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@ElizaNaredo [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : What pops in my headwhenever I see a @realDailyWire member speaking to #woke college students. [URL redacted]
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@PriscillaJervis [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #Woke:
Rosa Parks
Arthur Ashe
Jesus Christ
Albert Einstein
The Dalai Lama
Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr
Anti-woke:
Priti Patel
Paul Dacre
Adolf Hitler
Nigel Farage
Steve Bannon
Boris Johnson
Donald Trump
Jacob Rees-Mogg
#JustSaying [URL redacted]
#IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks
#IRLSportspersonArthurAshe
#BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
#IRLHistoricalFigureAlbertEinstein
#IRLReligiousLeaderDalaiLama
#IRLHistoricalFigureNelsonMandela
#IRLHistoricalFigureMahatmaGandhi
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass
#IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK
versus
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDMGTPaulDacre #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg
versus
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDMGTPaulDacre #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg
#IRLPhilosopherFriedrichNietzsche
Context "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'. I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290 #1896_OnTruthAndLiesInAnExtraMoralSense #MetaphorVersusTruthIllusion
Context "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'. I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290 #1896_OnTruthAndLiesInAnExtraMoralSense #MetaphorVersusTruthIllusion
#IRLHistoricalFigureFrederickDouglass
#1857_
Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesDavidBlight "But in the same way that Abraham Lincoln has become 'everybody's grandfather,' in the words of the historian David Donald, the one American figure who could be adopted by every part of the political spectrum, Douglass is also appropriated broadly, especially by the American right. ... On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made -- he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature. But without many people, especially women (his grandmother, two wives, a daughter and countless abolitionist women who supported his career) as well as male mentors, both white and black, he would not have survived and become Douglass. In private, he easily admitted his reliance on friends and associates, and he believed in a theory of history rooted in the Old Testament, in the Exodus story, in collective liberation by God and by events. In 'Self-Made Man,' a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise. The radical abolitionist who risked all to use words and politics to free an entire people from slavery was, to Mr. Sandefur, only 'a radical for individualism' and never concerned with 'the interests of the collective.' To believe that, one has to ignore most of Douglass's career, especially his life as an abolitionist, his ferocious attacks on the poison of racism and his brilliant analysis of how lynching emerged from the evils of white supremacy. Douglass believed that freedom was safe only within the state and under law. Douglass did preach self-reliance for his fellow blacks: He argued that the freed slaves should be given their rights, protected and then 'let alone.' But he never employed that 'let alone' dictum without also demanding 'fair play,' and security against terror and discrimination. Conservatives have cherry-picked his words to advance their narrow visions of libertarianism." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/opinion/right-coopts-frederick-douglass.html #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #IRLHistorianDavidDonald [Wikipedia] #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfExodus #PoliticsCollectivism #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSGoldwaterInstituteTimothySandefur https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutalityLynching #SlurWhiteSupremacy #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #PoliticsLibertarianism
Supplementary #IRLHistoricalFigureBarryGoldwater [Wikipedia] #1960_TheConscienceOfAConservative "In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed. In chapters that focused on issues such as civil rights, labor relations, and the welfare state, Goldwater called for the 'utmost vigilance and care...to keep political power within its proper bounds.' The national media largely dismissed the book, but Goldwater's vision quickly gained an audience and the book became a best-seller. Today, it is considered a landmark in the development of modern conservatism." [Government] #AdvocacyUSMediaResearchCenterMRCLeoBrentBozellIII [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/09/january-6-capitol-attack-son-conservative-activist-convicted #IRLPrivateCitizenLeoBrentBozellIV #2020_CapitolSiege #MagazineTheNewRepublicTNRTimothyNoah "Brent ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, giving wide play to his Cold War pessimism when the book became a surprise bestseller in 1960. By now, Brent had blossomed into a full-fledged reactionary. He moved to Spain and became an apologist for Franco's fascist regime. Then he moved back and lost a Maryland congressional primary race to the liberal Republican Charles Mathias. After that, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains and devoted most of the rest of his life to attacking Vatican II." https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMaryland #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPCharlesMathias #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicismSecondVaticanCouncilVaticanII
Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesDavidBlight "But in the same way that Abraham Lincoln has become 'everybody's grandfather,' in the words of the historian David Donald, the one American figure who could be adopted by every part of the political spectrum, Douglass is also appropriated broadly, especially by the American right. ... On the surface Douglass does appear to be self-made -- he was the escaped slave who willed his own freedom, stole the master's language and wrote masterpieces of antislavery literature. But without many people, especially women (his grandmother, two wives, a daughter and countless abolitionist women who supported his career) as well as male mentors, both white and black, he would not have survived and become Douglass. In private, he easily admitted his reliance on friends and associates, and he believed in a theory of history rooted in the Old Testament, in the Exodus story, in collective liberation by God and by events. In 'Self-Made Man,' a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise. The radical abolitionist who risked all to use words and politics to free an entire people from slavery was, to Mr. Sandefur, only 'a radical for individualism' and never concerned with 'the interests of the collective.' To believe that, one has to ignore most of Douglass's career, especially his life as an abolitionist, his ferocious attacks on the poison of racism and his brilliant analysis of how lynching emerged from the evils of white supremacy. Douglass believed that freedom was safe only within the state and under law. Douglass did preach self-reliance for his fellow blacks: He argued that the freed slaves should be given their rights, protected and then 'let alone.' But he never employed that 'let alone' dictum without also demanding 'fair play,' and security against terror and discrimination. Conservatives have cherry-picked his words to advance their narrow visions of libertarianism." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/opinion/right-coopts-frederick-douglass.html #OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln #IRLHistorianDavidDonald [Wikipedia] #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #PowerControlChattelSlaveryAbolitionism #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfExodus #PoliticsCollectivism #AdvocacyUSCatoInstitute [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSGoldwaterInstituteTimothySandefur https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/our-team/timothy-sandefur/ #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutalityLynching #SlurWhiteSupremacy #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking #PoliticsLibertarianism
Supplementary #IRLHistoricalFigureBarryGoldwater [Wikipedia] #1960_TheConscienceOfAConservative "In 1960, with publication of The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater became the leader of a national movement. Written with speechwriter Brent Bozell, the book was a statement of Goldwater's political creed. In chapters that focused on issues such as civil rights, labor relations, and the welfare state, Goldwater called for the 'utmost vigilance and care...to keep political power within its proper bounds.' The national media largely dismissed the book, but Goldwater's vision quickly gained an audience and the book became a best-seller. Today, it is considered a landmark in the development of modern conservatism." [Government] #AdvocacyUSMediaResearchCenterMRCLeoBrentBozellIII [Wikipedia] [Wikipedia] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/09/january-6-capitol-attack-son-conservative-activist-convicted #IRLPrivateCitizenLeoBrentBozellIV #2020_CapitolSiege #MagazineTheNewRepublicTNRTimothyNoah "Brent ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, giving wide play to his Cold War pessimism when the book became a surprise bestseller in 1960. By now, Brent had blossomed into a full-fledged reactionary. He moved to Spain and became an apologist for Franco's fascist regime. Then he moved back and lost a Maryland congressional primary race to the liberal Republican Charles Mathias. After that, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains and devoted most of the rest of his life to attacking Vatican II." https://newrepublic.com/article/161431/brent-bozell-trump-capitol-riot #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMaryland #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPCharlesMathias #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomCatholicismSecondVaticanCouncilVaticanII
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#IRLHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson [from 'Emerson in His Journals' 8 November 1838] Also known for #1841_SelfReliance
Supplementary #TheoryTranscendentalism "Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century [including: #IRLHistoricalFigureMargaretFuller, #IRLHistoricalFigureLydiaMariaChild, #IRLHistoricalFigureAmosBronsonAlcott, #IRLHistoricalFigureFredericHenryHedge, #IRLHistoricalFigureElizabethPalmerPeabody, and #IRLHistoricalFigureTheodoreParker et al.]... Stimulated by English and German #TheoryRomanticism, the Biblical criticism of #IRLHistoricalFigureJohannGottfriedHerder and #IRLHistoricalFigureFriedrichSchleiermacher, and the skepticism of #IRLPhilosopherDavidHume [and #IRLHistoricalFigureImmanuelKant, #TheoryGermanIdealism / #TheoryPhilosophyIdealism, #IRLHistoricalFigureThomasCarlyle, #IRLHistoricalFigureSamuelTaylorColeridge, #IRLHistoricalFigureVictorCousin, #IRLHistoricalFigureGermaineDeStael et al.], the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity" #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple [encyclopædia] And #1854_Walden #IRLHistoricalFigureHenryDavidThoreau [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia] This all ties into: #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp #TheoryIndividualismPossessive "The centrality of individualism to liberalism had not gone unremarked prior to #IRLHistoricalFigureCBMacpherson's work. His distinctive contribution was to explore how a certain conception of property ownership had shaped liberal thinking about individualism. Beginning with #IRLPhilosopherThomasHobbes, Macpherson argued, one finds a tradition of political theory in which ownership is constitutive of individuality, freedom, and equality. To be an individual is to be an owner--in the first instance, an owner of one's own person and capacities, but also of what one acquires through the use of one's capacities. To be free is to be an owner. Freedom is defined in terms of independence from others, and one is independent only when one has the right to use one's property, including one's abilities, as one chooses. Even equality is linked to ownership, because being an owner of one's own person and capacities is a status that every individual can enjoy equally. In the political theory of possessive individualism society is presumed to consist of relations among independent owners, and the primary task of government is to protect owners against illegitimate incursions upon their property and to maintain conditions of orderly exchange. The notion of ownership here draws upon an understanding of property as private and exclusive, entailing the right of owners to exclude others and to use or dispose of their property as they choose.' This version of individualism is ultimately justified on the grounds that it is congruent with human nature, for human beings are portrayed as bundles of appetites that are, in principle, unlimited and not subject to rational scrutiny. A social world organized around individuals as owners will, it is said, maximize the satisfaction of such desires." (Carens, 1993, p.2) [pdf] CARENS, J. H. (1993). 