Activist Scholars

Rather than a search for knowledge or where ancient wisdom is kept and learned, academia has degraded into woke propaganda an hagiophraphs of social justice.

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Want to know why Universities are woke?

It's because they've been hijacked by "Activist Scholars" who use them to spread woke ideology.

These political activists are using universities as vehicles to indoctrinate students into far left ideology

Here are the receipts:🧵 pic.twitter.com/kKLp2wuH4Q

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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Let's get something clear first.

The problem is NOT merely that some professors have blind-spots that can be corrected by other professors with different views. That's not what I am talking about here….

Activists Scholars are an entirely different problem.

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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It used to be that University professors would try to teach about ideas as evenhandedly as is possible. Of course everyone has biases, but the idea was that professors would at least TRY to put their biases aside and teach the material in a balanced, fair, evenhanded way…

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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This is no longer the case.

"Activist Scholars" think education is ALWAYS political. because we choose what to teach children, and in doing so we are teaching certain values, and that's political.

So, they think choosing to teach kids that 2+2=4 is a political act.

so…

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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Because the Scholar activists see their job as a political, in accordance with woke politics they use university classrooms to indoctrinate students into their politics

This Paper by Kia M. Q. Hall is about activities for training Black Lives Matter activists in the… pic.twitter.com/mtqBssF76e

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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You see, the Scholar Activist does not even attempt to teach from neutral ground. They have an ideology, and use their classroom to train students to become activists on behalf of that ideology.

Here Deborah Lowry suggests a way to teach that "supports student-activists": pic.twitter.com/13icPB9SX6

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

     Ah yes, there’s that Praxis that implements Marxist Critical Theory.

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And this is where we can see this leading to rot in the Universities.

Because the goal of "Scholar Activists" is to spread their political ideology, not to find truth, they end up adopting bad academic methods because those methods help them with their political goals.

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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They explicitly state that they don't want theories that lead to truth, they want theories that help them gain political power. Here, Kelly Oliver says explicitly that feminist theories do NOT have to be true…they have to be STRATEGIC, because the goal is power, not truth. pic.twitter.com/U3vfFAkclU

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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This is not just one paper that says this either. I could bring receipts all day.

IE: Joan Scott tells us that they seek a theory that will be relevant for political practice, and transgender Sociologist Raewyn Connell seeks a theory of Gender that takes politics into account pic.twitter.com/KDcDjHz0He

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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Here is professor Henry Giroux says that he and Brazillian Marxist Paulo Freire had gotten 100 radical leftist professors tenured.

Giroux said doing that was a very important "Political intervention" pic.twitter.com/dsMORJYxNx

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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By the way, Henry Giroux is on x/twitter, and when he found out @realchrisrufo is fighting against Mr. Giroux's "political intervention," Giroux called Rufo a white-supremacist and fascist.

Giroux's game has been exposed and now he's reduced to name calling.… pic.twitter.com/t9bC2CAxRG

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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Giroux and other professors like him have spent the last 40 years trying to change the university from an institution that seeks objective truth and quality in a marketplace of ideas, into an institution that creates and promotes the political ideology of the radical left.

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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The sciences are not exempt from the attack of the "Activist Scholars."

Here, Kelly Oliver explains how feminist theory doesn't need to "tell the truth" about science. Instead, they will simply attack the very concept of what a theory is and what it should do. pic.twitter.com/SJchnsX7GA

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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The sciences are not exempt from the attack of the "Activist Scholars."

Here, Kelly Oliver explains how feminist theory doesn't need to "tell the truth" about science. Instead, they will simply attack the very concept of what a theory is and what it should do. pic.twitter.com/SJchnsX7GA

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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All of this means is there has been a shift in the understanding of what goes on in the University. No longer are the Professors looking to **teach students to understand a subject,** instead activist scholars seek to use the classroom to **advance their political cause**

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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The Philosopher John Searle pointed this out in 1993, arguing that there had been a shift away from "studying a domain" on one hand. (pic 1)

He also said professors had married their left wing politics to irrationalism, in order to subvert truth and gain power. (pic 2) pic.twitter.com/bpL7JFI0m1

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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The end result of this is that people like Henry Giroux very explicitly want to use leftist political ideology like neo-marxism as the framework through which tear down and rebuild the education system.

👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/rz2i2t3T6o

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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The rot in the universities goes right to the core.

They very understanding of what a university is has been challenged from the left, and it appears to have won the day (at least in the humanities, we will see about the sciences)

The question now is what do we do about it?

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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Now that Universities have been turned into centers of left-wing ideologyindoctrination what do we do? Do we try to take them back through a conservative "march through the institutions?" Do we reform them? What is the plan?

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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This is not settled, but tackling the problem first requires that we recognize the problem: Universities in general and colleges of education in particular are slowly being reduced to leftist propaganda farms, and they get to give the credentials we use to staff…

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

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everything from NASA, to hospitals, to k-12 schools, to engineering firms, to government bureaucracy.

And we need to do something about the activist scholars who are doing this.

/fin

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023

     It will be a hard march back through the institutions, especially since they’ve been hardened against us.

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