‘The issue is SYSTEMIC grooming’: Critical Grooming Theory thread mocking principles of CRT is the best damn thing you’ll read today
Posted at 2:49 pm on April 8, 2022 by Sam J.
This may well be this editor’s most favorite thread EVER on Twitter, and considering we cover multiple threads multiple times a day that’s really sayin’ something. This thread from Neil Shenvi using (mocking?) the principles of Critical Race Theory with ‘grooming’ is pretty damn spectacular and makes such an amazing point.
Take a gander:
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...90242201468934
"Critical Grooming Theory"Told you.
When some people hear "groomer," they immediately apply a Western, individualistic lens. But they fail to realize that "grooming" is a systemic, structural problem deeply embedded in our "ways of knowing."
A thread. 1/
8:00 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
Keep going.
You’ll thank us.
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...91361594101766
When I, as a Critical Gooming Theorist (CGT) say that all progressives are groomers, I'm not saying that they personally support grooming, as defined by the dictionary. I'm saying that they benefit politically from "systems of advantage" that harm children. 2/https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...91864549871621
8:04 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
When a progressive is offended that he's called a "groomer," that is a symptom of "groomer fragility." He needs to sit with his discomfort and do the work to understand the lived experience of children and detrans folk who are harmed by systemic grooming. 3/If being called a groomer bothers you, clearly you’re a groomer.
8:06 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...92131945127937
A lot of progressives think there is a category of "not groomer." But one is either "groomer" or "anti-groomer." Being "not groomer" is just a way to perpetuate systemic grooming. 4/It’s not enough to be against grooming, you MUST BE anti-grooming.
8:07 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
‘Being “not groomer” is just a way to perpetuate systemic grooming.’
Dude, right?! LOL
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...92572082724866
Grooming is one of many interlocking systems of oppression. One cannot be anti-groomer if one is a communist. One cannot be anti-groomer if one is a feminist. To be "anti-groomer" it to recognize the intersections of your communist, feminist, progressive privilege. 5/Something like that.
8:09 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...94420495814663
Superficial change is insufficient. CGT shows that systemic grooming has been baked into supposedly neutral, objective ideas like "expressive individualism," "identity," and "social justice" from our nation's founding. Dismantling it requires fundamental social transformation 6/Dismantling it requires fundamental social transformation.
8:16 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...94906804297728
Is this thread satire? Yes. But it's a satire based on statements and reasoning taken nearly verbatim from the Critical Social Justice literature (e.g. Kendi, DiAngelo, Adams, Collins, etc.). CSJ is fundamentally flawed, cynical, and deconstructive. It is a universal acid. 7/Taken NEARLY verbatim from Critical Social Justice literature, aka CRT.
8:18 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...95770931666944
If this thread frustrates you, good. It should. It shows why we need to reject CSJ. It will poison our discourse and tear to shreds the very fabric of our society. Maybe rethink how you've been redefining words like "racism," "bigotry," whiteness," and "Christian nationalism." 8/It’s already poisoning us.
8:22 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
Sadly.
https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/statu...96402585468939
If you've been drinking the Kool-Aid of CSJ language and ideology, it's time to wake-up. They're a dead-end. You don't have to choose between embracing CSJ and embracing actual racism/sexism/injustice. You can and must reject both. 9/9What he said.
8:24 AM · Apr 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
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