The Woke Danger 1: Applied Postmodernism
Channel: Larry the guy from Michigan
Date: 2021-01-01

It is difficult to understand sweeping changes in thinking when you are outside the woke worldview. Intersectionality, systemic racism, power relations, privilege, white fragility, and so on, are new ideas for many. Larry Kirkpatrick guides you through an introduction to this way of thinking, noticing substantial changes that would be effected by adoption of these ideas. Is woke compatible with Christianity, or is it effectively a new secular religion all its own? 

Includes discussion of James Lindsey and Helen Pluckrose' book, Cynical Theories: How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody (2020 Pitchstone Publishing, Durham North Carolina). Includes outlines of the postmodern knowledge principle, the postmodern political principle, and the themes of blurring boundaries, the power of language, cultural relativity, and loss of the individual and universal.

Refers also to Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility (Beacon Press, Boston MA, 2018).

The video refers to notes including the following: Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, third ed., (New York University Press, 2017), pp. 120-124. Also, Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, (Haymarket Books, Chicago Illinois, 2016), “Michael Brown is just the tip of an iceberg. These kinds of confrontations and assaults and killings happen all the time, all over the country in large as well as small cities. . . . The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into the movements that spontaneously arise.” (15-16). “Abolishing the prison is about abolishing racism.” (23). “At this point, at this moment in the history of the US I don’t think that there can be policing without racism. I don’t think that the criminal justice system can operate without racism. Which is to say that if we want to imagine the possibility of a society without racism, it has to be a society without prisons.” 48. “We need to reimagine security, which will involve the abolition of policing and imprisonment as we know them.” 90.



A written version of this video content has been simultaneously published at http://www.fulcrum7.com/blog/2021/1/1/the-danger-of-wokeness-part-1-applied-postmodernism

Larry Kirkpatrick is pastor of the Fremont MI and Muskegon MI Seventh-day Adventist churches and has served in the pastoral ministry since 1994.