Translated via Google Translate: "TESTS LIBRARY Understand 'wokism' and refute it for those who follow the unfortunately daily chronicle of its wanderings fairly closely, the 'woke' left has few secrets as its repetitive obsessions make its assaults predictable. Until recently, good conscience has been found to worry about Snow White's consent to her prince's kiss: irony is that this 'indignation' was previously imagined in parody form by facetious Internet users, even before that activists seize the scandal - to the first degree, this time. So if the reasons for his hives attacks, as well as his methods (which for a long time we believed confined to American campuses and which we nevertheless see with concern to come to us: culture of cancellation, hunt for witches, preference for 'non-mixed' inter-self ...), are already well known, it remained to understand the social, cultural and even psychological conditions of the success of 'wokism'. What is brilliantly tackling the young Pierre Valentin, who has just published on behalf of the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol, think-tank) two remarkable notes on the origins of this movement and the reasons for its influence. The political science student first traces the origin of the word itself, which has only very recently taken a pejorative turn: appeared in an African-American R'n'B clip in 2008, the term ' woke 'was popularized and then taken up by many anti-racist activists in the United States and in particular those of the Black Lives Matter movement. Thus, to remain 'woke' ('awake'), assure the supporters of this notion, is to be 'aware' of the perpetuation of patterns of domination calling for vigilance or even a permanent struggle. From this militant attitude, Pierre Valentin mercilessly dissects subterfuge and opportunism, relying to do this on the valuable contributions of several untranslated American authors and still too little known to the French public, in particular the instruments of power of the 'dominant classes'. Hence also a rejection of the very idea of ​​a standard, ousted on the sole ground that there are always exceptions: before individuals who are outside this ideal by insisting on their suffering as marginalized people ', notes the author in a fun manual for the use of' woke 'apprentices. But the success of such an explanatory model is also due to several exogenous parameters. It is on the one hand the emergence of new information and communication networks, which overvalue viral content, and therefore emotion and its almost inseparable corollary: indignation. On the other hand, the weakening of collective links and the emergence in reaction of a 'bureaucratization of social relations' allows, explains Pierre Valentin, to trivialize the recourse in the event of conflict to third-party arbitration. All against the backdrop of the victory of 'the logic of the victim' (whose status has become sacred) over that of honor (deemed obsolete): this is how the incessant search among militants 'woke' flourishes. new 'offenses' against which it is advisable to demand 'reparation' from the administration (first that of the universities, then of the large From this militant attitude, the author mercilessly dissects subterfuge and opportunism. It is based on valuable contributions published in the United States, untranslated and still too little known to the French public. Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (who had already distinguished themselves by trapping certain academic journals with a tasty hoax). The architecture of the 'vvoke' system of thought rests on a few very simple foundations, but which, however questionable they may be, nonetheless give their followers a strong authority since they make it possible to cast suspicion on almost all of them. - all of our political certainties: knowledge, they believe, is less the result of a universal search for knowledge than of a struggle for power. Distinctions and hierarchies are therefore immediately suspect; and with them language and culture, accused at bottom of being companies and increasingly that of States). Hence this psychological hypothesis: the proponents of 'wokism' are first of all the heirs of a generation of wealthy people who have tended to overprotect their children, those whom Shakespeare's language calls 'helicopter parents'. Relying this time on the observations of psychologist Jean Piaget, the author argues that 'among children of the well-to-do classes, the progressive erosion of the average time of their moments of free play would prevent the good development of the child. Who would keep, once a teenager and young adult, the need to settle his disagreements with his fellows by resorting to outside intervention, often from a formal authority '. By popularizing and making accessible to the French-speaking public many essential works on this phenomenon which does not stop shaking, sometimes violently, the intellectual life on each side of the Atlantic, Pierre Valentin is rendering an immense service to all those who wish deepen their understanding of - and even respond to - the fallacies of 'woke' thinking. Finally, he quite rightly observes that one of the best antidotes known to date remains humor, and it is important to note the recent success of many satirical accounts on social networks, which at least have the merit of emphasizing the poverty of the process. : Since, in fact, that any reference to any norm attests to a probable oppression, the extent of the possible indignation seems limitless. And there is an urgent need to close Pandora's box." #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaroPaulSugy https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/comprendre-le-wokisme-et-le-refuter-20210805 #TauntLeftThe #1937_SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs #CatchcryCancelCulture #MetaphorSalemWitchTrials #TauntWokeism #AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitiquePierreValentin #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose #WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay #2018_SokalSquaredHoax #CharacterisationHelicopterParent #IRLScholarJeanPiaget #MetaphorPandorasBox

