[this column was written for the Unz Review]
The Biden Administration has gone out of its way to show itself as absolutely “woke-compatible” and even as a champion of “wokeness” (Foggy Bottom has just allowed US embassies and consulates to fly the “gay pride” flag next to the Stars and Stripes. I bet you they won’t do that in Riyadh!). According to the hyper-politically correct Wikipedia, “woke” refers to the “awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice”. This definition is, however, misleading because, for example, it clearly is not intended to cover, say, social injustice meted out to poor whites. In other words, wokeness is a one way street. What wokeness does mandate is for my son (who is studying biology) to be told in his class that he is the carrier of “white guilt” even though his ancestors never interacted with blacks, let alone blacks in the USA.
[Sidebar: as I have mentioned in the past, I do not consider categories such as “black” or “white” as analytically helpful since they are not properly defined. That, however, does not mean that I am not willing to use them in a specific context where the parties to an ideological dispute refer to themselves, or to others, as black or white. By the way, “Asian” is another useless category as, depending on whom you ask, it would include Pakistanis (who sure ain’t yellow) and lump them together with (brown) Indonesians and (yellow) Japanese people. The fact that these categories are used in the western political discourse means that I cannot ignore them solely because I find them ambiguous and misleading. Furthermore, the category “African” whether used with “American” or not, is not helpful either since it would include people otherwise considered white; say Elon Musk, even though nobody thinks of Musk as African-American. Finally, the category black might include Tamils or Australian aborigines, but it is rarely, if ever, used in that sense. Thus, when I will use the words black or white below, it will be in the largely accepted US meaning of “descendants of African slaves” and “descendants of white colonists” even though I am acutely aware of the reality of interbreeding (by rape or by mutual consent) between these two groups and even though the woke ideology blames *all* so-called “whites” for their putative racism and their supposedly “privileged” position in the US society due to its alleged “systemic racism”, even when they are new immigrants to the USA.]
I don’t think that I have tackled the issues of race or racism before, mostly because I am horrified by all the nonsense one can hear as soon as these topics are mentioned. It is, however, indisputable that the woke ideology is the main ideology of the Biden Administration and this is why it cannot simply be ignored. Of course, other ideological trends of the US ruling class (messianism, imperialism, self-worship, capitalism, etc.) have not been abandoned; instead, they have been “wokified” in the sense that the woke ideology is now used to give these traditional US ideologies some kind of politically-correct imprimatur, a kind of “when we do that in the name of wokeness we are doing something morally right” label placed on an otherwise deeply discredited set of “western values”.
Of course, there is an apparent paradox here: how can the woke ideology be used to try to give a semblance of respectability to a set of western ideologies when the woke ideology is also rabidly anti-western?! The woke ideology is most definitely anti-western, and not in the sense of condemning the West’s thousand years of bloody wars and imperialism, that would at least make some sense, but it is anti-western in the sense that it places an equal sign between, say, J.S. Bach and the rapper “Ice Cube” with a “logic” along the following line: “hey, who are you to say that Bach was more talented than the rapper Ice Cube?! That is racist!!!” Even mathematics are now considered “racist”! And anybody disputing that is, of course, a racist.
What is missing here is the element of proof. Some kind of rules of evidence which could be appealed to; let’s use the modern term to ‘fact check’ most of the assumptions made by the supporters of the woke ideology.
For example, in my Swiss high school we had a huge mural declaring that “all races are equal”. No evidence for that statement was ever given. In fact, during my entire academic life (1 undergrad and 2 graduate degrees) I have never seen any real evidence for this thesis. (I have seen plenty of evidence disputing this, beginning with US Army IQ tests). By the way, that does not at all mean that I affirm the opposite (that races are somehow unequal), only that in a dogmatic statement like “all races are equal” even the term “equal” is extremely ambiguous and, frankly, meaningless. Let’s compare this statement to another famous one by Saint Paul (Galatian 3:26-28 KJV):
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”.
Unlike the vapid “all races are equal”, Saint Paul clearly states that all humans are “children of God” and he further explains how this happens when he says “by faith in Christ Jesus”. He then clarifies that “all are one in Christ Jesus” (being “one” in Christ is unambiguous, unlike being “equal”). And Saint Paul concludes by explaining that through Christ there is a new generation of mankind “ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”. Unlike the woke ideology, Christianity does truly unite all human beings, and Christianity does so without ever denying or obfuscating the very real differences which makes all humans very much unequal to each other, including a total equality in rights and privileges inside the Christian religion. First, Saint Paul mentions our common filiation as children of God through Adam, to which he immediately adds a further common filiation of those who have “put on Christ” by means of baptism. The evidence here, the proof of the statement, is clear: baptism. One can, of course, disagree with Saint Paul, but not accuse him of ambiguity (especially in the light of all the other Apostolic and Patristic statements providing contextual support for this!).
Compare that with the woke ideology which categorically splits mankind into two groups: the oppressed “minorities” and the (always) “white” oppressors, which even contradicts the actual history of Africa which was invaded and colonized by (non-White) Arabs before the Europeans got involved (something which the US blacks who take on Islamic names either don’t know or try hard to ignore).
The woke ideology also completely ignores racism internal to the so-called “Blacks”. A good friend of mine is a (very dark skinned) lady from Mali who traveled all over our planet and told me one day that the worst anti-African racism she was ever subjected to was in Ethiopia (whose population is just as dark skinned as my lady friend). I also knew a medical doctor from Soweto who told me that there was plenty of hatred between South African blacks which he called “racist hate”. Of course, most US blacks know close to nothing about the history of Africa, past or current (Arabs and black Africans still fight each other in many regions of Africa!) and yet they think of themselves as “Africans” which makes absolutely no sense (especially from the point of view of actual Africans, Arab, black or white).
I just used one example (racial equality), but the woke ideology has failed to prove pretty much every one of its key dogmas. “Systemic racism” is another good one which appears to be proven by none, accepted by (almost?) all.
Of course, none of the above proves any single aspect of the woke ideology wrong, but I hasten to add that the burden of proof is upon the party proclaiming a thesis, and not upon those this thesis is being forced upon. Likewise, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of racism in the United States (including numerous cases of black on white and black on Asian racial violence!), but irrespective of the actual figure of such incidents, the sum of these incidents, however large, does not somehow automatically become evidence of things like “systemic racism” or “white supremacy” (correlation does not imply causation).
Yet, somehow, the proponents of wokeness immediately get offended when their beliefs are challenged and simply accuse any naysayers of “racism”. One example: in the new woke-reality, “twerking” is a delightful form of “culture” which cannot be criticized, especially so by whites. To call it a vulgar display of objectified women accompanied by noise which does not rise to any imaginable definition of “music” is, of course, totally crimethink!
Apparently, for the woke-freaks, “diversity” does not include diversity of ideas, of opinions. As Orwell astutely noticed, “some are more equal than others”. Wokeness does not even deny that! Hence its “Cancel culture” aspect, along with the violence of the BLM/Antifa mobs.
For some, this is just a big money-making scheme for corporate “America” which is now flooding all its advertisements with the “correct” races in total disregard to that race’s real percentage of the population and small money-making scheme for those who hope to get their hands on some free money. As for the US homo-lobby, this is a surefire way to achieve power and influence which they could not otherwise even dream about. In other words, Wokism is about money and power, not justice.
Some might think that this is no big deal, that anti-racism is by definition good, as is the notion that homosexuals should not be deprived of their civil rights on account of their sexual dysfunction. But wokeness has already gone way further than these initial demands and it has now turned into an obligatory form of virtue signaling!
By now most of us have seen new woke-compatible CIA recruitment ads. Frankly, when I saw it I sincerely rejoiced, as a woke-CIA will be far less effective than the one which considered homosexuality a major security risk (blackmail and comorbid psychopathology). But wokeness submission is not just a CIA thing, check out this comparison of recruiting videos (thanks to American Kulak for sending me all the videos below!!!):
And, just for comparison sake, here are a Chinese and a Russian recruitment videos:
Truth be told, I am not exactly heartbroken about the condition of the US armed forces as such, but when I think of the many decent and honorable US officers I had the chance to meet in my life, I do feel sorry for them as I can, I think, imagine their sadness and disgust.
Finally, I have to admit, to my great sadness, that this does not affect only the USA. Pretty much the same form of collective insanity has clearly taken over the EU (with a few countries still trying to resist). Wokism has become a global phenomenon.
Yes, the West went from the genius of Baroque to the insipid vulgarity of YouTube.
And so here is my question: why is there so little pushback?!
Yes, there is the accusation of racism. I get it. But the more people this accusation is applied to, the more meaningless it becomes (the same goes for that old “anti-Semitism” canard!). And, besides, nobody can live an honorable life without ever becoming the target of a false and ugly accusation. All we can do is 1) ignore it 2) flush our mental toilet and 3) resume the struggle.
I also understand that woke-compatibility is a “must” for new hires (you gotta love that “corporate America”!). But what about all those of us who already have a career and who won’t be fired just because we push back against an ideology which not only is based on absolutely nothing (it has zero empirical evidence to back its key tenets) but which destroys competence (the famous US meritocracy) and replaces it with what I can only call an extremely intolerant pseudo-diversity which is every bit as intolerant as the major totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century! Why are we silent?
Most of us know about the hidden scandal of the (apparently, neverending) lowering of competency criteria in many professions (ask a firefighter!). But this is now even affecting airlines! I dread the day when a “diverse” crew will smash an airliner into the ground because “mathematics is racist!”. I am sure the skies will still be friendly, but will they be safe?!
I wonder what it would take to finally get some serious reaction to this collective insanity.
So what can we do? I submit that Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s advice to the Russian people living under the Soviet system could also be taken as a model by those in the West who don’t want their countries to be turned into some wannabe Wakanda:
When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!” But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!
And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.
We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think! (…) Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.
This method of not allowing lies to survive through oneself is absolutely legal, non-violent and does not require any organization or money. Most importantly, this method does not require any unifying ideology. In other words, this method is a moral/ethical defense against any totalitarian ideology. Best of all, it requires no money or power, and it is immediately liberating to anybody using it. It is even compatible with the modern idea of “be the change you want to see in the world”.
The alternative is much scarier. As with any totalitarian ideology Wokism can also trigger a strong blowback reaction and there is a very real risk of such a pushback reaction that it could result in the birth of a new form of Fascism which could be even worse than Wokism. And this is why I think that doing nothing and hoping that this will all somehow magically go away is dangerously delusional.
Totalitarian ideologies must be confronted openly and frontally. Nothing else will do and everything else is nothing but surrender.
The Saker
Wokeism is quite simply a mechanism to destroy Christianity.
There is so little pushback because the Western world has become complacent through affluence and brainwashed through a relentless media barrage.
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“a personal nonparticipation in lies!”
Yes. One of the essences of resistance. But how does one sort a lie from the truth? Even those with the ethos of not supporting lies can easily fall into the trap of a lie through ignorance. And therein lies the crack that dissolves unity of resistance needed for change, for two people who struggle against the lies will fail to unite because one or both will believe a lie is the truth.
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“this method does not require any unifying ideology”
False. The method requires that all people believe in the truth – a unifying ideology (rooted in the Bible I might add). And, as I have pointed out above, the truth can be elusive indeed.
To resist successfully, a unifying ideology is absolutely required, which is not only a seeking after truth, but a realization that each and everyone of us does not know the whole truth and that seeking after truth sometimes requires us to know that we believe a lie.
Jason
Wokeism is not just a method to destroy Christianity, but a method to destroy sovereign states, primarily European ones, Russia included.
As I have written before, globalist perverts are using perversion to destroy the family and sovereign states. This slowly began after World War Two, when homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism, multiculturalism, multi ethnic societies, etc. was promoted, to be supplemented by mass immigration of false migrants and refugees, as well as by ‘political correctness’.
Take a look at France. French Army generals and lower ranks have recently posted two open letters warning of a civil war in France between the ethnic French population and immigrants, compliments of globalists, who have flooded the country with immigrants.
