The Left wants—needs—to “disrupt, dismantle, and deconstruct” everything because their utopian scheme requires working from year zero.
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DISRUPT! DISMANTLE! DECONSTRUCT!Wokies say that all the time because in woke world to "disrupt, dismantle, and deconstruct" refers to a specific set of strategies for attacking something. So, let's talk about what it means to disrupt, dismantle and deconstruct.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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First, we must understand the woke want a TOTAL revolution. Disruption, dismantling, and deconstruction are the tools they plan to use to tear down everything in the way of that revolution. Here, Critical Theorist Henry Giroux explicitly states that the woke want a revolution: pic.twitter.com/yZU2oZwOgL— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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What gets disrupted, dismantled, and deconstructed?
The answer is every social entity the woke think might prevent their "revolution." This includes but isn't limited to: language, music, art, churches, businesses, the military, universities, institutions, etc.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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The woke think all of society needs to be transformed.ALL. OF. IT.
This means every single social entity we use to build a society, from family to government, needs to either get on board with the revolution or be disrupted, dismantled, and deconstructed.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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How does it work?
1. DisruptionThe woke think of oppression in terms of systems: social systems, legal systems, economic systems, and especially systems of language and communication. They think these systems oppress people, and this is key, even if we don't realize it…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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The woke think we must stop these systems from being allowed to continue or function. We must DISRUPT the functioning of these systems. A disruption is anything that prevents a system the woke deem oppressive from going about it's typical everyday functioning…— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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There are generally two types of disruption
Physical disruption, and conceptual disruption.
A physical disruption is when the woke physically interfere with something in an attempt to hijack, ruin, or stop it.Here, woke protesters physically DISRUPT a Jordan Peterson talk: pic.twitter.com/BXoczp9P1f
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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A conceptual disruption is to say or do something that intervenes in a narrative or discourse. For example, if during testimony time at church, someone got up during their turn and told the church they were racist. The woke would say that person DISRUPTED racism in the church— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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In other words:A conceptual disruption occurs anytime someone interrupts a narrative or discourse by injecting wokeness as the new narrative or discourse.
A physical disruption occurs when someone does something that hijacks, destroys, or derails an "oppressive" system.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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2. DismantleDismantling is something the woke do to systems (or anything the woke say is a system) or institutions. An incomplete list of tings the woke might say they want to dismantle are: Capitalism, governments, universities, churches, businesses, the police, etc.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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So how does dismantling work?
To dismantle something is to take the thing apart so it can no longer function at all. Where disruption tries to hijack or intervene or subvert, dismantling seeks to take apart and get rid of the thing in it's entirety. It gets rid of the thing.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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Dismantling can take a few different forms.
One example of dismantling would be if a woke group took over a church by voting themselves on to the board, then voted to fire the pastor, and then voted to get rid of the statements of faith, and then sold of the building.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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At that point the church would be DISMANTLEDHere is another example: suppose a group gets themselves voted in as the town council, defunds the police, fires the police officers, and repeals the laws that gave the police their power.
That group has DISMANTLED the police.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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There are violent way to dismantle things as well.If a group wanted to violently dismantle a 13th century monarchy they might loot the palace, break the crown and scepter, kidnap the king, torch the constitution if there is one, and burn the palace to the ground.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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So that is what it means to dismantle, it is when you take apart and destroy a system or institution so that it no longer exists.As a practical matter, dismantling thing using violence has typically been rare in America, but that has been for pragmatic reasons.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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The woke often disrupt institutions and systems they want to dismantle. When they lack the power to fully dismantle something they may opt to disrupt it where they can. In the Peterson video they couldn't dismantle the university, but they could briefly disrupt the talk.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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Finally we come to Deconstruction. I am going to do this one briefly and just touch on the major points.An full thread on deconstruction can be found here for those interested: https://t.co/qzwuxOy8RJ
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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3. Deconstruction is the way the woke attack, subvert, and undermine the meaning of the concepts, words, language, ideas, art, discourses texts symbols, and anything else we use to convey meaning. This is done to destroy the conceptual entities we use the build our society.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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So this means they will try to redefine our language, change the meaning of words, reinterpret the law to say it's oppressive, reinterpret our art and media (music movies and TV) to say its is bigoted, and so on. Usually this takes the form of trying to find new ways of…— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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interpreting an ideas, concepts, theorys, etc, and leveraging the new interpretations against the old interpretations to create a conflict which they can say will only be solved via wokeness. But it can also take the form of mockery and parody to try to trivialize something.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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Deconstruction seeks to destroy the MEANING of ideas, because doing so sucks the power out of those ideas so they can't function, and whatever is held together by those ideas (in this case our society) starts coming apart. The Woke want that so they can have their revolution.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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A recap:
1. Disrupt: Hijack, ruin, or stop systems or institutions the woke deem oppressive
2. Dismantle: To take apart or destroy any institution or system the woke deem oppressive
3. Deconstruct: How the woke attack the meaning of conceptual entities we use to build society— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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If you put all three of those things together you get a potent cocktail of tools and strategies for tearing down a society from the inside…which is exactly what the goal of the woke is. They want a revolution.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
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So that's what the woke mean by disrupt, dismantle, and deconstruct: ripping apart the social entities that make up our society so they can start a revolution.The woke are foolish, dangerous, and clueless. Fight back like our society depends on it, because it does.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 8, 2020
The above mentioned thread on deconstruction is below:
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Deconstruction.You've likely seen this word in media and in academic literature. If you want to understand wokeness and how it operates, you MUST understand deconstruction. It is the key method the woke use to attack both our institutions and our civilization.