'Democracy and possessive individualism: the intellectual legacy of C.B. Macpherson'. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press. And https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442662391-013/html #IRLHistoricalFigureJamesHarrington, #IRLPhilosopherJohnLocke #CatchcryFreedomLiberty
Supplementary #TheoryTranscendentalism "Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century [including: #IRLHistoricalFigureMargaretFuller, #IRLHistoricalFigureLydiaMariaChild, #IRLHistoricalFigureAmosBronsonAlcott, #IRLHistoricalFigureFredericHenryHedge, #IRLHistoricalFigureElizabethPalmerPeabody, and #IRLHistoricalFigureTheodoreParker et al.]... Stimulated by English and German #TheoryRomanticism, the Biblical criticism of #IRLHistoricalFigureJohannGottfriedHerder and #IRLHistoricalFigureFriedrichSchleiermacher, and the skepticism of #IRLPhilosopherDavidHume [and #IRLHistoricalFigureImmanuelKant, #TheoryGermanIdealism / #TheoryPhilosophyIdealism, #IRLHistoricalFigureThomasCarlyle, #IRLHistoricalFigureSamuelTaylorColeridge, #IRLHistoricalFigureVictorCousin, #IRLHistoricalFigureGermaineDeStael et al.], the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity" #MetaphorConformitySheepSheeple [encyclopædia] And #1854_Walden #IRLHistoricalFigureHenryDavidThoreau [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia] This all ties into: #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp #TheoryIndividualismPossessive "The centrality of individualism to liberalism had not gone unremarked prior to #IRLHistoricalFigureCBMacpherson's work. His distinctive contribution was to explore how a certain conception of property ownership had shaped liberal thinking about individualism. Beginning with #IRLPhilosopherThomasHobbes, Macpherson argued, one finds a tradition of political theory in which ownership is constitutive of individuality, freedom, and equality. To be an individual is to be an owner--in the first instance, an owner of one's own person and capacities, but also of what one acquires through the use of one's capacities. To be free is to be an owner. Freedom is defined in terms of independence from others, and one is independent only when one has the right to use one's property, including one's abilities, as one chooses. Even equality is linked to ownership, because being an owner of one's own person and capacities is a status that every individual can enjoy equally. In the political theory of possessive individualism society is presumed to consist of relations among independent owners, and the primary task of government is to protect owners against illegitimate incursions upon their property and to maintain conditions of orderly exchange. The notion of ownership here draws upon an understanding of property as private and exclusive, entailing the right of owners to exclude others and to use or dispose of their property as they choose.' This version of individualism is ultimately justified on the grounds that it is congruent with human nature, for human beings are portrayed as bundles of appetites that are, in principle, unlimited and not subject to rational scrutiny. A social world organized around individuals as owners will, it is said, maximize the satisfaction of such desires." (Carens, 1993, p.2) [pdf] CARENS, J. H. (1993). 'Democracy and possessive individualism: the intellectual legacy of C.B. Macpherson'. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press. And https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442662391-013/html #IRLHistoricalFigureJamesHarrington, #IRLPhilosopherJohnLocke #CatchcryFreedomLiberty
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@BryannaRuyter [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : how did I not know about this sweet FFDP video?! #livingthedream #woke #stopthesteal #headbanger [URL redacted]
#OrgSyndicateMusicUSFiveFingerDeathPunch5FDP #2020_LivingTheDream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkkWIOkWl8
#IRLHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson
#MetaphorZombie
#ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionStopTheSteal
#BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica
#LiteralSubstanceDrugCocaine
#PhenomnTrendTidePodChallenge
#PhenomnVirusCOVID19
#NarrativeAntiMasker
#OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR
#PoliticsCommunism
#MetaphorConformitySheep ?
#ConspiracyTheory_TheGreatAwakening
#2020_CapitolSiege ?
#SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGlory
#CatchcryWeThePeople
#1787_SigningOfTheUnitedStatesConstitution
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJochenBittner "One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century -- the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth. Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation -- a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn't matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html #PleaBetrayalStabbedInTheBackDolchstosslegende #NarrativeWarWWI #ToponymEuropeGermany #BehaviourInjuryFeelingAggrievedResentmentGrudge #PowerControlHumiliation #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJochenBittner "One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century -- the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth. Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation -- a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn't matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html #PleaBetrayalStabbedInTheBackDolchstosslegende #NarrativeWarWWI #ToponymEuropeGermany #BehaviourInjuryFeelingAggrievedResentmentGrudge #PowerControlHumiliation #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
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