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Posted on 06/22/2023 6:02:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.
Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed.
Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present.
The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible for their sinful triad of white “rage,” “supremacy,” and “privilege.”
Class considerations became passé. The Duchess of Sussex, and the billionaires Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James, shared grievances against all whites, whether they hailed from Martha’s Vineyard or impoverished East Palestine, Ohio.
A bicoastal elite would draft the woke agenda and the oppressed would follow as ordered.
That top-down blueprint would embrace massive multibillion-dollar reparations to blacks.
In lockstep, all victims would rally around a Green New Deal that mandated high energy costs to discourage consumption of fossil fuels.
The new transgender canon mandated three sexes. Sex is socially rather than biologically determined. And there is a large, oppressed, and transgender population: this presents the next great civil rights struggle for America.
Historical wokeism lodged a list of grievances against the supposedly flawed American past. Indicting the dead required statues to be toppled. Names had to be changed. Histories were to be rewritten. Even the foundational date of America was to be reconsidered and altered.
Yet, the rainbow fabric of woke is now fraying—and for a variety of reasons.
For one thing, woke took off after the perfect storm of the COVID pandemic, the devastating lockdown, the 120 days of violent rioting and looting following the death of George Floyd, and years of endemic Trump Derangement Syndrome. Most of those catalysts are waning...
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Wokeism seems to be like a cult. The followers don’t even question the ridiculousness of the beliefs.
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So true--the same can be said about today's useless idiot democRAT.
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Any money that the poor will get will be mis-spent into the elites' pockets. The middle class is middle class because they know how to manage money, and will not transfer their wealth willingly to the elites. The poor--not so much.
Excellent commentary by VDH.
One thing that VDH didn’t explain is why have so many whites, especially middle class, suburbanites, white women lent support to this movement, even though they are the victims of the movement?
How have the woke leaders managed to get so many whites to go against their self interests and support a movement that is viciously anti white, and turn whites into self-hating, self-flagillating pathetic blubbering mass?
What psychological trick have they used to accomplish that?
Answer that question and you have will found the solution.
Choke the woke. With a wet hemp rope and a slow drop.
The weakness of collectivism is its excess. Always too much.
Exactly. The lack of critical thinking is frightening.
“Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left. “
And we get to the root of their agenda; the destruction of America.
“One thing that VDH didn’t explain is why have so many whites, especially middle class, suburbanites, white women lent support to this movement, even though they are the victims of the movement?”
I might have brought this up before, but does anyone here remember the name or some reference to the case that a white guy brought against some agency, maybe college, who sued for ‘reverse discrimination. This was shortly after a discrimination law was passed. Like today equal opportunity wasn’t sufficient and so ‘quotas’ were necessary which were straight up discrimination for all the right reasons/s
I think at the time he won his case but I’m not sure where it went after that.
Just anther try to get one over on ol’ whitey an’ getsmedose free moneys...odd the scam is coming from the democrats, trying to enrich themselves in the name of the “oppressed” the left screwed over in the 1st place.
Six, wokeism is a dangerous diversion of American resources.
The United States may have sponsored gender studies programs, flown pride flags, and bragged of George Floyd murals in Kabul. But meanwhile its military suffered the most humiliating defeat in a half-century, as it skedaddled from Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars in deadly arms for terrorists.
Our elite work to ban plentiful natural gas, subsidize transgendered activism abroad, and lecture on sexual identities in the military. China’s elite builds dozens of coal and nuclear plants, and doubles the size of its navy, while preparing to absorb Taiwan.
Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.
Missed this excellent Prof Hanson article from a couple of days ago.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Unfortunately the elites are not finished with the attack on the middle-class. They want the middle-class destroyed to make everyone dependent on government handouts while they enjoy lavish lifestyles as our rulers.
Allan Bakke vs UC, 1979.
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