How much longer will this bullsh!t be going on?
Neoliberal wokesters will stencil "End Racism" in NFL endzones
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Don�t try to speak reason or alternative explanations to bitter economic reductionists.
I think she’s just a conservative who likes watching Glenn Greenwald on Tucker. She doesn’t know the right literature and makes a weaker argument than most sociologist who argue for class primacy and/or against corporate hijacking of human rights platforms (the latter is far less controversial).
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The argument
Corporation X believes Y about racial justice
Sociologists also believe Y about racial justice
Therefor, sociologists cannot be leftists/must be neolibs
Neither sound nor valid.Aren't many sociologists who promote the same ideology promoted by corporations in fact directly sponsored in their careers by the same corporate interests through "philanthropic" foundations?
It's not just that they're saying the exact same thing as the corporate elite, it's that this political tendency has been bankrolled by the corporate elite for decades against the political left. Have you read anything at all about the history of the Ford Foundation? -
Most sociologists backed Clinton against Sanders, often using anti-white male rhetoric against Sanders. Obviously most sociologists in the United States are not leftists or even moderate center-left social democrats like Sanders, obviously they are right-wing neoliberals like Clinton. Is this in any dispute at all?
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It's not a "coincidence" that the dominant element in the corporate world and the dominant element in academia have identical political views, seeing as the former funds the latter and the latter would not be dominant in academia without institutional backing of the former.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-017-9476-3
Don?t try to speak reason or alternative explanations to bitter economic reductionists.
I think she�s just a conservative who likes watching Glenn Greenwald on Tucker. She doesn�t know the right literature and makes a weaker argument than most sociologist who argue for class primacy and/or against corporate hijacking of human rights platforms (the latter is far less controversial).This is the most moronic of bad takes, and you sound like the people like Big-Bugg who spent all of 2015 and 2016 claiming on twitter that Trump and Bernie were the same because they were both "angry white men."
These arguments happened constantly on twitter during 2015 and 2016 and the left always defeated the neolibs.
It's weird that a message board of "scholars" would be so unaware that their own identitarian/politically cor rect ideology was always backed (at least since the 1970s) openly by corporate philanthropy to fight against the political left, and that Marxists and leftists are the longest standing and most substantive critics of this ideology. That's what lays bare the conservative lie that wokesters are somehow radical left-wingers as completely bonkers. Marxists have always been the most severe critics of that tendency.There's nothing left-wing about wokesterism, wokesterism is the ideology of the corporate ruling class.
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The argument
Corporation X believes Y about racial justice
Sociologists also believe Y about racial justice
Therefor, sociologists cannot be leftists/must be neolibs
Neither sound nor valid.That's not the argument, though, and you lost the debate by deliberately presenting a strawman fallacy.
* The hegemonic faction of capital has an economic agenda to promote social division to prevent a working-class revolution. (citation: Marx)
* The hegemonic faction of capital sponsors philanthropic foundations, wherein they avoid paying taxes that would benefit the public good and instead divert resources to institutions intended to mold and shift political discourse in their interests.
* These philanthropic foundations are the source of funding many scholars rely on to advance in their careers.
* Reliance on corporate money has the effect of creating a groupthink mentality in sociology and other disciplines in which only people in alignment with neoliberal ideology on race are those who advance in the discipline, influencing even those not directly receiving corporate foundation backing.
The point is, that is only the dominant tendency in academia because it was sponsored to be that by corporate power.
And yes, we can see that the majority of sociologists backed Clinton against Sanders, often using wokester identitarian rhetoric in justification (see Reed who discusses just this). Obviously most sociologists are not leftists at all and are just conventional Democrats, and of course Democrats as a party are strongly aligned with the corporate ruling class.
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_04_09.htm
Marx indicates that the primary mechanism used by capitalists to stop revolution from happening was to import migrant workers, used both to drive down wages of the working class (Bernie talked about this also, I believe) and to fracture the working class into hostile camps divided by ethnicity who would always be aimed against one another through propaganda.
We certainly see capitalists spending billions of dollars to aim different ethnic groups against one another in the United States, and sponsoring entire political discourses with that purpose.