A thread: pic.twitter.com/1UDO2QvTKH
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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To understand deconstruction, we first need to know what it's purpose is.
The Purpose of deconstruction is to undercut the ideas, beliefs, words, ideologies, art and discourses of our civilization by attacking their MEANING.Read that again because it's important.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Now, everything we do (relationships, work, school, politics…everything) we do based on our ideas and understanding of the world, and our ideas and understanding of the world are built from such things as concepts, beliefs, words, ideologies, art and discourses.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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If a set of ideas and a way of understanding of the world provide the blueprint for a society, then you can tear down that society by destroying it's blueprint. You do that by destroying the IDEAS and understanding of the world used to create that societies blueprint.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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This is the game that the woke are in. They do not like our liberal democracy, and they want to tear it down by destroying the ideas that hold it up and keep it together. Which is why "deconstruct" almost always appears alongside "dismantle" and "disrupt."now… pic.twitter.com/uQzUEKsrzI
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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So how does deconstruction work?
Deconstruction operates by attacking at the level of MEANING. What gets deconstructed are words, ideas, ideologies, concepts, discourses, art, texts, symbols, etc. Whatever can be used to MEAN something or communicate gets deconstructed. Why?— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Because if you destroy the MEANING of ideas (or the concepts that make up or communicate those ideas) you can suck the power out of those ideas. If ideas lose their power, whatever is held together by those ideas (in this case our society) will begin to come apart…— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Consider capitalism:
The person who “deconstructs” capitalism is attempting to attack the concepts, beliefs, and ideas which power capitalism. Why? Because if the concepts that are used to create an communicate about capitalism lose their power then capitalism falls apart.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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In the same way that a person who loses faith in Jesus will stop going to church, a person who does not see the value in liberal democracy will cease to care about or defend it. People defend things that have MEANING to them, and MEANING is what deconstruction attacks.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Jacques Derrida, the father of Deconstruction, had a core group of tactics and ideas that make up his concept of deconstruction. I can't list them all here (this is twitter not a full fledged academic journal 😂) but I'll give a brief outline of the main ideas— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Derrida said words had "traces" ( a sort of linguistic residue) of other words because words define each other. So the word Cat contains traces of "cute" furry" "small" etc. Thus you can consider the “traces” of a word when interpreting what that word means in a given context— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Derrida's next idea was sometimes meaning comes from what is missing. Think of an archivist deciding which things to archive and which things to throw out. You can learn something about the archivist by what he leaves out, what is "absent" from the archive tells us something— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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The intent of the author, does not decide what the meaning of a text is. Consider a postcard. You can understand a postcards meaning even if you don’t know who wrote it. Derrida thought this showed you don't need to know what the authors intent was to grasp the meaning— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Add all this up and see what happens.
The theory of traces means I can say "you're a racist for saying you prefer white shirts to black shirts, To not like a black shirt is rooted in not liking the concept of black. and African Americans are black, which you don't like"— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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The theory of meaning from what's missing (absence) means one can say
"you're racist because only white people were at your wedding."
"I only invited family. My family's white"
"So what? By not going out of your way to invite a non-white person you were excluding non-whites"— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Saying the author's intent is irrelevant to a text's meaning means anyone can misinterpret me and claim that I said something I never said. Why? Cause their interpretation of what I said is as good as mine. I can't say"that's not what I meant" because my intent doesn't matter— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
18/ Do all three and you can distort and destroy the meaning of nearly anything. Which is of course the point of deconstruction. If you can make the meaning of an idea unclear, you take away justification for acting on it you suck the power out of the idea, and that.s the point.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
19/Another tactic is to claim an idea can’t be defined. Take for example a pile of leaves. 1 leaf is not a pile. Neither is 2 leaves. Well, what about 3, or 4? How many leaves are needed to make a pile? If you can’t answer the woke will say your meaning is unclear.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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And if the meaning of an idea is unclear you suck the power out of the idea, and that's the point. One thing which gives an idea power is that it can be acted on. However, if an idea is not clear enough to be acted on then it loses all it’s power.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
21/ Parodying or Mocking an idea or concept until it loses it's meaning is another way to deconstruct. So is "flipping the script." Think of Jon Stewart. He used parody to mock the news, and flipped the script by making himself (the comedian) look more serious than the real news.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Get the picture?
When the woke aren't mocking ideas so no one takes them seriously, they muddy the waters by re-interpreting, or decontextualizing or recontextualizing ideas to blur their meaning. This makes ideas less clear, making it hard to organize around them.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
23/ That my friends, is deconstruction. It operates at the level of MEANING, attacking words, ideas, ideologies, concepts, discourses, art, morals, values, texts, symbols, and so on. Anything that can be used to MEAN something, or to communicate information can be deconstructed.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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Now that you know the tactic, call it out. You don't need to play along.
Reject their stupid word games.
When they mock you stand firm.
When they re-interpret you to make you look racist push back.Postmodern Deconstruction is a dishonest and unfair game.
Don't play./fin
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) July 16, 2020
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