At Diatomaceous-Johnson, we are a for profit company and generally take an apolitical stance. We go simply with pragmatic right and wrong (which more correctly is suitability vs. deception). We need to be selective in which projects we accept such that we can always accomplish excellent results for our clients. One of our team was approached by an entity wishing some assistance editing aspects of “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) for use in their organization, as well as the best way to incorporate it in their curriculum. Unfortunately, we had to dismiss this out of hand in that the aspects of this represented essentially communist propaganda.
Most internal communications here are confidential; however, we believe the raw justification sent by our agent (who formerly served in the Armed Forces) to managing Principal Keshawnda Johnson was worth re-iterating in print:
“We used to get (during resistance training) exposure to indoctrination techniques. CRT is one of them and one of the tools the communists are using. There is no rational basis for it; it’s just another form of what I believe to be communist bulls..t designed to indoctrinate the weak minded.
Ayn Rand–although REALLY wordy (there are parts of her stuff that are brilliant and riveting — and well worth reading — but it’s buried within a bunch of hard to sift through prose; I guess it’s akin to a diamond in the rough)–has some clear synopsis of these techniques. MOST of them rely on the acceptance of
“undeserved guilt”
And this is a key tenet (and has been) for miscreants to do great harm through the years. This INCLUDES some forms of religion (the CRT is parallel to ‘original sin’ — that somehow you’re mired in something bad even as a newborn — and have to do something to ‘atone’ for it. Although unlike the concept of ‘original sin’ (which I reject by the way although very much DO believe in ‘committed sin’ which isn’t the same thing) was designed to propagate spirituality, CRT is used to foster division and communism by creating resentment and guilt) FWIW. The concept of things like CRT is that just by being there and in a state of being a person is doing something wrong (same thing when it talks about ‘unconscious bias’ which is another crock of bulls..t–although it’s mullato twin ‘confirmation bias’ DOES exist but is very much a conscious act).
The antidote for most of this crap from the communists is a wholesale rejection of undeserved guilt (one of the key tenets of Rand in fighting communism although you gotta go through alot of ore to get to this gold nugget). A flat (positional) stop. Where ‘good’ people kinda get screwed is when they have a logical and correct position to begin with, but then they enter a debate which has SOME truth in it but subtile lies to set the ‘hook’ and then take a person further and further off the path of truth (the lies get bigger, the truth gets smaller but it happens insidiously and gradually). Cults usually work like this (and a person’s intelligence actually works against them because they try to ‘solve’ the puzzle without confirming the objective truth at each juncture shift–the mind is too impatient. It’s kind of like the wheel of fortune meme where there are letters present, but there could be several different answers only one of which is correct and the mind jumps in to errantly solve the puzzle with the wrong one. Only it happens many times in succession on minor points so that you wind up down a path of fiction rather than truth).
Masks are a good example; there is SOME truth that with proper use a mask can provide SOME protection to an individual and has the potential to benefit others under specific conditions unique to a particular pathogen–with viruses this has never been striking (i.e. in the single digit percentages AND there’s fairly wide tolerance in the data). Much depends on the type of mask worn, the seal present, the diligence with which the mask is sanitized (or discarded), the type of pathogen, and if and how frequently it’s touched and if other surfaces are subsequently touched. So it takes a specific set of conditions to draw a scientific conclusion. And there is some truth that if YOU diligently wear a mask to protect YOU it can have SOME beneficial effect IF you are proactive and careful in how you do it. For it to be at all helpful in protecting others it’s gotta have a huge set of conditions and assumptions unique to the situation and pathogen.
BUT
NONE of these conditions are present in general public use of masks; there’s wide variation on type, sanitization regimen, what ELSE a person does while wearing one, does he or she touch it, etc.
Furthermore, long term use of masks (especially without cleaning) CAN (and usually does) have adverse affects of health depending on environment (they might be beneficial in some, and harmful in others).
So there exist HUGE variables. But we see doctors wearing them (mostly to keep spittle out of open skin of patients or in the case of dentists to do this AND keep all those ground up parts flying around out of the dentist). The assumption is made that they can help OUTSIDE of the conditions where they’re used (which is a completely false assumption).
This then goes down the communist path where it becomes a form of ritual (whether or not it has demonstrated effectiveness). It placates fears (which shouldn’t exist in the first place) and generates fears against people who DON’T conform and wear them (completely without any data that these people might present any type of threat). These fears are generated by a false narrative, and then propagated by fears within individuals wearing them (occurring through confirmation bias and virtue signaling). It then goes into the absurd where they’re mandated towards vaccinated people; completely oblivious to the fact that people vaccinated against EVERY OTHER disease haven’t worn masks for, like, all of time.
The disadvantages (dehumanization, subjugation, control, muffled speech, lack of facial expressions and non-verbal communication (really important to human beings), accumulation of pathogens, adverse health effects by individuals wearing them, etc) are played down and blown off while the advantages (only applicable to a very specific scenario and NOT for the one you’re in) are played up. And it becomes a widespread practice stoked by fear that no one has any idea why they’re really doing on a quantitive level. And it goes into the absurd (“I’m wearing this so others feel better…” — why would ANYONE want to propagate a situation where someone feels better because they’re lying to themselves ?).
And even WHEN the data show that there’s really little or no advantage (which was the PREVIOUS position by the WHO/CDC before things became politicized) people are unwilling to abandon their position because they’ve become entrenched in it (and not wanting to admit they’re wrong — in fact with the confirmation bias this drives the want to do MORE of it or blame something entirely unrelated with the standard statist ‘if only’ straw man approach). This is how we got from ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ to ‘forever.’ Most of us who’ve seen this before saw it coming. The kinda nice thing about being a (former) fighter pilot is when you see things are just NOT working (and have given it as much time as you can TO work), an abrupt throw the tactic away and try a new one is a way of doing business and there’s no stigma towards doing it.
These things are exploited by statists and the key–for me at least–is to REJECT their paradigm completely. I call it the “NFW” or “GFY” approach. And it seems to work. I might suggest a polite response to this potential client worded more gently than I would put it– and that we reject the project and distance ourselves from this client and others of similar philosophy”
We apologize for the formatting, grammatical errors, and candor; this was meant as an informal colloquial internal conversation to one of our Principals as to why our agent rejected the assignment (it was, of course, used with his permission), but believe it gets the point across and has value towards what kind of clientele we look to have at D-J.
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