Polarisation

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Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos

(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)

Archived on 18 October 2022 at 8:30pm [URL redacted]

@BellaRones [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [337]: #NetZeroCarbon #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis @AlboMP #WOKE #ClimateScam #NoGreens #ZeroGreens @Bowenchris #everthingWOKEturnstoshit #banWOKE #outlawWOKE #wokenonace #WOKEoutofcontrol [URL redacted]

#MemeGreenIsTheNewRed #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #PoliticsCommunism

#InvectivePissOff #OrgClassifPPAUSOneNationPartyPaulineHanson versus #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensAdamBandt, #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensLidiaThorpe https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/01/australian-greens-senator-lidia-thorpe-calls-queen-coloniser-while-being-sworn-into-parliament #IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHQueenElizabethII #PhenomnColonialism #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensMehreenFaruqi #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensSarahHansonYoung https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/27/australian-senator-sarah-hanson-young-tears-up-during-emotional-speech-for-same-sex-marriage/ #IdentityLGBTQIASameSexMarriage

Addendum the meme positions Hanson (and those who support/identify with her) adversarially/antagonistically in relation to Bandt, Thorpe, Faruqi and Hanson-Young. In doing so, drawing #MetaphorWarfareBellicismBattleLines / allegiances following the logic of #MetaphorVersusUsThemPatriotismIsLoveCriticismIsHate. Such #PhenomnPolarisation locates Hanson as #PleaAuthenticityTrueBlueDinkiDiAustralian and Bandt et al. as necessarily inauthentic. #PoliticsNationalismAustralia

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Archived on 9 October 2022 at 10:30pm [URL redacted]

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@BellaRones [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [337]: @MehreenFaruqi Scrap the Greens #NetZeroCarbon #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis @AlboMP #WOKE #ClimateScam #NoGreens #ZeroGreens @Bowenchris #everthingWOKEturnstoshit #banWOKE #outlawWOKE #wokenonace #WOKEoutofcontrol [URL redacted]

"NOW HERE'S A TARGET WE CAN SUPPORT ZERO GREENS BY 2025" #HandleFacebookAussieStuffForAussiesChrisoAken ^[forum] #SymbolEmblemFlagAustralia (with #SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJack quadrant of the flag overtly visible). #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensSarahHansonYoung #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensAdamBandt #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreensLidiaThorpe #SloganZeroGreensBy2025

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Archived on 6 October 2022 at 4:00am [URL redacted]

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Archived on 27 September 2022 at 4:45am [URL redacted]

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@BellaRones [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [337]: @AdamBandt #NetZeroCarbon #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis @AlboMP #WOKE #ClimateScam #NoGreens #ZeroGreens @Bowenchris #everthingWOKEturnstoshit #banWOKE #outlawWOKE #wokenonace #WOKEoutofcontrol [URL redacted]

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Archived on 22 September 2022 at 9:00pm [URL redacted]

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@BellaRones [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [337]: #NetZeroCarbon #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis @AlboMP #WOKE #ClimateScam #NoGreens #ZeroGreens @Bowenchris [URL redacted]

#OrgIntlUNFCCCNetZeroEmissions ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnClimateChangeEmergency #PhenomnClimateChangeCrisis #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPAnthonyAlbanese #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenialScam #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianGreens #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPChrisBowen ^[Wikipedia] ^[Government]

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Archived on 19 September 2022 at 4:00am [URL redacted]

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@BellaRones [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [337]: #NetZeroCarbon #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis @AlboMP #WOKE #ClimateScam #NoGreens #ZeroGreens [URL redacted]

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Archived on 22 July 2021 at 5:30pm [URL redacted]

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@HenryMoranville [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Dans 50 ans, on parlera de #Blanquer comme on parle aujourd'hui de Joseph de Maistre ou de Louis de Bonald, comme on parle de ceux qui au XIXe siècle pensèrent "le progrès comme catastrophe". #IslamoGauchistes #woke #CancelCulture [URL redacted] [URL redacted] [URL redacted]

