BTW some points about #DOGE and #Project2025
1. do not call it #deconstruction of the federal government. deconstruction is inherently antifascist, as it intends to break apart THRU EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, the lies that sustain hegemonic ―and by default― authoritarian power.
2. what we are seeing is a build up of a fascist apparatus that the oligarchs can control directly. in other words, they’re cocooning the federal government with technologies for their technocratic dictatorship…
3. it is important that we name properly what is happening.
a. banning books and words is what Gayatri Chkravorty-Spivak described as #EpistemicViolence. it’s the “my way or the highway” way of speaking and thinking that is at the heart of all forms of colonialism; settler, technological or otherwise.
Interlude: Epistemic Violence | SpringerLink - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_14
the Wikipedia page on “epistemic injustice” needs to be renamed
Epistemic violence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
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Epistemic violence is a concept introduced to postcolonial studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988, see also ch. 5). Originally, Michel Foucault developed the idea of the episteme in Western thought...
the whole point of #fascism is to force a worldview in which violence reigns supreme and only The Chosen get to wield violence, unchallenged, upon The Others.
b. EPISTEMOLOGICAL VIOLENCE is what fascists want to unleash thru the government: a very intentional twisting of reality to fit their worldview.
that’s why they’re obsessed with the #CDC ―it is entrusted with public health. fascists want it for realizing their #eugenics dreams of mass death of The Others
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_441
so…
1. stop parroting the faux intellectualism of fascists. #deconstruction is an antifascist form of academic analysis. what they mean is destruction.
2. #EpistemicViolence is censorship of all kinds. it’s meant to create a false narrative of agreement.
3. like “Gulf of America” #EpistemologicalViolence is meant to completely change reality by destroying all social contracts.
recognize these forms of violence. violence isn’t only by guns. it’s always by ideology first and foremost. / 🧵
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
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