When it comes to Europe, the globalist intent is not only to destroy the nation states, but to create one European race and one European country, compliments of the EU, which is curtailing the sovereign status of European countries and flooding them with false migrants and refugees, who have been given the role of a political, economic, financial, social and ethnic Trojan Horse, whose task is to subvert EU countries.
How will this end, primarily for Western Europe ? We shall see. I don’t think it will end peacefully.
No, sir.
This looks perfectly like a century old ‘euro’centric, northcentric and – finally white centric- mindset.
We, the people of southern, african and many asian places can and perhaps will harbor a thousand motives to grow woke and get a more wokeist conscience , NOT to destroy but rather to build up our own national projects, in other words , our future.
Which was postponed, hampered or many times plainly denied by those of now north of the equators who feel threatened by recent rebellion from parts of their own contrymen.
That’s an absolutely correct analysis, for the fact is that since decolonization in the 1960’s, the West has been preoccupied with installing puppet regimes throughout the Global South.
The establishment of the Washington Consensus along with the connivance of the IMF and the World Bank have maintained the chaos in the Global South for the last 60 years.
So much for the fake Western ideology of Wokism that will never relieve the ongoing suffering of the Global South.
Agree with opening sentence, but you fall into the existential trap being set by the Anglo Zionist empire. Christianity as a religion is the same colour as Islam, no colour. Jesus and Mohammad were likely ME men of the same ‘colour’. Both took the Abrahamic faith out of the ‘chosen people’ and to the world.
It is also true that the only Christianity that Jesus or the original 12 disciples would have recognised is Islam. i.e Jesus as a prophet. The Trinity was visited on Saul (St. Paul) many years after Jesus, who never met or knew Jesus, and proclaimed the Trinity vision in direct defiance of the the Disciples (letters and Romans).
So the paradox is that the only Christian beliefs that the Disciples or indeed Jesus would have recognised are ……….. those of the Muslims. This was clearly understood in Andalusia Spain for 700 years (700AD to 1492). Known as the ‘Ornament of the world’ it was the centre of European learning for 800 years, but also total coexistence of faith. Christian and Jews had protected status and The Hebrew language was rediscovered in the safety of Muslim Spain. Scientific thought was reintroduced into Europe from the translated Arabic texts from Andalus. There were translation factories established in Toledo and Sicily among others.
The worlds wealthiest man was the African Musa Mensa of Timbuktu and any town in North Africa had more books than most European countries. Tamerlane, Barbar and the Song empower commanded armies of hundreds of thousands.
The subversion of Christianity for racism was in the 1500s. Christ was given a colour, and then the European elites (now called 1%) justified their cruelty to rob other people, first their local, then wider, using the ‘white Christian’ banner. It started with the Inquisition in Spain. ‘Science’ was then developed to prove what ‘belief’ could no longer sustain as moral Christians continued to challenge the immoral cruelty. Text books were developed that proved the ‘IQ’ of a person surrounded by little knowledge was less than that of someone surro7nde by much knowledge. Had a similar ‘IQ’ test been carried out in 1300 between Timbuktu and Paris, the result would have ‘proven’ European inferiority.
Maths is not racist, but neither is it Christian, Muslim or Chinese. Algebra comes from the book ‘Al Jabber’ written by a Asian Muslim scholar. His name was Al Khorismi ……….and you might have guessed, he gave his name to the ‘algorithm’.
“Wokeism is quite simply a mechanism to destroy Christianity.”
If you mean the “Christianity” of the Inquisition and the pogroms that happened all over Europe, that’s what brought so many to the USA in the first place. There’s a reason why the US Constitution specifically prohibits the formation of a state church. That’s to keep the Dominionists and the so-called Christian Zionists from turning the USA into some kind of Zionist theocracy. It’s the same notion that justifies what the Ashkenazim are now doing in Palestine. May Heaven save us all from the wrath of the born-agains and the chosenites.
You need to read the actual US Constitution. It does not not forbid the establishment of a state church, as so many uneducated people seem fond of stating. It forbids Congress, and by implication, the entire US federal government itself, from making any law in certain stated areas. The US federal government is to stay out of religion, speech, assembly, etc. Those areas are entirely matters for the States, the state supreme courts, and the respective state constitutions. At the time of the writing the Constitution of Massachusetts required attendance in and support for their state church.
The US federal government has, over the years, subsumed the states until they are now “mere appendages” of the federal government. But that was never the intent or the actual words of the US Constitution.
And, Massachusetts did not surrender that law until 1832, if memory serves me. See Albions Seed, by historian, David Hackett Fischer
Dead right there Jason.
American and UK and EU people have got too soft because there hasnt been a war for 80 years which sharpens people senses. Got too soft.
Same as the Roman Empire got in its later stages (post 200 AD) which is why they werent tough enough to deal with assault from the north in the western region fro the Vandals and Goths etc….
A lot of urban Americans are stupid anyway – the result of the Clinton and Obama years and pushback to the incompetence of W Bush.
Hi Saker,
Thank you for this. I am wondering if you plan on writing a quick analysis on what’s going on in the middle east right now with Hamas and Israel? I am really eagerly waiting for that. Thanks!
Hear hear, so am I! Free Palestine!
Yes great idea.
Free Palestine.
The challenge question is why so little pushback?
Because of the Woke Cancel Culture, charges of Racism, demonization of Whites, job loss, doxxing, physical threats, tyrannical prosecution, corrupt court system.
I could list more. But I leave that to others to add to the Why’s.
Most people who speak out suffer material, psychological, monetary and social impacts.
Woke is part of the dogma of the Liberal Cult.
Wokism is Cultural Revolution.
Wokeism is a totalitarian ideology. Liberty can’t debate it.
It’s a social terrorism. It has no room for discourse. So pushing back?
You want your Bill of Rights? You want your Constitutional protections?
You will have to be willing to fight for them.
This being a social-political tyranny presents a very difficult challenge. Wokeism has spread throughout Europe and most of the American vassals. That is 900 million or a billion people already captured by this ideology.
Tyranny requires an insurgency to pull it down, blow it up, kill it.
The counter to terrorism and Cultural Revolution is destruction of the terrorists and cultural warriors.
When the threat is perceived by enough and the threat is seen as existential, then the pushback will be violent.
Excellent and succinct summation. Couldn’t have said it any better. I think the very soon to arrive vax passport and/or even more restrictive equivalents (vax certs, vax licenses, vax cards, local vax registrations, etc.) might finally tip the scales. But then again, I never thought we’d get this far and yet here we are. Feels an awful lot like Nazi Germany 2.0 coming around the bend. History’s rhyming pretty hard these days.
When the threat is perceived by enough and the threat is seen as existential, then the pushback will be violent.Previous to today, white, Christian (and therefore ‘good’ somehow) mothers would (virtue) signal to other white, Christian (and therefore ‘good’ somehow) mothers that they are good and racism is bad b/c their children are pure in thought and spirit.
Today, we are seeing more frequent news reports of white, Christian (and therefore ‘good’ somehow) mothers being raped, their children being murdered, sometimes accidently as the shooter fired indiscriminately over some perceived slight, and hope for a better future drowned in a classroom of youths intent on sabotaging learning b/c they can’t keep up. State schoolboards in Va and Calif want to withhold advanced mathematics from <all students until 11th grade b/c some students can’t keep up.
Tomorrow, white, Christian (and therefore ‘good’ somehow) mothers will see their children broken down while a sanctified and sanctimonius underclass rules over them, and badly, too, as industriy falters, planes crash, and government truly becomes hostile to all white, Christian (and therefore ‘good’ somehow) mothers.
The day after tomorrow will see the debt bubble popping, oil shortages/food shortages severely affecting those white mothers, but with all government aid directed towards that sanctified and sanctimonius underclass … and suddenly, all that virtue signalling shifts towards protect my child! Then you will see your violent pushback.
Yep that’s it in a nutshell. It’s going to get much worse before it gets better :(
Because of the Woke Cancel Culture, charges of Racism, demonization of Whites, job loss, doxxing, physical threats, tyrannical prosecution, corrupt court system.
There is no doubt in my mind that these pressure tactics are the result of an organized group seeking to take over and instill a totalitarian regime. This, I look upon the mindless Biden parroting the mantra “white terrorism” as a preemptive strike against the first few amendments. If there is a pushback, it. Weds to be ruthless.
To paraphrase Rob Urie, wokism is cultural liberalism providing cover for right wing economics (i.e., neoliberalism). In a recent essay, he notes a picture of Jamie Dimon (CEO of Goldman-Sachs), masked and taking a knee in front of a bank vault, as a symbol of what is actually happening. This aberrant woke phenomenon couldn’t go very far without promotion from money and power. How many of the Fortune 500 companies have endorsed the ‘values’ of this movement, not to mention the foundations and ‘charities’ of the super-rich? The liberal masses seem to think fascism is white people in jackboots marching in torchlight parades and persecuting minorities. What they will give us is every color of the rainbow and representatives of every letter of the alphabet advocating the same neoliberal economic policies of the past 50 years, which includes the empire’s subjection of any part of the world that resists in defense of ‘our values.’ The woke get their ‘values’ stroked and the super-rich add to their wealth and power. Woke should be seen as fascism’s latest fashion style.
I know a fair number of these people, and this bundle of sticks (fascism’s symbol) is brittle, will burn or snap quickly if faced with the determined, brutal resistance that war will bring. I can’t see how the allying with these weak people (if pronouns can make them tremble, what will bullets and bombs do to them?), will bring the super rich their victory, neo-feudalism as Michael Hudson calls it.
Amen, anon.
Absolutely 💯% correct
Peace be with you.
And upon all.
Because that’s the plan.
The Great Reset is really all about moving the center of all operations to Israel. The financial capital of the world. The purpose Israel was REALLY created for.
Everything controlled remotely and digitally. Money and surveillance. From Israel.
Hence :
The land grabs Of Palestinian land and territory
The promotion of digital currency so it can be used worldwide
Covid-19 and lockdowns was CREATED to bring about and to encourage everyone to do remote shopping and working remote, and moving everything to digital and to being remote. A smooth transition without backlash.
Investment in digital tech and AL tech
The Abrams accord
The slow destruction of US economy and US Dollar by the US FED Reserve (which is owned by the very people who created and own most of Israel )
The move out of New York City And the excuse of violence and taxes which they themselves implemented (Wall Street was going to move activities and HQs to Israel eventually, hence the push for digital currency and the move away from US Dollar) First they move to Florida then Israel. That’s the plan.
But to do that America and Europe especially white culture must be destroyed as they are the competition. Rivals. The ones who may fight back.
America, Western Nations, white culture,beware – they will destroy America UK and EU and the American Economy in order for Israel to succeed. Hence all those chosen have dual nationalities-so they can jump ship when time has come
Dont give credit where credit isnt due.
The Israelies alone could not have created the sick culture that is now western politics, they share a part of the problem, but the trouble politics caused has roots so deep the tree may never stop growing.
Those roots come from the swine who should be dealt with to resolve the problem.
The Clintons, Obama, Soros, Gates, Bezos, Rockefellers, Bush clan & media moguls – simply arrest them all the seize their assets for the betterment of the USA. = Easy fix.
Why is there so little pushback?
For the reasons Larchmonter gives, and also, a lot of people just do not see beyond their noses.
Also, so many people in the USA are still in the clutches of Trump Derangement syndrome that they are very easily manipulated via their violent anti-Trump emotions.
And, they also try to manipulate others. For example, because Trump said something negative about X, some commenter acknowledged that although they new nothing about the issues, anyone who was against X (there are good reasons for this position) has to know that they are on the side of a crazy, dumb ponzi-scheming liar (Trump). . . This is the level of discourse of a lot of the “woke.” They have zero capacity for reflection. Whatever is anti-Trump (most woke notions), they are for.And vice versa. (Of course they could be way off-base in their assumptions as to what Trump might be for and against! A lot of it is projection and wild fantasies.)
In this sense of eliciting knee-jerk responses and dumbed down reactionary critical thinking,Trump still exercises a considerable influence on American society.
Katherine
That Russian guy was totally ripped *before* he started working out!
