What is the “woke” movement? It's an experimental religion of narcissistic relativism
Apr 17, 2024 15:21:54 #
If you participate at all in what many now refer to as the "culture war," you will inevitably run into l*****t activists demanding that you define what "woke" means. The assertion is that conservatives and liberty advocates must have made up the term and we don't know what it means. Of course, it was l*****ts who first used "woke" to describe themselves; they claim that they are "awakened" to their oppression and no longer shackled by the "constraints of traditional social constructs and morals."
For the rest of us, woke means the opposite; it is the exploitation of perceived oppression as a means to justify the deconstruction of cultures that are contrary to their aims. It's the use of fraudulent victimhood as a weapon to force people to accept a collectivist structure in which woke activists most benefit.
Now that the true goals of the movement have been exposed to the wider public, these same activists who proudly proclaimed themselves "woke" only a few years ago pretend as if the word was never a thing.
I find there's a lot to be learned in the ways that certain people argue. You can find out immediately almost everything you need to know about a person or group depending on the way they defend their own ideas and the way they engage with critics. Some people will rely on facts, evidence, logic, reason and extensive experience to support their position. Sadly, others will rely on emotion, empty rhetoric, manipulation and hypocrisy. Some people want to figure out what the t***h is. Other people just want to "win" at any cost.
For example, l*****ts question conservatives on our terminology constantly as if our words don't mean anything. At the same time, those activists make up terminology from thin air regularly.
Words and phrases like "intersectionality, equity, cisg****r, t***s woman, etc." are all fabricated from nothing by l*****ts, at least in the context in which they are often used. Only progressives are allowed to make up terms to label what they like and don't like. The rest of us are not.
This dynamic, the controlling of words and their definitions, is paramount to the woke movement. Another example is their re-definition of what "r****m" is and how this helps us to understand the way l*****ts think. This is how they use dishonest terminology to gain the upper hand in social and political conflicts.
If r****m is determined by the traditional definition of prejudice against someone because of their skin color and ethnicity, then white people can be victims of r****m too. But under the new l*****t definition of "prejudice + power" only white people can be r****t because only white people (specifically white conservatives and capitalists) have power according to them.
This is how activists think they can gain dominance over their political opponents... by changing the meanings of words so that certain behaviors become acceptable for them and unacceptable for their enemies. If only white people can be r****ts, then white people become fair game for any level of mistreatment unless they declare fealty to the woke cause. If conservatives are the same as "N**is" then they can be targeted as enemy combatants like N**is once were. If liberty activists are "d******c t*******ts" then they can be imprisoned or k**led because terrorists represent an imminent threat to society.
L*****ts are obsessed with the molding of words as if they are magical passports to power.
This kind of behavior should be very familiar to most psychologists out there. The use of hyperbole for the sake of dehumanization, the exploitation of false labels as a means to put people on the defensive, the flurry of "word salad" designed to confuse anyone confronting them, the weaponization of gaslighting to distract from one's own malicious actions; these are all common traits of narcissists.
It's all in the way l*****ts argue. They ARE a movement of narcissists. In fact, I would venture to say that the woke movement is actually an experimental religion of narcissism.
Consider for a moment what the political left most values. Is it e******y? No, they already have that under the law.
Is it conformity? That's definitely high on their list, but it's not at the top.
What does the average l*****t really want more than anything else? How about affirmation? How about self-aggrandizement? How about the feeling that they are truly and profoundly special? How about self-worship?
These are the things that drive narcissists and by extension, they are the things that drive the woke movement. In this religion, there is no room for a god or a deity (unless maybe you count the government as a deity). Rather, the woke movement attracts adherents by making them feel as if THEY are the center of adoration. It turns their frailties into virtues and makes all their bad behaviors moral by abandoning reality for perception. Sound like a lot of l*****ts on OPP?
The key to the woke religion and self-worship is the veneration of relativism; if all morals and principles are relative then all evil behaviors eventually become acceptable. If the worship of oneself as a god is paramount then one can never admit fallibility or fault because "God" knows everything. You can do wh**ever you want to whoever you want because your affirmation is more important than anything else. After all, the woke are gods in their own minds but they are also "victims" in their own minds, therefore they think they're entitled to r********ns.
