#Woke Progressivism

[davidblaska]

Only NOW our school board races are political?

(Because Leftists are losing!) Elections are so unfair when your side loses. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is indignant about how “partisan” school board races have become. Because conservatives won a whole bunch of them in the liberal newspaper’s back yard this April. Have you heard of WisRed? It’s a Republican organization that has held enormous sway in school board elections in Waukesha…

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#critical race theory #school boards #WisRed #Woke progressivism

[world-v-you-blog]

The Uses of History, 12 – Christmas, 1

The Uses of History, 12 – Christmas, 1

(Photo credit – Wikipedia) The feast of Christmas as we generally know and observe it now in the West is a strange amalgam. Since the mid-1960s, in the name of inclusiveness and sensitivity, reinforced in the 1970s and 1980s by persistent lobbying and even legal action to remove the overtly Christian symbols and narrative around the feast from public view and even public discourse, a vaguely…

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#Birth of Christ #Christendom #Christmas #Happy Holidays #ideology #Imperialism #Jordan Peterson #Season&039;s Greetings #Secularization #The "Woke" #Woke Progressivism

[heliianth]

do u think twitter knows the reason why the alt-right is so appealing especially to online young boys is because their moral purity olympics is socially isolating and encourages people to hate themselves for actions they can never take back instead of offering a communal place of support to learn how to do better in the future. like do they realize most young people who are on places like pol arent evil monsters but are instead lonely and found only hostility from the online left. this shit is so infuriating

#sorry this is like old news by now but by holding ppl to impossible fucking standards in which they can make no mistakes ever #and every learning moment must be broadcasted to the world so it can be judged by thousands of strangers for authenticity #theyre making progressivism less accessible and less appealing to people who arent already interested in politics or any related fields #like a 16 yr old kid would rather involve himself in a group which says theres nothing wrong with him and everyone else is a woke mob of- #-degenerates than a group who despises him wholeistically forever for things he might be ready to move on from

[alpaca-clouds]

The "Get Woke, Go Broke" Crowd is so funny to me

Watched another video of another take down of one of those guys who whine about "wokeness in media", with the usual "get woke, go broke" stuff. Which is even more timely, given the entire shitshow with Variety over the last week. And honestly... I used to get so angry about these people, but by now I mostly just find them funny. Because other than most marginalized folks, they do not seem to understand one central thing: Companies do not care about marginalized folks. They never did. The one and only reason why they invest in media that is "woke" (aka diverse) is, that the guys at the top decided, that it is what will make them most money on the long haul.

There is not gay people in so much media right now, because the big studios want to be "politically correct". There is gay people, because the gay shit is what is making them money.

No, not all diverse media succeeds. Because predicting audience response is not easy. But guess what, there is a lot more failing projects about straight, cishet, white dudes, than about queer folks or non-white folks. (Just so we are clear: Because still a majority of media is about this group - so just statistically it will more likely fail.)

The people managing the companies, who create this stuff do not care about either artistic vision OR marginalized people. Their decisions are fully and entirely based on often a very superficial understanding of what audiences like. And, well, numbers say, that audiences do like the diverse shit more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#diversity #diverse media #queer media #non-white media #bipoc #get woke go broke #progressivism #capitalism is bad for media actually #but capitalism has decided that diverse shit sells #live with it

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Tom Slater

Published: Jul 8, 2023

We need to stop saying identity politics, wokeness, or whatever else we want to call it, is progressive. We need to stop referring to the people who are actively reviving racial, misogynistic and homophobic thinking – under the guide of being ‘racially aware’ and ‘trans inclusive’ – as left-wing radicals. They are anything but. These people are reactionaries and bigots. And it’s high time we started naming them as such.

All this was brought into sharp relief this past week or so. First, with the monumental US Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in university admissions.

Everyone sane knew it had to go. This system, set up to boost the prospects of the descendents of American slaves, disadvantaged by generations of oppression, had become utterly dysfunctional – benefitting only a sliver of well-to-do black Americans, many of them first- or second-generation immigrants, who therefore had no familial connection to the evils of US slavery and segregation.

Worse than that, it was justifying the most grotesque racial discrimination. The biggest victims of this were Asian Americans. Too many of them were getting the grades to get into the Ivy League, they were way above their allotted quotas, and so the racial bean-counters at top colleges cooked up increasingly crude and racist measures in order to push the numbers down.

This led to the most perverse trade-offs, which no one could reasonably defend. As Wilfred Reilly put it pointedly on spiked this week, ‘affirmative action in practice often involved the well-fed son of a Jamaican American or Colombian American dentist being given a 300-point test-score advantage over the daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant shopkeeper’.

