From DEI to “Cancel Culture”, wokeness is an inherently totalitarian worldview, and one where not going along with their antics could lead to… unfortunate results, as James Lindsay explains, which is quoted in full below due to the limitation of Twitter’s/X’s embeds.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to understand the idea of Woke as a protection racket. It basically does two things in this regard for recruits, whom it thereby makes dependent.
1) Offers them various kinds of social and professional insurance against cancellation by normal society, not specifically “the other side,” and
2) Incentivizes saying and doing things that would get a person cancelled by normal society by offering employment, fame, and other opportunities for people who do it.
The sales pitch is that it’s protection against “the other side,” but in reality it’s against normal, decent, mainstream society that’s treated as part of “the other side” in an illegitimate way.
This means incentivizing radicals who are increasingly isolated from mainstream society and dependent on the parasitic Woke movement and economy for their success. This dependency is leveraged and ratcheted up iteratively until normal people (mostly “kids”) become footsoldiers. It only gets worse from there.
Bust the protection racket dynamic, bust Woke.
Nice whatever it is you got going on there. Would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
