At its core, the Woke are constructing a motion that subverts the Left and renders it impotent within the face of its very actual theocratic and fascist enemies. It units male in opposition to feminine, straight and cis-gendered in opposition to queer, Black in opposition to white, and the working class in opposition to the intelligentsia. It debases science with varied offshoots of the meaningless pseudo-science often known as “essential concept” – a area so rigorous that certainly one of its main journals revealed a (fabricated) paper that presupposed to chronicle endemic rape tradition…at a canine park.[1] Above all, nonetheless, the Woke train younger and idealistic college students that they need to search refuge in “secure locations” somewhat than discover ways to overcome their fears…and their enemies.
It’s nearly as if our enemies invented this factor.
[1] Lindsay, James, Peter Boghassian, and Helen Pluckrose. “Tutorial Grievance Research and the Corruption of Scholarship.” Areo, 10 February 2018.
That is from Jonathan Lipow, Public Coverage for Progressives, 2023.
Jonathan is a professor of economics on the Naval Postgraduate College. He’s in a unique a part of the college than the one I used to be in however we interacted as colleagues for a few years.
Jonathan is a progressive and he desires to speak to different progressives who he thinks, accurately, want to listen to his financial message. Jonathan and I don’t agree on every part, after all. Do not forget that he’s a progressive. However we agree on a lot of issues.
Within the subsequent week or so, I’ll have a couple of extra posts about content material in his e-book.
Right here’s yet one more excerpt, with my transient commentary, for now:
But, as we will see, logic and proof strongly counsel that some insurance policies at present widespread amongst American leftists are certainly actually ridiculous, corresponding to opposition to constitution faculties and nuclear power. In the meantime, different insurance policies extensively advocated by progressives – corresponding to a $15 minimal wage – are usually not foolish, however massive our bodies of proof counsel that they’re ineffective and primarily a waste of time. [DRH note: I wish they were just a waste of time rather than a policy that makes it more difficult for young unskilled workers to get on the first rung of the economic ladder.] However, readers may be happy to know that progressives’ instinctual help for common medical insurance [DRH note: hmmm] and liberal immigration insurance policies [DRH note: yes] are nicely supported by each logic and proof.
Extra to comply with.
Postscript: Right here’s a submit I did in 2016 a couple of earlier e-book by Jonathan by which he mentioned good issues about me: he did so to argue that my libertarian views wouldn’t work on the planet practically in addition to I believed they might.
