Oh lordy, I go away for a year and come check what's up with CivFanatics, where I used to go for nuanced takes on world politics etc., only to find that it's gone even deeper into tumblrification and become yet another Internet community that's become just a chapter of the cult of the woke, sporting their own little two minutes of hates and struggle sessions. Everyone must agree, disagreement is violence on BIPoC bodies in diverse spaces or some other dense jargon. The pathologising of opposing political views and cynical use of human rights speech to silence opposing viewpoints is truly sickening. It makes my stomach turn! To think that 10 years ago all of you were perfectly sane is truly heartbreaking. J.K Rowling being consumed by the woke crowd is just too good to be true, after all of her retconning her books to appease the contemporary mores of very Internet millenials, who interpret the world through ficticious worlds where the perpetually morally righteous good people do battle with the existential evil that does evil things as evil does.
Re-reading Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the woke hit almost all of the things Snyder says to avoid, lest your society succumbs into an authoritarian regime. The Internet is becoming a panopticon where the woke Stasi with their network of informants and useful idiots out people for supposed thought crimes that hurt the sensibilities of the current fancies, only to be cancelled themselves later when the tides of wokenomics changes at any give moment. And for what? Virtual virtue, Internet clout and the appearance of being on the "right side of history"™. The blatant whiggism of wokeism is hilarious, really. Any leftist should be very wary of how corporations are so eager to jump in on the aesthetics of woke protest. Why? Because they literally benefit from this divisive identity politics that just puts class analysis further away, and actively discourages coalition building where the base of political power potentially is: in the majority, and not the ever fine grained indentities the wokes sport, and their pet grievances. The working class is running away from the old left parties that have been assimilated into these new left sensibilities. Cui bono? Jeff Bezos! Bill Gates! All the neoliberal ghouls that suck the lifeblood of our societies benefit as long as the "left" wastes their time arguing about white man bad, or "you can't say *some of many words that would get me banned* because it hurts my feelings", from an ideological position that frequently asks the listener to shut up and suspend their disbelief and save the phenomenon like medieval scholastics. The language policing bit is perhaps the most hilarious part, as the woke position themselves as the perpetual victim, while they apparently have to power to create ersatz words and enforce their usage through corporate HR departments and Twitter cancellations or what ever. It's a purely non-revolutionary force growing on the side of neoliberal coprorations. It's in effect a neoliberal redemption cult, hiding the true origins of inequality and in a populist manner conjuring up scapegoats that are held up as the cause of societal ills, only tentatively pointing to the structure of our economy that creates these inequalities. Perhaps because many of the left liberal allies benefit from the status que, I don't know. Post something on Twitter about trans rights, and you know you're standing with Che Guevara or something, walking toward that city on a hill. While sipping tax-evading Starbuck's coffee and surfing the cyberspace with slave mined materials. And I'm a hypocrite too, I know I know, I have a cell phone too.
Not being able to disagree, not being able to ask the uncomfortable questions is where public discourse and indeed science goes to die. The woke with their moral certitude and scare tactics are killing the dynamism that once existed in society and in science. What are the questions and answers left unformulated that could lead to the next Copernican revolution, because to ask them offends the present day Catholic church of the woke? You know, the assertion that the Earth goes around the Sun was not only a factual repudiation of the Church's position, but also an assault on the morals of the Church. But of course, the woke have the true gnostic knowledge, they know they are right, because someone in a women's studies, or any other -studies department said so. To disagree is to be a Nazi. A weird sort of scientism. I thought postmodernism was about questioning knowledge creation itself? But I guess the woke have that taken care of too, they have the moral certitude of the truth of their positions, anyway. We are entering a period of woke Lysenkoism, where you can only provide answers that implicate the usual suspects: racism, white supremacy, misogyny, toxic masculinity etc. etc. To top it all off, many of the woke ask for multinational corporations to step in and police the language that is used online. Yeah, and they say they are "on the left". Excuse me!? You are literally secceeding political power to some unaccountable company, and you call yourself a "leftist". Yeah, your "leftism" is an aesthetic, because you want to be "on the right side of history", and Che Guevara t-shirts from GAP are hot A*! It's pretty hilarious to look at this row about J.K Rowling with a blackpilled detachment of as an able bodied privileged neurotypical white cis male body, because it's just playing out the ousting of the girondists. History truly repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce.
If you want to cleanse yourself, here's some reading for you:
I think I'll check in a year how you people are doing, maybe. Maybe I'll ask: "are you ok? Are you well?"
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