"In 50 years, we will talk about Blanquer as we talk today about Joseph de Maistre or Louis de Bonald, as we talk about those who in the 19th century thought 'progress as a disaster'" #CatchcryCancelCulture #TauntIslamoGauchismeIslamoLeftism ^[Wikipedia] #IRLHistoricalFigureLouisDeBonald ^[Wikipedia] "counter-revolutionary philosopher". #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREJeanMichelBlanquer ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury

Context #NewspaperFRBrdshtLiberationSimonBlin: "La nouvelle star des bons gros dossiers déclinistes de Valeurs actuelles, du Point, du Figaro, de Marianne, et des débats sur Europe 1 (version Bollo), CNews ou Sud Radio. [The Minister of National Education has decided to tackle a major problem at the start of the school year. Educational inequalities? No. 'Wokism'. For those who don't know what this is - because they don't have a Twitter account (most people do) - this is the latest topic of ongoing right-wing outrage.]" https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/apres-lislamo-gauchisme-vous-prendrez-bien-un-peu-de-wokisme-20210722_VYPDIOCGO5HTPGP23HJS2GCC24/ #TheoryDeclinism: #MagazineFRValeursActuelles, #MagazineFRLePoint, #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro, #MagazineMarianne, #NMFRCanalPlusCNews, #NMFRSudRadio ^[Wikipedia] #NMFREurope1 ^[Wikipedia] #IRLBusinesspersonVincentBollore ^[Wikipedia]

#IRLHistoricalFigureJosephDeMaistre ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial #PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenmentCounterEnlightenment

Context https://merionwest.com/2019/05/15/who-was-joseph-de-maistre-and-why-he-matters-today/ And ^{[digital archives]}

Supplementary #MagazineAUQuilletteMattMcManus "conservatives decry postmodernism for undermining belief in traditional epistemological and moral standards. These criticisms are not especially powerful, since they are largely predicated on a nostalgic desire to hold onto those specific standards regardless of their tenability... Postmodern conservatives increasingly regard strong truth claims about knowledge and morality with active suspicion and even hostility. This is because they regard the intellectual and cultural 'elites' who produce knowledge and popularize moral norms as progressive, abstract, and unlikely to sympathize with their concerns. Rather than attempting to formulate alternative claims about knowledge and morality which might have some epistemic and meta-ethical tenability, postmodern conservatives reject even these standards. Instead, they largely appeal to identity as the locus for epistemic and moral validity. This is, in turn, used to rally political support for a given agenda designed to restore that identity to power." https://quillette.com/2018/05/17/emergence-rise-postmodern-conservatism/ #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated

#VlogPlasticPills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVFssgvk4k&t=2s #HandleRedditCriticalTheory ^[commentary] #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #AdvocacyUSIntercollegiateStudiesInstituteIS https://vintage.isi.org/intercollegiate-review/peter-lawler-postmodern-conservatism/ #EDUUSBerryCollegePeterAugustineLawler ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPHUFideszMagyarPolgariSzovetsegViktorOrban #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TheoryModernityLate #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLPhilosopherFredricJameson ^[Wikipedia] #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #TheoryPostmodernGrandNarrativeMetanarrative ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScientistPoliticalYoshihiroFrancisFukuyama #1991_PostmodernismOrTheCulturalLogicOfLateCapitalism ^[Wikipedia] #TheorySociologySocialFragmentation #PhenomnPolarisation (or, #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue as seems to be a more common conservative characterisation) #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreMusicGrunge #TheoryNihilism #NarrativeNationalIdentity #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #OrgSyndicateMusicUSNSYNC #2000_ItsGonnaBeMe ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPTeaParty #NMUSBreitbart #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #CampaignLogoBarackObamaO #IdentityLGBTQIASameSexMarriage #PoliticsStatusQuo #TVFirefly ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #OrgClassifPPITLegaPerSalviniPremierLSPMatteoSalvini #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #ToponymEuropeHungary #ToponymEuropePoland #ToponymAmericaNorthUS #ToponymEuropeItaly #ToponymAmericaSouthBrazil #PhenomnBrexitReferendum #ToponymEuropeFrance #ToponymEuropeGermany #2020_WhatIsPostModernConservatismEssaysOnOurHugelyTremendousTimes #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #WebsiteTheConversationLeonorGoncalves "Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which 'runs on serotonin' (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness). The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. ... According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way - we are wired to live in them." https://theconversation.com/psychologist-jordan-peterson-says-lobsters-help-to-explain-why-human-hierarchies-exist-do-they-90489 #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocialLobsterKing #NMUKITVChannel4NewsCathyNewman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54&t=413s #CauseEqualityGenderPayGap