Katherine
Haha! So true Katherine!
Btw, the US recruitment video describes the choices of young university graduates :
1. spend time in Italy for further studies 2. climb Mount Everest
3. join the the military…
Who on earth has access to the first two options?
” Raised by two moms.., ” one mom paralysed but learned to walk again – right down the aisle with mom number two. Then, whither Everest, Italy – or the army ? Hmmm – no contest – the army. This is actually comedy gold. I laughed out loud.
Was rather impressed by the Russian though :-)
Big thoughts, presented to a people to whom thought is crippled by twelve years of “school”, in which critical thinking is ridiculed, suppressed, and punished. Pushback is inconceivable. Accepting guilt for all the world’s problems is appropriate for the mindless, even though innocent of all charges. There really is no hope for this western people. They are too brainwashed and devoid of natural intelligence.
Patrick
Wokeness is merely a propaganda campaign to make America appear more tolerant and inclusive as compared to its “authoritarian” enemies of Russia and China.
In short, it is giving the mass murdering American Evil Empire a kinder, gentler mask.
That is the real agenda behind Wokeness.
Here’s some articles that explain America’s Woke Makeover.
Biden Will Have The Most Diverse, Intersectional Cabinet Of Mass Murderers Ever Assembled
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/11/10/biden-will-have-the-most-diverse-intersectional-cabinet-of-mass-murderers-ever-assembled/
Intersectional imperialism: A wholesome menace
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/518645-intersectional-imperialism-wholesome-menace/
Forget to include this link that analyzes the CIA created “fake left”:
How the CIA cultivates a fake left: From the cultural cold war to intersectional imperialism
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2021/05/13/how-the-cia-cultivates-a-fake-left-from-the-cultural-cold-war-to-intersectional-imperialism/
Wokeness is not about diversionary “Culture War” issues, which both Conservatives and Progressives love to bicker about.
Like most issues, it is about is about American Empire and its psyops.
Finally, the category black might include Tamils or Australian aborigines…
should look up google images on Tamil people before this is said…
I did and half those pictures could easily be called “African-Americans” in the US.
The woke ideology also completely ignores racism internal to the so-called “Blacks”.
between them, all is fair.
a jew can call one of them anything she wants…
same among blacks…
but no body else has the same license. thats the rules y’all set
Hi Saker,
I am glad that you elaborated on this subject of wokism. I noticed this woke ideology has a category in place as to who their enemy is. It goes something like this: White, Christian, non-disabled, heterosexual, middle-class, or rich, and has you guessed it “privilege”. This is one of the reasons why they hated Donald Trump because he fits into all these categories that I just mentioned. At the end, I believe the USA will fight back against this ideology because states such as Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, etc., etc., have now banned the curriculum of critical race theory in their schools and all other forms left wing subjects.
Saker that is the most beautiful article you’ve written !!
Will pass it on.
Why is there so little pushback?
Well, where I live (in a “white” settler society established by Great Britain in the late 18th Century) “blacks” account for about 3% of the population and homosexuals (male or female) about the same, between 3% and 4%. I think that people where I live, while mostly not knowing the precise numbers, are aware that they are small. And so, without thinking about it very much, they probably conclude that woke-ism isn’t much of a problem and is a self-indulgence on the part of young, middle-class “white” people who will eventually grow out of it.
Small steps in Academe to fight back against Woke insanity.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/scholars-line-join-anti-woke-online-education-platform
Wokism has been created to HIDE the fact the The Federal Reserve is secretly giving away billions to bail out Wall Street. Wall Street is destroying the economy through speculation and illegal profiteering like a casino.
Private Equity firms are buying American companies for pennies on the dollar. Billionaires are making Billions with the help of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and the Federal Reserve. Billionaires don’t pay taxes but get money in the form of grants, bailout PPP loans and more, bridges and infrastructure is crumbling because of years of neglect, education quality is falling dramatically, homelessness is increasing rapidly, crime is growing exponentially, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, Americans are getting very poor, going bankrupt, and are in absolute debt.
The great USA is falling apart rapidly BUT everyone only talks about and jokes about WOKISM!!!!.
WTF????? Wokism is THE DISTRACTION from the real problems America and Americans face.
Wake up.
Great comment! I might add there in lies the answer to Saker’s question: No one dares facing the printing press square in the eyes.
I was looking for a post like this. Wokism does not threaten the oligarchs, likely because it is promoted in their propaganda media and financed by them, when necessary. It has been a created as a distraction from the looting and power grabs of the Western oligarchs, globalists, if you like. Those not in their pay, but willingly following this nonsense are the useful idiots that enable those that create injustice in our world and many things wokeness apparently rails against (social injustice, “racism”, sexism) to escape accusation and justice themselves. You know those wonderful Woke hypocrites like Dimon, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, not to mention their politcal aparatchiks, etc.
The woke are essentially asleep.
The only thing that threatens an o is the inability to control you financially and politically.
The Os wont ever be able to do that. Short term perhaps but not LT.
All the RINOs and No-Trumpers and many DEMs in Congress will be routed in 2022 if they arent sooner.
Does Cheney or Romney or McConnell or their proxies think they will really be able to get re-elected ?
Any RINO or NT will be targeted for destruction and many Dems voters will turn on the Reps soon.
Until we get rid of those suspect voting machines I would say any of those you mentioned could be “re-elected”.
“The woke are essentially asleep.”
They are if they think black lives matter to Joe Biden. Or anybody else’s life.
Your absolutely right. Being or becoming Woke is a device employed by the elites, a trap which invites our younger well meaning members of society to waste their time, instead of them focusing on more important issues like suppression of wages, lack of healthcare, housing and education, access to legal due process and the functioning health of local democracy and the distribution of or access to local natural resources. Wokeism throws a curtain around the activity of these elites, like the magician in the Wizard of Oz, and allows them to get on with the plundering of the rest of us.
Very sadly, our universities & mass media have been corrupted and co-opted into this charade.
These guys I talk too around here consider what is happening to this country(America), an embarrassment
There’s definitely a Weimar Republic feel to the current situation, both with regards to the money printing and the social / sexual deconstruction.
There is little pushback because the population is sedated via info overload and public school brainwashing, as well as a fear of being ostracized and the human propensity for complacency. Beyond that, people are comfortable with lies they’re told by others and those they tell themselves. The U.S. citizens have been told for 160 years that we have the best gov’t on the planet and they’ve bought it hook, line and sinker, regardless of the avalanche of evidence to the contrary.
I’m old enough to remember that not too long ago there was a fascist goof, Adolf Schicklgruber, & his posse pulling the same gag. Everything bad that happened, is happening or will happen to Germany is the fault of the Jews. If it rains tomorrow, etc., yup it’s the Jews at it again.
Fast forward to today in the US everything bad, wrong, etc., is the fault of the “whites” & of course, the evil Orange Man.
Fascists always gonna be fascists.
Andrei My Orthodox Brother,
Unfortunately, I think that if any remnant of traditional Western Civilization is to survive it will not just require forces of reaction and counter revolution but a certain amount of fascism as well to purge Woke ideology from our lands and all those who hold fast to it. I look at Wokism the same way I look at Wahhabism. It is a plague. If I am a traditional Sunni Muslim, a Sufi or especially a Shia Muslim then I know there can be no peaceful coexistence with Wahhabism. It must be eradicated, annihilated and uprooted otherwise that’s what such an ideology will do to us. Wokism is a form of Secular Humanist Wahhabism. I would even argue that Wokism as adopted by the State and Global Corporations is in and of itself a form of “fascism”.
Andrei you know history. You know that history is brutal and bloody and often without mercy. Most of history is kill or be killed. Even in an Orthodox Empire like Byzantium that was often the case even in internal power struggles. I do not want to see the racialist insanity of Nazism ever to rise again in Europe or in North America, but if Franco was to rise again I would readily join his brigades and do whatever needed to be done to snuff out the Woke menace from Western Civilization (and then snuff out the Liberalism that produced it).
In hindsight, Franco was, in fact, quite a ”woke” creature: Fighting a self-proclaimed ”crusade” with a significant contingent of Moorish Muslim troops. Franco set the template most accurately for later reactionaries of dubious Christian faith.
Why is there so little pushback?!
First, Woksters are luxury items. Also, their daily reported actions serve as a depraved kind of entertainment, like watching a monkey swallowing a hand grenade.
Second, the set of events that began roughly around March 2020 have set off a complex waves of third and fourth order effects that will soon rip and burn through every aspect of Western Civilization. Folks getting spiritually and physically prepared for this have also taken into consideration the need for physical security against zombies.
Third, when the intricately interconnected systems, which are visibly wobbling and teetering today, finally go into unmanageable states of disorder, and then through a set of cascade failures collapse into a new lower-energy equilibrium state, luxury items will be the first things to be abandoned if they cannot be immediately repurposed.
So, for example, when the Free Shit Army public skool teachers, college “professors” and street activists can no longer receive allowances from their messianic narc-parents, or from the NGO finance distribution feeding troughs, and when cellular communications no longer function, and the grocery stores empty three days after the long haul freight stops moving, then those activists must be repurposed to growing potatoes, most likely at gunpoint, for their own good.
And yes, there is a good probability that a new form of Fascism would be birthed out of the disorder and set as a remedy for “getting back what we lost.” No doubt Russia and China would have a great deal of work in containing and shielding off that mess.
Read this today somewhere: “If Liberals wanted peace, there would be peace. If Conservatives wanted war, there would be no more Liberals.”
Sure, they’d be dead in a minute. The bigger picture though, is that those woksters’ and big daddy elites’ ideology is living and thriving rent-free in them brainz of your children. Only well established, multi-generational, communities are somewhat successful in stopping the spread of this cancerous ideology. A strong and lived Faith is the only thing that guards you completely from those parasitic ideas.
Communism, fashism and liberalism (as in renouncing any form of collective identity – wokism is a very efficient tool of social atomization) have the same root. All of them are products of modernity. We live in the logos of Cybele now and boi oh boi have I underestimated how fast a latent sickness of the mind can become chronic, then mutating and lethal.
You and Wokie are both Spot on!! I’m afraid the rest are all falling for the distraction unfortunately.
” The woke ideology is most definitely anti-western, and not in the sense of condemning the West’s thousand years of bloody wars and imperialism,” What woke ideology? The ideology you critisize is the ideology of Joe Biden but it is also the ideology you promote in as much as your argument accepts the premise that ‘wokeness’, whatever that might be, is an ideology which is compatable with imperialism because we can bomb places to bring them woke values. Joe Biden’s handlers have co-opted the word ‘woke’ by shifting its meaning to allow for imperialism. By critisisng wokeness using Joe Biden’s definitions of wokeness you promote those definitions and so promote imperialism. For a look at the origional meaning of ‘woke’ I suggest all of https://caitlinjohnstone.com/ and the earlier work of https://blackagendareport.com/content/cowardly-hypocritical-subservient-congressional-black-caucus-endorses-israeli-apartheid-and-
There’s plenty of pushback just not in the MSM.
“, they have been “wokified” in the sense that the woke ideology is now used to give these traditional US ideologies some kind of politically-correct imprimatur, a kind of “when we do that in the name of wokeness we are doing something morally right” label placed on an otherwise deeply discredited set of “western values”.
Exactly, but the examples of ‘woke ideology’ you then site are examples of Joe Biden’s woke ideology, which is itself a distortion used to further imperialism.
“the burden of proof is upon the party proclaiming a thesis,” What’s the thesis?
“but it is anti-western in the sense that it places an equal sign between, say, J.S. Bach and the rapper “Ice Cube” with a “logic” along the following line: “hey, who are you to say that Bach was more talented than the rapper Ice Cube?! That is racist!!!”
Both this argument and its opposite depend on measuring an un-measurable thing.
““all races are equal”. No evidence for that statement was ever given.”
You have mis-understood the proposition. The thing that is equal is their human rights. That two people have the same human rights is not the same proposition as saying they are identical in every respect and the statement is generaly not understood to mean that. So this a straw man argument to knock down an idea that you profess to agree with. Clearly the equlity that St. Paul was on about is the same equlity implied by “all races are equal”.