It had become abundantly clear that these race-based policies were distracting attention away from the class inequalities that blight Americans of all skin pigmentations – inequalities that are left completely untouched by shuffling the deck a bit at elite colleges. What’s more, they were giving a leg-up to wealthy black and Hispanic kids at the cost of the truly disadvantaged.

And yet, the response to the striking down of this dysfunctional and discriminatory system has been one of hysteria among the cultural elites. The Supreme Court ruling has been mourned by self-identified liberals, progressives and even socialists as a win for ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’ – even though its most immediate beneficiaries will be Asians.

Affirmative action wasn’t the brainchild of woke activists, of course. As Kevin Yuill points out, it was introduced by one Richard Nixon as a ‘technocratic solution to racial tensions’. But it has certainly become a sacred policy for a woke American left that now openly insists, in the words of Ibram X Kendi, that ‘the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination’ – and that Kingian colour-blindness is actually a bigots’ charter.

These people have disappeared so far up the fundament of racial identity politics that they now see discrimination as equality and colour-blindness as racism – and a ruling that insists students be judged by the content of their character rather than the colour of their skin as a victory for white supremacy.

If you needed any more proof that contemporary anti-racism has utterly lost its way, drink this in. These people are now the primary political force that is promoting racial thinking, racial consciousness, racial discrimination even, in Western public life today. And yet somehow they still get away with posing as the inheritors of the civil-rights movement.

If you’re a gender-critical feminist, this may all sound faintly familiar – for an almost identical con trick is now being pulled off by ‘LGBT+’ activists. For years now, women’s rights and spaces have been violated in the name of trans inclusion. Plus, a vicious homophobia has been unleashed against those who dare to insist that being gay means being attracted to someone of the same sex rather than the same ‘gender identity’.

This brings us away from America and affirmative action and to another – much less historic, but no less revealing – legal battle that has just concluded in the UK.

On Thursday, the LGB Alliance – the only UK charity focussed solely on same-sex-attracted people – successfully defended its charity status at a tribunal. Mermaids, a controversial trans-youth charity, had launched a legal challenge aimed at stripping the LGB Alliance of its charitable privileges on the grounds that it was ‘impeding the work of registered charities that work for the benefit of transgender people’.

In truth, this was a thinly veiled attempt to silence a formidable opponent. The leaders of the LGB Alliance, themselves veterans of the gay-liberation movement, are trenchant critics of gender ideology. They have bravely exposed the homophobia underpinning much of today’s trans activism, from the pressure it heaps on gay and gender-nonconforming kids to ‘transition’ to the pressure it heaps on lesbians to sleep with biological, be-penised males who ‘identify’ as women and lesbians.

Thankfully, the judges on the tribunal panel saw right through it. The LGB Alliance has been vindicated. And Mermaids has left itself exposed to more than just charges of hypocrisy, complaining about being ‘silenced’ by a charity that it was actively trying to close down. The tribunal led to a harsh light being shone on its own practices. In December, a statutory inquiry was opened into Mermaids, amid allegations it had sent breast-binders to girls behind their parents’ backs.

But this victory came at some cost. The LGB Alliance had to raise and spend £250,000 to fight for its very existence – money it could have spent on campaigning. It was also emotionally gruelling at times. At one of the hearings, LGB Alliance co-founder Kate Harris broke down when she was asked to define what a lesbian is. This veteran of gay-rights politics was essentially being asked to defend the notion that lesbians – that is, biological females who are attracted exclusively to biological females – actually exist. This is how much trans ideology has deranged us.

Shamefully, this campaign to shut down a gay-rights organisation – indeed one of the few organisations that is still devoted to gay rights – was cheered on every step of the way by ‘LGBT+’ activists, those who see themselves as the successors to the Stonewall rebels and the Gay Liberation Front. That Bev Jackson, another LGB Alliance co-founder, was also a co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front never seemed to phase her haters.

There is this idea among sections of the anti-woke, ‘post-liberal’ right of political commentary that gender ideology is the logical endpoint of progressivism. That casually sterilising kids and putting male rapists in women’s prisons is just left-wingers doing what left-wingers have always done – throwing off the old, in quest of liberation, regardless of the consequences.

This has always struck me as bullshit. Being left-wing doesn’t mean welcoming almost any radical change to how society is organised, no matter how demented it is. There is also nothing progressive about believing that up is down and 2 + 2 = 5. Nor is there anything liberatory about gender ideology – a movement that has essentially been built on censoring dissenters. It is a campaign not for liberation, but for validation and recognition.

