#ConceptualJames

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Critical theory is a universal solvent, and the problem with a universal solvent is finding a container that can hold them. Spill enough and dissolve society." -- James Lindsay

#James Lindsay #ConceptualJames #universal solvent #critical theory #critical social justice #religion is a mental illness

[cryptotheism]

I gotta know what you think of this

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1611592387758899202?s=19

@bestpigeon

1) Hell yeah that's a cool way of thinking about it

2) "hermetic/gnostic" is a problematic term. The theologies we're similar but Gnostics and Hermetics generally hated each other. The mechanisms of the transcendence of the soul were different in important ways. To vastly over-summarize: Gnostics hated the body and saw it as a corrupt obstacle to oneness with the pleroma. Hermetics thought the body was alright.

3) Claiming that Gnosticism predates Christianity is a bit of a stretch in this case imo. Like I know they're occasionally described as "Jewish Gnosticisms" but don't pull Bereshit and Merkava mysticism into this. The ideas about the body that he's describing here are very Christian.

4) Orphism was right there come on. They loved that sex and death and rebirth shit.

#submission

[ultramaga]

Leftists use the term "white" to mean "enemy". It is no longer about just race - anyone can become white, anyone can be declared an unperson, a subhuman deserving only of death. And Biden formalised it. If you don't vote for Biden, you are no longer black. Only those who conform are allowed that privilege.

#leftism #racism #demonisation

[holyfunnyhistoryherring]

So, I don't want to just reblog this with a description that isn't under the image, cause it gets confusing out of order.

So, here's the post by @cryptotheism :

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I gotta know what you think of this

Tweet

[Image description:

A tweet by James Lindsay, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @/ConceptualJames , “It's called a "dead name" because adopting a trans identity is a ritual of death and rebirth in Queer Gnosticism. Technically it's a crude, external (simulated) step towards Hermetic ascension to the level of self-begottenness so that one's gender soul might actualize.”

A reply by Buffalo Shaman Baryphonic @/TheBaryphonic , “A corruption of Christian rebirth; cf. "new communist man" ”

And another reply by James Lindsay, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @/ConceptualJames , “I think gnostic/Hermetic rebirth predate Christian, but yes.”

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@bestpigeon

1) Hell yeah that's a cool way of thinking about it

2) "hermetic/gnostic" is a problematic term. The theologies we're similar but Gnostics and Hermetics generally hated each other. The mechanisms of the transcendence of the soul were different in important ways. To vastly over-summarize: Gnostics hated the body and saw it as a corrupt obstacle to oneness with the pleroma. Hermetics thought the body was alright.

3) Claiming that Gnosticism predates Christianity is a bit of a stretch in this case imo. Like I know they're occasionally described as "Jewish Gnosticisms" but don't pull Bereshit and Merkava mysticism into this. The ideas about the body that he's describing here are very Christian.

4) Orphism was right there come on. They loved that sex and death and rebirth shit.

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An addition by @thebestpigeon :

Its crazy how the most insane far right thinkers will describe being transgender as like this mystical pagan ritual process, literally the coolest and correct way to view being trans, and then add "this is bad btw"

What is it about being trans that makes far right heads explode like this that they have to google what hermetics is to explain us when all of the quote tweets are just like

"Oh i just wanted a different name, cool theory though 👍"

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An addition by @mrs-edgewick :

This is annoying to me because there's literally nothing christian about changing my name, to me. It was a deeply personally meaningful process to me. I am much more interested in the civic power of a court order legally changing my name than any kind of weird religious or ritual sentiment.

It's called a "deadname" because to me, that name is now incorrect, and I want never to be called by it again. Let it "die" a civic death, and pass from the memories of all who know me.

#described #twitblr #transphobia #religion #terminology

[sighphi]

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

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[wmproprt]

#WokeIsMarxism

James Lindsay at European Parliament

@conceptualjames

@PBoonefaes

#Youtube

[alstenvirosaf0]

RT @WalkerT_Stuart: Looks like @ConceptualJames gotta up his game! It’s awesome! https://t.co/IyzB7Wc4QT

RT @WalkerT_Stuart: Looks like @ConceptualJames gotta up his game! It’s awesome! https://t.co/IyzB7Wc4QT

— Allstar Enviro Safety (@alstenvirosaf0) Jul 29, 2022

[aitchque]

Aitch Que

RT @ConceptualJames: https://t.co/vZVnHi0wZS https://t.co/TYgmevpadL — Rando #21 🤙🏽 Aitch Que ♠️🏴‍☠️ (@AitchQueX) Jul 6, 2022 July 06, 2022 at 11:16AM via Twitter https://twitter.com/AitchQueX

#writing #writer #author #creative writing #write #writing life #amwriting

[ultramaga]

Welcome to the final failure of feminism - where men are the females now. Women do not qualify.

#newspeak #woman+ #leftism #antifeminism #feminism

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

If this tactic seems familiar, it’s because it’s the same mechanism as “you can’t have morals without a god.” If it was about the X or the morality, it wouldn’t matter to them how you care about X or live morally. But it isn’t. It’s about disparaging those who don’t comply with or submit to its specific ideological demands. Because echoing their belief is more important than shared goals.

