{"id":60501,"date":"2020-09-26T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=60501"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:38:08","slug":"debate-is-an-imperialist-capitalist-white-supremacist-cis-heteropatriarchal-technique-that-transforms-a-potential-exchange-of-knowledge-into-a-tool-of-exclusion-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/09\/26\/debate-is-an-imperialist-capitalist-white-supremacist-cis-heteropatriarchal-technique-that-transforms-a-potential-exchange-of-knowledge-into-a-tool-of-exclusion-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; debate is an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis heteropatriarchal technique that transforms a potential exchange of knowledge into a tool of exclusion &#038; oppression&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/yes-this-is-the-face-of-a-tyrant?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjczOTE5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMzI5MzIwLCJfIjoiRURBTlgiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDEwNjA5MjcsImV4cCI6MTYwMTA2NDUyNywiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.xGpa-YqVKytAmzeCFjSb9fHCc2Tj-lKWsc-_jIYFMtY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>&#8216;s latest look at the ultrawoke:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_2020-06-22-According-to-the-tenets-of-Critical-Race-Theory-it-is-impossible-to-be-\u201cnon-racist\u201d.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_2020-06-22-According-to-the-tenets-of-Critical-Race-Theory-it-is-impossible-to-be-\u201cnon-racist\u201d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"261\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_2020-06-22-According-to-the-tenets-of-Critical-Race-Theory-it-is-impossible-to-be-\u201cnon-racist\u201d.png 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_2020-06-22-According-to-the-tenets-of-Critical-Race-Theory-it-is-impossible-to-be-\u201cnon-racist\u201d-480x209.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_2020-06-22-According-to-the-tenets-of-Critical-Race-Theory-it-is-impossible-to-be-\u201cnon-racist\u201d-150x65.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why critical theorists and their popularizers never seem to actually expose themselves to direct criticism, this quote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfSunnySingh\/status\/1309077604838842371\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">might help<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>I get regular invites to debate on various platforms. I always say no. Because debate is an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis heteropatriarchal technique that transforms a potential exchange of knowledge into a tool of exclusion &#038; oppression.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And also perhaps because debate is one of the most effective tools in rooting out ideological bullshit. Speaking of which, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/international\/2020\/09\/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> with Judith Butler, the patron saint of wokeness, in which she can actually say, with a straight face: &#8220;I am not aware that terf is used as a slur.&#8221; &#8220;Terf&#8221; is short for &#8220;Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.&#8221; It&#8217;s yelled routinely at any dissenter from critical queer and gender theory. Of <em>course<\/em> it&#8217;s used as a slur. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 1619 Project has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2020\/09\/22\/1619-s22.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">begun finally to implode<\/a>. Its core argument &#8211; that America&#8217;s true founding was in 1619 not 1776, because America is in its DNA a slavocracy built on &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; and not a democracy rooted in the unrealized principle of human equality \u2014 has been withdrawn by the editor. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conor64\/status\/1309274175664566272\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">best summary<\/a> of the rank dishonesty of the entire thing, from the preternaturally reasonable Conor Friedersdorf. He attempted to engage Nikole Hannah-Jones in good faith, a concept she simply doesn&#8217;t comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s clear by now that a completely defensible \u2014 even important \u2014 airing of new scholarship about the evil of slavery, and its profound impact on America, became hijacked at the <em>NYT<\/em> by the ideology that insists that the United States is inherently white supremacist, that this explains <em>everything<\/em> about the country, that this has never changed, that no white people were involved in perfecting the union, and that liberal democracy is a front for racism and should be dismantled. Given the extremist politics and unethical behavior of Nikole Hannah-Jones, this is unsurprising. But that this confused, half-baked rant won a Pulitzer and is being used to indoctrinate school kids in critical race theory is a staggering indictment of how corrupted by left-racism American elite journalism now is. In my view, the Pulitzer Board needs to rescind its prize. Fat chance, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But there is hope. There are still reporters at the <em>NYT<\/em> interested in the truth about woke culture and politics. Nellie Bowles&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/21\/us\/black-lives-matter-protests-tactics.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dispatch from Portland<\/a> is a must-read. It&#8217;s a glimpse into the totalitarian impulses behind so many on the far left. Chilling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan&#8216;s latest look at the ultrawoke: If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why critical theorists and their popularizers never seem to actually expose themselves to direct criticism, this quote might help: I get regular invites to debate on various platforms. I always say no. Because debate is an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis heteropatriarchal technique that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[1380,1020,269,99,605,997],"class_list":["post-60501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticaltheory","tag-progressives","tag-propaganda","tag-racism","tag-slavery","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fJP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60502,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions\/60502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}