What happens when wokeness goes beyond merely calling out prejudice and injustice? This is what this thread is about. Essentially, when wokeness reaches such absurd extremes that it totally flies in the face of reason, when it abolishes common decency, and sometimes when it even contradicts the very virtue it professes to argue!
This wOkEneSs is descending rapidly into true insanity. Although you can't really say insanity any longer. "Mental health condition" is the acceptable term now, "insanity" being considered offensive, violent, and triggering. Ah, but the word "triggering" could itself be scrubbed, because according to this University, the word "triggering" is too...triggering, they write, [because it] "has connections to guns for many people".
By this butchered logic one could also declare the word "woke" itself as offensive on behalf of people in comas, right?
This is what I'm talking about.
The first assumption wokeness makes, and from which everything then proceeds, is that language can be violence. This absurd idea is fundamentally flawed from the outset. Because no it can't be violence. Violence is a physical force that can cause physical harm, and death under extreme circumstances. Violence is violence. End of. Language on the other hand is simply noise we make with our vocal cords. Yes, words have power, tremendous power, and without them we would still be animals. They can evoke an infinity of reactions: happiness, inspiration, anger, appeasement, and many many more, including, yes, offence. But in Stephen Hughes's famous skit he comments, "so you're offended, so what? Nothing really happens!" Hughes continues:
'how can you make it an offence to offend people? Being offended is subjective, it has everything to do with you as an individual, or a collective, or a group, or a society, or a community, your moral conditioning, your religious beliefs. What offends me may not offend you, and you want to make laws about this...?'
Couldn't agree more with that.
I see no end to this madness. I speculated here that society is developing a serious mental health disorder for its continuous exposure and forced adaptation to the doctrine of woke. It's one thing to cry "woke" in the name of a social justice issue, but when it starts to remodel and rewrite history, revise language, or arbitrary cancel or invent words, when it can end people's careers, then it becomes dangerous. And dare I say, even violence?
I submit that woke supremacy is infinitely more of a threat to society than white supremacy.
If you have quarter of an hour the below video is an excellent summary of where the woke world is right now.
The insidious danger of political correctness was there to see – at least I saw it – twenty years ago. It has morphed since then into a galumphing abomination that's rambling and shambling across our cultural landscape, gobbling things up and tearing things down. In trying to create equality it succeeds in generating only more division. And this beast is becoming more and more powerful with every passing year. It's like that big evil fireball of Death heading towards Earth in the movie The Fifth Element: whatever you fire back at it only makes it grow stronger and larger and more deadly.
Don't wait around for it to starve either, because there is no end to its appetite, and no boundary and no limit to what it will choose to feed on.
In my opinion, the only three things a person needs to conduct themselves conscientiously in their lives are common sense, responsibility, and good manners. All three, when faithfully exercised, preclude any need for ideologies like "wokeism". When wokeism is inserted into the mix it erases these three essential precepts and rewires human consciousness. There are other important ingredients for higher functioning, of course, like a dose of spiritual awareness, but ideology only corrupts. It's what ideology does. It's what brainwashing intrinsically is. Once you join an ideological cult everything you see, hear, and interpret gets viewed through the particular lens it thrusts in front of your face. As a result, young people in particular are having their thinking reprogrammed not in fact to tolerate but ultimately, via pretzel-like distortions of perception and intellection, to hate: their culture, their country, their history, themselves, and anyone different to themselves.
It causes brain damage. Not in the physiological sense, but in the ability to think, judge, and perceive.
An example?
This wokester takes a dig at comedian Bill Burr and his wife by calling her a "minority sex servant". His filters of perception have become so utterly tangled and contaminated by anti-racist woke indoctrination that he has come full circle (and far beyond) to become the very thing he was supposedly an enemy of. It transformed him into a racist, and not your regular in-your-face hillbilly racist, but a cold, sort of passive-aggressive, stunningly ignorant tool of a racist – which I'm sure he is totally unaware of. It's immediately obvious to the rest of us though whose lenses and filters have not been damaged. But if you pointed out to him this irony of ironies he'd likely flat out deny it, throw a tantrum, and probably call you a racist.
This is where we are.
Ria Renée Hill herself – Bill's wife – chimes in with the only apt response for this sick tweet.
I invite further comment and reflection on this phenomenon if anyone has any to share, or more examples of this cultural vandalism of wokeness run amok, as it tramples decency and common sense, as it destroys inch by gradual inch our "enlightened" civilization.