Addendum postmodernism's focus on contingency leads you towards infinite variation i.e. the a priori of the uniquely differentiated individual (where identity is the only commonality). Paradoxically, this is in contradiction with a social-conservative position, which is simultaneously centred around the a priori individualism and the a priori of shared values albeit ones, which are fixed and necessarily unchallengeable (because of their supposed absolute certainty/truth) e.g. 'family values', 'Christian belief' etc. The problem then for social-conservatives is not postmodernism's centring on the individual but in its attacks of what is understood to be sacred/sacrosanct - in short, *tradition*. #TheoryPostmodernContingency #TheoryIndividualismSelfActualisation #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #NarrativeValuesFamily And: #EDUCAMcGillUniversityInternationalReviewMIR https://www.mironline.ca/what-is-post-modern-conservatism/ And? http://politicalcritique.org/world/2018/post-modern-conservatism-or-how-the-right-became-what-it-hated/

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Archived on 3 June 2021 at 7:30pm [URL redacted]

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@KirstenDrick [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [06]: „We thank the readers for educating us.“ Medizin wird #woke. —- Wie sonst noch Tribalismus verwendet wird: [URL redacted] [URL redacted]

tweet in response to apology by #JournalOfHospitalMedicine https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/240389/hospital-medicine/microaggressions-accountability-and-our-commitment-doing Via ^[tweet]

#TheoryNewTribalismNeotribalism ^[Wikipedia] ^[Wikipedia]

Context https://fabians.org.uk/the-new-tribalism/ and https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-new-report-offers-insights-into-tribalism-in-the-age-of-trump

Supplementary #BrandKurzgesagt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0 #TechICTSocialMedia #LiteralPerceptionDoomscrolling ^[Wikipedia] #PhenomnPolarisation #TheoryBiasFilterBubbles #TheoryCognitiveDissonance #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBias #PoliticsFascismCyber #PhenomnMiningDataPredictionSocialSorting ^[Wikipedia]

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Archived on 16 May 2021 at 3:45pm [URL redacted]

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@HavenCacchione [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Cancelling the Cancelation of Righteous #Whites and #WhiteSupremacists = #Woke Universalism defined as the elimination of the Particular to constitute the "universal". [URL redacted]

#CatchcryCancelCulture #TauntSelfRighteousnessSanctimoniousness #SlurWhiteSupremacy #BeliefTheismChristianityUniversalism ^[Wikipedia] ^[Wikipedia] / #TheoryGlobalisation ?

#HandleInstagramIAmDaveHurt "Woke ideology is regressive and results in division and tribalism. There are few things more toxic. We have to start speaking out against such dangerously divisive and regressive ways of thinking. The level of 'toxicity' to society produced by these ill-founded and poorly thought-out ideas far surpasses that of traditional masculinity (or what the left would like you to believe about masculinity, anyway)." ^[Instagram] #TauntWokeAgendaIdeologyIdeologue #TauntRegressive #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #CharacterisationTribalism #PhenomnGenderNorms #TheoryCodedMasculinity_ #TauntLeftThe

^[Twitter] #SlurToxicMasculinity Versus #MetaphorMatterToxin_ #PhenomnPolarisation

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Archived on 8 November 2020 at 8:15pm [URL redacted]

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@AdenBrisbon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : ✍️"De precious snowflakes al #Woke" per @offxelia 🗣️"A principis de la dècada, ser feminista estava més aviat poc valorat. El discurs generalitzat ens deia que era una estridència innecessària; ara, en canvi, se'n fan samarretes i s'utilitza per lligar" [URL redacted] [URL redacted]

