Author: Theo

IndieGoGo SHADOWBANS A Beautiful Sci Fi Comic By Christian Creator Aaron Lorpresti – Jon Del Arroz

The crowdfunding campaign in question: KIT CARTER: PLANET DOOM GRAPHIC NOVEL

Sure enough, as of November 4, 2023, Mr. Lopresti’s crowdfunded book is NOINDEXED by Indiegogo, telling the search engines not to index his campaign. (Click image to enlarge in another tab)

And finally, a direct search on Indiegogo for the project’s title yields no results on November 4, 2023. (Click image to enlarge in another tab)

Shadowbanning confirmed.

A Socialist’s Definition of ‘Woke’ – Freddie deBoer

(From the Wayback Machine, possibly because the author received some grief for this piece.)

“Woke” or “wokeness” refers to a school of social and cultural liberalism that has become the dominant discourse in left-of-center spaces in American intellectual life. It reflects trends and fashions that emerged over time from left activist and academic spaces and became mainstream, indeed hegemonic, among American progressives in the 2010s. “Wokeness” centers “the personal is political” at the heart of all politics and treats political action as inherently a matter of personal moral hygiene – woke isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. Correspondingly all of politics can be decomposed down to the right thoughts and right utterances of enlightened people. Persuasion and compromise are contrary to this vision of moral hygiene and thus are deprecated. Correct thoughts are enforced through a system of mutual surveillance, one which takes advantage of the affordances of internet technology to surveil and then punish. Since politics is not a matter of arriving at the least-bad alternative through an adversarial process but rather a matter of understanding and inhabiting an elevated moral station, there are no crises of conscience or necessary evils.