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-purity-test-has-lost-touch-with-reality-qw5vkzmtp #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimes #MagazineUKTheSpectatorLionelShriver #2021_TransWhenIdeologyMeetsReality by #MagazineUKTheEconomistHelenJoyce #IdentityLGBTQIA #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic

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#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesJonathanAmes & #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesCatherineBaksi "Feminists locked in trans row to sue student union Jonathan Ames Legal Editor Catherine Baksi A feminist student group at Bristol University is set to launch a legal challenge claiming discrimination after the student union sanctioned them for running women-only meetings. The group, Women Talk Back, has launched a crowdfunding campaign in an attempt to sue the union after the group denied a transgender woman entry to a women-only event. Union officials have demanded that the group's chairwoman, Raquel Rosario Sánchez, resign and have barred her from joining the committee of any other affiliated group at the university for two years. They have banned the group from conducting women-only events and have insisted that all members of Women Talk Back undergo 'diversity and inclusivity training' that will focus on the importance of allowing men into previously women-only events. As of yesterday the group had... come affiliated to the student union three years ago and 'consulted discrimination lawyers to help us explain why we explicitly wished to implement the single-sex exceptions under the Equality Act 2010'. Provisions in the legislation allow for groups to be single-sex provided that doing so is regarded as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The group says it also runs events that are open to people of any gender. Sánchez, a PhD student originally from the Dominican Republic, claimed last year that officials at the university had failed to protect her from bullying and harassment by other students over her feminist views. The group said: 'Our case could be the among the first brought by women who were directly pre-vented from or sanctioned for using the single-sex exemptions under the Equality Act 2010.' It argued that 'the rights everyone has to single-sex spaces mean nothing if public bodies and institutions such as the Bristol" #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #EDUUKUniversityOfBristolFeministSocietyWomenTalkBack

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#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesEmilyDugan and #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesSianGriffiths "A gay psychologist who worked at the NHS's only gender transition clinic for children spoke of his fears that the clinic was running 'conversion therapy for gay kids'. Dr Matt Bristow said he feared the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust was ignoring the possibility that boys and girls who said they wanted to change sex might simply be gay. Bristow's claim has emerged in witness statements for Sonia Appleby, a psychotherapist responsible for safeguarding children at the gender identity clinic, who is suing the trust. She told an employment tribunal last week she was 'vilified' for raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment, which included the clinic referring children as young as 12 for puberty blocking drugs. The Tavistock has been at the centre of controversy over its treatment of young people for gender dysphoria. There has been an explosion in the number of children wanting to change sex in recent years. In 2009 40 girls under 18 were referred to doctors for gender treatment in England. By 2017 the number had soared to 1,806. The use of puberty blockers was banned in the UK last year by the High Court which ruled, in a ground-breaking judgment, that children under 16 could not give informed consent to such treatment. The judges said clinics must obtain the court's permission because such treatment was experimental. The case was brought by Keira Bell, who regretted the drugs she had received, starting as a teenage girl who at that time thought she wanted to be a boy. An appeal against the ruling in the Bell case will be heard this week. Bristow said he was one of several gay members of staff at the clinic who felt concerned that patients' homosexuality -- and the possibility that gay children were saying they wanted to change sex because they were being bullied -- was ignored. He told staff at the Tavistock clinic that they were doing 'conversion therapy for gay kids'. In an exit interview when he left the trust, which forms part of Appleby's legal case, Bristow said that he was particularly concerned about gay children who were referred to the service having been bullied. This may have motivated some to say they wanted to change sex and that he 'tried hard not to let [them] get drawn into the service'." https://www.thetimes.com/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-converting-gay-children-tz8cs77p3 #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHSTavistockAndPortmanTrust #IdentityLGBTQIA

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Supplementary #AdvocacyUKGoodLawProject "We have heard from a well-placed whistleblower inside the NHS that, in the seven years before the decision in the Bell case (concerning the use of puberty blockers), one person using Gender Identity Development Services lost their life. The NHS reacted to that decision by introducing immediate, heavy restrictions to NHS services for young trans people. And it did not lift them when the decision was overturned in the Court of Appeal. We have been informed that in the three years following the decision 16 people lost their lives. We have contemporaneous evidence that this concern was raised at the time and the whistleblower believes senior management took a decision to suppress evidence of the deaths. We put these allegations to the Tavistock, we know it received them, but it has failed to respond." https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/trans-pubertyblockers-cf/

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#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesLouisaClarenceSmith #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesTomBall https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/guys-hospital-statue-battle-is-only-about-looking-woke-7rl0gms3b #PhenomnStatueToppling #IRLHistoricalFigureThomasGuy #PhenomnColonialism #PowerControlChattelSlavery

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Context https://gsttfoundation.org.uk/latest/statement-on-the-statues-of-thomas-guy-and-robert-clayton/ i.e. "As part of our large art and heritage collection, we own two statues with links to the slave trade. One of Thomas Guy, who profited from investing in the South Sea Company, and the other of Robert Clayton, who was an investor in the Royal Africa Company."