#James Lindsay #ConceptualJames #critical theorists #critical theory #woke ideology #wokeness as religion #cult of woke #woke activism #wokeism #woke #manipulation #religious manipulation #religion is a mental illness

[commentsandstuff]

#BLM #black lives matter #critical race theory #critical theory #racism #racists #racist #white supremacy #lived experience #colorblind #color blind #ConceptualJames #James Lindsay #New Discourses #applied postmodernism #woke #wokeism #woke culture #cult of wokeness

[arcticdementor]

Kimberley Crenshaw, who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) clearly explains that CRT refers to Critical Theory (a neo-marxist methodology) mixed with race scholarship. Crenshaw is explicit about this:

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Further as @WadeMiller_USMC points out, AOC is using the same move the woke always use: saying any opposition to CRT is racist.

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No one is trying to prevent schools from teaching about slavery or racism. However, they do want to remove politically biased hard left CRT based activism from the classroom.

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Finally, CRT does a terrible job of dealing with racism. @ConceptualJames wrote a fantastic essay explaining why here:

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So don't get suckered by the tactics AOC is using. Insinuating that you are racist and have bad motives is their go-to move. Don't let it work

#threadreaderapp #twitter thread

[ppgxrrblove]

BLM edition :D, i know it has the ‘woke minis’ , it’s staying truthful okay lol.

Part 1: https://ppgxrrblove.tumblr.com/post/628194667710873600/im-totally-gonna-get-shot-im-totally-gonna-get

Part 2: https://ppgxrrblove.tumblr.com/post/628194932151205888/badoop-some-knowledge-to-spread-of-how-horribly

Part 3: https://ppgxrrblove.tumblr.com/post/628195177869213696/part-1

Part 4: https://ppgxrrblove.tumblr.com/post/628195798130294784/part-1

Part 5: https://ppgxrrblove.tumblr.com/post/628196046572584960/ah-now-were-done-with-the-series-of-woke-terms

Part 6: here

Extras: 

credit; conceptualjames

#blm #black lives matter #all lives matter #do not support blm #do not support this #woke #woke culture #woke mindset #mindset #credit #off topic #link #part 6 #images #all life is precious #quotes #great quotes

[eretzyisrael]

I guess in light of this, I should explain just how horrific Critical Theory is with regard to Jews and thus anti-Semitism. It's almost impossible to convey the full, crazy depth of this, so I'll have to leave out huge parts, too, like Islamophobia.

To only briefly touch upon the "Islamophobia" aspect, both Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Theory are deeply invested in the support for Palestine, by which is more specifically meant the utter destruction of Israel and anti-Zionism.

 Even the Queer Theorists are in on this.That very practicable side of Theory sees that the existence of Israel at all is a colonial conquest of Palestine, thus a last lingering full-blown move of Western colonialism into "brown" and Eastern (read: Islamic) territory, thus intolerable. The Jew-hate is insane on this.

Theory across the board protects Islamist anti-Seminism (and other horrors, like Muslim grooming gangs that target white women for sex abuses), because it would be "racist" and "colonialist" to denounce these horrors because that requires a "white, Western" perspective.

That's the part I'm going to ignore, though. I want to talk mostly about Critical Race Theory, whiteness, and anti-Semitism. I think you'll be shocked at how deep the rot goes and how vile and dangerous the ideology is. Another Holocaust could result, not being hyperbolic.

Light-skinned (and often other) Jews are Theorized as having been granted the status of "whiteness," with this being extremely obvious with Jews whose skin is actually quite pale. This means that Jews, in CRT, have an intolerable privilege they need to check.

Here's the problem, though. Jews have quite the incredible history of super legitimate oppression, including imperial destruction, diaspora, enslavement, and a literal genocide in the Holocaust. They're really huge victims historically, including of "the West."

As with the related concept of "brown privilege," which assigns to "brown" people a very uncomfortable position of being Theoretically "anti-Black" and yet "not white," Jews are Theoretically assigned whiteness with a HUGE, defensible claim on legitimate systemic oppression.

This combination is intolerable to CRT. CRT would demand that Jews atone of their whiteness by recognizing it and critiquing it and submitting to CRT, which identifies them indelibly as white (including by success), yet their legitimate claim to systemic oppression prevents it.

Jewish people therefore fall into a very dangerous spot within Theory: they have a legitimate reason not to "do the work" while "enjoying the benefits" of whiteness, in many respects more than most other people. This is an intolerable contradiction that will demand resolution.

Theory cannot find a resolution to this situation, especially so long as Israel exists and is "oppressing Palestine" by its very existence, which is another problem that is nearly impossible to solve. Lacking resolutions to major Theoretical contradictions rarely remains stable.

The Critical Whiteness aspect of CRT holds that Jews have been granted Whiteness by whites but bc they retain their historical victimhood statuses, they enjoy an even further privilege of getting a kind of "false" victimhood status as well. This is obviously the stuff of horrors.

This set of contradictions has also led some (fringe) elements within Social Justice to begin to deny the Holocaust entirely, which cannot be seen as a welcome development, especially in a broader context where the far right has been doing the same and muddying those waters.

More commonly, it has led Theorists to say things (as went quite viral earlier this year) that Anne Frank is only relevant because of her Whiteness and wouldn't be an interesting story (or part of the Western canon) if she hadn't been white. This is unhealthy stuff.

So, add in the stuff where they elevate Muslims to a highly protected status and their protectionism for Palestine, they also tend to see Zionism as a colonialist movement (at best) that has been literally infected with (literal) Nazi ideology (at worst), and it's truly scary.

The anti-Semitism in Critical Race Theory isn't an accident. It's what happens when terrible identity-based Theory rooted in victimhood can't resolve real-world contradictions, and it currently bears every unmistakable sign of being a real threat to Jews everywhere.

#critical race theory #antisemitism #islamophobia #palestine #israel #palestinians #jews