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English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Dec 30

NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1h

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 53m

*** LIBRARY BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES ***

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

"Do not bring dogs within the portals" and other Library Rules.

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3h

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

The Security Service (MI5) kept files on Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife, Lady Diana Mosley, from 1933 shortly after he founded the British Union of Fascists.
"BRITAIN FIRST" --- sounds familiar?
#History #antifa #archives #fascism

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

#History #antifa #resistance #archives
1934: Oswald Mosley organised a British Union of Fascists (BUF) rally in Birmingham’s Bingley Hall that was attended by 10,000 people.
Daily Mail printed an article titled “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”
britishonlinearchives.com/posts/catego...

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

Shavian script ...
www.shavian.info

Shavian alphabet info | 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑦𐑯𐑓𐑴

www.shavian.info

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2h

An Anti-phonetic Alphabet ?
Aisle
Bdellium
Czar
Djinn
Ewe
Gnat
Heir
Ile flottant
José
Knowledge
Llewelyn
Mnemonic
Oedipus
Psychology
Quinoa
Sugar
Tsunami
Uighur
Voilà
Writing
Xylophone
Yttrium
Zhivago
www.panix.com/~vr/alphabet...

The Anti-Phonetic Alphabet

www.panix.com

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

My Critical Race Theory (CRT) Spelling Test for Kiddies ....
#satire #orthography #woke www.academia.edu/49491172/Cri...

Critical Race Theory -School Spelling Test

It might astonish British teachers that aspects of recent high-level work in Critical Race Theory (CRT) have indubitably contributed in some significant way to the poor achievement of white working cl...

www.academia.edu

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Hitler youth

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Overt and Covert White Supremacy: Critical Race Theory
#antifa #edchat

OVERT
Lynching
WHITE SUPREMACY Hate Crimes Swastikas
(Socially Unacceptable) KKK Burning
School-to-Prison
The N-Word
Crosses
Racial Slurs Racist Jokes
"Make America Great Hiring Discrimination
Again"
Pipeline Confederate
Flags
Neo-Nazis
Police
COVERT
murdering POC WHITE SUPREMACY
(Socially Acceptable)
Discriminatory Lending
Racial Profiling
Mass Incarceration
Not Believing
Experiences of POC
Police Brutality
Paternalism
Euro-centric Curriculum
Anti-Immigration
Policies/Practices
Housing
Discrimination Fearing People of Color
Virtuous Victim Narrative
Denial of White Privilege
Denial of Racism
English-only Initiatives
Expecting POC to Teach White People "But what about me?"
Tokenism
Blaming the Victim
Believing we are "Post-Racial"
"But we're just one human family" Racist Mascots
Colorblindness
White Savior Complex
"It is just a joke!"
Assuming that Good Intentions are Enough
"Don't blame me, I never owned slaves"
Self-appointed White Ally
Bootstrap Theory
Celebration of Columbus Day
Cultural Appropriation
Claiming Reverse Racism
Not Challenging Racist Jokes

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

2/2 Alternative discussion of Critical Race Theory
(Poster: Wyatt Tall)
#edchat #HigherEd #antifa #teaching #school

What people want instead of
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
IN THE CLASSROOM
1. VMA - Virtuous mythology of America 2. Inequity, unifomity, and exclusion
3. Cultural / multi-cultural ignorance
4. We are always objectivite / no bias
5. Society is just and justice = punishment
6. Systems / structures / institutions are fair
7. Only loud racisism counts
8. Pro-racism
9. White burden / strength / equal opportunity / normalcy / innocence 10. CIS-like IQ but cultural ignorance score
11. Imposing our way on others is altruistic / liberating / not damaging
12. Power is merit-based and wealth is not passed down
13. Demographic differences are fine
14. Tradition
15. One big group
16. Personal responsibility
17. One objective worldview
18. Social destiny
19. Black lives don't matter
20. We made up for slavery already
21. Ethnicities aren't a factor

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

1/2 How the discussion of Critical Race Theory is being presented on social media (U.S.A. : Texas Public Policy Foundation). Alt-Right Perspectives.
#edchat #HigherEd #antifa

