On liberal “democracy,” “wokeness,” “equity,” “antiracism,” “cancel culture,” etc.
When I first stepped off an obscure, terrible, bargain-airline plane, full of weird (and smelly) hippie-type folks, at JFK in August 1972, America was still experiencing the spasms of the 1960s, a decade of mass race riots erupting all over the country, augmented by the deafening ugly crisis of the Vietnam War that threatened the very stability of the federal government and drove angry-shouting hundreds of thousands onto the streets to demand “stop the war now.”
That was the era of the star Harvard Ivory Tower “deepthroat” whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, who stole the super-secret “Pentagon Papers” to deliver them to the press and thus mightily contributed, along with Watergate, to the ignominious Nixon departure from the White House in August 1974.
But, from my perch of a small New York state town, aptly named “Middletown,” the palpable anger and hostility toward the government was almost invisible and silent, with only the press and the nightly news communicating The Troubles to us, rather innocent and unknowing, foreign student freshmen.
There was no sign of “radicalism” on our community college campus—no impromptu gatherings to support the antiwar movement, no preaching by student “activists” with megaphones, and no spitfire professors warning us of the evil doings of the “deep state,” the “corporate dictatorship,” and the “institutional racism” that was at the root of the street battles fought by black communities against the “whitey.” The homosexual, aka “gay,” “liberation” movement was just beginning, following the Stonewall Inn riot (June 28, 1969), but was barely, if at all, visible (or noticeable) in sleepy, strictly middle-class, Middletown.
Fast forward to 2021.
I am drowning in social media pestilential sewage, openly quasi-communist hate speech broadcast by left leaning, self-appointed “democrats,” angry “black-lives -matter” mob trumpeting and pulsating with violent insurrectionist themes and “calls to action” [‘No Justice, No Peace’ etc.], not to mention the massive “progressivist” frontal assault upon our very human nature in order to impose on society the Dr. Frankenstein-inspired “gender fluidity” neuroparasitology that rejects the rock-solid biological laws of Nature.
In the span of a mere five years (2016-2021) I’ve become overwhelmingly aware of how the US of A is tragically veering off course under the suffocating pressure of the “woke-equity-[sex] fluidity” groaning ragtag and bobtail enhanced by political and ideological unbridgeable fissures.
I’ve no idea of how exactly this transformation took hold of me. I used to be relatively detached from the jungle of “evolving trends” having developed strong immunities during my working years as POL-MIL (political-military) analyst dealing with both “sanctioned” and “irregular” (read ‘terrorist’) violence. But then I experienced an intellectual change courtesy of life in Seattle, a paradise of clueless, cross-eyed, kneejerk “wokism;” neo-Marxist mumbo jumbo; rampant LGBT “liberation” subversion; defund-the-police riots; unbelievable leniency toward violent crime; systemic paralysis in the face of an overwhelming homeless disaster; and so much else that makes normal life a daily touch-and-go.
It was in Seattle, for example, that I came across a female “academic,” Robin DiAngelo,” with a Ph.D. in “multicultural education,” who specializes in teaching whites how to deal with their own “white fragility,” a term she defines as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.”
Robin is a product of “Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis” (!!!) which are classic examples of how our present-day “woke” academia evolve fresh cartoon “research vistas” that feed our “color-blind” academic quackery populated by fresh morbidities masquerading as legitimate learning subjects.
I discovered Robin in 2016 and I kept reading about she being engaged in an enlightened effort by the City of Seattle, spending precious taxpayer funds, to make us whites conscious of our inner encephalic miswiring and, presumably, helping us to discover our road to redemption via compulsory “un-whitening.”
I suppose that the protommunist Seattle City Council apparently resolved that rejecting “whiteness” is a core strategic issue in cultivating a West-Coast model healthy relaxed society—in which whites should internalize, via not-so-subtle propaganda and “polite” brain washing, that their skin color is an unfortunate and pernicious mistake of Nature and, concomitantly, accept the perceived “better and more human nature” of all nonwhites (with the major emphasis put on ‘African Americans,’ of course).
[That Robin is herself white doesn’t seem to dampen her crusade to “un-white” the whites. Curiously though I never came across her own views of how she presumably “un-whited” herself; I suspect she’s secretly quite happy with being a reasonably (physically) attractive white woman, who’s laughing all the way to the bank via bamboozling those who are happy and willing to be duped via “Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis”].
