Historical reference shelf

This older working note contains many PDF links using former local-library paths. Its argument notes are preserved, but those PDF links should be treated as unverified until individually reconciled. For current topic navigation use Leftism & Woke (MOC); for the shared book shelf use Politics Books & Courses.

• Socrates belongs to everybody.

  • You don’t need to throw away the ancient thinkers due to their views at the time and replace them with modern one for a couple of opinions that the current time doesn’t believe or think are contemptable.

• The Woke ideologically follows the thinking of the racists that they hold in contempt. They want to throw away the “white” thinkers and replace them with non-white thinkers. The exact thinking, yet flipped.

• Math is Racist

  • Math Equity Toolkit
  • Resources and guidance to support Black, LatinX, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8 A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards.
  • https://equitablemath.org/

• Suggestion that there are other ways of knowing. That certain people posses based on racial essences. A thought that goes back to biological racism.

Vault cross-reference

The Oppressor/Oppressed lens has a philosophical genealogy worth holding alongside the political critique. Nietzsche’s ressentiment — the move by which the powerless redefine values so that their condition becomes moral superiority and the strong become evil — is the structural ancestor of the frame, and he described it in On the Genealogy of Morality fifty years before the Frankfurt School. And internalization of domination traces how Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber each explained the same phenomenon: domination is most complete when the dominated adopt its logic themselves.
Why this matters for your critique: it means the framework isn’t arbitrary — it’s a real observation about how power and morality interact — but it also means it inherits Nietzsche’s problem, that a moral system built out of resentment tends to require an enemy to remain coherent. That’s a much stronger line than “it’s just Marxism relabelled.” → The War on the West · Pro-China Narrative Techniques - Eric Hovagim Analysis (the “punching up” rule applied to a great power)

Woke = Seeing everything through the lens of Oppressor vs Oppressed

• Ben Shapiro breaks it down
  • Has its roots in post-modernism
    • Every principle is a reflection of underlying structures of power and therefore any inequality that emerges under such a system is a reflection of that structure of power.
    • Used to be applied in Marxist ways
      • Economic equality was the result of misallocation of power in the structure of an upper crust of people
  • Post-modern Marxist got transmuted into a racial version
    • Systems in the US are white supremacist in orientation and are perpetuated by a group of people who in favor of the preservation of white power and white supremacy
    • Generalized theory of critical race theory
    • Softer form is DEI
• DEI
  • Keyword is equity
    • If there is any inequality it is due to discrimination

Douglas Murray explains what WOKE is in 3 minutes

Douglas Murray speaks about the danger of utopian ideology which groups individuals into incoherent groups and makes everything equal at the expense of freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkG6PIsTEs

The Frankfurt School

Archive of writings of the Frankfurt School
http://marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm
Vault orientation: Frankfurt School · Critical Theory · James Lindsay's presentation and transcript

Case Studies — the framework applied in the wild

🇨🇳 “Punching up” applied to a great power → Pro-China Narrative Techniques - Eric Hovagim Analysis

A clean, self-documenting example of Oppressor vs Oppressed as an epistemology rather than a moral claim. In the source interview (What China Shows Americans About America Eric Hovagim) the host mocks French and British people for ten minutes, then asks his own guest what would happen if they said the same things about Chinese people. The answer states the rule explicitly:

“Because they haven’t been the privileged… so it’s fair game to punch up but you shouldn’t be punching down.”

The truth of a statement is set by the target’s position on a power hierarchy, not by evidence — and here the “punching up” role is assigned to a nuclear-armed great power with the world’s second-largest economy. The analysis note also traces the network context (Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI, Part II The Singham Ground Game · Code Pink · Attachment (file not included in this release)) and catalogues the unfalsifiability move: any negative instinct about China is reframed as residual Western propaganda in the listener, never as evidence about China.

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[Asia Pacific Modern_ 17] Eiichiro Azuma - In Search of Our Frontier_ Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (2019, University of California Press) [10.1525_9780520973077] - libgen.li.pdf
[Critical America_ 87] Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition_ An Introduction (2023, NYU Press) - libgen.li.pdf
[Early American studies] - An Infinity of Nations_ How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (2012, University of Pennsylvania Press) - libgen.li.pdf
60 Research/60.3 Politics/60.3.11 - Woke/Books/Books/[Library of America] John Kenneth Galbraith, James K. Galbraith (editor) - Galbraith_ The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967_ American Capitalism _ The Great Crash, 1929 _ The Affluent Society (2010, Libr.pdf
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Irreversible Damage_ The Transgender Craze Seducing Our -- Abigail Shrier [Shrier, Abigail] -- 2020 -- Regnery Publishing -- cc23e6477eec5d6e5bf3b8e851b3ffa7 -- Anna’s Archive.pdf
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Max Liboiron - Pollution Is Colonialism (2021, Duke University Press) [10.1515_9781478021445] - libgen.li.pdf
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