At its core, the Woke are constructing a motion that subverts the Left and renders it impotent within the face of its very actual theocratic and fascist enemies. It units male towards feminine, straight and cis-gendered towards queer, Black towards white, and the working class towards the intelligentsia. It debases science with varied offshoots of the meaningless pseudo-science often known as “vital principle” – a subject so rigorous that considered one of its main journals printed a (fabricated) paper that presupposed to chronicle endemic rape tradition…at a canine park.[1] Above all, nevertheless, the Woke train younger and idealistic college students that they need to search refuge in “secure locations” slightly than discover ways to overcome their fears…and their enemies.
It’s nearly as if our enemies invented this factor.
[1] Lindsay, James, Peter Boghassian, and Helen Pluckrose. “Tutorial Grievance Research and the Corruption of Scholarship.” Areo, 10 February 2018.
That is from Jonathan Lipow, Public Coverage for Progressives, 2023.
Jonathan is a professor of economics on the Naval Postgraduate College. He’s in a special a part of the college than the one I used to be in however we interacted as colleagues for a few years.
Jonathan is a progressive and he needs to speak to different progressives who he thinks, accurately, want to listen to his financial message. Jonathan and I don’t agree on all the pieces, after all. Keep in mind that he’s a progressive. However we agree on quite a lot of issues.
Within the subsequent week or so, I’ll have a couple of extra posts about content material in his guide.
Right here’s another excerpt, with my temporary commentary, for now:
But, as we will see, logic and proof strongly counsel that some insurance policies presently in style amongst American leftists are certainly actually ridiculous, resembling opposition to constitution faculties and nuclear vitality. In the meantime, different insurance policies broadly advocated by progressives – resembling a $15 minimal wage – usually are not foolish, however giant our bodies of proof counsel that they’re ineffective and basically a waste of time. [DRH note: I wish they were just a waste of time rather than a policy that makes it more difficult for young unskilled workers to get on the first rung of the economic ladder.] Then again, readers is perhaps happy to know that progressives’ instinctual help for common medical health insurance [DRH note: hmmm] and liberal immigration insurance policies [DRH note: yes] are effectively supported by each logic and proof.
Extra to comply with.
Postscript: Right here’s a submit I did in 2016 a few earlier guide by Jonathan wherein he mentioned good issues about me: he did so to argue that my libertarian views wouldn’t work on this planet practically in addition to I assumed they’d.