As with many religions, there is the concept of original sin. But in the woke religion those people that present the greatest threat to l*****ts are the only people with original sin. The people who want to keep the culture they already have are the sinners, and anyone within the political left who disagrees in any way with the plan is a heretic.
I realize that there's a tendency among the fence-sitters out there to claim that people on the political right are guilty of all the same thinking and misdeeds. I suspect this is a coping mechanism among certain folks who are deathly afraid of being seen as "taking a side." If you take a side then you can be manipulated, right? In t***h, whether the people in the middle of the road like it or not, there are times in history when there are only two sides to an issue or a conflict. There are times when one side embraces evil, and the other side opposes it and there's very little gray area in-between. We are facing such a moment today.
Relativism and the culture of self-worship are evil. They are paths that lead to one thing: Destruction. There is no debate, there is no nuance. You don't have to be conservative or libertarian to realize what the woke movement is, but the fact remains that our side is the side that saw it coming and has tried to warn everyone else about it.
Many years before wokeness and DEI were the subjects of analysis and ridicule among YouTubers and Republican pundits, we were there debunking the narratives of cultural Marxists in academia and pointing out the hidden propaganda in film and television. They have been lying and changing the language, we have been calling them out. So no, the two sides are not the same. We value the t***h and they do not.
Beyond the distractions of fence-sitters, the war continues. It's important to realize that many different systems of belief can indeed exist in one society, however, the woke cult of narcissism and any notion of moral structure are mutually exclusive; one cannot coexist with the other. If you value heritage, principles, conscience and honor then you will never be able to live side-by-side with the woke. They will always seek to tear you down.
Is this a fight between order and chaos? Yes, in a way that was probably the intent when the culture war was engineered. It's also about responsibility. Freedom should not be the ultimate goal of liberty proponents; we should be seeking freedom WITH responsibility. The political left is motivated by hedonism and power... this is what they want most of all. Their methods betray their intentions. Chaos is their most useful tool to get what they want.
Our goal must be responsibility more than "order." Let's not play the game of the elites and assert one form of authoritarianism to defeat another. That said, the woke religion needs to go. We must accept that this is no longer a battle of ideas, it's a battle for supremacy. They made it this way.
Let's not pretend as if this is a diplomatic discourse in which both sides can somehow meet in the middle. It's not going to happen. They want to rule over everything and the only way to stop them is to remove them or their ideology from our culture.
For now, the fight has turned against them because the public is more aware of them, but they still have the support of nearly every government, every major corporation, and most universities in the West. In other words, things will get worse well before they get better, and this is not over by a long shot.
For the rest of us, woke means the opposite; it is the exploitation of perceived oppression as a means to justify the deconstruction of cultures that are contrary to their aims. It's the use of fraudulent victimhood as a weapon to force people to accept a collectivist structure in which woke activists most benefit.
Now that the true goals of the movement have been exposed to the wider public, these same activists who proudly proclaimed themselves "woke" only a few years ago pretend as if the word was never a thing.
I find there's a lot to be learned in the ways that certain people argue. You can find out immediately almost everything you need to know about a person or group depending on the way they defend their own ideas and the way they engage with critics. Some people will rely on facts, evidence, logic, reason and extensive experience to support their position. Sadly, others will rely on emotion, empty rhetoric, manipulation and hypocrisy. Some people want to figure out what the t***h is. Other people just want to "win" at any cost.
For example, l*****ts question conservatives on our terminology constantly as if our words don't mean anything. At the same time, those activists make up terminology from thin air regularly.
Words and phrases like "intersectionality, equity, cisg****r, t***s woman, etc." are all fabricated from nothing by l*****ts, at least in the context in which they are often used. Only progressives are allowed to make up terms to label what they like and don't like. The rest of us are not.
This dynamic, the controlling of words and their definitions, is paramount to the woke movement. Another example is their re-definition of what "r****m" is and how this helps us to understand the way l*****ts think. This is how they use dishonest terminology to gain the upper hand in social and political conflicts.
