The key to understanding liberals is to realize that they believe that words shape reality, so if they keep repeating things, they are necessarily true.
Granted, only THEIR words shape reality. And words mean only what THEY say they mean.
That is, in a very tiny nutshell, the premise of Critical Theory. There are lots of Byzantine complications you can add to that description, but if you chop off all the intricate decorations they plaster on a simple structure, it boils down to this: words are power, and our words are the only power that matters.
Critical Theory is just repackaged Marxism. It was developed when the Marxists realized that the Revolution wasn’t coming and that the economic determinism that Marx relied on was false. So the Marxists developed a new way forward, which amounts to gaslighting. There is a fascinating intellectual history, a few…
