I've been a big fan of #JonathanHaidt, but his fear of the effect of social media on kids comes off to me as exactly the kind of moral panic we had in the past, that he now blames for #wokeism. @mmasnick digs in and brings the receipts. my question is who on the different sides of this argument, will get a fair hearing of the other's perspective? unless they talk to each other in a public forum... https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent
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"To subscribe to the school of thought that the British #media is a just story teller that occasionally gets its approach wrong, is erroneous. At worst, it is complicit in Israel’s war crimes. At best, it deliberately misinforms and delegitimises the Palestinian struggle."
conservatives and reactionaries love to advocate on behalf of children b/c they see children as unpersons who can be ignored completely when they self-advocate and whose will ought to be subordinated to their adult owners; this is the main part of the freak out about "#criticalRaceTheory", "#wokeism", and all the #queerphobia targeting public education and educators.
right-wing adults believe they are entitled to their own children thinking and acting as those adults say the children should think and believe, and b/c the right engages in extreme indoctrination and coercion to achieve this, they also believe that any divergence of obedience must be due to some nefarious outside influence rather than the children themselves having agency or original desires.
these adults are looking to eradicate all competing forms of ideas children might be exposed to and to beat and even torture children that fail to comply e.g. "#conversionTherapy"
When conservatives call #wokeism a religion, is that supposed to be a good thing? Cause when this atheist lefty does that, it definitely is not. #LiberalValues
#wokeism as an attempt to provide a sheen of noblesse oblige for corporate, academic and media elites...a way for them to justify their status and protect these corrupted institutions from criticism and a truly liberal and leftist class conscious reformation. makes sense to me. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/patrick-deneen-on-ending-the-liberal
The Vedas say to teach in the vernacular of our day so #buddhism should be translated to #wokeism.
Buddha literally means 'one who is awake.'
Awake to not only the nature of the world and the 10,000 sorrows and the 10,000 joys but also to see and know your own delusions.
To more clearly understand the world and its suffering, and use whatever power you have to fight injustice, to feed the hungry, and to house your neighbor.