If r****m is determined by the traditional definition of prejudice against someone because of their skin color and ethnicity, then white people can be victims of r****m too. But under the new l*****t definition of "prejudice + power" only white people can be r****t because only white people (specifically white conservatives and capitalists) have power according to them.
This is how activists think they can gain dominance over their political opponents... by changing the meanings of words so that certain behaviors become acceptable for them and unacceptable for their enemies. If only white people can be r****ts, then white people become fair game for any level of mistreatment unless they declare fealty to the woke cause. If conservatives are the same as "N**is" then they can be targeted as enemy combatants like N**is once were. If liberty activists are "d******c t*******ts" then they can be imprisoned or k**led because terrorists represent an imminent threat to society.
L*****ts are obsessed with the molding of words as if they are magical passports to power.
This kind of behavior should be very familiar to most psychologists out there. The use of hyperbole for the sake of dehumanization, the exploitation of false labels as a means to put people on the defensive, the flurry of "word salad" designed to confuse anyone confronting them, the weaponization of gaslighting to distract from one's own malicious actions; these are all common traits of narcissists.
It's all in the way l*****ts argue. They ARE a movement of narcissists. In fact, I would venture to say that the woke movement is actually an experimental religion of narcissism.
Consider for a moment what the political left most values. Is it e******y? No, they already have that under the law.
Is it conformity? That's definitely high on their list, but it's not at the top.
What does the average l*****t really want more than anything else? How about affirmation? How about self-aggrandizement? How about the feeling that they are truly and profoundly special? How about self-worship?
These are the things that drive narcissists and by extension, they are the things that drive the woke movement. In this religion, there is no room for a god or a deity (unless maybe you count the government as a deity). Rather, the woke movement attracts adherents by making them feel as if THEY are the center of adoration. It turns their frailties into virtues and makes all their bad behaviors moral by abandoning reality for perception. Sound like a lot of l*****ts on OPP?
The key to the woke religion and self-worship is the veneration of relativism; if all morals and principles are relative then all evil behaviors eventually become acceptable. If the worship of oneself as a god is paramount then one can never admit fallibility or fault because "God" knows everything. You can do wh**ever you want to whoever you want because your affirmation is more important than anything else. After all, the woke are gods in their own minds but they are also "victims" in their own minds, therefore they think they're entitled to r********ns.
As with many religions, there is the concept of original sin. But in the woke religion those people that present the greatest threat to l*****ts are the only people with original sin. The people who want to keep the culture they already have are the sinners, and anyone within the political left who disagrees in any way with the plan is a heretic.
I realize that there's a tendency among the fence-sitters out there to claim that people on the political right are guilty of all the same thinking and misdeeds. I suspect this is a coping mechanism among certain folks who are deathly afraid of being seen as "taking a side." If you take a side then you can be manipulated, right? In t***h, whether the people in the middle of the road like it or not, there are times in history when there are only two sides to an issue or a conflict. There are times when one side embraces evil, and the other side opposes it and there's very little gray area in-between. We are facing such a moment today.
Relativism and the culture of self-worship are evil. They are paths that lead to one thing: Destruction. There is no debate, there is no nuance. You don't have to be conservative or libertarian to realize what the woke movement is, but the fact remains that our side is the side that saw it coming and has tried to warn everyone else about it.
Many years before wokeness and DEI were the subjects of analysis and ridicule among YouTubers and Republican pundits, we were there debunking the narratives of cultural Marxists in academia and pointing out the hidden propaganda in film and television. They have been lying and changing the language, we have been calling them out. So no, the two sides are not the same. We value the t***h and they do not.
Beyond the distractions of fence-sitters, the war continues. It's important to realize that many different systems of belief can indeed exist in one society, however, the woke cult of narcissism and any notion of moral structure are mutually exclusive; one cannot coexist with the other. If you value heritage, principles, conscience and honor then you will never be able to live side-by-side with the woke. They will always seek to tear you down.
Is this a fight between order and chaos? Yes, in a way that was probably the intent when the culture war was engineered. It's also about responsibility. Freedom should not be the ultimate goal of liberty proponents; we should be seeking freedom WITH responsibility. The political left is motivated by hedonism and power... this is what they want most of all. Their methods betray their intentions. Chaos is their most useful tool to get what they want.
