Yzermandius19

of course it's subjective conclusion but it's based on objective facts about the ideology and how widely it has already spread you can come to your own conclusions about the woke if you want help being pointed in the right direction because you haven't heard this kind of perspective on the woke before James Lindsay is good starting point

I assess the biggest threat based on how much damage the ideology can and does do if implemented how many people hold that ideology or don't openly oppose it and how many people in power are influenced by that ideology or are true believers of that ideology basically how dangerous is it and how likely is to gain and maintain influence on the culture and society on those metrics, the woke ideology is very dangerous and batshit crazy, while making people feel righteous for tearing down western civilization itself more people hold this extremist illiberal ideology than any other extremist illiberal ideology by several orders of magnitude, it is already in the seats of power the ideology has major influence in politics, media, corporations, academia, education, technology, etc anyone who goes against the woke craziness is cancelled to silence all dissent under the rubric that disagreeing with the woke is dangerous hate speech this woke shit is super pervasive, particularly in Canada, which is quite thoroughly woke in every institution that has any power to help shape the culture whatsoever and the trend is that they are only growing, not shrinking if they aren't by far the most dangerous illiberal ideology present in the west today then what is? it's a crazy cult that is totally ascendant, unlike other dangerous illiberal ideologies there is barely any pushback to it in Canada whatsoever and now Canada is easily one of the wokest nations on the planet

2) Ibram X Kendi was named one of Time Magazines 100 most influential people of 2020, because he is a leader of the woke he is the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University he is the face of the Anti-Racist movement, and the biggest influencer on defining what "Anti-Racism" actually is, he literally wrote the book on "How to be an Anti-Racist" Robin DiAngelo is considered America's most visible expert on anti-bias training, and she has been in that field for 20 years, her academic field of expertise is whiteness studies and critical discourse analysis, and no I didn't make up the term whiteness studies to mock the woke, they literally call it that unironically she is the face of those who cry "white privilege" and workplace diversity training, and is the biggest influencer on defining what that actually means, she wrote White Fragility, which is the most famous book on white privilege that there is both are authors of NYT Bestsellers, and are easily two of the most famous woke thought leaders on the planet, widely acknowledged as such by the woke themselves 6) if you are worried about illiberalism on all sides of the political spectrum and the potential threat they pose to the liberal institutions you hold so dear then the woke are biggest threat to liberalism in western civilization, so you should probably look into them if you are so worried about illiberal groups seeing your focus on illiberal groups on the right, clearly it is something you claim to care about, so focus a little more on the illiberal groups on the left, because the woke are in your blindspot despite being a far bigger threat than the illiberal groups you are focused on, somehow that didn't alert you to the threat they pose

you're the one gaslighting people by pretending that racists are actually the champions of fighting racism, just because they say they are you just don't know you are, because you believe their lies, and are the victim of their gaslighting

the anti-racists literally say that if you don't judge people on their group identities and instead on their character, that you are racist they think that judging people based on their race is "anti-racist" MLK is now a white supremacist to these clowns they are the one's gaslighting you, they are the racists they think what makes you anti-racist is admitting how racist you are against non-whites and vowing to be racist against white people instead from now on that is what they think "anti-racism" is, it so bizarre, you can't make this up, the truth is stranger than fiction the people who espouse this nonsense become NYT Bestsellers and are lauded as saintly visionaries by the woke mainstream media

it is never handled well, the inspiration of the youth is not worth the billions spent

there is multiple manifestos White Fragility and How to be an Anti-Racist were New York Times Bestsellers the woke have thought leaders, like Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, you just never read what they have to say, and want to believe the woke are some purely amorphous group who just want "social justice", which you also probably think is an amorphous concept no one can disagree with, as if the woke thought leaders haven't already defined what that means and made it an inherently racist concept when I say the anti-racists are the biggest racists going, I am not just singling out the worst of the woke who have no influence on the larger movement, I am singling out their most prominent figures with the most influence of the larger movement figures who openly state that the only way to fight racism is with racism targeted towards the groups they view as the most racist, which is no longer racist now, but "anti-racism", repressive tolerance they call it you just never heard of them or their ideas in detail, because you spend too much of your focus on racism on the right, to pay enough attention to the extremists on the left, because you misguidedly believe the right wing racism is worse and more numerous and the left wing racists are some right wing boogeyman

women's sports are overfunded men's sports and/or government handouts have to fund women's sports because women's sports can't fund themselves even if they made as much as men, that would not close the athleticism gap, not even close

what they think is racism is actually anti-racism and what they think is anti-racism is racism they are the ones who can't tell black from white and neither can you

the woke anti-racists are just next level absurd it would be like if a group claiming to be the ultimate American patriots went around chanting "Death to America!" and said that anyone who pointed out that they really hate America and don't love it at all were the real America haters but then a large of group of idiots actually believe they are somehow the biggest pro-America group around it's straight up dystopic

I can ask you the same the question the "anti-racists" are the biggest racists of them all war is peace level orwellian doublespeak and you fall for that garbage

when the people "standing against racism and bigotry" are far more racist and bigoted than the White Conservatives they project their own racism on that is a threat they are Orwellian af the biggest group of racists going around shouting about the imagined racism from others who disagree with their racism, as somehow proving everyone else are the real racists

a one sided ass kicking, that would be betting on the women would just be throwing your money away

ha ha ha the women's team would lose 100 times out of 100

that is the case with others as well they may not know who is responsible for influencing their thinking but that influence exists regardless you stand on the shoulders of giants as do we all you may think you are flying because you are so high in the air and don't look directly down so you can see the giant's shoulders that you stand on but you're not flying humans didn't invent the world from scratch, the moment you were born the past matters as do the great thinkers of the past what they have done echoes for an eternity and forms much of the basis for what you see around you

you do all the time you just never read them so you remain oblivious to the fact that you are regurgitating their thinking merely because it aligns with your own

well historically speaking there is no society where women were put in charge for extended periods that was run better than most of the society's where men were put in charge for extended periods so the current sample size works against outliers like Margaret Thatcher being the norm when women are put in charge

you haven't read their words yet repeat their talking points plenty of influence there

what evidence do you have to support that claim?

there are more women in the middle and more men on the extreme's the most logical and illogical are men the women are mostly in the mushy middle

men are more logical women are more emotional men may be more disagreeable but they are also more stoic don't confuse disagreeableness for emotion over logic and don't confuse agreeableness for logic over emotion

other people are capable of thinking for themselves too and many dead guys did just that and had a huge impact on history have a huge impact on the present and will have a huge impact on the future so if you want to be better at thinking for yourself it's helpful to know when you are and when you are actually just paraphrasing a dead guy's way of thinking and are falsely assuming they had no influence on your own thinking or the thinking of others

I don't rely on them either but plenty of dead guys said things of consequence that reverberate in the culture to this day whether you are oblivious to that influence or not doesn't change that when you are ignorant of the dead guys, you fail to understand why what is happening is happening if you don't know where you've been, you won't know where you are or where you are going if you don't know where the dead guys have been, you won't know where the live guys are or where they are going

the dead guys invented the talking points of the people whose opinions they think are their own but have no idea of the actual origins if you don't look to some dead guys opinions, you're probably not paying enough attention this isn't new, this ideology has been brewing for centuries your being oblivious to that, doesn't make it not true

he caught on when the woke started picking up serious steam in America during the Obama Administration well aware that he's an entertainer and the he works for FOX that doesn't make him wrong about the woke