Monday and a new week in the lead up to Palm Sunday.
If you’ve followed me for a while you know that I am documenting what I believe is a rapid collapse of the United States as founded. Our culture and institutions are sagging under the weight of cultural Marxism in the form of woke orthodoxy or what some are now calling “critical consciousness.”
In a helpful piece that got me thinking about this, the author references an article on Critical Consciousness in New Discourses, where Lindsay says,
… a critical consciousness, sometimes referred to as “critical literacy” or “social justice literacy” […] refers essentially to assuming that society is constructed by systems of power that manifest dominance and oppression mostly in terms of “intersecting” demographic group identities. The slang term for this specific type of critical consciousness, arising since the Black Lives Matter movement propelled it to a widespread meme, is “wokeness.”
I’ve written at length on “Critical Theory” in a six-part series I did here and this article put another piece of the puzzle in place for me by naming the Brazilian Marxist educator Paulo Freire, who is also the villain when it comes to the Marxist destruction of the Church.
We absolutely must hold firm against the unrelenting pressure campaigns of critical consciousness or “wokeness.” One of the first ways to do this is to declare that you will not cooperate with the Marxists, and I came across a post from Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom that expresses this idea so well that I am going to recommend that you read it from start to finish.
But let me give you a taste what he says and which I endorse (with one exception). Here’s how he starts:
Be it so understood:
I refuse to “unpack white violence.” I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.” I will not — and in fact cannot — “examine my implicit biases.” I’m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me me.
I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.” I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I’m Jeff.
I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.” I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.
I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.
“Cultural appropriation” is merely culture: it expands to include, and it makes up the very fabric of a pluralist society. There’s no such thing as “digital blackface.” My whiteness is not “violent”; my sex is not “oppressive”; my religion doesn’t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me. The State will not parent my sons.
“Queer theory” is “critical race theory” is “critical consciousness” is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply.
He goes on further, just like that. I wish that I had written it myself. My one quibble? Unlike Goldstein, I won’t spit on the enemy’s graves when we win. I will not gloat, I will not shame, I will not abuse. But I will hold the line and I will refuse to surrender. We need more of that fighting spirit when it comes to defeating the cancer that is eating away at our national vital organs.