The Right’s Own ‘Critical Theory’: Dismantling WWII’s Moral Authority

Thread by Wokal Distance

The attack on Winston Churchill and the revisionist WWII history is a the right wing version of the “everything is problematic” move the woke have been using for years.

It’s a right wing 1619 project that wants to destroy the “Post-war consensus” by making America look bad.

This is a right-wing “Critical Theory” of America’s involvement in WWII.

The goal is to delegitimize the American order that emerged in the wake of WWII, and so the people doing this magnify America’s mistakes during WWII and minimize the horror of what the Nazi’s did.

Doing this allows them sow doubt as to who was really responsible for WWII and this then allows them to go about undercutting and subverting the moral authority that America gained by helping to defeat the Nazi’s.

They want to drain the moral authority of post-war America.

Note how the tactic here works. They do not try to show that the post-WWII political order was bad by arguing that it got something wrong. Rather, they try to undermine and subvert the order by attacking the narrative that most people have of WWII.

It’s narrative warfare.

You do not need to agree with the bombing of Dresden (which was done to destroy German facilities which helped power the German war machine, not to indiscriminantly kill Catholics) to think that on the whole, America was right, and the Nazi’s were evil.

The move here, to endlessly criticize America in order to destroy her moral authority and legitimacy, is a very common move in Critical Theory and a tactic that one commonly finds in Post-colonial Theory and decolonization.

It is, as I said, right-wing Critical Theory.

Don’t allow yourself to get sucked into a right-coded movement that is basically using a strategy that is a photo-negative of the tactics the woke have been using for years.

That way madness lies.