The 3 most effective things you can do to counter Wokeness are 1) Demand clear definitions and evidence for its claims and programs, over and over and over again 2) Point out its contradictions and encourage infighting/civil war 3) Point out its failures and demand explanations
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Replying to @ConceptualJames
James Lindsay will be around in 2040 writing things like, "the most effective thing you can do to counter mandatory preteen sex reassignment surgery and the pedophile protection act is to call out its logical errors and contradictions."
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Replying to @knrd_z @ConceptualJames
Yeah, I also have this feeling. We know how well calling out logical inconsistencies works with religious people because we have experience with the serious Christians.
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But what he's saying may be what people need to hear so I didn't object
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
It's what people want to hear - what they need to hear is that none of his suggestions will work.
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You can't beat Woke without addressing the underlying signalling incentives. No logical argument will work.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
Wokeness allows people to signal all sorts of useful things like personal morality, intelligence, cosmopolitanism, conformity, etc. People need to do signalling like beavers need to build dams.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
If beavers were destroying your expensive rare fruit trees to build dams with, would you try to logically persuade the beavers to stop building dams? No, you'd provide them with alternative trees to use for their instinctive dam-building activity.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Women want to signal LT mate value; men want to signal their value as a team member. Co-opting this instinct into being about things you say that signal that you hold the "correct" beliefs is destructive. Healthy male signalling is mountain climbing or amateur science.
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Cheap signals that are just words indicating high status beliefs are easily fakeable, socially destructive, worthless as a signal and due to being cheap subject to destructive escalation. They also create pressure to disdain health signals that are much more primally appealing.
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I'm sorry, but people *want* these cheap signals to exist. They only have to be just expensive enough to perform their signalling job. You cannot have humans without signalling. They almost certainly had it in Rome, Greece, they definitely had it in Christian Europe, etc.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
People want a signalling mechanism that is as cheap as possible. So, religions, fashions and fads exist. "Luxury beliefs" of Rob Henderson. Etc.
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