Fmr candidate FL-22. Classical liberal. Pro-American values. Author of Brearley letter. Host of @tbos_podcast on @ricochet. Words in @wsj, @nypost, @thefp
Palm Beach County, Florida
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Announcement: I am running for congress to continue the work of the parent's movement, win the culture war, and defend the values that made America the freest and most prosperous country on Earth. Join me! andrewgutmann.com
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Woke ideology rejects the idea of individual rights in favor of group rights. Thus, Harvard, having been captured by progressive ideology, views removing Claudine Gay as president not as firing an unqualified, plagiarizing scholar, but as an oppressive act against black women.
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We've destroyed the world as we know it because we panicked over what is statistically a bad flu. This is quite literally the dumbest thing human beings have ever collectively and purposely done.
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While I’m glad people like Ackman are speaking up, we get nowhere until they begin to understand how fundamentally institutions like Harvard are broken. Gay wasn’t a “bad choice.” She was exactly the kind President Harvard wanted to accelerate its ideological agenda.
If @Harvard President Gay resigns, it does not restore Harvard’s reputation. That would only begin when the Corporation board members acknowledge that they made a bad choice of leader, which they have been unwilling to do.
The first step to reputational repair is to acknowledge one’s failures, analyze what went wrong, and then take definitive steps going forward to ensure the error is not repeated.
By waiting for President Gay to resign, the board members can temporarily disclaim responsibility and avoid the inevitable racism accusation, but they are digging a deeper whole for themselves.
When your CEO has done the indefensible, you must take immediate action to replace her. If you don’t, you become culpable in what was initially only her failures.
Ultimately, the buck stops with the Harvard Corporation board. They need to act now.
Each hour of inaction further damages the institution for whom they have a fiduciary responsibility. The board’s actions and inactions to date are indefensible in light of their fiduciary responsibilities to Harvard, the faculty, the student body, the alumni community and other societal stakeholders.
The Harvard Corporation Board is not an honorarium. It is a serious societal responsibility.
We deserve better.
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You cannot have academic freedom or free speech under a DEI regime. The "I" (inclusion) of DEI explicitly precludes it by demanding every part of an institution be a "safe space" from harmful speech. Only by eradicating DEI can we resurrect academic freedom.
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Pandemics don't end when the virus goes away. They end when the fear goes away. I don't see much evidence that the fear is going away (at least here in the NYC area).
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That might have been true a few years ago, but not now. Let me fix it for you. There are two types of New Yorkers: those you are leaving NYC and those who wish they could.
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The only solution is not to care about racial disparities, the same way we don’t care about them in professional sports.
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Very true. The Dads are mostly silent in this fight. But there are a few of us out there.
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My latest Substack on why we left New York City for Florida. Written with sadness and anger.
Florida Beckons as New York City Sadly Wilts andrewgutmann.substack.com/p…
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The teachers unions have only two purposes. To raise money for the Democratic party and to recruit children to the Democratic party. Once you understand this, everything they do and say makes sense.
Parents and educators, be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year. We just found an out-of-touch billionaire funneling dark money to undermine public education inside our candy bar. Wow.
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The crime stats don’t paint an accurate picture of NYC. There’s a sense of lawlessness that hasn’t existed since the city was cleaned up in the 80’s.
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Whatever you think of her, Claudine Gay is not the problem, but a symptom of the problem. Harvard’s mission hasn’t been “Veritas” for a generation or more. Its mission is to tear down western civilization by indoctrinating our leadership class in far-left revolutionary ideology.
Veritas is divine truth, moral truth. Let me be clear, Veritas does not depend on the context. This is a moral failure of @Harvard’s leadership.
President Claudine Gay should have been fired.
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What we have done to children over the past 18 months (and counting) might just be the greatest human rights crime in history.
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One part of your life ends (childhood), but another part begins (adulthood). One cannot fully understand humanity until one has a child.
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I wish people would understand that nearly every word in the education world has a non-colloquial meaning and has been weaponized. There are no neutral words. This is why it is so hard to explain to parents what is happening. You have to translate every word.