“Yet, somehow, the proponents of wokeness immediately get offended when their beliefs are challenged and simply accuse any naysayers of “racism””
Also known as “people not agreening with you”.
“I have seen plenty of evidence disputing this, beginning with US Army IQ tests”
IQ tests attempt to measure ‘intelligence (whatsoever that may be) by measuring performance of a task which cannot be improved on with practice, i.e. all influence of nurture has been removed, and from that deducing the likely performance on tasks that can be learnt. Are there any tasks which can’t be improved on with practice and how would you know when you’ve found one? Why would something that can’t be learnt be a measure of someones ability to learn things.
“Yes, the West went from the genius of Baroque to the insipid vulgarity of YouTube.”
Baroque is on YouTube.
“it has zero empirical evidence to back its key tenets” There are no key tenets explicitly stated by you or the people you critisise. Many of the critisisms I agree with but not the idea that Joe Biden’s propaganda is all there is to being woke. To be woke is to have woken up from propaganda so propaganda cannot be woke.
@Saker “All races are equal”, this implies neo-imperialism, it means we are all world citizens with One urbanized culture, we are globalists who know no moral boundaries nor borders, we do not care about localism and their narrow minded native cultures.
Wokism is not a grass roots movement, it is artificially created and injected into society by the intelligence community and the political class in coordination with the (globalist) corporatist class.
Same way as Fascism started out as a grass roots Socialist movement (Hitler was sent as an intelligence operative to inflitrate and hijack the socialist movement, he received sponsor money from bankers and industrialists) which became hijacked by the elite so is Wokism (=Fascism) today.
By the way, Saker, what did you study in the Swiss if i may ask?
Just a couple of observations from a black man in America. Someone please tell me what we run, what do we control? Is it the military or the stock market or foreign policy? I’ll tell you what we control “not a damn thing.” So direct your vitriol towards your White brothers and sisters and queers who control the US and most of the world. Woke is an elite White construct no Black person I know educated or not uses the language of woke, we sure as hell didn’t invent it. As for your grievances about immigrants polluting your country blame that on your not-so-Christian leaders who deliberately destroyed Muslim countries out of wickedness and greed. Don’t complain about people squatting on your lawn or in your garage when your “Christian” leaders destroy their country, families and livelihoods. Did you tell these idiots to stop invading and destroying non-enemies because they were military weaker or they had natural resources your country wanted? As for Christianity??? I grew up in the church like most Black people my age 45-90 and I assure you that what parades as Christianity in the “West” these days is nothing remote to messages and teachings of Christ. Like most people suffering cognitive dissonance your bile is misdirected towards Blacks and even queers for that matter. Look into the mirror and you will see that your elites have sold you out just as they use empty rhetoric to gas up Black people foolish enough to believe they are about to have their day in the sun. Own up to the reality that you have been sold out. I’m not delusional about reality some not all of you are completely delusional.
Excellent points here. Consider this: Those Elites are transforming the United States into a Great Plantation that they plan to render in the service of a stable, well governed, multi-polar, advancing and progressive Global Order.
Former United States citizens will be compelled at gunpoint to deconstruct and export anything of value as punishment for the Crimes of Empire, even as those very same Elites bear the responsibility for those very crimes.
What could be some of the attributes of this Great Plantation, based on what we learned from the one previously owed and operated by the US Democratic Party before the American Civil War?
1. Abject poverty everywhere, except the Big House.
2. Well defined prison boundaries (this is the REAL purpose of The Border Wall).
3. Constant violence and threat of violence.
4. Broken human spirits and hearts.
5. Disunity. Lack of common language. Illiteracy, and thus ignorance, strongly enforced.
6. Extractive, repetitive work with sub-survival wages.
7. High death rate due to malnutrition, poor diet (sugar, clay), preventable diseases, poor sanitation.
8. Harsh punishment for Runaways and The Uppity Ones.
Anything look familiar today?
There are several aspects of (((tptb’s))) agenda, all aligned to destroy the Old World Order and bring about the New World Order. Some of these are, in no particular order:
1) Deindustrialization of the West and rise of China
2) Demise of the West through immigration
3) Destruction and rape of Third World countries by US and Nato to aid point 2
4) Woke-ism
5) LGBT
6) Holocau$t
One cannot choose to support some of these agenda points and not others, you either support them all or oppose them all, the Saker seems to have an issue with the 4’th point at present.
You are correct, neither the Blacks or Latinos in the USA or the Blacks or the Muslims in Europe have any power whatsoever, nor will they have any power, they are just being used to achieve (((tptb’s))) agenda. The Whites have indeed been sold out by their parasites and their elites.
“no Black person I know educated or not uses the language of woke, we sure as hell didn’t invent it.”
What about Bruce A. Dixon?
https://blackagendareport.com/black-political-class-and-network-neutrality
The short answer as to why so little pushback is due to the intransigence and intentionality of those holding power. Last time I checked it never was nor never has been Black people or Muslims or Asians or any” other”group holding power in the West. The people holding power look like most of you not me. Many of this group include your “good”, phony, morally corrupt elite “Christian” White people who care nothing about ALL of us. Don’t scapegoat others for your (our) wretched leadership.
Saker is not scapegoating others but accuses the elite and US government sponsored social justice warriors (NGOs). There is big (tax) money to make spreading wokism. The US government is investing billions into the woke movement worldwide, it is being weaponized for a globalist cause (destruction of national sovereignity and imposing a unilateral world governance).
“Yes, the West went from the genius of Baroque to the insipid vulgarity of YouTube.
Another way to puncture the ‘woke’ bubble is with general satire using images (mostly baroque) that I like and many familar faces from the US and UK … using YouTube (sorry Saker … as they are not yet up to pace on satire).”
https://youtu.be/w3cPW4maLOo
And for those who consider I only satarise the west …
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPoWmc0t_ryLnBGkFPqlvRL7LVqSX6yM7BxxeOE
Just to add to my previous correspondence on such matters wokeism is a product of individualism and an enemy of the family. It is therefore quite rare in Asia. Countries and societies that maintain a family structure right up to high government will never fall victim to wokeism. My village here of mostly rural workers would never understand even the basics of what a woke person might believe as its essence has no practical application.
Well, may be the Americans want to fight their enemies with softy-softy approach.
Wokesim is not an ideology, nor is it a method to attain objectives of any sort. It is the reaction of over-protected spoiled children of the “Enfant-Roi” generation, wanting to format the world to resemble their overprotected mama’s living room. The fact that it is ridden by corporatism, empires, lobbies, groups etc. is just a practicality. Just as they rode democracy, human rights, women emancipation. The reason we find wokeism more ridiculous and we cannot stomach it (while we were a bit more gullible at the idea of democracy dispatched through smart bombs) is because the people now are sillier.
Dear Saker
“A Lie repeated a Trillion times is a Lie”
Elon Musk is a European just like a kangaroo is a kangaroo even if taken to the moon. There is one Race the Human Race. There are different Ethno-types / Geo–types , e.g. Indian , Chines, Arabs, Africans, Europeans, Lakota etc..
In Apartheid South Africa , the Term “White / Black” was introduced as a legal framework to muddy the true facts about the Land issue. The effect was to obscure / hide European crimes as brutal inhuman occupiers..
In basic Electronics I can equate the concept of Race (black/white) to a “Filter”. In Psychology
it is simply regarded as a Conditioning construct that diverts the mind to act in a certain predetermined way (Run a Sub–routine or Algorithm). In short it is Brainwashing. The real challenge we face as human is to realize our ignorance of this fact…
Historically, feudal Europe went out to conquer the World. The Lord /Serf identity had to be changed in line with emerging colonial realities. The Serfs suddenly found themselves in position of power with limited restrictions . Pervasion of Logic, common sense & best human practices such as Morality & Conscience ensured as Capitalism took hold. Terms like ‘Natives”‘ ,, Savages, black /white fitted well to the Capitalist hierarchy structure, but to the multitudes of the just liberated European Serfs/peasants it meant status elevation , privilege & a shared identity with the lords (white). Unfortunately this unbecoming arrangement suited ordinary Europeans to the point of believe. White got to be exceptional & the rest fell below in a descending order by pigmentation. Black being the ultimate opposite.
One has to admire the cunning nature & brainwashing skills of the Empire in imposing such a painful yoke on ordinary people , that divides mankind & prevent common understanding. So human get reduced to mare Profile. if it fits into this profile, it is ok to kill it ,hence the current slaughter in Palestine whilst the so called civilized repeat the Empire narrative which blame the victims for resting & denying the right off a European entity (Jew) to exist in Palestine.
In America The term White is used exactly like in South Africa & even more. It hides genocide & the identity of the perpetrator –European . The Blacks are spoilers on one hand & a convenient scapegoat on the other. This is the reality off the so called “White culture “, which is Western European Feudalism on a global scale. Putin recently alluded to it as a reminder to the USA..
This is travesty of the very essence of humanity itself.
Dear Daniel,
All humans are ethnocentric – this is a basic concept well understood in anthropology. It is negative ethnocentrism that causes xenophobia, racism and tribalism, while positive ethnocentrism’s highest form is “Unity in Diversity”. This is however a very fragile concept. Why is it that “Unity in Diversity” has failed in the post-1994 South Africa?
You state the following as a fact:
“In Apartheid South Africa , the Term “White / Black” was introduced as a legal framework to muddy the true facts about the Land issue. The effect was to obscure / hide European crimes as brutal inhuman occupiers..”
You fail to then provide further information about the true facts about the Land issue (in South Africa). Let me assist with a few pointers.
1. The country known as “South Africa” was artificially created in 1910 by the British. Prior to that all the nations within South Africa were naturally separated by borders that had already been negotiated between those nations (i.e. ethic and linguistic tribes). .
2. The objective of Apartheid (which was called Separate Development) was to place all the nations back in the positions where they were before the artificial colonial creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
The objective was for those nations to have self determination and ultimately to be given independence. In fact they had already been given self-governance by the Apartheid state as autonomous states within the Apartheid state (they were called ‘Homelands’ or ‘Bantustans’). Examples were Transkei, Ciskei and Boputhatswana.
All of this is on record if anyone cares to look for it. They question here is: Why did black South Africans reject autonomy, self-determination and independence when offered by the Apartheid state? Another question is why is this factor never included about analyses of Apartheid?
3. So, here is a very controversial question, yet a very important one that must be asked by anyone genuinely interested in the land issues in South Africa. Who arrived where in South Africa first? Different tribes and nations arrived from different parts of Africa and Europe at different times into the region and occupied different areas before all those peoples were incorporated artificially into “South Africa” as one country. ALL people in South Africa migrated into the country from other regions, including the Bantu African tribes – they came from Central Africa. In the South West of the country, the Dutch and French settlers arrived before the Bantu African tribes (this is the controversial part, but it’s factually true). However the Dutch and French did arrive after nomadic tribes who were there before anyone else and these are the first peoples of South Africa known as Khoi and San – but they are not the African people who are currently in government claiming all the land.
Here is a video presentation that shows the migration of peoples across the African continent with maps – you will notice that the South Western part of South Africa was historically never occupied by the Bantu peoples (even though they claim this land as theirs).
‘How the Bantus Permanently Changed the Face of Africa 2,000 Years Ago (History of the Bantu Peoples)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CkqHdkUcI
If one simply claims that Europeans have no place in Africa (at all), then surely that should apply to Europeans also in South America, because almost the entire continent had been settled and colonized by Europeans. Surely then that would also apply to Australasia – and to North America – no? Should all the Europeans in all these continents all return to Europe?
People separate themselves naturally according to language and culture, because that’s what people do and have always done for centuries/millennia, and in multi-lingual and multi-cultural countries such as South Africa where a multitude of different groups had been placed together by a colonial power, all groups continue to self-segregate to an extent, even after Apartheid has ended. Does that make everyone racist? Sometimes it’s better to deal with the world as it is, rather than how we want it to be.
BTW: Have you noticed how Apartheid is (was) not ok in some places, while it’s (still) ok in other places?
