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Mid-Level Violence

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 41 A key tactic in the Woke Marxist activism toolbox is an unconventional warfare technique known as "mid-level violence," or, in other words, strategic provocation. In this strategy, agitators will engage in behavior that, if accepted, moves one of their mass-line agendas along or that, if resisted, provokes a reaction that can be framed as an unjust overreaction ("wound collecting" or "crybullying"). They are masters at this. In fact, it's Antifa's bread-and-butter tactic, and its goal is always to put its target into a dilemma of giving in and demoralizing (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/02/demoralization) themselves or reacting and thus being portrayed as having overreacted (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/02/action-reaction-and-beautiful-trouble). Join host James Lindsay in this episode of New Discourses Bullets as he explains how this malicious tactic works. Order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay #provocation

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Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to new discourses of bullets, or I give

0:15.0

you a short bullet point type summary of a single topic within woke Marxism that you

0:21.2

need to be aware of, so that we can fight and destroy it.

0:25.0

And I need to talk, I've been talking about strategic operational kind of things recently

0:30.4

on the bullets series, and we need to talk about some more.

0:34.9

I want to talk about a approach that is typical within all of woke Marxism and all of Marxist

0:46.7

activism, frankly, more generally, it's a strategic point.

0:51.2

It's explicitly written about in kind of leftist activist manuals, especially where we

0:57.8

gear more toward the militant with the antifa, or antifa, however we're supposed to say

1:04.4

that.

1:05.4

It doesn't exist, so it doesn't matter how we pronounce it, it's not real, but this

1:09.1

is a concept of mid-level violence or provocation.

1:13.7

It's extremely important to understand it virtually everything in their activism, everything

1:18.3

in woke activism, whether it's the very militant antifa kind, whether it's the very kind of

1:26.8

institutional policy kind in schools or whatever, whether it's the kind of stuff that you

1:33.2

deal with from a woke person day to day is designed to be a mid-level violence or a provocation,

1:41.6

and a drag queen story hour actually sells itself explicitly in its own words as a provocation.

1:48.6

It is a form of mid-level violence, and the way that mid-level violence works needs

1:54.0

to be understood and how to respond to mid-level violence also needs to be understood if you're

1:58.1

going to be able to deal with this correctly, because the principle in woke activism as documented

2:05.3

in their activist manual called beautiful trouble is your real action, is your target's

2:10.9

reaction.

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