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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Frank Furedi with a deep dive into the Globalism thesis, that Power (very broadly) is interested in delegitimizing the concept of the Nation and borders (and the people who would, then, be organized or identified by or with such concepts) for reasons that are unclear, and that this has taken on a moral valence.
Is this true/real? It strikes me as one of so very many competing theses to explain what it is that we're experiencing. How do we test these things? How do we understand what is true and real?
"Opponents of Populism criticise this movement’s embrace of patriotism and of the nation. Cosmopolitan politicians and commentators go so far as to denounce such territorial attachments as backward and they insist that borders and the status of citizenship are outdated and artificial concepts. They often advocate migration as an antidote to the prevalence of national consciousness and contend that national cultures are inferior to multiculturalism.
"From a globalist-cosmopolitan ...
