Possibly an act of survival for the Department of Education, which nevertheless should be stripped of its regulatory powers, but it’s still very good news for the USA.
For the reasons set forth below, EPP strongly opposes the Proposed Rule because (i) the Proposed Rule lacks legal justification, as Bostock v. Clayton County , 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020) cuts against, rather than in favor of, the Proposed Rule, (ii) the science underpinning the inclusion of transgender athletes on women’s sports teams clearly indicates that such inclusion is patently unfair to female athletes, and (iii) the major questions doctrine strongly suggests that such a massive change to interscholastic and intercollegiate sports, which would be the inevitable result of the Proposed Rule, should be legislated by Congress, not imposed unilaterally by a federal administrative agency.
Hopefully global progressivism is as dead as the authors conclude, fading away peacefully. I think populism is on its last legs, too - at least in the US. Europe and the Commonwealth nations may not be so fortunate.
While one of the two establishment parties won in the U.S., the Republicans have largely been taken over by the insurgent figure of Trump, who clearly has a mandate from voters to shake things up, said Teixeira. He said he doesn’t see either the left or conventional right easily recapturing Trump’s populist, multiracial working-class majority.
Kurl noted that even though the Conservative Party is leading in polls, Canadians still hold an unfavorable opinion of Poilievre. Voters aren’t so much choosing Poilievre and his right-wing politics as they are rejecting Trudeau, she said.
In Europe, politicians also face a far more skeptical electorate after years of stagnant real wages and rising migration. That has fueled support both for the establishment right—made up of social conservatives and free-market champions—and for antiestablishment populists, who want protection from migration and trade, said Manès Weisskircher, a political scientist at the Dresden University of Technology.
The rapid reshuffling of voters’ priorities in the past few years has made issues associated with the center-left—such as climate change, social justice and identity politics—seem less relevant, said Ursula Münch, director of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing, Germany. That could mean governments become more concerned with national rather than international priorities, reducing cooperation in areas from security to the environment.
“It turns out people [in the West] value their own jobs more than whether some islands are going to sink into the ocean,” she said.
So with everyone turning on crap like DEI and the reemergence of Trump, is “wokeness” pretty much done as a driving force in social discourse, politics, and commercialism? Is it time to write its obituary?
Fwiw, I don’t think the intentions behind it were completely awful… at least in the beginning. Some things did need to change, like sexism in the workplace and greater social acceptance of LGBT. The problem is the pendulum swung waaaaaaaaaaay too far…. So far that it turned off a lot of people who otherwise would be allies on more reasonable causes. Even Joe Rogan once counted himself as pretty progressive. It’s pretty much killed the Democrats, traditional media, certain movie and videogame franchises, social media companies, and anyone else who decided it was a good idea to hitch their wagon to its star.
Yep, for me it started when they broke our large group of people attending a culturally responsive education professional development into smaller groups based on our skin color and gaslighted the white folks because of the way we stood— so confident and arrogant and privileged!.
For me, it started a bit over a decade ago when “cancel culture” became a thing. Around 2014 everyone started to get a bit nervous about others screen grabbing old tweets and stuff. Also around this time everyone became so sensitive that comedians couldn’t even do their sets on college campuses anymore. And then it got really bad when the corporations got involved and DEI mentality started dictating the direction movie franchises like Star Wars and the MCU went in. Also when Orwellian language like “birthing person”, “cisgender”, “nonbinary”, “body positive”, etc. started to be used unironically.
Same here. I grinded it out and after I got my degree I decided spending the rest of my life cranking out useless articles for academic journals that nobody reads full of meaningless leftist jargon was not the right career path for me. Wokeness has been ruining the liberal arts since…well, living memory. Which for me means as far back as my 90s undergrad days.
One of the biggest disappointments of my young life was finding out the rightwing was right about college professors trying to indoctrinate their students with leftwing ideology. I thought that was just the right being alarmist, conspiratorial kooks… but no, it’s 100% true.
Things I learned when I went back to grad school in the early-mid 10s.
American soldiers in other countries were occupiers and thus their injuries and deaths were not tragic, but an inevitable consequence of their evil hubris
My heteronormative views came from a place of toxic privilege and marginalizing towards different interpretations of a decades old text we were reading.