@South African
I appreciate your comments,, but unfortunately you miss the point I am trying to convey across .
My comments are directed to the apparent weaknesses that are inherent to the human psyche (consciousness / awareness ).In my opinion, the question of Race is that of Identity. Now, the first identity is the notion of “I” together with “Other”. The second identity is “family”, followed by community , tribe, culture , religion , class, nation, preferences etc. The first identity “I” binds the body/mind with the sense of an “individual entity”‘ . All other subsequent identities are tied to the sense of “belonging” (group id), which rises out of survival instincts (a primordial impulse, inherent to all living things ). The human being has evolved a high brain , yet it is unable to maximize it due to the limitations imposed by the inclination towards “identified attention//awareness”, when dealing with any phenomenon. This means we perceive reality in subject / object form (duality). We are socialized to be outward looking (objective) as opposed to being inward looking (subjective). All spiritual practices warn against that biased /identified approach because it impedes the evolution of consciousness to higher states.
Fellow South African
There is no denying that Europeans have superior weapons & military skills, which they use to impose their will on others. In RSA, Europeans took land by force from Africans, just as it is happening in Palestine.
I will talk about Khoisan as they are my ancestors, you as a European would know better about indigenous European people, what happened to them ?. The Dutch, justifies their crimes in RSA by claiming to have arrived in the area at the same time as Africans. Why is it that the Portuguese who arrived a century earlier don’t share the same lie?
The word Bantu/Batho (Nguni/Sotho) means human being. The word consist of the prefix -“Ba” , which denotes plurality to the suffix ”ntu / tho”‘. The prefix “ba” has another meaning namely “those of” the suffix ”ntu / tho” , implying a being. The question is who is this being “ntu/tho” ? I don’t know.. All I can is that it is controversial, & it seams to collaborate the
Sumerian stories of the gods .By the way “Ra” the god of light & “Kermit” (Egypt) are known to the Bantu , whose cereals are Millet & sorghum , and have possessed skills in Metallurgy for thousands of years.
There has been several human migrations dictated by nature. There has been the events that lead to the sinking of Atlantis. It is said that the Pyramids were built in pre-sand Egypt, when the Sahara was tropical & savannah. We are told that the great winds blew for years forcing our ancestors to scatter in many directions , as the Sahara turned into desert. There was the Ice age. The Bantu go further to a period perhaps hundred thousands years back.. To the era of “lLowe”, when the rocks were molten – super volcanic & ethquake activity that forced mankind to live in huge under-ground caves for years, until they were lead out by a giant being known as Matsieng. The history of the Bantu (human) in Africa go back hundreds thousands years. The Mediterranean types , Greek & Roman are part of this history , as for the Europeans they are of unknown origins . The Hindu do have similar stories about events that happened hundreds thousands years ago. For the Dutch 400 years ago is the starting point. What a joke
Well, Daniel – how far back do you want to go? It is said that all humans originally came from Africa, so if that’s true then the whites in South Africa are back in their original home…
The issue on the table here is that there had been a negotiated settlement in the years prior to 1994 to come to the most amicable agreement and solution to give all South African citizens, no matter their hue or origin, a fair and – as far as possible – equal place under the South African sun.
This agreement has been abandoned and basically been thrown into the faces of the minority groups while the constitution is being treated with contempt to put it mildly – even the constitutional court has become highly biased. Most likely you live in the Western Cape, so you would know that the most widely spoken language in the province (by White AND Brown people – Afrikaans) has been banned out of Western Cape universities and actually country-wide too, with only some minor courses left. Everything is now about English and everything has become and is being wokified. This wokeness had been imported through the universities from USA/UK/Canada in the first place.
So the current African government, after fighting for their freedom for decades, is in the process of turning South Africa into a woke Anglo-colony while most non-whites in the country seem to cheer this on! I simply don’t understand this behavoir, but perhaps that explains why black South Africans didn’t accept the self-governance and self-determination that the Apartheid government offered them (and even subsidized and sponsored) for the Homelands. It seems that their struggle for freedom was not really because they wanted to be free, but rather they wanted to be back under Anglo colonialism (as it was prior to 1948) which they could implement themselves. And it shows, because they are now implementing a very similar campaign against the white Dutch and French descendants (Afrikaners) compared to what the English implemented onto them under British rule in South Africa – underming and supressing their culture and language (which triggered “The Great Trek” inland back then).
The 1994 agreement was the last chance to make a success out of such a massive multi-cultural experiment as South Africa has been ever since 1910. The Dutch/French descendants (Afrikaners) have kept to their side of the bargain until today. Not so much the white English descendants who have been supporting the ousting of the Afrikaans language from universities and public spaces. And not so much the Brown people of the Western Cape either with many preferring to speak English even when their home language is Afrikaans. And not so much (at all) the African groups in South Africa, (with exceptions, of course) who have broadly supported the governments moving away from the 1994 agreements.
It’s incredible how many South Africans have fallen for the divisions created by wokeness – it is truly deeply disappointing for those of us who wanted the New South Africa to work. Where to from here? The prospects don’t look good.
Perhaps what was wrong with the ‘homelands’ was that it resembled living in the Gaza Strip.
Sometimes one has to laugh. No Johny, there is / was no resemblance.
Johny,
Between 1962 and 1972 the UN paid out $298 Million USD to underdeveloped countries. In that same period South Africa (the Apartheid government) spent $558 Million USD on the development of the traditional tribal homelands for Self Rule.
Proofs here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150513032714/https://the-truth-about-south-africa.org/south-africa/leaked-homeland-financials-year-ending-31-march-1977/
The more you delve into what really happened under and during Apartheid (and the real reasons for it), the more you will find out how much disinformation has been spread about it and how little most people really know about it.
I’m white and returning to Europe. I’m so tired of this asymmetric fixed fight. I’m going to an unspecified EE country. Americans are too degraded at this point to save themselves anyway. Relative IQ in the western nations has dropped about 14 points since 1970, probably due to feminism and the ubiquity of college attendance, causing smart women to have fewer kids and those genes to become less common. The only direction America is going is down. QE since 2008 won’t keep working forever, as Japan exemplifies. Moreover, the USA is heterogenous and divided, Japan is not, so things will turn out worse for the US. If it’s population will burn their cities over the death of a criminal, or the victory of a sports team, imagine the self inflicted devastation a real crisis would cause.
Americans are fat, incurious, and indolent idiots and I don’t wanna be part of that anymore. Their future is a downhill slide, and anyone who would seek to prevent that future is silenced. Also more of them die every year by “deaths of despair” (suicide by drugs, alcohol, etc.) than died from coronavirus so what does that tell you about their mental states, and how nice is it to live here… These were young people too.. suicide up 300+% among 18-24 year old in the last decade… It’s a sinking ship and it’s going down fast.
Unfortunately you’re right, the future of the US is a Brazil (as in the movie) style banana republic
Backlash against Wokism:
124 retired American generals and admirals accuse the Democrats of rigging the election and leading the US to socialism!
The letter came from a group called Flag Officers 4 America, which said the popular vote was rigged in the 2020 election in favor of incumbent President Joe Biden and that the United States was now in grave danger. from a mass attack, as stated in the constitutional rights of Americans.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/retired-brass-biden-election-487374
The financial and banking capital of the World is London. Stop scapegoating Israel, they are nationalists not like the American Zionists who are globalists, look in your own anglo-saxon backyard.
Do you mean the City of London, the Jewish financial Mecca of the West? The “chef” & his Kasher recipes proceed from there. America is only their spearhead. All things evil are hatched there since the defeat of Napoleon and the “anti-catholic marriage” of the English aristocracy and the Jewish Money power.
Nationalists in a country that’s not theirs, what a joke!
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There is a cycle
Hard times, Strong men
Strong men, Good times
Good times, Weak men
Weak Men, Hard times. We are here
Hard times, Strong men. This is coming, and I can see the strong men, and women among my 20 yo sons generation. When you find them, support them and enjoy the show.
Woke angers me, but it is transitory, just another failing talmudist atttempt to finally get the goy to submit to their imagined authority given by whoever carved those tablets.
The boy did nothing to hamper progress or throw into abject misery the other colors’ greatgrandchildren : he wasn t there 150-200 years ago.
The little boy.and.girl of black color did nothing to be despised, put aside and live in
a voting apartheid system (in many US states), and squeezed into second rate schools and jobs.
So, in consequence, the fiormer in fact owes nothing to the latter, because… because waht?
…..well
because latter’s parents and grandparents didnt recognize , did nt take political steps to fix it at their time.
And because for latter”s ascendants, equally, did not f.i.g.h.t. enough, shout enough, spill blood enough to make it all possible in the same society.
So, declare black and asian people independence and choose a “Holy land place” for them to live in. Milk and honey can be provided later.
Why no push back? Because it’s a nothing burger, good for a slow news day, or to move something from the collective consiousness (Gaza, Donbass, Syria), designed to make a certain group feel cuddly and warm, that’s it, a distraction for the 1% worring about the less than 3%. The other 96% don’t give a rats ass, other than the bleeting and squeeling of a few who get lip service, then a polite f off. The 96% are busy living, trying to, their lives in a f’d up world……no one really gives a damn about a few marginalized souls who’d be better off just trying to live their lives, in peace, rather than shoving their ideology (in schools of all places) down everyone else’s throats for a fleeting 15 seconds of You Tube fame, and a half dozen likes.
Cheers, M
“We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours. We did not interfere with you. We do not want your civilization!” – Crazy Horse
Woke insanity is the least of it, Saker. Let’s face it, Western “civilization” has become “life out of balance.” The Hopi have a word for it, Koyaanisqatsi. They describe Western culture as a life of moral corruption and turmoil that is ultimately self-destructive. Their plan is to patiently wait us out and ultimately take back Turtle Island.
Manifest Destiny is the notion that Europeans were “chosen” by God to range around the planet and take what they wanted. It was white supremacy way before there was any distinction between white, black, and red. It was the same tribal attitude that brought the Ashkenazim to Palestine. That’s why US Christian Zionists get along so well with the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s why they support the genocide that Israel is committing in Palestine. The USA had done the very same thing to Native Americans centuries before.
>a new form of Fascism which could be even worse than Wokism.
Worse for who?
The woke ideology is simply a means of creating extremely destructive divisions within the population, at a time when the US is collapsing & different sections of the ruling establishment are mobilizing constituencies to fight for their interests. The Democrativ Party is pushing wokeness to mobilize the minority elements (& white auto-chauvinists) into a fanatical state of mind where they will be prepared to both kill & be killed in the event of some level of civil conflict or war even. Just how ignorant the roots of this ideology are & the manner in which “blacks” or so-called Africal-Americans are manipulated can be evidenced in the prison culture & the way Islamic religion has been pushed on black inmates, as if this is somehow their authentic religion, & the language Kiswahili – a dialect of Swahili. Now Swahili is an east African language, but black of African-American descendants of the slave population descend from west Africa, not east Africa, & Swahili has no presence in west Africa. This is how stupid this is, the ignorance of major sections of the population is truly incredible, & this ignorance is being used against them. When someone says to me, why should I bother to read history & understand politics, I tell them it is about understanding the world in which we live, to the extent that you can, if for no other reason then if you do not, & practice the ignorance is bliss trope, you will be the victim of someone elses agenda, of that you can be certain.
@Aeur, while the neanderthals may have been living in bogs, the Phonecians of the middle east, currently Occupied Plaestine, were busy ploting their meglomaniacal take over of the planet.
Rather than force the return of the land, it would be much better to have it returned peacefully along with a Reconcilatory Apology and Reparations for the theft……..so much nicer with egg on their face. Hmm……..okay, force it is!
Cheers, M
Go woke, go broke.
That’s the new motto in the entertainment world and a caution for companies to do an insanity check beforehand. Nothing is illustrated better than the American comic industry (imo, mangas are superior but we’re talking about an art subjective), where insipid writing and incessant virtue signalling birthed Marvel’s New Warriors, the psychic twins Snowflake and Safespace. Take a moment and let that sink in … I kid you not (Google it).
