Wokeness

Created: 2021-09-041
creator: Brian
modified: 20210904163944210
modifier: Brian
tags: Social
title: Wokeness
type: text/x-markdown

>a belief that any disparities between racial groups are evidence of structural
>racism; that the norms of free speech, individualism and universalism which
>pretend to be progressive are really camouflage for this discrimination; and 
>that injustice will persist until systems of language and privilege are 
>dismantled.

What?

>Zach Goldberg, a self-proclaimed “wokeness studies scholar” at the Manhattan Institute, says "woke" means more than just left-wing radicalism. He says the essence of woke is “the belief that outcome disparities between groups – be they races, sexes, or ‘genders,’ etc. – are largely if not entirely the product of oppressive social forces and structures.”

>the US’s economic, political and social systems were established for and by the purpose of using stolen land to exploit the labor of stolen people

>woke” in a positive light, and define the term as “to be informed, educated on and aware of social injustices.”

>President Trump has been fixated in his second term on imposing ideological obedience on schools

>While the left points to neoliberalism as one distortion of classical liberalism, the right points to identity politics or “woke liberalism” as the other distortion, where concern for the welfare of the working class has been replaced by a demand to protect marginalized groups such as ethnic minorities, immigrants, and sexual minorities.

>Fukuyama comments:

>“State power was increasingly used not in the service of impartial justice, but rather to promote specific social outcomes for these groups.”

>“diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), the progressive doctrine that rejects equality of opportunity for equality of outcome, defined as policies to make the demography of every social institution mirror the racial and gender breakdown of the most recent US Census by means of reverse racism, of the kind called for by Ibram X. Kendi: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

>Donald Trump has declared open war on all knowledge and expression that his administration deems anti-white.

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