#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesSianGriffiths https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/free-speech-victory-for-eton-teacher-will-knowland-sacked-over-gender-lecture-g2fc6fnlj #IRLEducatorWillKnowland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI #PhenomnThePatriarchy #TheoryCodedMasculinity_ #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic radical #CauseFeminism

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*Culture warriors denounce slave princess* Born into a sultan's harem in #1844_, Princess Sayyidda Salme survived slavery, zealots and exile but appears to have fallen foul of political correctness. Princess Salme was the youngest daughter of 36 children of Said bin Sultan Al-Said, the sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her mother was a Circassian concubine, bought for the sultan at Zanzibar's slave market. In keeping with tradition, Salme was given her freedom at the age of 18. Shunned by relatives for backing the wrong brother in a power struggle after her father's death, she lived in Stone Town, the European quarter of the island, now part of Tanzania. She became pregnant to Rudolph Heinrich, a Hamburg trader, and returned with him to Germany, where she lived as Emily Ruete until she died in 1924. She challenged perceptions of East Africa and the Orient and worked to alleviate the suffering of children. A multilinguist, she wrote her autobiography, Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, which was published in 1886 and translated into French, Arabic and other languages. She is buried in Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, where her grave is deemed of historic importance and a memorial to commemorate her was raised in 2007. Under pressure last year from the Greens and Social Democrats, the local municipality named a square after her. Barely was it agreed, however, when Hamburg Postcolonial, a movement dedicated to eradicating remnants of the city's colonial past, accused her of racist views, and favouring slavery and polygamy. The honour was rescinded by the politicians who proposed it. With a general election next month, these issues have gained prominence on the left. The princess was deemed not to have sufficiently condemned the slavery that brought great riches to Zanzibar and the Arabian peninsula. In her memoirs, she wrote: "The sole difference between an oriental woman's situation and a western woman seems to be that the first knows the number and character of her rivals, whereas the other is kept in charming ignorance." Spurred on by the Hamburger Abendblatt daily newspaper, citizens wrote letters demanding that the square be named to honour the princess. The Emily-Ruete-Platz signs remain but the vote to revoke the decision has not been reversed. Her square is difficult to find because since it is not official it no longer appears on navigation apps. Not for the first time, Princess Salme finds herself in limbo, caught between two cultures worlds apart. Her memory is valued, however, in the Princess Saline Museum in Zanzibar. Said el-Gheithy, its curator, said: "She was a pioneer in terms of cross-cultural commentary and was the first woman to record her observations about the way of life in Germany and Zanzibar." #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesJonathanClayton https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/culture-warriors-denounce-slave-princess-pjkm0prvs #ToponymEuropeGermanyHamburg #IRLHistoricalFigureSayyidaSalmeAKAEmilyRuete #PowerControlChattelSlavery #NewspaperDEBrdshtHamburgerAbendblatt http://www.hamburg-postkolonial.de/ #PhenomnColonialism / #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #OrgClassifPPDEBundnis90DieGrunen #OrgClassifPPDESozialdemokratischeParteiDeutschlandsSPD

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Supplementary #AdvocacyNLInternationalCentreForCounterTerrorismICCTSaraBrzuszkiewicz "Individuals who self-identify as involuntary celibates are being radicalised into believing that the world is dominated by women and attractive men, and their marginalisation depends on this domination within what incels often term the mating market. After a number of violent attacks in which the perpetrators were linked in various ways to the inceldom -- the status of involuntary celibacy -- researchers have started to debate whether incel violence should be considered terrorism or not" (25 Nov 2020). https://icct.nl/publication/incel-radical-milieu-and-external-locus-of-control/ + ^[Wikipedia]

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMichaFrazerCarroll https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/children-windrush-art-lives-struggles-parents-tate-britain

#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesBenEllery https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/acclaimed-author-kate-clanchy-to-rewrite-racist-memoir-tt6z8fcw9 #IRLAuthorKateClanchy

#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesChristinaLamb https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nothing-could-prepare-me-for-the-online-war-christina-lamb-on-being-attacked-by-the-trolls-bstm7fz32