I don’t know whether I should roll on the floor and laugh or stay frozen in amazement with my mouth open. The latter happened comparing above US recruitment video vs China/Russia. I sincerely hope the US would keep producing these excellent pièce de résistance for its national consumption … good for facial exercises.
The woke American comic industry also exposed a modus operandi where a woke blacklist existed for people that pushed back against such insanity. The persons on this woke blacklist are prevented from securing jobs and influential positions. This is how these a-holes have been able to infiltrate the entire framework and been able to output freely what would’ve been normally trash work. Solzhenitsyn’s advice may not apply if they keep forcing you to produce degenerative creative works.
Pertaining to pushbacks, it’s mainly coming from the plebeian side.
There are no observable elite pushback(s). Why is that? (exercise question)
After seeing these three videos, it’s easy to see who’s going to win a real war, and most likely who will win the peace as well.
I couldn’t help feeling sick after the first ten seconds of the US ad.
The third video, anyway, shows why Blinken blinked when it came to sending US troops to Ukraine.
Those videos are revealing. The American video is based, as others have been, on something like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The woman joins to advance her personal ambitions–to fulfill herself. In some ways, she joins to serve her narcissistic needs. There is no explicit mention of patriotism and protection of nation. It is an adventure equal to climbing a mountain or studying in France. (And how did a college graduate end up being a corporal?)
The Chinese video seems very much a homage to Confucius. One must serve to honor and protect the generation before him * (leaving mother and father), those of his generation(the wife), and those who will come later (the children). He must serve the nation to protect a way of being that is based on the most crucial familial relationships, all under the umbrella of the CCP and state which are their super parents in a way.
I’m happy to join a resistance movement, but I’m not ready to create/lead it.
Any ideas? Or just talk?
In the paragraph below are some homicide statistics from Wikipedia that may be relevant, the last sentence particularly so. Most people know them, but are too PC to voice them. (I live in a mildly mixed-race neighborhood, maybe 20-30% black, asian, or hispanic; where people get along well together, houses and yards are well maintained, and children well behaved. We moved and stayed here to get away from the violence elsewhere.)
“According to the FBI, African-Americans accounted for 55.9% of all homicide offenders in 2019, with whites 41.1%, and “Other”/Unknown 3.0% in cases where the race was known.[52] Among homicide victims in 2019 where the race was known, 54.7% were black or African-American, 42.3% were white, and 3.1% were of other races.[53][54] The per-capita offending rate for African-Americans was roughly six times higher than that of whites, and the victim rate is a similar figure. Most homicides were intra-racial; where the perpetrator’s race was known, 81% of white victims were killed by whites and 91% of black or African-American victims were killed by African-Americans.”
I agree that the woke movement is an irrational ideology that is moving our society into a totalitarian historical moment. The ideology is being used by the ruling oligarchy to control the population and keep a citizens from coming together to do something about an increasingly corrupt system. I think for those of us who aren’t caught up in the media Narrative this blatantly obvious.
Wokism has managed to destroy the left as a class politics and anti-war movement. However the small fragment of those of us who remain in the left combined with the far more numerous people who are conservative who oppose what is now the left (technically it is authentically the right because it clearly supports and is being controlled by most of the ruling class) and who are anti-imperialist/anti-globalists need to join together. While I don’t agree with many of Tucker Carlson’s opinions he seems to be leading the way on Fox to give voice to real leftist like Jimmy Dore and Glen Greenwald that the oligarch official media outlets won’t touch.
Saker
Woke is a fallacy intended to trap the less prudent in trivialities whilst “Rome burn”‘. Pushback should be made against the notion of Race, which is Un-Scientific, illogical & in–human ..
Re: your “[Sidebar: as I have mentioned in the past, I do not consider categories such as “black” or “white” as analytically helpful since they are not properly defined. . . . Thus, when I will use the words black or white below, it will be in the largely accepted US meaning of “descendants of African slaves” and “descendants of white colonists” …]
Firstly, the underlying myth and metaphor empowering this categorisation is well defined in the Jewish creation narrative myth. The “Sons of Ham” being cursed gives licence to all manner of fabricated exceptionalism that justifies slavery and the like. Extended to the Tulmudist domain this post-Egyptian/Babylonian slavery fanasy is alos cast upon the non-Jew “Goy”. It is a human feature and exists in Hindu caste India with respect to Shedule Claases (read untouchable natives) who, like all non-Hindu humans (including European whites), are given to be associated with those unclean orifaces of the human body (in their social modelling). So trust someone will go report that bunch of BS (and the like) as “narratives of concern” to the woke police. (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-plans-expansion-feds-army-snitches-dollars-collars-program).
Secondly, who wants to wrestle the banchies in the pig stye mud? But it is like that small lump that at first can be ignored until it has grown into a bone marrow killing cancer wave and depleated along the way any agency capacity for resistance. It is in the nature of the parasitoid to strike strategically to leave its victim alive but zombified. The stategy has been played for many decades agaisnt the fiat-dollar printing USA by the entity Occupying Palestinian lands since 1948. The increasingly zombified host (now flying rainbow flags) has been so well traied and accustomed that the woke agenda just fits the the same niche. Those that do push back agaisnt this ‘training’ are being bombed out of their homes in Gaza at this very moment. And what do the people to the south in Egypt, or north in Turkey do about it? Basically nothing except cash the ‘sit down’ $cheque/check in the nearest Swiss bank account.
Thirdy, we should make note of the underying category error being foisted on the victims of wokeism — like your son in biology. All this faux postmodern BS behind wokeism cannot make ‘facts’ stick, as their approach does not accept facts by definition. They are only opinions. As such statements involving “you are …” are technically incorrect. All that can be said is that “I am framing you as …” — thus the game is basically one of ‘tag’ or pin the tail on the donkey etc. The the noise becomes ‘much ado about nothing’ as a pile-on strategum. It is a form of suggestion at work. The target victim gets to wear the imaginary cloths like a yellow star and is them subjected to group pressure dynamics until they realise the shame and rip the symbol off and reclaim their own agency to act or ignore as is their preference in context. It is basically a form of black magic (or just magic if you prefer an appropriated neuted English).
The Australian aboriginals would call it “singing” them or pointing the bone: “The Aboriginal People believe a natural death occurs only if the person concerned was very old. If a younger person dies it is attributed to the magic influence of a hidden enemy. The aborigines then say that the person concerned has been “sung” or had a “pointing stick” aimed at him. Therefore if a young man dies, it is considered to be murder.” http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/unambal/death_burial_killing_magic.php
The practice of kurdaitcha is very much alive and woke in postmodern (American) times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdaitcha
It no effect on whiteman’s magic (scientific objectivism) but as that cultural characterisitc decays under post-enlightenment Khaldun cycle decent (Ibn Khaldun cyclical theory) then the agency of kurdaitcha increases proportionally. Bottom line: it is an intelligence test… and if you are not awake to this suggestability and trickery then you are at higher risk of be woked down into various reframing wars. It used to be called “names” in the sticks and stones children’s game. But now that has probably been banned as well it is all about how ‘names’ hurt the snowflakes in theor safe spaces. Go figure!
The West in its civilization life cycle is in its late stage of disintegration.
Wokism, post-modernism, liberalism 2.0, are all aspects of the process of the West deconstructing itself.
It is a self-annihilation that is allowing the hatching out of all its fundamentalist monstrosities.
The Saker asks, “Why is there so little pushback?!”
Many here are mistaking “wokeism” as a unified totalitarian ideology, or conspiracy to destroy Christianity, etc. This is a fundamental mischaracterization.
Wokeism is late-stage liberalism. Liberalism is the worldview of individual supremacy; that the “individual” sits at the center of reality and is the “base concept” for all other concepts. As opposed to God or Prophet or family or nation or humanity (or Life) being the base concept. For liberals, everything revolves around the “self” as they define it to be the “sentient” individual. For hyperindividualists/narcissists/Randians, they go further and revolve everything around “me”.
Wokeism emerges from both liberalism and narcissism. Liberalism essentially holds that individual rights are sacred, and the individual is supreme over itself. Sound nice? In reality, this means anyone can claim grievances for any reason, and there is by definition **no** higher authority to arbitrate. I can *demand* you to not use this or that word (pronouns, slurs), and under the liberal framework, you must comply or you are infringing on my sacred, unilateral individual rights.
Narcissists exist naturally within this framework. Because they have no values outside of “me”, there is virtually no downside to cynically following the “woke” playbook–and abusing it. There is no communal tradition to insult, no holy text to defile. There is only “me” to preserve and accrue personal property.
The synergies and overlap between liberalism, narcissism, and the various stages of capitalism should be readily apparent.
Christianity lost to liberalism long ago. Most Christian sects nowadays are only nominally Christian, and are fundamentally liberal or narcissistic. This causes great psychological suffering among the confused masses who still subscribe to them. What used to be a source of civilizational strength is now heavy with rot. Indeed, the “Abrahamic” worldview is best preserved in modern Islam, for better or worse.
The “Self” as is wokeism is artificially been created by the authorities.
Watch the documentary “The Century Of The Self”:
https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s
Here in the USA we have the Constitution which specifically prohibits the formation of a state church. This is to prevent so-called Christians like the Dominionists and the Christian Zionists from turning the USA into some kind of Zionist theocracy. The Christianity of the Inquisition and the pogroms that happened, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia, brought millions of Europeans to the USA. They hardly want these nativist born-agains and chosenites telling them what to believe. This has absolutely nothing to do with liberalism or narcissism.
Tommy, it quite literally has everything to do with liberalism. USA was founded on liberal principles, including “democracy” and “separation of church and state” (Utah can be heard snickering).
Actually, separation of church and state is a deeply conservative principle. Sen. Barry Goldwater, Mr. Conservative, if you will, told Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) that he should be “ashamed” of a mandatory prayer in public schools amendment that Helms had introduced in the Senate in 1964. Goldwater argued that in a diverse country just choosing whose prayer to give raised questions of fairness and government meddling.
The amendment fell 11 votes short of the two-thirds required for passage. Goldwater knew what many of the people who today call themselves conservative have forgotten: church-state separation is a deeply conservative principle.
“Conservative” is a relative term. Anything can be conserved. It is only opposite to “liberalism” in the vacuous Red vs. Blue definitions of the terms in contemporary 🇺🇲 political theatre.
Separation of church and state, and the concept of religious freedom that underlies is, is founded on liberal principles. Specifically, the principle that no individual should be forced by the state into a particular religious custom.
Excellent article, Saker. Wokeness puts blinders over everyone’s eyes so that no-one would notice or care that there are now more race-based laws in South Africa that discriminate against white people (after only 27 years of “equality” and democracy …) than there were under 48 years of Apartheid and 38 years of British colonialism combined, prior to that. And most likely this will be the ultimate result in the USA as well. South Africa sets the tone, because nobody notices, until it arrives at their doorstep.
Report here: (July 2020)
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc
Summary:
“The report of the Truth & Reconciliation commission lists 17 race-based laws passed by the parliament of
the Union of South Africa between 1910 and 1948 in pursuit of racial segregation. It lists a further 26
passed by the National Party between 1948 and the passage of the Extension of University Education Act
No 45 giving effect to apartheid. After that there are a multiplicity of laws passed related to the
government’s policy of separate development.
These laws were all documented, opposed, and their pernicious effects recorded, by critical journalists,
academics, and opposition politicians, at the time. Books were published in the 1970s documenting and
describing them all. By the late 1970s the National Party itself had lost confidence in the project of
separate development and recognised that the harsh racial discrimination against black South Africans
in the labour market was economically destructive, and ultimately a threat to white survival. From then on successive National Party governments started abolishing racially discriminatory laws – beginning in
the economic sphere – and by the early 1990s there were none left on the statute books.
For a few precious years in the early to mid-1990s South Africa was, for the first and last time, a country
without operative racial laws. Over the past 26 years though the ANC has put in place a web of binding
racial requirements through constitutional provisions, legislation, white papers, regulations, charters,
and party resolutions; as it has sought to advance through the different stages of the revolution, towards
the goal of pure racial proportionality, everywhere.
