Yes and no, but mostly no. "Western," in the relevant context, means Enlightenment rationalism and the derivatives of English Common Law, with some "Judeo-Christian" and Athenian backbone, which is exactly what the Crits want to dismantle.https://twitter.com/cvaldary/status/1369048143921356803 …
My sense is that you're both right. CRT is explicitly "anti-Western" and "anti-rational" in its philosophy. But ultimately it is a creation of the West, too, and cannot escape that context. This is one reason why it will eventually collapse under its own contradictions.
-
-
As Western cultural masochism, it is both opposed to and defined by/obsessed with Western culture.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Exactly. There have many movements *within the West* that are anti-Western. That's no more paradoxical than a child that hates his parents.
-
*have been
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
It's western and anti-western at the same time, since this kind of self-hatred has only roots in the cultural west. There are no libraries full of self-critical books in Egypt, India or China. Read The Defeat of the Mind by Finkielkraut or any book by Pascal Bruckner
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I suspect that when the history of this era is written, we will find that China has been behind the funding and propagandizing of CRT the whole time. They certainly know how to throw a cultural revolution, and they know the results.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
This. It is of the body (west) and against it simultaneously. As such it acts as an autoimmune disorder.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Does anyone has ideas why only the West has developped this sort of ideological self-hatred and cultural masochism? I don't see this in any other countries.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.