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Universities like Penn & Harvard have adopted and institutionalized an illiberal ideology that is fundamentally antithetical to free speech, open discourse and true scholarship. A change of leadership feels good but accomplishes little. I hope donors like Ackman understand that.
The problem is not just the presidents of the universities. It goes much deeper than that. It is about leadership, principles, and values, broadly defined.
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True, but one addition. It was 4 decades of easy monetary policy that inflated the cost of living, making a single income household virtually impossible for the working and middle classes, which in turn led to much lower birthrates. That was not a natural result of capitalism.
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Properly understood, capitalism just means freedom. The freedom to own property and transact with others. The loss of values to which you allude are a result of government interference, specifically, subsidizing and bailing out bad behavior.
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My latest Substack on the real reason for the failed red wave: young woke voters indoctrinated in our nation's schools, led by the teachers unions. If we don't fix our schools - and quickly - a President AOC led Marxist dictatorship is in our future.
andrewgutmann.substack.com/p…
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DEI is erasing Jews. This piece needs to be read by every Jew in America.
Jewish Erasure from American life: Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing, from Jacob Savage.
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
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My latest in today's @nypost. After three years of the parents movement being shamed, ridiculed and silenced, the @nytimes finally admits-on the front page no less-public schools are teaching critical race theory and are bastions of leftist activism.
nypost.com/2024/02/16/opinio…
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My daughter's NYC private school just yesterday requested double masks. Team Apocalypse is not giving up without a fight.
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Well, Keith, given your deep and longstanding experience as a useless entitled fuck, I take your criticism quite seriously.
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Eric, I’m running for Congress in a district in Palm Beach County, Fl that is likely the most Jewish congressional district in the country. Since October 2023, we’re averaging 8 times as many voters switching registrations from Dem to Rep than the other way around.
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The fight is for our country, not Harvard. The ideology, which is fundamentally a rejection of America's founding values of free speech, free markets and individual rights, has taken over nearly every institution of this country, including our entire education system.
The ideological takeover of @Harvard is nearly complete.
We are all stepping in just in time to save it, but it is going to be a fight.
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The far-left has always wanted to tear down society. When they realized the working class wouldn't revolt as Marx theorized, they needed a new class of revolutionaries so they convinced everyone that they were victims of society. Depression is a natural side effect of victimhood.
It’s not just young women whose depression rates have surged — it’s specifically young liberals, with liberal teen boys actually faring worse than conservative teen girls.
slowboring.com/p/why-are-you…
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Found one outside NYC that goes thru 8th. Am seriously contemplating building such a high school. We desperately need new schools.
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The goal of DEI/wokism/etc is to dismantle western civilization & American values and replace it with a Marxist/collectivist society. To convince/indoctrinate non-radicals, they reframe good things e.g. meritocracy, objectivity, etc. as "white supremacist."
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My piece in today's @nypost on @robbystarbuck's new documentary film, The War on Children, which shows how the left's radical gender and woke ideology is damaging our children and tearing apart our country. @Riley_Gaines_ @elonmusk @RandPaul
nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinio…
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Absolutely correct. DEI is the main vehicle for the implementation of woke/social justice ideology. You cannot separate this ideology from antisemitism.
Lots of organizations claim to be defending young Jews on campus. Simple litmus test: do they oppose DEI? If not, do not take them seriously.
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The left and right define the word democracy completely differently. The Times, for instance, has run multiple opinion pieces advocating for a replacement to the Constitution and hostile to the first amendment. Using the right’s definition of democracy, Musk has a case.
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Progressive ideology is fundamentally antisemitic. My fellow Jews, please wake up.
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
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Let me get this straight. Lying to the American public for years about the President's inability to do the job was indicative of being the "responsive political party?"
Calls for Joe Biden to step aside are "not a mark of a party in disarray, but rather an indication that the Democrats are currently the sole reflective, responsive political party in America," @brianklaas writes: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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Yes, FIRE is mostly useless. We can’t solve the problem with universities unless we solve the problem that society no longer values a classical education (or what we used to say leads to wisdom and virtue). We lost universities because we lost society, not the other way around.
