Decolonize: A Translation from the Wokish | James Lindsay

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[EarlMcManus]

I never thought I would be living the Western version of Mao's Cultural Revolution.

[bbainter]

More of these shorts please! This is gold. Most people won't watch 2 hour videos.

[drifter]

It's really hard to separate this word from CRT as well, where Mexico a Spanish colonized country is ok, as long as it's not a "white" colonized country. So really when they say decolonize it's always got a tone of race built into it.

[JaketheJust]

No one truly bothers reading history, because if they did they find that every single nation, culture or race of human colonized some portion of the world that wasn’t originally theirs. Carthage colonized Spain and attempt the same to Italy, Mongolian Empire stretched further than the Romans which include Large portions of Europe, and the oldest empire to exists the Ottoman Empire also carried out mass extermination of local populations in Armenia and Greece.

[zocastproductions]

Forget everything you have ever known about bread! Forgotten? Okay. Now, let me tell you about this great new thing I made called bread!

[BuddhistZenDave]

when you are weak and want things, you can't win head on, you come in at an angle, and that angle is, "you're bad for having things, give them to me".

[rfb]

Thanks for your work Mr. Lindsay. You're reading this woke, hateful horseshit so we don't have to.

[r.c.christian]

Themes of CRT as listed in "Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography", 1993, by Delgado and Stefancic:
1. Critique of liberalism
2. Storytelling/"naming one's own reality" (anti-objectivism; rejection of quantitative/scientific data)
3. Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress (1619 project; anti-incrementalism)
4. Greater understanding of the underpinnings of race and racism ("systemic" racism found everywhere they look)
5. Structural Determinism (where anti-meritocracy comes from)
6. Race, sex, class and their intersections ("intersectionality"/queer theory)
7. Essentialism and anti-essentialism (identity politics)
8. Cultural nationalism/separatism (including "black insurrection")

[susanwojcickisnicetwin]

I think this short format is fantastic. Sometimes my mind wanders listening to the long ones and then I miss key information. This is succinct and straightforward and great for explaining some of the simpler concepts and definitions.

Please, sir, may I have another?

[ForProfit-x]

I listen to your longer videos, but i think it'd be neat if you made a playlist of woke terminology shorts like this one

[The]

You, young man are doing the work that will save civilization for my grandchildren. Thank you!

[mattlombard]

They right! Stop using electricity! Stop using books! Stop using medicine. Stop using cell phones! Oh shit we in the stone age!

[scribbles]

I find it out that a people who benefit from all the advantages and advancements of the Western want to get rid of it all for the plebs, yet keep it for themselves.

[Tyler_W]

Decolonization: "If it came from/was popularized by whitey and whitey's culture, it's bad."

Great work as always. These are an incredibly valuable resource. Thank you for your work.

[olddog]

A few years ago, a university in south Africa claimed "Colonial "Science" doesn't work there and they want to go back to voo doo....good luck.

[dreamdiction]

People who cannot understand complexity HATE people who can understand complexity. Decolonizing means dumbing everything down until the stupidest people can feel equal to everyone else. Decolonizing is shaming anyone who tries to be smarter than the dumbest people.

[blueslover]

I am mixed race. Native american and white...you can't decolonize me without erasing me.

[mowgli]

I listen to the New Discourses podcasts.
I'm also a part of the facebook group called Critical Theory Skeptics.
It's encouraging to see that there is also a YouTube channel.

[somerandomguy]

I like how these "Other things" that are to replace everything are always kept extremely vague, so as to avoid any reasonable discussion on the topic.

[pops]

Tom Sowell does a nice piece on how colonialism aided many 3rd world countries.