Hey everybody, this is James Lindsay, you're listening to new Discourses Bullets where

I discuss a single topic from woke Marxism and kind of bullet point fashion so that you

know how to resist it or call it out or see it or teach other people about it.

And today there's a concept in political warfare and psychological warfare that I want

to talk about called reactants. It's a kind of technical term a lot of people are not

familiar with, which you're going to be very familiar with the circumstance. The usual

way that you're going to encounter reactants, the feeling is that this is really bad and we

must pick a side. That's what you're going to encounter. But typically the way that more formally,

the way that reactants is defined psychologically is that it's the reaction, so reactants,

that people tend to have when they perceive that they're losing freedom. So they have freedoms,

they have liberties, they have the ability to interact in the world according to their own

agency and that somebody's going to limit that or take it away and that feeling that you have

of like, oh hell no, is reactants. It's psychologically speaking. It's a very strong resistance to the

perception that you're losing freedom. So what you'll see is a lot of political warfare narratives,

in other words propaganda being issued by the Marxist left and you'll even see this used by

reactionaries, which you'll also see it being used accurately. So a lot of discernments needed

accurately by people who are indicating very clearly that this is exactly what both the reaction

movement, but more importantly, the woke left is trying to achieve. What you'll see is some

messaging saying, here you have all this freedom. Maybe it's an issue like trans rights are human

rights and you're going to have your, you've had these freedoms and you're going to have them

taken away. When you hear them frame out abortion rights as a kind of human right that was somehow

a constitutional right because of the decision in Roe v Wade, which got overturned, they're trying

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