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The movement to which you refer does have a high percentage of religious Christians. However, there are also many Jews, Asians and non-religious people who are anti-CRT and pro-school choice and recognize the existential danger of woke education to our country.
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Intersectionality is probably the leftists' most brilliant creation. It ushered in a unified movement to tear down civilization from disparate groups (e.g. feminists, queers, black militants) that each wanted to tear down civilization for their own selfish & envious reasons.
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Gender ideology was the most important reason Trump won, not inflation or immigration. It’s what’s behind the rightward movement of young men and especially behind the realignment of the Hispanic vote. Polls don’t show this and almost every commentator is missing this.
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It’s more than just social justice ideology. The main purpose of both gender ideology and climate alarmism in schools is to dissuade children (especially girls) from wanting to marry and have their own kids. The left knows that if you keep them single you keep them progressive.
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Even worse if they are 1) lowering the standards for whom they hire, 2) lowering the standards for training, and 3) dissuading good people from joining the organization because of all the DEI crap.
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Gender ideology was the key issue of the election. It motivated young men and Hispanics, and it helped neutralize abortion with mothers, as you point out.
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Mostly wrong. The reason we don’t have enough American born engineers is that most of our best and brightest go into finance and finance adjacent fields.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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No, it makes perfect sense for Soros to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He’s freed more criminals from jail than anyone in American history.
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Few have ever heard of Restorative Justice. One of the reasons it is so hard to make progress in this fight is because we seem to be fighting (and need to educate on) so many different battles (CRT, SEL, RJ, etc) when they are all really the same thing.
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Yes, but we need to do much more than just demand a change of leadership. We must demand a change of ideology.
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Great thread. A nuanced question. If covid is endemic AND immunity from vax wanes much faster than natl immunity THEREFORE lifelong boosters are required AND vax has significant side effect profile, is it not plausible that the overall cost/benefit of vax is negative?
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Woke is fundamentally a rejection of Enlightenment principles. It is not just about race and gender.
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Our old lives are not coming back. Our mission now is to make sure our children can live in a free world.
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That might make public health officials even more beholden to big pharma than they already are. Better to focus on stripping or limiting emergency powers from elected officials.
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I was honored to be in attendance for @RealClearPR's gala in Palm Beach honoring three courageous individuals standing up for free speech in our country: @DrJBhattacharya, @mtaibbi and @mirandadevine on a panel hosted by @RubinReport. Terrific event.
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Sure, but this is like saying Harvard is the best university. Perhaps true but both are a shell of what they once were. The quality of journalism at the Times and everywhere else has declined enormously over the past generation.
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The answer is simpler. Our smartest kids go into finance and consulting, not engineering. An incredible waste of resources.
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I really believe that’s the primary motivation behind gender and trans ideology in schools. Keep girls single snd childless and you keep them progressive/Democrat for life.
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Not exactly Vivek. The path to victory is reminding Americans that those values are not radical and that nearly all of us share them. We’ve just forgotten.
The path to a landslide victory in 2024 isn’t showing up in “the middle” and saying let’s “compromise.” It’s by embracing the radicalism of the very ideas that set America in motion 250 years ago.
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Wrong on paragraph 4. There are few conservatives (or centrists) in universities because universities can't compete with the salaries of Wall Street and tech (both subsidized by the Fed over the past 35 years). Said differently, very few smart people go into academia.
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In schools and universities especially, the vast majority of people (alums, parents of alums, ex-faculty, etc) do not remotely comprehend how different these institutions have become in the last few years.
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One really has to give the left credit. You indoctrinate one kid in a class, they indoctrinate their parents and then every other parent in the class is silenced for fear of being ostracized. It’s like a perfectly efficient method of taking over society.
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Elon Musk is correct. Blue states are no longer friendly to families. The blue to red migration will only accelerate as blue states continue to pass anti-family legislation.