How to identify
CRITICAL RACE THEORY CRITICAL
IN THE CLASSROOM
1. CRT - critical race theory or culturally responsive teaching
2. Equity, diversity, and inclusion
3. Cultural/multi-cultural competence
4. Implicit/ unconscious/internalized bias
5. Social justice or restorative justice
6. Systemic/ structural/institutional racism or oppression 7. Micro-aggressions
8. Anti-racism
9. White
privilege/fragility/supremacy/culture/prejudice
10. CQ - like IQ but cultural intelligence
11. Colonialism/ neo-colonialism/ colonizer/ decolonialism
12. Power structures or racial hierarchies 13. Normative
14. Disparate outcomes or inequity 15. Identity
16. Ally or ally-ship
17. Afrocentric/ Eurocentric
18. Social constructs
19. Black lives matter
20. Reparation/liberation
21. Ethnocentricity

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

My Critical Race Theory (CRT) Spelling Test for Kiddies ....
#satire #orthography #woke
www.academia.edu/49491172/Cri...

Critical Race Theory -School Spelling Test

www.academia.edu

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

" #antifa argue that it is imperative to confront the alt-right as they attempt to step out from behind their screens to establish a public presence—something that would make their Internet propaganda all that much more potent."
--Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (2017), p. 174.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

CHILD: "Daddy, what did you do while the super rich were stealing everything"
FATHER: "I painted roundabouts and put up flags to save you from foreigners."
CHILD: "MY hero"
#satire #antifa #England #UK #refugees

A satirical family scene.
CHILD: "Daddy, what did you do while the super rich were stealing everything"
FATHER: "I painted roundabouts and put up flags to save you from foreigners."
CHILD: "MY hero"

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5h

You didn't read the article, did you?

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5h

"Since 2022, Russia has already signed strategic partnership pacts with China, North Korea and Iran."
www.reuters.com/world/putin-...

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5h

I'm seeing more and more of these #antifa messages that draw on the #history and family experience of the Second World #War as a fight against #Fascists and #Nazis.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5h

Important to hear these views -- too much focus on Trump being "snubbed".
On the other hand, Maduro has just signed a pact with Putin that will perpetuate the war in Ukraine, with Russia's invasion now having cost more than a million lives?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

"The KKK has thrived during eras of black social advancement—the election of Obama in 2008 spurred white-power recruitment, and led to the rise of Donald Trump."
---Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (2017), p. 183. #antifa #Trump #MAGA

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Two children wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods stand on either side of Samuel Green, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, at Stone Mountain, Georgia, on July 24, 1948.

What a White Supremacist Told Me After Donald Trump Was Elected
I spoke on the phone with a fifty-five-year-old divorced college graduate—he declined to specify his alma mater—who had been working as a construction manager in Sacramento, California. The man, who identified himself as James Zarth, said that he was “Grand Klaliff,” or second in command, of the “California realm” of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a subgroup of the notorious white-supremacist group, which, according to a recent estimate from the Southern Poverty Law Center, has five or six thousand members in the United States. Previously a member of the White Aryan Resistance and various skinhead groups, Zarth said that he joined the K.K.K. when Barack Obama first became President. “I did a lot of soul-searching,” Zarth told me in November. “At first, I thought it was a hate group. I’d been a skinhead for a long time, but I figured out that a lot of them are just into drugs and violence—they’re not helping their own race. The K.K.K. is one of the only white-nationalist organizations that’s family-oriented and looking out for white rights.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-a-white-supremacist-told-me-after-donald-trump-was-elected

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

"ardent Trump supporters voted for their candidate either because of or despite his misogyny, racism, ableism, Islamophobia, and many more hateful traits."
---Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (2017), p. 204

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 20h

Altered endings...
#literature #gothic

Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't mind!!

The final page of Frankenstein with a hand-written addendum saying that Frankenstein's monster doesn't mind being called Frankenstein.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22h

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018)
--- Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University. #antifa #England #flags

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22h

Ten pillars of fascism: (1) Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.

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