Supplementary #IRLYouTuberOfeliaCarbonellTorrents ^[Wikipedia] "We live in the age of performativity: what we say we are is as important or more important than what we actually are, because half of the things we do we publish online, shouting it to the four winds. The networks do not explain who you are, but who you want to be.... I grew up with the internet: blogs, memes, kittens and 'The Fall of Edgar'. I experienced the boom of the fourth wave feminist movement first hand, wading through the bottomless pit that was Tumblr at the time, land of the 'social justice warriors' who laid the foundations of today's cancel culture. The concept of MeToo was simple but terribly powerful. Speaking out about everything that until then we didn't say for fear of being the only ones and finding ourselves alone against the world.... The culture war has helped define spaces, to put the focus on issues that we used to avoid. This obsession with identity has made us have to choose sides: sexist or feminist? Woke or incel ? This game, this clash, having to take sides and position ourselves as if our choice interests someone, has made society move towards a more feminist future, yes. Moving towards the extremes puts the problem at the centre, and although it is childish and simplistic to talk about good and bad, being able to openly say that you are a feminist makes it clear who prefers to remain sexist." https://elmondedema.cat/de-precious-snowflakes-al-woke/ #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #CauseFeminism #TVTheSimpsonsLisa #MetaphorWarfareCulture #TheoryPerformativity #TheoryPerformativeActivism #CauseMeToo #TheoryDeclinism #PhenomnPolarisation #TheoryModelBinaryDichotomy

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Archived on 6 July 2020 at 9:30pm [URL redacted]

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@TerriJauron [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Lack of opportunity in this country has been growing for a long time. But the moment that most likely solidified the inevitability of #Woke mobs and their fanaticism was when @HillaryClinton declared half the nation #Deplorables. End American hatred. Vote #Unity2020. 🇺🇸 [URL redacted]

#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #CharacterisationDeplorables

#PhenomnPolarisation #PhenomnCorruption #HandleInstagramArticlesofUnity ^[Instagram] ^[channel] ^[forum]

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Archived on 22 March 2020 at 9:30pm [URL redacted]

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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: For the #woke folk, #Remainers & open immigration advocates like @Angelmerke & @UKLabour. Some people of differing ethnic origins integrate, value British customs, traditions, history and culture. Do not ignore them withyour #agitprop. @spikedonline @HJS_Org @NickFerrariLBC [URL redacted]

#PhenomnBrexit #PhenomnImmigration #OrgClassifPPDECDUChancellorAngelaMerkel #OrgClassifPPUKLabour #WebsiteSpiked

"BREXITERS are NOT xenophobes or racists but have constantly to fend off assertions by bitter Remainers. Our raison d'être is to be able to rule ourselves, our fishing grounds and our democracy with representatives who can easily be booted out. The EU project is staffed by unelecteds, is unaudited and is a bureaucratic nightmare of 28 nations with almost as many languages, controlled from within the Twin Towers of Brussels and Strasbourg. We reject open immigration and the influx of a culture so alien and destructive to our own. Skilled guys a credit to their origins and our great And sovereign country AND KEEPING US ALIVE!! Juxtaposed ONLY because a point was being made Unwanted MUSLIM GANG SENTENCED TO 169 YEARS FOR RAPING A 12 YEAR OLD VULNERABLE ENGLISH SCHOOLGIRL IN HALIFAX A disgrace to their origins and their faith, Yabki Allah يبكي الله" #OtheringCaricatureBrexitBrexiteer #OtheringHateXenophobia #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #OtheringCaricatureBrexitRemainer #CatchcryFreedomAutonomy #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #MetaphorVersusUsThem #OrgEU #MetaphorDemocracySovereign #PoliticsBureaucracy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestBrussels #ToponymEuropeFranceStrasbourg #PhenomnImmigration #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim ? #ConspiracyTheory_CabalGroomingGang #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandYorkshireWestHalifax #PoliticsNationalismBritish

Supplementary i.e. British appropriation of US #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute ?

Addendum presumably intended to create outrage through evoking a #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen narrative. #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot

The "our great And sovereign country" characterisation (and #PhenomnPolarisation #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych ) reminds me of #CaricaturistTomGauld's #2015_OurBlessedHomeland ^[tweet]

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