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    1. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism

      Explain this in more detail.

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    2. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
      Replying to @realchrisrufo

      1/ The IDW was looking for an explanation for what was happening in the academic culture, especially with respect to speech and "identity" scholarship, and originally *some* of the people within it put forward the idea that this was coming from a synthesis of PoMo and Marx.

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    3. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism @realchrisrufo

      2/ The two were thought to be philosophically compatible and complimentary. This never made sense to me (and to lots of other people). An article in Aero (probably around 2018) successfully attacked it, and after that fewer people advanced the idea, thank goodness.

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    4. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism

      Which camp are you in? What do you think is the most important lineage?

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    5. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
      Replying to @realchrisrufo

      I think both inform the scholarship in some of the grievance studies departments, for example. But they're *separate* influences, and academics take what they want from *each* of them. PoMo and Marx are not easily hybridized into a single philosophical framework.

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    6. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism

      This seems correct to me. My sense is that they borrow the basic conflict theory from Marx, power-knowledge theory from Foucault, and the racial politics from the 1960s Black Power thinkers. It's a powerful combo.

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    7. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @realchrisrufo @a_centrism

      *The overall teleology and practical goals, too, are Marxist in the end.

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    8. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
      Replying to @realchrisrufo

      What are CRT's goals, as you see it?

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    9. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism

      Wealth seizure and race-based income redistribution, enforced by a near-omnipotent bureaucratic authority that is unaccountable to a democratic political process. In practice, a Soviet-style system. My paper goes through some of the relevant literature:https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/critical-race-theory-would-not-solve-racial-inequality-it-would-deepen-it …

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    10. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
      Replying to @realchrisrufo

      *Direct* wealth seizure and race-based income redistribution?

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      Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo May 3
      Replying to @a_centrism

      Yes. They don't put that front-and-center very often, but that's the solution that Cheryl Harris and others have posited. Even Kendi is explicit that "antiracism" requires "anticapitalism"—and economic equity would require public control of wealth and race-based redistribution.

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        2. A New Radical Centrism‏ @a_centrism May 3
          Replying to @realchrisrufo

          This could only be *fully* accomplished through direct taxation of individuals and corporations. That doesn't seem likely to me. America would split up into pieces if that were ever attempted.

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        3. Planet, please pitch, play perfectly pleasantly‏ @PlayPleasantly May 3
          Replying to @a_centrism @realchrisrufo

          If they aim for the impossible, they may get the next best thing as a concession, which would still be awful.

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        1. Nathaniel Wright and History‏ @NateAndHist May 3
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @a_centrism

          I see the wealth redistribution as more indirect, in that they make wealth acquisition/success more difficult for members of the 'oppressor' group even as they make it easier for those in the 'oppressed' group via programs of discrimination as opposed to taxation.

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        1. Mainstream News Enjoyer‏ @truthtobugmen May 3
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @a_centrism

          There is an economic redistribution aspect to equity (enforced equality of outcome). The ends are similar to Marxism even though their underlying philosophy is largely divorced from it.

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        2. Jay Jay The Jack Off Plane‏ @J4ck0ffPlan3 May 3
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @a_centrism

          And don't forget that they want to implement this along explicitly racial lines by way of asset seizure and various forms of forced socioeconomic integration.

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        3. Jay Jay The Jack Off Plane‏ @J4ck0ffPlan3 May 3
          Replying to @J4ck0ffPlan3 @realchrisrufo @a_centrism

          AKA you can kiss your homogeneous, tight-knit, low-crime communities with well manicured lawns, charming downtowns, and good schools goodbye. Also, good luck inheriting stocks, bank accounts, or property if you're white.

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