The truth is much simpler. Namely, that this thing we call wokeness, while it might present itself as progressive and left-wing, is really just bigoted, reactionary ideas about race, gender and sexuality, dolled up for the 21st century. All those accusations of racism, homophobia and misogyny, flung by identitarians with increasing abandon over recent years, were just one big, wailing act of projection.

The wokesters may not realise it, but in the fight for a truly anti-racist, egalitarian society they are firmly on the wrong side. The side that mourns the demise of racial discrimination in universities and campaigns tooth and nail to get gay-rights groups shut down. Whatever we might want to call these people, ‘progressive’ really isn’t it.

#Tom Slater #regressive #progressive #progressivism #neoracism #bigotry of low expectations #antiracism as religion #antiracism #woke homophobia #college admissions #affirmative action #racial discrimination #LGB Alliance #gender ideology #queer theory #homophobia 2.0 #cult of woke #wokeism #wokeness as religion #woke #religion is a mental illness

[alchemistys]

a good chunk of internet leftism is just puritanical bullshit masquerading as woke and progressive which has thus developed into callout/cancel culture and respectability politics, encouraging a narrow, black and white worldview while discouraging critical thinking, creating insignificant and performative activism, and prioritizing discourse and public image over meaningful praxis

#purity culture #callout culture #cancel culture #leftism #internet leftists #wokeness #progressivism #puritanism #respectability politics #performative activism

[coffeeman777]

😂

#christianity #progressivism #Woke Christianity

[battle-acs-official]

#progressivism #marxism #socialism #communism #wokeness #gaming #movies #media #cults #cult behavior #how to spot a cult #mental illness #willful ignorance #at best #active malice #at worst #Youtube

[thepopoptic]

Watch "FEMINIST GETS DISMANTLED ON TV" on YouTube

#jordan peterson #walk away #woke #gender roles #progressivism #battle of the sexes #feminist #america #liberal logic #things vs relationships #gender equality #food for thought #statistics #men are not women #the sensitive man #strong women #social engineering #psycology #biology #culture #physiology

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

i meant to post this a while ago

#this is one small part of what i mean when i say that liberalism/wokeism/progressivism #is just a new version of christianity #one that is agnostic toward god #i'm sure you find some woke types who believe in god and a lot that don't #but either way they largely operate on the same fundamental assumptions #which are largely rooted in christianity #and this is true in numerous ways #but specifically here i'm referring to their obsession with truth #which is a result of their conflation of god and truth #in the christian worldview god is literally truth #and so pursuit of truth is the pursuit of god #like this dude i'm replying to says #now modern atheists are the inheritors of this tendency #obviously they are dropping god and there is something to be said about that #but they dropped god precisely because of their obsessive-compulsive pursuit of truth #and you can argue about whether or not their pursuit of truth is correct or whatever #but that's not the point #the point is the ancients never had this issue #atheism was virtually unheard of in the ancient world #probably for many reasons but one of them i'd guess is because they didn't have this #this compulsive need to pursue the one final truth #and i think they were a much healthier civilization for it #compared to this civilization based on truth-god

[radfemverity]

Tucker Carlson's interview with misogynist, human trafficker and rapist Andrew Tate has been endorsed by Elon Musk, the man who brought Tate among many other reactionary and far-right commentators back to Twitter when he purchased the platform.

There is nothing spontaneous about Musk doing this, and if you're surprised then you're a fool. This has never been about upholding free speech - hence why you've never seen any of these men promote interesting left-wing thinkers.

The ‘SJW’/‘woke’/progressive Left, as unbearably annoying as so many of them are, just keep getting proven right.

They said Nick Fuentes and Kanye were Holocaust-denying anti-semites.

They said Jordan Peterson supported rapists, and didn't believe women should have legal equality.

They said Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh would use the gender critical movement to blame gay people and women for any and all degeneracies.

They said Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk's recent ‘free speech’ moves were about repositioning themselves so that they could more effectively elevate the voices of overt extremists.

Again and again, their accusations are ageing like fine wine. The reactionary right’s mask is well and fully off.

Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Joe Rogan, Konstantin Kissin, Paul Joseph Watson, Ian Miles Cheong, Andy Ngo, Michael Malice, Elijah Schaffer, Zuby, Milo Yionnopoulous, Tommy Robinson, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Donald Trump… obviously some of these men could dislike each other, I can't imagine Shapiro and Fuentes at the same house party.

But their ideal societies don't look too different. None of these mens’ do. Because any racial, religious or ethnic prejudices they have against each other will come second to their common-ground.

The organised reaction against this brand of progressivism that has rapidly come to monopolise every sector of public life in the last 10 years, is well and truly underway. Musk, Carlson and Tate have given us the sign. And while I pretty heavily dislike the current ‘woke’ progressive ideology (and have a lot of questions about its top-down cultural spread), I'm scared of these guys way more. And if you're anything but a straight man who doesn’t care about any demographic besides straight men, you should be too.

