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Why the “Right” Now Cancels Its Own
Crisis Magazine ^ | 2025 | Scott Ventureyra

Posted on 12/12/2025 11:54:14 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

The phrase “Woke Right” arrived almost overnight...

James Lindsay traces the history of “woke” as a mindset rather than a policy list. For him, “woke” is a way of seeing the world through a single lens of power and grievance. It falsely elevates politics to a pseudo-theology—that of a cosmic struggle between oppressors and oppressed. It is inspired by resentment, which inevitably fosters online mobs, practices cancel culture, and treats ideological opponents as heretics who must be hunted down rather than debated.

Lindsay argues that a similar pattern has emerged on parts of the Right. He points to Groypers and white identitarians who imitate the Left’s tactics through inverted identity politics and online transgression.

Lindsay’s analysis becomes especially valuable in his distinction between types of speech about Israel and Jews.

He differentiates criticism of Israel as a state, criticism of individual Jews, debates about Zionism as a political project, and the far more serious phenomenon he calls true anti-Semitism, which he defines as the conspiracy theory that Jews secretly control world events. “Anti-Israel criticism,” he notes, is legitimate since “everybody should be critical of every state,” while “anti-Jew” refers to personal prejudice. Only the conspiratorial claim that “the Jews control everything,” as he puts it, belongs under the label anti-Semitism.

Lindsay discusses these points in more depth with Jordan Peterson, where they examined the psychological traits that animate both the Woke Left and its imitators on the Right. They noted that the problem is not ideological disagreement but a style of engagement rooted in resentment, purity spirals, and an inability to tolerate ambiguity. He stresses that ordinary conservative critics of foreign policy are not “Woke Right” but that the label applies to those who weaponize identity and engage in mob tactics.

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To: Reverend Wright

I don’t see much to criticize in Huckabee. A couple comments awhile back yes. But they stood out as inconsistent with his generally positive tenor.
Perhaps we just don’t agree about him

As for the situation in the ground,
It’s called the consequences of launching mass-murder attacks on your neighbors. We CELEBRATE V-E and V-J day.
Our media was full
Of adoration for our defeat of the Axis powers —- abd yes, we bombed the H3ll out of memory German cities — far beyond any direct military necessity—- and of course we nuked two major Japanese cities right down to the burning ground. And threatened to do the same to Tokyo.

The IDF gave advance warnings for any “innocent people” to move to designated safe areas, areas protected by the defense forces. USA did not generally do this in any of our wars. Israel donated and trucked in thousands of tonnes of free food and civilian commodities to the enemy population. USA never did this during hostilities (and the Marshall plan didn’t happen until after Germany surrendered).

It is at least a double- standard, basically not honest or fair to criticize IDF —- and at least some of the (mostly communist or neoNazi or “progressive”) critics reveal a strong antisemitism. Like it or not, it is consistent with their political philosophy.

A few of the critics are “decent people seeking goodness and kindness” who, regrettably, very selectively react to some pictures — without regard to their context or history.

Apologies for not knowing how to post pictures here but — please

See:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pictures+of+bombed+german+cities&t=iphone&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalww2museum.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fwide_large%2Fpublic%2F2020-03%2FV2%2520rocket%2520damage%2520IWM_0.jpg%3Fh%3Ddec22bcf

And see:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/162514cb3aceb6cee82df280073cb07a4eaa671c/c=0-0-2996-1693&r=x1683&c=3200x1680/local/-/media/2015/08/05/USATODAY/USATODAY/635743774771508291-AP-Travel-Trip-Hiroshima-Anniversary.jpg


21 posted on 12/12/2025 3:50:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Brian Griffin

As for the situation in the ground,
It’s called the consequences of launching mass-murder attacks on your neighbors. We CELEBRATE V-E and V-J day.
Our media was full
Of adoration for our defeat of the Axis powers —- abd yes, we bombed the H3ll out of memory German cities — far beyond any direct military necessity—- and of course we nuked two major Japanese cities right down to the burning ground. And threatened to do the same to Tokyo.

The IDF gave advance warnings for any “innocent people” to move to designated safe areas, areas protected by the defense forces. USA did not generally do this in any of our wars. Israel donated and trucked in thousands of tonnes of free food and civilian commodities to the enemy population. USA never did this during hostilities (and the Marshall plan didn’t happen until after Germany surrendered).

It is at least a double- standard, basically not honest or fair to criticize IDF —- and at least some of the (mostly communist or neoNazi or “progressive”) critics reveal a strong antisemitism. Like it or not, it is consistent with their political philosophy.

A few of the critics are “decent people seeking goodness and kindness” who, regrettably, very selectively react to some pictures — without regard to their context or history.

