some other more popular tribal ideology, be it called religious, Marxist, Progressive, or ‘social justice’.
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