The article above has documented some eighty of these, but this is not a complete list. It lists only a
handful of regulations. By one count the ANC has incorporated racial requirements into ninety acts of
parliament, excluding the Constitution, though many of these relate to the application of the
“representivity” principle to the boards of statutory bodies. In addition, there are a number of judgments
issued by the Constitutional Court, bending the interpretation of the Constitution in favour of the
national revolution. ”
Conclusion:
“The real problem, inadvertently highlighted by the controversy, is that such a large part of the media, civil society, and the DA do not see the ANC’s race laws as a problem. In fact they are barely conscious that
they exist at all. And yet it is simply impossible to understand South Africa’s predicament without
reference to the ANC’s racial project, the plunder that this enabled, and the institutional and economic
destruction that resulted.”
You make a very good point about the opposition between wokeness and Christianity. In the whole scheme of modern “leftist-liberal” ideology, wokeness seems to play the role of an Ersatz religion/moral code.
One could say this is the third of the series of major totalitarian left ideologies that oppose religion (primarily Christianity) and try to install themselves in its stead, – after communism and nazism (sic; the latter was not called national *socialism* for nothing).
Why no pushback? Because the Propaganda and Distraction – news and entertainment – is very strong and acute. Then there is the Opiod and drug epidemic which is a sort of relief and escapism from the pain of living in essentially a cold, hard, anything-goes society under a hostile leadership. Sadly the drug use is itself a form of pushback. (Ironically, if you prefer.)
Maybe I am a bit stupid, however I do not understand how that woman in the US Army clip could have been born from two women. I always thought that in order for a human being to be conceived it was necessary for male semen to impregnate a woman. Can anyone please explain to me how this happened.
You’re not supposed to make that biological connection, if wokism has their ways. The whole premise of their insane ideology is opinion based and as one writer above had pointed out, revolves around a fundamentally narcissistic view of the world – I, me and myself. Facts, science and biology just gets in the way.
Lavrov, in one of his interviews recalled a JFK quote – “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. To the demented wokist, this phrase represent an alien concept .
Masked under the guise of “social justice”, that US video also clearly demonstrated the indoctrination of young children to aberrant concepts. Basic intent is subversion of whole generations, going into normalizing aberrant ideologies which flies in the face of traditional family values. As children have no way of evaluating right from wrong, they are vulnerable to this sort of abuse (which ironically is a certifiable crime).
For Russia, Putin (in 2013) instituted 2 key laws :
1. Law which prohibits the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens (wiki calls it the Dima Yakovlev Law)
2. Law which bans propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations (i.e. LGBT) to minors.
Consider settling in the Russia far east if you want to move away from the crazies.
Kudos to Putin for putting up the barriers early. Hopefully more countries would follow suit to halt this scourge.
Ye’lean’chka and I were in City today, not by choice but by necessity, certain things can only be done there. After we took care of the ‘necessity’ ( not serious by any stretch of the imagination, but needed to be done) we walked the short distance to Naxhimov Square and Counts’ Quay, intending on enjoying a few minutes of peace and quiet while the nanny watched the children and perhaps having a quiet lunch. Sigh. The best laid plans of mice and men….
A tourist overheard us speaking English (we generally talk softly and little whilst in publik) and pounced on us, his wife/lady/whatever joining him, their translator/guide standing back after looking at me and smiling and nodding once, obviously she recognized us.
“It’s so unusual to find an English speaker here. Where are you from and why are you here? Are you tourist like we are?”
“It does not matter why I am here. Why are you here?”
‘We’ve always heard of this city and since we were in Moscow we decided to travel to here to see what it is like. It’s different here and very quiet, but very few people speak English.”
“This is not Moskau, this is Sevastopol. We are different here, Sevastopol is unique in all Rossiya.”
“‘We’? You live here?”
“Of course, we’ve been married for 15 years and we decided to live here after we married.”
“Weird. Why would you, an American, want to live here?”
“You are clever, you recognize my English as American. Life doesn’t get much better than here. How long have you been in our city?”
“Three days. The people are very nice but as I said not many of them speak English. And your harbor is dirty. The environment is very important and they really need to clean the harbor, it looks like oil is in it.”
“We’ve had more than one war here and there are still wrecks, a very few, deep in harbor. Plus hardly a day goes by that we don’t find bombs and artillery shells buried in the mud of the harbor amongst many other places. In center of harbor, the mud and silt is 20 meters thick and hides many objects.”
“Well, the harbor must be cleaned, it’s bad for the environment. The government has to find the money to clean it, it’s bad for the children, they can’t swim in it.”
“This is Russia, things are different here. How do you think we should clean the harbor, dig everything up to the bottom of the silt, the silt going back 2500 years and more and 15 meters below the water surface?”
“If they have to, yes. Money doesn’t matter, the environment does.”
“OK, my good sir, perhaps you should speak to our governor and start a fund to clean the harbor with a suitable donation.”
His wife joined the conversation. “So you don’t think the environment is of paramount importance? And I could not help but notice that many of the cars are old and some of the trucks smoke from their exhaust. No one checks their emission controls? Why are they allowed to drive on the streets, polluting as they drive? Sometimes the stink is unbearable.”
“Most of the people here are not rich or even well off. You have no idea how much they make, and if you knew you would probably faint. This is our city and if you don’t like it, no one is making you stay. You are free to leave any time you want.”
Their guide/translator started to speak but the gentleman cut her off.
“We won’t stay long, it’s really not very pleasant here, the food is awful and there are no blacks. Why is that? You won’t allow them in?”
This time their guide/translator did step in. “I told you yesterday when you came to agency and hired me that you have to be careful, you never know who you are talking to and I also explained to you that this is Sevastopol. We are different, very much so, from the mainland.”
The gentleman replied. “Yes, it if very different here, even more racist and environmentally idiotic than Moscow. We’ll leave tomorrow on the first flight.”
I smiled and took his hand and shook it even though the hand was not offered. “Sir, it has been a great pleasure to speak with you and your charming wife. Enjoy your last evening in our little piece of heaven but I caution you, sir, and her, to be careful what you say. There is no tide in our harbor and no sharks in our Sea, but if you run your mouth too much you will I’m sure find out first hand the truth of that statement. You’ll be in harbor right quickly, pollution and all.”
I turned to the translator and spoke in my hideous Russian. “Don’t tell them who we are until we’ve left, and don’t scare them too much.”
She laughed as I turned to my lovely wife. “Lunch at our favorite cafe?”
“Yes, and I think some good wine. Was that the ‘woke’ stupidity I read about and we discuss on the embroidery forum?”
“Yup, a very little of it and as far as I’m concerned that idiocy will never fly here. Gawd, what fools, visiting heaven on earth and complaining about ‘blacks’ and our dirty harbor. At least they’ll never be back, there’s a silver lining in every cloud.”
As we turned to leave their translator scurried over to us. “Sir, how much can I tell them? They are insufferable and need a little fear put in them.”
My charming, and sometimes ornery, bride grinned to her. “Tell them my husband’s rank and my rank, and make sure you tell them of my rank shoulder boards and what they mean. Scare them enough that they never bring their filth to our city again. And give me your card, if we need a translator or guide we’ll surely recommend you.”
Translator smiled broadly, handed VCO her card and went back to the idiots. We left and never looked back, heading to our favorite little cafe that they will never find….which is a blessing for sure.
Auslander
@Auslander,
A tale well told, I too have met my share of foolish guests in foreign countries. It has never failed to surprise me how many use tainted lenses to observe the beauty -or truth – around them.
Thank you for the story.
One thing to note is that those who do push back or simply holding contravaling opinions suffer increasing real world retaliation. People like Glenn Greenwald has noted how writers and pundits with powerful media outlets are going after everyday people whose actions they disagree with. In particular I believe it was reporters from a major outlet who were trying to stop the funding of defense lawyers for people charged with non-violent offenses on Jan. 6th. The Intercept published an article putting bullseyes on photographers from conservative outlets who take pictures of violent AntiFa riots. Teachers are being fired for voicing objections over anti-racism in class work. Innocent people in the wrong place are attacked for voicing any anti-woke utterances. Point a gun at protesters who are issuing violent threats and you go to jail. Pull up the okay symbol and you lose your job.
The institutions supporting wokism are winning. Plenty of people seem to be out fighting back and we don’t see the victories because basically there are none.
“Wokeism” is Fascism (I would consider Stalinism, but Fascism is based on corporatism, which corporatism =/= neocapitalism).
The umbrella spreads wide and covers terrorist organizations such as BLM and ANTIFA, has climate radicals, the rise of cancel culture, invasion of fascist censorship on big tech social media/tv/”news”/etc., government bodies during SARS-nCoV-2 (COVID19) have stripped freedom of the people and plan on introducing passports that are no different than East/West Berlin passports, “Deep Stateism”, election corruption/fraud for more desirable candidates (ie: Biden), attempts to overthrow other countries’ leadership that oppose this action, and lastly has infected mainstream media/tv/film/games/etc. with propaganda,
Why so little pushback? Because for the pushback it needs a brain, a heart and a spine. The western zombified masses don’t have neither brain neither heart neither spine anymore.
As for how this ends – in both Germany and Russia society flipped upside-down like a pancake, and was followed by years of hardship.
I’m all for wokism, it’s destroying the US from the inside out whilst the rentier capitalists are destroying it from the top down. BLM has been captured by the Dems and it will be used as the woke wing of the party with all the power to root out and cancel anyone who doesn’t agree with the democratic ideology (whatever that may be at any one time) A lot of grass rots organisations who affiliated with BLM are now leaving and disaffiliating due to this financial capture (the likes of Soros are involved BLM is now RICH. The tune of $120 million is enough to corrupt, infest and capture. Woke is massively divisive and whilst its main thrust is to dominate the online spaces we can see it becoming predominant in public spaces like schools etc. More diversity more division, divide and conquer. I’m not sure it is a workable long term solution because it isnt going to stop cops killing blacks but Americans love money, so paying people off is a way of shutting them up. The vast majority of people don’t go for woke but feel its best to say nothing and it won’t really directly effect most people in a day to day way, yet. It will be interesting to say how the car crash develops but it is all aimed at keeping republicans out of power and ruling by fear of being cancelled. As long as it doesn’t creep into Eurasia who cares? Stupid is as stupid does and america is king of stupid, just another nail in the coffin.
That’s an absolutely correct analysis, for the fact is that since decolonization in the 1960’s, the West has been preoccupied with installing puppet regimes throughout the Global South.
The establishment of the Washington Consensus along with the connivance of the IMF and the World Bank have maintained the chaos in the Global South for the last 60 years.
So much for the fake Western ideology of Wokism that will never relieve the ongoing suffering of the Global South.
The challenge question is ” Why is there so little pushback?”
Because the entire effort of wokeness is yet another distraction for the masses and most intelligent people see it as that and do not waste time and energy resisting a phantom.
Its working great to distract the entire fake left of the US see?
Wokeness only effects people because we buy into it. So stop doing that.
also in response to the statement:
“For example, in my Swiss high school we had a huge mural declaring that “all races are equal”. No evidence for that statement was ever given. In fact, during my entire academic life (1 undergrad and 2 graduate degrees) I have never seen any real evidence for this thesis.”
The results of genetic studies determine without a doubt that humans are 99% similar to every other human.
In this sense being equal simply means that all humans are one species, not even separate races or separate ideologies or separate anything. This is the truth of why we humans need to learn to get along.
We can create “difference” and “superiority / inferiority” by any number of man made measures and then try to prove or defend them. But the science stands and even more importantly doesn’t a compassionate open human heart, whether religious or not, tell us that it is so?
Based on the videos here is my assessment:
– the USA / the West is doomed. Will implode – but with a Big Bang. That is proper gender in its funniest way ….
– the Chinese will have some wars – of course fighting for the good (and maybe that is true), Chinese soldiers only fighting for their fatherland, the people, their families …. as all soldiers always did. All over the world. A bit boring and not very original but solid piece of propaganda. A force to be reckoned with
– the Russians – will probably have no or only small encounters with adversaries who dare to challenge them. And they will probably succeed. If the keep the course.
