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Right. Because this stems from the Marxist fringe left. They all had Foucault shoved down their throats. Everything in their mind is about power dynamics. So white men = evil; everyone else = good. A lurid, Manichaean attitude which is grotesque, loathsome and sad.

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And then they grafted NSDAP racial fixations onto the whole mess. As far as I'm concerned they left any Marxist pretensions behind the exact second they made everything about race.

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I agree. I have a socialist friend who left his socialist club cause younger woke people joined and were trying really hard to shift the narrative from class to race.

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And that's why I focus on the NSDAP. I don't think some of them have enough experience (or possibly actual education) to see where this path ends. Class is at least somewhat understandable and mutable. Race in their minds is a fixed element that automatically defines who you are for all eternity without any sort of shading or individualism. Change a few words (and often only one or two) and many woke slogans could come right out of the NSDAP's propaganda playbook. Letting them hide behind the left-wing or Marxist labels both gives them too much credit and deflects too much of the danger of what they're trying to do.

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