Under the increasing burden of all this “woke hard evidence,” I must confess I’m struggling to reconcile my sense of humanity and decency with being born a “white, cis-normative male of privilege and aggression.”
I’ve become questioning my intense dislike of the incumbent discombobulated Bidenistas, and fearless heroines like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib (all of them members of the so-called Congressional Squad that struggles against injustice, oppression, racism, exclusion, and lack of equity while all the while enjoying hobnobbing with the accursed ‘establishment’ of the rich and famous at any given opportunity—see this, for example).
I now begin to realize how wrong I was throughout my life (so far) by identifying humanity as “people” instead of the correct “humankind” – and I confess I need to look deeper inside my soul to discover the diseased roots of my “transphobia, homophobia, islamophobia, and sexism.”
I also now understand how “wokeness” actually delivers The Real Clear Truths that Western societies refused to recognize for centuries leading the world into unspoken suffering and disaster. And I am now conscious of why we need to work on our pronouns in order to do justice to the recently discovered eternal truth of “sex fluidity”—and strenuously reject the notion of “sex assigned at birth;” and realize that “gender dysphoria” may be present as early as the age of seven (which is now resulting in giving legal rights to children, as young as 12, to decide on horrific medical interventions to fight the ‘dysphoria’ without parental consent and at taxpayers’ expense).
(To get a first-hand account of the terrifying struggle of families confronted with the “trans” madness try Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier; predictably the book was attacked by ‘activists’ as ‘harmful’ but giant sellers like Amazon and Target—surprisingly— refused to budge and kept it on their inventory leading to booming sales.
But, joking aside, let’s return to harsh realities: “Wokeness” and its derivatives are very close to what the “woke” ironically insist they’re fighting against, i.e. primarily racism.
The “woke” live, breathe, and subsist on creating categories of people that are designed to fight and subdue this devilish “whiteness” that poisons all—and thus achieve the kind of social “purity” that will rescue and deliver the world – you might have guessed it already—to the pure “underprivileged” souls.
Yet, if you have even a modicum of understanding of, par example, Hitler’s genocidal National Socialism, with its emphasis on racial purity and a “clean” Germanic ancestry, you can see immediately how “wokeness,” with its own emphasis on the rights of social-racial “underprivileged” groupings that are perceived as the Chosen of this Universe, is not very far off from dictatorial beliefs all “woke” people pretend to reject vehemently, such as the conscious, often “scientific,” segmentation of society into the “worthy” and the “unworthy,” with the latter targeted for “special measures” [the ‘unworthy’ to the ‘woke’ are obviously the guilty ‘privileged whites’.]
That “wokeness” is damaging the very fiber of America is now visible to the naked eye. Pushback is developing but the battle is unequal, at least for now. The “woke” are in control of most major mass media and they enjoy a practically free ride on gargantuan, modern agitprop, platforms, like Facebook and Twitter; and they can also count on substantial Big Money, and the so-called Mega-Donors, eager to buttress cross-eyed liberal “progressivism.”
It’ll be a long cold night until progress in the right direction is achieved.
In the meantime, pray and keep your powder dry—and never surrender.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Woke nonsense is warping everyday life
Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s silent majority or the tea party movement more than a decade ago.
The rage this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time in their lives, Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their family’s safety and the American way of life.
The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is arguably nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year, according to reports — with complete impunity. There is zero effort to stop them. Officials hector Americans daily to get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them no doubt infected with the virus.
Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not ask of those entering the country illegally?
Joe Biden has also conceded that his moratorium on housing evictions defied a Supreme Court ruling. He added that he probably didn’t have the legal authority to ignore the court but didn’t really care.
As in the case of demolishing immigration law, the president seems either unaware or proud that he is insidiously dismantling the Constitution.
America has also never before seen such overt and multifaceted efforts to undermine the foundations of free-market capitalism.
At a time of resurging GDP, low unemployment and record worker shortages, Biden has announced that renters can continue to avoid paying what they owe their landlords — even after a prior year of free housing.
PS: I further recommend The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free by Mike Gonzalez for a detailed analysis of the disasters caused by this main component of “wokeness.” Also, “Wokeness: An Evil Of Our Age,” authored also by Victor-Davis Hanson, is required reading for all who wish to read a concise review of this totalitarian phenomenon that is systematically undermining America. And on Facebook check out the well-crafted An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination, by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, brimming with meticulous disturbing detail.