Our goal must be responsibility more than "order." Let's not play the game of the elites and assert one form of authoritarianism to defeat another. That said, the woke religion needs to go. We must accept that this is no longer a battle of ideas, it's a battle for supremacy. They made it this way.
Let's not pretend as if this is a diplomatic discourse in which both sides can somehow meet in the middle. It's not going to happen. They want to rule over everything and the only way to stop them is to remove them or their ideology from our culture.
For now, the fight has turned against them because the public is more aware of them, but they still have the support of nearly every government, every major corporation, and most universities in the West. In other words, things will get worse well before they get better, and this is not over by a long shot.
Apr 17, 2024 15:28:57 #
Apr 17, 2024 15:40:17 #
Parky60 wrote:
If you participate at all in what many now refer t... (show quote)
Woke was invented by DeSantis and applied to everyone who thought he was loony tunes.
Apr 17, 2024 15:45:25 #
Coos Bay Tom
Loc: coos bay oregon
Parky60 wrote:
If you participate at all in what many now refer t... (show quote)
This Woke and anti woke Bulloney is a joke to me . I don't need to be woke . I grew up with colored fountains --colored rooms -- colored lounges -- The Green River ordinance which meant no B****s allowed in this neighborhood. Sundown laws No coloreds in public swimming pools---I once saw a wading pool in a city park get drained then scrubbed clean with disinfectants because some negro children had gotten into it . This wasn't Mississippi It was Klamath Falls Oregon .
Apr 17, 2024 15:54:50 #
kemmer wrote:
Woke was invented by DeSantis and applied to everyone who thought he was loony tunes.
Actually, you would be incorrect. The term was out there before Governor DeSantis used it. It became more prevalent during the debates on several pieces of legislation.
Apr 17, 2024 16:08:19 #
Parky60 wrote:
If you participate at all in what many now refer t... (show quote)
Damn was it long enough?No one wants to rule anything except maybe the 1% that control the Congress and therefore the American public.
Apr 17, 2024 16:14:51 #
LiberalGrammyD wrote:
Damn was it long enough?No one wants to rule anything except maybe the 1% that control the Congress and therefore the American public.
Actually, two organizations want to rule everything; Bilderberg and World Economic Forum.
Apr 17, 2024 17:03:22 #
LiberalGrammyD wrote:
Damn was it long enough?No one wants to rule anything except maybe the 1% that control the Congress and therefore the American public.
I'm sorry. I should have known that people of a certain mental caliber have a short attention span. Sorry I couldn't dumb it down.
Apr 17, 2024 17:33:17 #
Parky60 wrote:
I'm sorry. I should have known that people of a certain mental caliber have a short attention span.
You, for example.
Apr 17, 2024 17:34:24 #
AuntiE wrote:
Actually, two organizations want to rule everything; Bilderberg and World Economic Forum.
You forgot the Rothschilds and the Illiterati. 😂
Apr 17, 2024 17:41:04 #
kemmer wrote:
You, for example.
I see that you're using an excavator now... dig dig dig.
Apr 17, 2024 17:50:32 #
kemmer wrote:
Woke was invented by DeSantis and applied to everyone who thought he was loony tunes.
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Apr 17, 2024 17:53:54 #
kemmer wrote:
You forgot the Rothschilds and the Illiterati. 😂
That has been way overdone. It is like you using the Masons as an example.
Knowing your history, it is highly unlikely you could tell us a single thing about the WEF. After all, research requires time and effort.
Apr 18, 2024 14:20:38 #
BIRDMAN wrote:
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Again, you are using cartoons without the permission of the person who drew them. You are a thief and why should I believe anything you say?
Apr 18, 2024 16:21:41 #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
This Woke and anti woke Bulloney is a joke to me . I don't need to be woke . I grew up with colored fountains --colored rooms -- colored lounges -- The Green River ordinance which meant no B****s allowed in this neighborhood. Sundown laws No coloreds in public swimming pools---I once saw a wading pool in a city park get drained then scrubbed clean with disinfectants because some negro children had gotten into it . This wasn't Mississippi It was Klamath Falls Oregon .
You grew up with? How many years ago was all this??
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