Wokeness is a way of thinking and a framework built on false premises whereby any analyses stemming therefrom are fundamentally flawed. Ultimately, it is designed to steer one to a predetermined conclusion, with only the details to be filled in, like some type of philosophical MadLibs. For example:
Just fill in the blank.
It’s just the summoning of a collective ________ consciousness through hidden knowledge & shared victimhood, forging an elect that perceives a deep rupture & moves to remake the world toward its chosen redemption. https://t.co/WiHdFR1QuB pic.twitter.com/BO3em3fwFx— Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost (@Ne_pas_couvrir) May 14, 2025
In it’s ultimate form, it is Kyriarchy, which could be said to be “Critical Consciousness to intersecting systems of oppression”. And wokeness is wokeness regardless of which classes/groups are in which part of the MadLibs.
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Woke is a way of thinking abut the world.Woke activists, in an insane paper about (and this is real) "womxn of color with hxrstories of colonization," give us a definition of the term woke.
They define woke as "Critical Consciousness to intersecting systems of oppression." pic.twitter.com/FQSyDcspGD
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
More fully:
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Woke ideology says society is stratified along group lines and intersecting systems of oppression embedded in every aspect of society ensure certain groups benefit at the expense of other groups. These systems maintain power by conditioning everyone to accept the system.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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Thus, according to woke ideology the entire society is a system of ideology that serves the ruling class by conditioning the masses to accept the legitimacy of the system by embedding ruling class values and beliefs in the culture and making them the default views for everyone— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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On this view the entire system (that is, all of culture and society) has been engineered to allow the ruling class to maintain control through social and psychological means (rather than be force) by brainwashing the masses using propaganda and lies disseminated via mass media— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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The only way to escape this conditioning is to "wake up" and become aware of the propaganda and brainwashing so that you can learn to avoid absorbing social conditioning being carried about by the system. This is the only way to "free your mind" from the control of the system.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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The idea that one needs to wake up to all the brainwashing is etymological root of the term "woke."One consequence of the woke worldview is that what counts as "true" in our society, and the standards and criteria for truth are a product of the system of brainwashing…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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The means all the "facts" and "values" our society accepts, as well as all our standards and criteria for truth, knowledge, rationality, reason, logic, and evidence, are in reality expressions of the ideology of the ruling class and thus need to be "deconstructed" and replaced— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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As such, woke ideology says what can be known and who can know it is a product of ones role in society, and the standards and criteria for truth are a product of who has power and how the people who have power use that power to legitimize some bits of knowledge and not others.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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It is exactly this view which explains why woke leftists think men can become women, kids can choose their gender, and so many other obviously false views.They think facts like "men and women are different" are not facts, they're propaganda meant to oppress women…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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Their view of society as a system of brainwashing coupled with the view that all knowledge is corrupted by social forces (and thus must be deconstructed to root out the influence of those evil social forces) is precisely why the woke left went believes so many absurd things.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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Their view of society and the world comes baked in with a false understanding about how truth and knowledge function. As a result, the woke leftists have no capacity to be able to distinguish what is true and what is false. This is why they think men can give birth.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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The problem is that there are a number of people on the right (who I call the "dissident right" @ConceptualJames calls them "woke right") who accept the woke lefts theories about how society works, and are trying to use those theories in the service of right wing values.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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This is a problem because the woke lefts theories come loaded with a set of ideas about how truth and knowledge work that is not correct.If the right accepts these theories and uses them, they will end up believing in absurdities on the same way to the woke left did.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 11, 2025
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This is why @ConceptualJames calls the Dissident right "woke"They think that there is an intersecting system of oppression (anti-whiteness, secularism, gynocracy) which brainwashes people and that only way to avoid this is to wake up and learn how to see it…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 12, 2025
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They also believe hegemonic narratives (postwar consensus, the longhouse, anti-racism) determine what can be believes, and what people think.From this they conclude the entire society is awash in propaganda and lies and that everyone is brainwashed by this.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 12, 2025
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The structure is the same as woke, the difference is in the value structure. The woke have leftist values, the dissident right have right-wing values.But the analysis of society in terms of cultural hegemony, narratives, social control, and so fourth is the same.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 12, 2025
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This is what people are talking about when they say "woke right."It is not the particular content of the social views which defines wokeness, it is the worldview, epistemology, and view of society that is put to use in forming the views that is what makes one "woke" or not.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 12, 2025
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This is what @ConceptualJames is pointing at.For my part, I am content to use the term dissident right to avoid confusion, so long as we are all clear that the dissident right has swallowed the leftist counterculture narrative hook line and sinker.
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— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) May 12, 2025
In not conflating the forest for the trees, one must remember that a forest is still a forest, no matter what trees grow there.
