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Are the Woke Morally Superior?
American Thinker ^ | 28 Jul, 2022 | Steve Rose

Posted on 07/28/2022 7:05:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

They are if you use their metrics but, unfortunately for them, their metrics don’t stand up to real-world scrutiny.

Defeating Wokeism isn’t merely a political, legal, or even cultural battle. We must also address what ultimately fuels Wokeness on a personal level: a delusional sense of moral superiority because it’s that moral superiority that is the vehicle for the left’s real power grab.

Are the Woke, in fact, morally superior? If you ask them, they certainly are. Their thinking seems to run something like this:

The world consists of people with different skin colors, genders, sexual orientations, etc. We are tolerant. The un-Woke aren’t. Therefore, we are morally superior.

This worldview is seductive. The basic idea is “I’m a good person, and you’re not.” Moral superiority is an addictive drug. But every claim in the above argument is off.

Take the concept that “The world consists of people with many different skin colors, genders, sexual orientations, and so on.” That seems true enough at first look. Yet the error lies in its implicit assumptions and in how it’s used. It implies that humanity’s most essential and important qualities can be reduced to these traits: skin color, gender, and sexual orientation.

The mistake is in the reductionism. This approach reduces the entire moral universe down to very few minor qualities while pretending to cover the entire picture. But skin color, gender, and so on are superficial traits. Everyone agrees on this. (It’s the whole point, really.) These aren’t good ways to measure beings. Yet reducing human beings down to superficial traits—and mandating that the entire world must be rearranged according to these traits—is a central premise of Wokeism. The error lies in the act of reduction. There’s more to human beings than all this.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; communism; wokeism
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1 posted on 07/28/2022 7:05:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The wokeists are usually the worst of society, intent on finding any reason to punish others.


2 posted on 07/28/2022 7:05:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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On Judgment Day, they will have to answer for why they worshipped the creation instead of the Creator.


3 posted on 07/28/2022 7:07:58 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MtnClimber

The woke will soon have their own slums


4 posted on 07/28/2022 7:08:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Are social justice warriors morally superior?

Are the self-righteous morally superior?

Give me a break.


5 posted on 07/28/2022 7:09:42 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MtnClimber

They commit the Gnostic fallacy of believing that there iss a moral ordering of humanity, and that they are “more evolved”.


6 posted on 07/28/2022 7:10:37 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: MtnClimber

Wokesters are losers, degenerates, and disgusting people who need something to give their lives meaning. They have accomplished nothing in their life and becoming a wokester gives them an instant sense of accomplishment and superiority even though they have done nothing and accomplished nothing in their pathetic lives.


7 posted on 07/28/2022 7:12:34 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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Those who are obsessed with skin color -- as are the "woke" -- are accurately characterized as racists.

The belief that race -- instead of values -- determines behavior, is the basic tenet of naziism.

8 posted on 07/28/2022 7:15:42 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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"Are the Woke Morally Superior?"

Hell no! These people are moral midgets. They are the most immoral people on the planet--and that includes the mafia, the drug pushers, pedophiles, nazis, et al.

9 posted on 07/28/2022 7:23:03 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The American People DESPISE the corrupt US elites and their corruption of the US government!)
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Are the Woke Morally Superior?

No, they are Immorally Superior.

10 posted on 07/28/2022 7:26:25 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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The ‘woke’ are not only far from being ‘morally superior’ they are outright dangerous.


11 posted on 07/28/2022 7:26:43 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Woke = Uncaged Maniac


12 posted on 07/28/2022 7:28:24 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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“Woke” isn’t a set of ‘causes’ to be reconciled for the good of humanity ... it’s a set of ‘tactics’ to be utilized for the achievement of ultimate tyranny over We The People


13 posted on 07/28/2022 7:33:45 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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this woke stuff comes directly out of satan’s playbook


14 posted on 07/28/2022 7:34:03 AM PDT by Rodm
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This is actually a great point. In times past, a large number of wokesters would be in mental institutions. Now they are running wild on the streets disturbing the peace and stirring up riots.


15 posted on 07/28/2022 7:40:03 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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“Are the Woke Morally Superior?”

Of course they are.

Just ask them.


16 posted on 07/28/2022 7:40:18 AM PDT by moovova
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To: MtnClimber

From my personal acquaintances and relationships, it seems to be universal that the “woke”/leftists see themselves as both morally and intellectually superior and feel that they should be making all of the decisions for the rest of us.


17 posted on 07/28/2022 7:43:25 AM PDT by NEMDF
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Are the Woke Morally Superior?

No...They are cognitively inferior. They are not guided by reason; they think with their emotions. Now, this applies to the millions of Rat/Rino voters. This does not apply to lefty leadership that plays the emotional masses like Stradivari.

18 posted on 07/28/2022 7:44:49 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course they are, just ask them.


19 posted on 07/28/2022 7:47:17 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Rodm

Nothing biblical about wokism.


20 posted on 07/28/2022 7:49:27 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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