This is the final straw.
Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.
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Absolutely correct. Schools no longer teach English and math and history. They use English and math and history as props for a political education.
This here is the scam. The goal of schools from these people is not about making sure your kids know how to read or do math but ensuring they believe in "Our Democracy." They set the terms of "citizenship" and use it as a vehicle to justify their brainwashing.
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Global financial system is imploding. That's what rising interest rates do in a hyper-fragile system. Central banks can only plug so many holes in the dyke.
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I’d argue the opposite. He’s the only major Republican candidate that both understands and is willing to fight on the culture war and education issues. If we don’t reverse the political indoctrination happening in schools very soon, we will have President AOC in our future.
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You have redefined living as not dying. That is of course your prerogative, but it is quite sad. And given the data, quite silly.
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C'mon. He's not running to beat Trump. He's running to inherit the MAGA base post-Trump (whenever that is).
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Everything James says in this thread is absolutely correct. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech reaffirmed America's founding principles and inspired us to strive to live up to them, thus rightfully taking its place amongst our country's founding documents. That is MLK's legacy.
I know the controversy is coming, so I'll say that the reason we have venerated Martin Luther King, Jr., is specifically because he struck a perfect chord with the just principles underneath the Declaration and Constitution in his "I Have a Dream" speech, and almost nothing else.
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In today’s world there’s no such thing as a centrist. We’re talking about two completely different worldviews. There’s no middle position.
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This is not about governance. It’s about ideology. All elite universities are infected with a progressive ideology that is foundationally antisemitic.
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Progressive (woke) ideology was always fundamentally antisemitic. But most young people didn't become outwardly antisemitic until the Palestinians became the progressive grievance du jour post October 7th.
In the new Harvard/Harris poll, 67% of respondents aged 18-24 agree that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors."
Consistent with other polls that have found relatively high anti-Jewish sentiment among young American adults. harvardharrispoll.com/wp-con…
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Covid will be remembered as the end of the enlightenment era and the beginning of the second dark ages. *assuming historians still exist.
COVID will be better remembered not for the unprecedented lengths to which governments went to wage war on a respiratory virus, but for the unprecedented lengths to which governments went to wage war on their own people.
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Credit where credit is due. The left's co-option of language and takeover of nearly every important institution of America has been brilliant.
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Very true but it should be understood as even more insidious. The progressives view affirmative action as a form of justice. If white males have ruled America for hundreds of years, then it’s only fair and just for other groups to rule for the next few hundred years.
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Because the progressive ideology taught in elite universities for a generation and now taught in K-12 schools across the country is that Jews are part of the oppressor class, successful solely because of white supremacy culture.
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We need people to run as independents. The only way to save our country is to break the toxic polarization. To do that, we need to disrupt today's two party system.
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After two years of despicable fearmongering by the NY Times, the narrative is finally changing. Not because the science changed but because the politics changed. Never forget the unfathomable damage they helped cause, especially to children. nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opini…
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We are witnessing end stage democracy. Politicians are manufacturing an enemy (the unvaxxed) to distract the public from the fact that they have lied and misled for nearly two years, causing unimaginable damage to society.
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Excited to be officially on the ballot for my election for Congress in Florida's 22nd District in Palm Beach County. I'm running as a Republican to unseat one of the most far-left progressive Democrats in Congress in a district that is turning red. Now the real work begins!
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I think you left out a word, Alex.
They have teams of reporters whose only job is to cover FOR the White House.
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The severity of an institution’s covid restrictions was always highly correlated with how woke it is. They are related.
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Been thinking about this a lot and believe I finally understand it. There are 4 strains of modern political ideology: conservatism, classical liberalism, modern liberalism, wokeism/progressivism. 1/6
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In a true free society, we are free to discriminate against people that hold bad (militant) ideologies, thus it is difficult to earn a living if one holds such ideologies. This acts as a limiting factor. Today's society does not allow such discrimination and in fact, subsidizes the spread of bad ideologies (e.g. in our education system).
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