Apologies for not knowing how to post pictures here but — please

See:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pictures+of+bombed+german+cities&t=iphone&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalww2museum.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fwide_large%2Fpublic%2F2020-03%2FV2%2520rocket%2520damage%2520IWM_0.jpg%3Fh%3Ddec22bcf

And see:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/162514cb3aceb6cee82df280073cb07a4eaa671c/c=0-0-2996-1693&r=x1683&c=3200x1680/local/-/media/2015/08/05/USATODAY/USATODAY/635743774771508291-AP-Travel-Trip-Hiroshima-Anniversary.jpg

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faithhopecharity to 9YearLurker
It’s called the consequences of launching mass-murder attacks on your neighbors. We CELEBRATE V-E and V-J day.
Our media was full
Of adoration for our defeat of the Axis powers —- abd yes, we bombed the H3ll out of memory German cities — far beyond any direct military necessity—- and of course we nuked two major Japanese cities right down to the burning ground. And threatened to do the same to Tokyo.

The IDF gave advance warnings for any “innocent people” to move to designated safe areas, areas protected by the defense forces. USA did not generally do this in any of our wars. Israel donated and trucked in thousands of tonnes of free food and civilian commodities to the enemy population. USA never did this during hostilities (and the Marshall plan didn’t happen until after Germany surrendered).

It is at least a double- standard, basically not honest or fair to criticize IDF —- and at least some of the (mostly communist or neoNazi or “progressive”) critics reveal a strong antisemitism. Like it or not, it is consistent with their political philosophy.

A few of the critics are “decent people seeking goodness and kindness” who, regrettably, very selectively react to some pictures — without regard to their context or history.

Apologies for not knowing how to post pictures here but — please

See:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pictures+of+bombed+german+cities&t=iphone&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalww2museum.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fwide_large%2Fpublic%2F2020-03%2FV2%2520rocket%2520damage%2520IWM_0.jpg%3Fh%3Ddec22bcf

And see:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/162514cb3aceb6cee82df280073cb07a4eaa671c/c=0-0-2996-1693&r=x1683&c=3200x1680/local/-/media/2015/08/05/USATODAY/USATODAY/635743774771508291-AP-Travel-Trip-Hiroshima-Anniversary.jpg


22 posted on 12/12/2025 3:51:57 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

Nope, sorry. Other war killing or even atrocities does not mean people are not justified to object to current ones without being called “antisemitic” for it.


23 posted on 12/12/2025 4:13:45 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

It is not always antisemitic.

They’re antisemitic if they select only the IDF to criticize — which many (not all) of the critics do. There are far larger devastations from hostilities that ment of them never emit a peep about.

And in no other hostile conflict does the victim of the attack provide such massive free humanitarian aid and food to the enemy population.

We hear next to nothing about the (normal) lack of aid in the other areas of hostilities.

Think it over.
Thank you.


24 posted on 12/12/2025 4:39:15 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

You are focusing on one element of what is happening.

I am accused of “anti-semitism” even though I have zero interest in events in the Middle East.

I just want the US to avoid getting tangled up in the mess.


My issue is the “eighth front”.

What is the “eighth front”?

https://www.jns.org/jns-event-spotlights-eighth-front-the-information-battlefield/

Identifying the tactics of that information war seems to get a lot of folks around here very jumpy.

They don’t like acknowledging when they are getting herded and gate-kept and curated by skilled practitioners of the art of information warfare.


25 posted on 12/12/2025 4:46:11 PM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The establishment Republicans have been canceling people who weren’t on board for never ending wars, larger government programs and ever expanding government debt for decades.


26 posted on 12/12/2025 4:46:34 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Because they are nuts.

No one canceled them. They’ve just been called out.

What 5 year old write this?


27 posted on 12/12/2025 4:55:14 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Brian Griffin

Gaza deserves to be in ruins.


28 posted on 12/12/2025 5:14:31 PM PST by ohioman
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To: faithhopecharity
This was Grozny in 2000, which a lot of Neo-Cons condemned as a "Putin War Crime" at the time. The same Neo-Cons who now proclaim Israel as the "most moral army" in the world. I don't really see any problems with either. In both cases dealing with moslem terrorists and a supportive population. But Gaza is 5x the population size of this.
29 posted on 12/12/2025 5:18:29 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: faithhopecharity
My problem with the Huckabee statement here is clintonian pretense that missile targetting a single person and blowing up a bunch more is not "an attack on a country".

If Russia did that to someone in Poland (and killed a bunch more besides) no way would all these Zion cheerleaders say "that was not an attack on Poland".

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30 posted on 12/12/2025 5:27:45 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: cgbg

history has proven imho that the best way to avoid anyone getting tangled up is to see the enemy defeated....after which there won’t be any conflict to possibly get tangled up in

what has been happening is that Israel gives away its victories (and they’re usually very hard fought ones)

this only enables those seeking to destroy Israel to regroup, rearm, re=strategize, re-deploy, and re-attack.

which triggers more “opportunities” for foreign entanglement in the resulting hostilities

defeat the enemy and there probably won’t be any more hostilities of note. especially with continued vigilance to prevent any enemy regrouping or rearming anywhere in firing range.

