One of the cult methods used by the “woke” Left to convert people who are of the “oppressor” class is to tear them down, make them feel “uncomfortable”, and then offer a “healing path” through ideology put into action as deeds. It is known as “the Pedagogy of Discomfort” and it is literally a cult initiation method. Twitter user “Wokal Distance” addresses this.
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"Sit with it"This is the meme level version of the "pedagogy of discomfort."
The goal is to use discomfort/shame to destroy your moral authority and create emotional vulnerability they can exploit in order to manipulate you.
It's a disgusting and manipulative tactic. https://t.co/s3eKvsRYS6 pic.twitter.com/nqWwI4xIeL
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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The point is to accuse people of bigotry (IE racism and sexism) and then force them to "sit with the uncomfortable emotions and body sensations that arise when encountering potentially difficult topics."The academic literature in Social Justice says this explicitly: pic.twitter.com/wkBYtdZZX3
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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To fill you with as much shame/discomfort as possible, they try to prevent "turning away in fear and/or getting hijacked by intellectualizing"In other words, you're not allowed to leave (turn away) or use your brain to think about what they tell you (intellectualizing) pic.twitter.com/JDjp9Ja1To
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
When they outright tell you what tactics they are using, perhaps you should pay attention.
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The pedagogy of discomfort weaponizes shame to make people feel vulnerable and guilty about participation in "systems of power" like "whiteness, racism, and sexism" and then makes them stew in their shame, confussion, and dissonance.Once people feel bad and worthless…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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The Social Justice Activist offers the person a way to stop feeling horrible:They tell you that you can stop being horrible if you convert to Social Justice by "becoming an anti-racist" and committing to "do the work."
It's every bit as manipulative and abusive as it sounds
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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Most woke activists haven't actually read the literature on the pedagogy of discomfort.They learn the tactic by seeing other woke activists use it, and learn that shaming people with accusations and telling them to "sit with it" is an effective way of manipulating people…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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The meme level version of this, which @R_Denhollander is using, is to just blame people for horrible things that happen, shame them for "not caring," on insinuate they are responsible for something they didn't do, and then tell them to "sit with it."It's disgusting…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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The always brilliant @ConceptualJames did a thread on this where he explains how the "pedagogy of discomfort" is tied in to the rest of Social Justice ideology.I highly recommend you read it here:https://t.co/Ulyoa2sFpL
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
James Lindsay’s full thread can be read here. His article “Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice” can be read here.
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This is a gross, ugly, manipulative, way of interacting with people.Learn how to see it coming, call it out for what it is, and reject it whem they use it.
"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" -Romans 8:1
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 20, 2021
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