That is the challenge for the Russians in the coming decades.
Just my 2cent
Andrei, It is also Woke Ideology from my understanding is hypocritical. While it promotes some members of minorities and people of color into positions of power, it has no scruples of killing people of color overseas. Hillary and others rhetorically spoke of equality and racial harmony, while killing so many people abroad.
why is there so little pushback ?
When Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and thrown into a London prison in plan sight for all the world to see – I thought it is now or never. If people don’t react now I can see no point at which they ever will.
The people did nothing, there were more photographers at the resulting protest then protesters. I doubt there was much more the 30 protesters who turned up and this in a city of 9 million. Clearly the propaganda machine then felt safe to memory hole the entire thing as if it never happened.
Why is there so little pushback – because the masses dont care and they dont think for themselves, they just conform to what the media tell them and they feel nice and safe in the crowd. As Orwell said “the public will believe what there told they believe” and when the empire acts it creates its own reality.
Easy to create your own reality when the news channels the bulk of the population consume are owned lock stock and stinking barrel by your fellow kleptocrats or compromised by their inteeligence apparatus
Operation Mockingbird, anyone?
One a positive note, revolutions do not require a democratic majority to succeed.
@Auer,
I sense a dislike for the Anglo-Saxons. Might I interpret that as a ‘racist dislike’?
Regardless of what race or mix of races you might be – your kind has displaced somebody at some time. The Japanese displaced the Anu, the Negroid the Bushman. The Beaker folk, Picts, Iberians and others who made up the population of future Britain were removed, or absorbed, by the Celts. The aggregated population later either absorbed into the Roman Empire and mixed with every genetic type that constituted the Empire, followed by an invasion of Anglo-Saxons, who were almost wiped out by the Danes, later combining to form Anglaland – who were then conquered by the Franks and so on.
So – who – is the rightful owner? Same goes for North America, up on the big Missanabie there are rock carvings, ask the local Natives there who made them and they’ll shrug and say ‘those who came before’. Were ‘those who came before’ also displaced, or eradicated?
The constant whingeing from people about how poorly ‘this group’ treated ‘that group’ is becoming insufferable and I can state that confidently as a chap who has a foot in several cultures; Slavic, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Asian.
“The method of not allowing lies to survive through ones self” is so key to finding ones way to the castle of St. Truth as Piers Plowman might say.
And a key characteristic of “those without breeches (or britches)” according to Thomas Carlyle in The French Revolution was the “being done with” lies.
We know how the French Revolution turned out. And even before it turned out, the agony and convulsion, the suffering of everyone.
As the Most HIgh might say : “Don’t worry about it, just keep marching, you were created to endure.”
That’s my faith, generic as it might be.
Nothing is as it is. All this talk can all be resolved with genetic testing. Barack is a half and half but he only celebrates one half. Must be tuff to hate half yourself. Teaching it in school is a real pardox. So many are a combo. Remindes me of a story about Jews the Jews didn’t want.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8900243/
Imagine the girl in the US army video in the situation shown here,I can’t imagine it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcF1RxjSSFs
The girl in the video is a corporal. She is standing in front of a map of the world, pointing out places in Africa, explaining.
A corporal does not explain. A corporal executes.
Thanks to Saker for furnishing readers with the three military recruitment videos- how enlightening! Each little audio-visual package encapsulates meanings within the ideological context of a military career, but also quite specific to the three national identities.
The Chinese production is as slick as a Chinese military uniform, and high tech military synchronicity is companioned with rustic scenes of familial domesticity. Confucian values are implied (mother-wife-son), which the recruit must relinquish, at least temporarily. When duty calls, so does a rather lush sentimentality.
Very different to the black and white Russian recruitment version: action packed with tough men doing battle field soldiering- very hands-on and getting dirty, valorising masculinity, brotherly spirit and the notion of heroism. Close-ups are given prominence.
The U.S. production is a cartoon and the client is youth, woke youth. The values on display are those that the U.S. deems worthy of warfare. Narcissistic intersectionality has been weaponised, which was always the purpose. There is no sense of national duty, only personal gratification. The characters must be female. (Males are ideologically problematical, as are traditional and single-read black-families.)
The question arises: what kind of wars are imagined as the backstory to these recruitment videos?
I do not believe that the current U.S. administration wants recruits to imagine real combat. (Certainly not when an interpersonal “micro aggression” is considered a hostile act.) The dirty stuff can be outsourced. Recruits will be desk jockeys with lethal manicured fingers, but they will be fit.
In many years spent cruising the world in a small yacht, I’ve met quite a few retired American servicemen doing the same cruising thing, but on a nice military pension and medical benefits.
And if I felt abit cheeky I’d say to them, well, you know, I think the U.S. military is the Big U.S. Socialist Experiment.
Still do, more than ever.
Why so little pushback?
It’s because Western people have to come to terms with the fact that they have all incrementally participated in this burgeoning fiasco.
They did it when they adopted false notions of freedom and liberty that were counter to what the Church taught and little by little cast off pieces of morality in the name of liberty and freedom.
You do not have freedom to sin or spread errors.
Instead western people engaged in sin, justified it to themselves, then encouraged graver sins for others.
We’ve done this to ourselves. Until we recognize this fact only then can we understand the gravity of what we have loosed and attempt to fix it. But it cannot be done merely through human action. Only miraculous Divine providence can save us.
Our Lady of Fatima, Virgin Mother of God and Queen of Heaven – pray for us.
The idea that all people are equal is an interesting hypothesis. But if you take it to the extreme, there is no need for borders, because the people on both side of the border are the same.
You might just as well state in the whole world no two people are equal.
You might be right, for it were too happen, both peoples would not only have too look exactly alike, they would have to complete their journey by following the exact same path in life, otherwise there would be a subtle difference in some part of their body.
The former is possible, the latter is impossible.
“For example, in my Swiss high school we had a huge mural declaring that “all races are equal”. No evidence for that statement was ever given. In fact, during my entire academic life (1 undergrad and 2 graduate degrees) I have never seen any real evidence for this thesis.”
This statement is problematic from an anti-Zionist perspective. Zionism is based on racialism. The so-called “curse of Ham” is found in the Babylonian Talmud. So there is a contradiction: “anti-Talmudic” activists here subscribe to the Talmudic notion that the races are unequal. Furthermore, if a minority of Zionist Jews have been able to singlehandedly destroy Western civilisation, the resultant picture hardly lends itself to a flattering view of the “superior” white Christians—the same people who let “woke” ideology win without firing a shot. If Zionist Jews have higher IQ than other races, and are able to overcome all their opponents, then maybe the white race was never “superior” to begin with, given that “history is written by the victors.”
There is perhaps a little pushback in USA où UK.
But there is a very strong pushback in France and other latin country, and also Hungary, Poland and other Slavian countrys.
I think Woke only works in anglo-saxon and german countrys.
In History, this kind of pruritus don’t exist too long and calls a huge and terrible reaction.
You call it “fascist”, we can rather call it “moral order”. More than 10 000 years of social évolution can’t be changed in a decade or two, even three or four.
Look at sovietics in Afghanistan, they brought féminist revolution, and then came the reaction that every body knows. Look at the Arab world in the 70′ and now…
Look at the social madness of France in 1794 and how conservative she was returned in 1825.
Look at the leftist madness in USA at thé beginning of 70’s and the huge conversvative blowback with Reagan.
All of this is very much excessive to last very long.
The pushback will be huge, violent and not pleasant.
You are right but given the current LACK of charismatic figure in Western Europe I don’t see any pushback any soon.
I hope to be wrong.
Q: Woke insanity: why is there so little pushback?!
A: Because, especially in the Pindo context, it’s being orchestrated not by any foreign rabble-rousers but by Beloved, Honourable, Esquire Philanthropist George Soros of impeccable Jewish descent. He tried his luck in Russia and China and got a most unambiguous response: Get out! That must have been the aha moment of his life: ”Hell, why waste money on unreceptive peoples abroad when I have more ’promising material’ right at home?” Needless to say, Soros knows that his Jewishness absolves him of any legal troubles or violent attempts on his life, and it’s not because of the anti-Semitism canard either. This is one thing I do have to say for him: Watching the US collapse in a cultural revolution of its own making is a fabulous pleasure. Even George Soros has a silver lining!
In the context of the Euro-trash, apart from Soros being above the law (just like in the US), Europe’s Zionist institutions are very much exercising ideological power by Zionism’s tried and tested Shoah-business. It ominously brings thought-crime legislation, or at least proposals to that effect, in its wake such as last week here in Sweden. But there is also another difference which merits attention: Europeans — generally — don’t have the same appetites for imperialist war as the moronic US majority population has. When ”woke” culture meets little resistance in Europe, it’s also because White European racism is correctly perceived as totally counter-productive. Even the special case of Russophobia has had to adapt accordingly. In a Liberal world of ”tolerance” and ”equality”, the US apeshit with its rendering of Russians as subhumans won’t gain much traction. What we get instead as substitute for racial slurs is equally braindead concoctions about Novichok, election meddling, intruding submarines, and what-have-you.
I agree with the broad thesis of this. Wokeism is going to destroy the CIA and the Pentagon. It will be helped along by the Clown 🤡 Show 🤡 in Foggy Bottom run by Winken, Blinken and Nod, the Third String Sophomore Quaterback with the Scrubs at the Department of State.
“Unlike the vapid “all races are equal”, Saint Paul clearly states that all humans are “children of God” and he further explains how this happens when he says “by faith in Christ Jesus”. ”
Misinterpreted – Paul does not state that “all humans” are children of God – he clearly says all of you (referring to all believers – to whom he is speaking) are children of God through your belief in Jesus Christ. Important distinction. Christ never referred to “all humans” as children of God, a common Christian fallacy. God considers only believers in Jesus Christ as Children of God, at least according to the Bible.
“First, Saint Paul mentions our common filiation as children of God through Adam, to which he immediately adds a further common filiation of those who have “put on Christ” by means of baptism.”
Not sure where you got this, as Paul mentions the “believer’s” common affiliation as children of God not through Adam, but through Jesus Christ – it clearly states that in the same sentence. We are all, believers and unbelievers, children of Adam, but only believers have this common affiliation through Christ, and that within Christ there is no distinction between believers as to race or origin or sex.
Such thinking as all humans are children of God always leads to the common fallacious assertion that God loves all humans, which is clearly not true, as He directs His Love and protection only to those who believe in His Son. John 3:16, one of the most misquoted scriptures in the bible points this out clearly and unambiguously – “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that WHOEVER BELIEVES in Him should not perish but have eternal life”. That is, whoever in this world, without distinction of race or origin or sex, who believes in His Son is loved and all these are the reason that God sent His Son.
Such interpretations of Scripture always leads to our children at some point in life asking us the hard question, “If God loves us all, then why…..?” and “A loving God wouldn’t do that.”. And when we can’t answer those questions, we and our teachings lose credibility in our children’s minds, and often many children then turn from God in anger and frustration.
I don’t intend to argue, only to correct common misconceptions.
“Woke” is a positive formulation of the critical notion of “hypermorals” — coined by Arnold von Gehlen in his 1969 opus “Morals and Hypermorals”. Gehlen uses the medieval metaphor of the Antichrist:
“He who sets up the realm of lies and forces other people to live in it is diabolical. Then the realm of the upside-down world is established and the Antichrist wears the masque of the Redeemer, as in Signorelli’s fresco in Orvieto. The devil is not the killer, he is Diabolos, the slanderer, is the god in whom the lie is not cowardice, as in man, but domination. He sheds the last resort of despair, the knowledge that he is creating the realm of madness, because it is madness to settle into lies.
Signorelli: The Antichrist: https://www.google.com/search?q=signorelli+der+antichrist&sxsrf=ALeKk01aMIrC2RY2UfHLUMpE9F0cdmVXKQ:1621077325105&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwig0PbQx8vwAhUL36QKHd-sDrEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1063&bih=464#imgrc=MpfY5SAhT1-EDM