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Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult
American Greatness ^ | 23 Jan, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/24/2022 6:09:46 AM PST by MtnClimber

Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use of race—and to a lesser extent, gender—to replace meritocracy and thus ensure equality of result. What follows from implementing that ideology are reparatory actions to reward those of the present by atoning for the injustices done to others in the past.

Some see it as an update of 1960s cultural Marxism fads. Others scoff that it is just a return to 1980s-style political correctness.

Still more see it as the logical successor to 1990s-type race, class, and gender obsessions—albeit with a shriller and more dangerous Jacobin, Soviet, and Maoist twist. Wokeism’s hysteria also invites comparisons to the Salem witch trials and McCarthyism.

But few have described wokeism as the cruel creed that it is.

Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda. It is nihilist and destroys everything it touches. It tears apart foes and friends alike, whether by fueling media-driven hatred of Donald Trump or faux-deification of the disaster that is now Joe Biden.

Woke’s Victims

Defunding law enforcement and defaming police resulted in record numbers of murders in 12 U.S. cities. A wave of violent crime is even hitting America’s suburbs.

Without much fear of arrest, indictment, conviction, and incarceration, emboldened violent career criminals for the past year have robbed, assaulted, and killed the innocent with impunity.

The victims at the bus stop, the subway, or in the furniture store do not seem to warrant media or progressive attention, much less sympathy.

They are the ignored—the unnamed, and the forgotten collateral damage from the grand experiment of redefining crime as a social construct. The guilty are the elite academics, activists, and billionaires like George Soros

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; destroy; elite; fascism; naziism; progressive; totalitarian; woke

1 posted on 01/24/2022 6:09:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The elites would be horrified if any of the violence touched them.


2 posted on 01/24/2022 6:09:58 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“ The elites would be horrified if any of the violence touched them.”

Maybe it’s time they were horrified.


3 posted on 01/24/2022 6:32:43 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult..

So is everything liberal including the climate cultist and the covid cultist which has successfully infested many on the right as well.


4 posted on 01/24/2022 6:43:01 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m too awake to be woke.


5 posted on 01/24/2022 7:28:29 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: bk1000

Exactly

It is way past time for them to be repaid in kind


6 posted on 01/24/2022 7:31:25 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: bk1000

Exactly

It is way past time for them to be repaid in kind


7 posted on 01/24/2022 7:31:26 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: bk1000

Exactly

It is way past time for them to be repaid in kind


8 posted on 01/24/2022 7:31:28 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: bk1000

Exactly

It is way past time for them to be repaid in kind


9 posted on 01/24/2022 7:31:30 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: bk1000

Sorry about the multiple posts.


10 posted on 01/24/2022 7:32:14 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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11 posted on 01/24/2022 7:33:13 AM PST by David Chase
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To: David Chase

12 posted on 01/24/2022 7:43:14 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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LMAO!! 😆🤣😂 that’s a keeper! Thanks.


13 posted on 01/24/2022 7:51:16 AM PST by David Chase
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To: MtnClimber

Leftism is a death cult. Darkness, negativity, ingratitude, destruction and the death of all that is good and valuable. Never speak of their good intentions.


14 posted on 01/24/2022 7:54:12 AM PST by all the best
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To: MtnClimber

The woke regard the rest of us as less than fully human.


15 posted on 01/24/2022 8:04:45 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: bk1000

Maybe.


16 posted on 01/24/2022 8:06:44 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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17 posted on 01/24/2022 11:16:33 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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