Save America's Workers from the Church of Wokeness

MSN.com ^ | 3-4-21 | Vivek Ramaswamy

[DeweyCA]

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This doctrine protects woke employees from being fired for their woke beliefs. That's intuitive, but legally it also means woke employers can't fire employees for failing to adopt those same beliefs. Yet that's the essence of what's happening across corporate America today.

Further strengthening the legal case that wokeness is a religion is the uncomfortable fact that, well, wokeness really is a religion. As Joshua Williams argues, Americans "have not lost their religion" but "relocated their religion to the realm of politics." Like most religions, wokeism is comprehensive and indivisible; just as no good Christian can pick his or her favorite five commandments, no woke practitioner can pick and choose which parts of the LGBTQ or BIPOC acronyms to like or dislike. Wokeism doesn't give suggestions; it gives affirmative commands. You can't just be "not racist," but must be "anti-racist."

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Indeed the word "woke" itself forges an explicit connection to past American "great awakenings"—periods of renewed religious fundamentalism. With its new versions of blasphemy and heresy, its new doctrine of original sin (exemplified by the 1619 Project), its claims to ultimate truth and its mandatory catechisms of professed belief, wokeness has become America's newest creed—more religious in character than Creativity, Onionhead or Secular Humanism.

Ms. Carano and others like her weren't just fired for having the wrong politics. They were fired for refusing to bow at the woke altar. The law gives them recourse, just as it would if they were fired for refusing to bow before a cross.

Americans shouldn't have to choose between speaking their minds freely and putting food on the table. Today's creedal firings are not just ill-advised. They are illegal.

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[DeweyCA]

The author states that, for many people, religion has not died out in America. It has simply shifted from traditional Christianity to politics. For many young Leftists who have rejected traditional religion, they have chosen to try to fill their search for meaning and a cause bigger than themselves in "wokeness." Their activism fills many of the voids left by them abandoning traditional Christianity. And these new converts want to FORCE others to accept their new-found beliefs.

[DeweyCA]

FTA: The Supreme Court's definition of religion used to require a belief in God, but the Court abandoned that position 60 years ago in Torcaso v. Watkins. Today, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—which administers Title VII—employs a much more expansive definition: "A belief is 'religious' for Title VII purposes if it is...a 'sincere and meaningful' belief that 'occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by...God.'" "Religious beliefs include . . . non-theistic 'moral or ethical beliefs as to what is right and wrong which are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.'"

[livius]

Great article! I’m amazed that it appeared in Newsweek.

I think that wokeness is beginning to eat its own, and people and organizations are suddenly realizing that they could be next.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Good find! And it makes great sense. Lawsuits, anyone?

[ReformedBeckite]

"...a 'sincere and meaningful' belief that 'occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by...God...."

An atheistic basic thinking there is no God, so according to the section above that is part of the definition above in comment it will be unlogical for something to be parallel to something that doesn't exist.

[NetAddicted]

Peruse later.

[NetAddicted]

I think some of wokeness comes from homosexuals fighting to become worshipped an idolized, and no one is ever to mention that G-d doesn’t approve of their sex lives.

[ronnie raygun]

Had the pleasure of early forced indoctrination of wokeness at the job several years ago. Speaker from the city speaking to agency employees mostly women of color that you WILL NOT HAVE A THING TO SAY when a man who claims to be a women enters the bathroom that your little daughter just entered. THEY ALL KEPT QUIET BECUASE THEY DIDNT WANT TO LOSE THIER JOBS!

[ckilmer]

people don’t seem to understand that the democrat party has shifted from being a white racist party to being a black racist party.

[Albion Wilde]

This is a brilliantly argued article, with many legal citations. Thanks for posting it.