———entanglement can be made a non-issue.

as for the eighth front, Israel has indeed be losing it. Israel has a public information or, if you will, a propaganda department. But it is much under-resourced in light of the many BIllions of dineros being spent by enemies like Qatar and Saudi Arabia and SorozNazi and UnitedNazis and EuroNazi regimes....all parroting pretty much the same Big Lies......which much of the mass media is only too happy to broadcast far and wide

it is a really massive assault on the truth, one that Jerusalem does attempt to counter and correct ... but it is an uphill battle just in terms of resources

the mass media’s repeating these lies and slanders over and over and over again..... is a huge part of the problem. Be happy I will refrain from my full complaint list about the “information war’ you cite. I suspect we may agree a whole lot more than disagree about this (and it is very dangerous in a larger picture too, not only focusing on IDF or the middle east.....the lies and distortions and fake news are rampant nowadays in many media....my bottom line is that this renders any effort at restoring the public forum (in any reasonably honest and useful manner)..... and this also renders restoring any genuine “representative governance” unlikely (unattainable).


“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface. Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.

Paul Joseph Watson


31 posted on 12/12/2025 5:29:01 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Reverend Wright

i don’t see anything in yours about the ‘attack on a country’ that occurred 07 October 2023.

but then again, I have an eye doctor appointment next week so maybe I’ll be able to find it after I get my new specs

as for the European situation, it is not entirely an accurate match for fighting terrorist murder gangsters like Hamas, Hezballah, PLO=Abbas=Fatah, ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood (the parent gang for Hamas), AlQaida, etcetera etc. Not a parallel correspondence, albeit I do understand and agree with your thought about Poland.

thanks for that format for pictures, I will write it down and try it out soon!!!
Best, Merry Christmas
fhc


32 posted on 12/12/2025 5:33:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Hot Tabasco
They must be monitoring the posts here on FreeRepublic......

👀

33 posted on 12/12/2025 6:52:45 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The right has NOT been trying to “cancel” anyone! Many of us HAVE said that if an organization supports or encourages people Like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes, we have the right to stop donating to you and stop listening to you! We have the right to encourage others to stop listening to you if you deny the Holocaust or promote conspiracy theories about Israel, France, Donald Trump or TPUSA killing Charlie Kirk.

That is not “canceling”. I have not called for YouTube to stop hosting the shows of Fuentes or Owens. But I will not listen to them and will stop listening to people who treat them with respect and boast about their friendship with them.


34 posted on 12/12/2025 6:57:56 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: Brian Griffin

All they had to do was release the hostages. They refused and Israel would not stop before the hostages were returned.

In the 80s, while in the military, I had a T-shirt with a mushroom cloud on it and “Don’t start a war if you can’t take the ending!” written on it.


35 posted on 12/12/2025 7:00:30 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: Reverend Wright

There is a difference between TARGETING CIVILIANS and killing SOME civilians while attack MILITARY targets.

Russia didn’t drop pamphlets telling everyone to clear out because the bombing would begin soon. And unlike Hamas, Russia’s enemy did not build military installations UNDER HOSPITALS!

Dammit, I’m tired of the STUPIDITY of people saying, “But Israel is so evil!” We killed far more civilians to military in Iraq than Israel has done in Gaza!


36 posted on 12/12/2025 7:04:24 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: Mr Rogers
But I will not listen to them

That is the mature and adult response. But social media turns everything into a witch burning session. 🙄

37 posted on 12/12/2025 7:10:00 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The Left cancels people constantly. The Right does this far, far, far less.

The last thing we 'cancelled' was Bud light... that'd\s far far far less.

38 posted on 12/12/2025 7:38:47 PM PST by GOPJ (Soros & democrats back criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: faithhopecharity

“as for the European situation, it is not entirely an accurate match for fighting terrorist murder gangsters like Hamas, Hezballah, PLO=Abbas=Fatah, ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood (the parent gang for Hamas), AlQaida, etcetera etc. Not a parallel correspondence,”


I’m always surprised at the selective memory people have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege


39 posted on 12/12/2025 7:40:13 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: Mr Rogers; All

“Russia didn’t drop pamphlets telling everyone to clear out because the bombing would begin soon. “


That’s EXACTLY what the Russians did !

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/120799chechnya-leaflet.html



“And unlike Hamas, Russia’s enemy did not build military installations UNDER HOSPITALS! “


Wrong again !

The Chechens were in tunnels and under buildings ( including hospitals) all thru the battle of Grozny

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/26/chechnya

Charming, just like Hamas. Attacked a military hospital.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/010700russia-chechnya.html


40 posted on 12/12/2025 7:54:32 PM PST by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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