The reason I say ‘straight men’ and not ‘straight white men’ is because, come on, the reactionary right is more racially diverse than most left-wing groups at this point. 😂😂 White nationalists the world over have bent the knee to a mixed-race man who admitted moving to an Eastern European country because of their more lax laws on sexual assault, and in turn, the ease he would have in exploiting the local women in the country’s already active sex-trafficking trade.

White nationalists (whose role in the reactionary right cannot be discarded any more, after Trump and Kanye had a personal dinner with Nick Fuentes) feel more of an affiliation with a non-white, human trafficking violent rapist, despite evidence of his crimes having been public for a while now, than they do with his WHITE victims.

Jordan Peterson, whose daughter has revolved her entire public image around him, who works with and for him, and whose lingerie photographs were retweeted by him, made a dogwhistle in May about women having their right to vote retracted.

Examples of men devaluing the contributions and rights of the women in their families, communities and wider societies are withstanding the test of time, over and over again, because no matter where in the world they are, and no matter what tensions the different religions, cultures, ethnicities and races of men have with each other, there are traits that unite them all. Misogyny is the most obvious one.

The men of these diverse, far-reaching societies, in many ways feel far more of a kinship to each other, than they do to any woman, girl, gay person, disabled person, mother, child, or any other demographic.

The pendulum always swings back, and now that we know these men have got the owner of the world's biggest social media platform on their side, that is a major sign it could be coming soon. Be on guard and look after each other gyns ❤️

[senatortedcruz]

I’m not a Swiftie or anything (though I’ve listened to her whole discography through a couple times because my gf is and I think she’s above average for her music niche , she just isn’t my thing personally) but the way it’s super trendy to make fun of people for liking her on this site now is wild to me. It’s like people wanna call women basic for what they like again but know they can’t without getting yelled at cause it’s misogynistic, so they just do it in a way where they can disguise it with progressivism. 😭 You are not slick…

Will be honest in this modern woke world I no longer care about what is most cool to like any more. FYI you don’t have to listen yanno

[drdemonprince]

all the thin, formerly "anti diet culture" white lady bloggers of a few years ago have abandoned any pretense of progressivism and become openly transphobic "anti woke" catholics. sometimes they even become crypto pro-eating disorder as well

[apelcini]

i love when you look up where a jewish right wing pundit is from and it’s like, either south california (ben shapiro) or the nyc metro area (dave rubin) like of fucking course it’s one of those two, i could have guessed that, because those are places where a jewish kid can grow up swaddled in social progress and look around him and go “there are things wrong with the world, therefore it must be those softbellied liberals around me who are making things wrong with the world therefore conservatives are the good guys” meanwhile every jew i know is a centrist or left of center because i grew up in the south and this is a place where conservatives will outright say that the jews are conspiring with the blacks to replace us and we all grow up hearing that since we’re eight and there’s no way to insulate us from it unless you’re in like, an ultraorthodox community that borders on a cult with the way they control contact with outsiders. like it’s just so stupid and frustrating how the very progressivism that shields these dumbasses from antisemitism is what convinces them that none of the antisemitism the woke antifa left is talking about exists because i can’t see it so the left is wasting everyone’s time and resources trying to fight it and we should stop doing that

#elijah dot thought #sorry for being usamerican on main

[southernprideyall2]

Not to long ago, most northerners didn’t have a problem with Lee. Even those Yankees who actually fought against him, didn’t want his statues torn down.

Elements of the hippy generation and their progressivism planted the seeds of anti-South hatred which led to wokeness and demonization of our history. It is no coincidence that Southern cultural genocide is occurring at the same time of our obvious national decline.

[ladymazzy]

Seeing all these Windrush celebrations in the UK is bittersweet in so many ways given the backdrop. We have a tory government that is; explicitly anti-immigrant; has hijacked the word 'woke' to use as a pejorative against progressivism; demonises all attempts to include the histories and perspectives of those of us who aren't white British; is quite content to manipulatively use far-right talking points about the 'forgotten white white working class' when it suits them (despite the fact that tories are in fact a major part of the self-same political establishment who 'forgot' the white working class...)

This same month that we celebrate Windrush, we commemorate those who died in Grenfell, and those who have died at sea as they sought sanctuary and family reunion in the UK

Meanwhile, Braverman's has already reneged on the tory's promise to follow through on a set of recommendations made after the investigation into the Windrush scandal. Unsurprising, given just how keen she is to send asylum seekers off to Rwanda, and arrest anyone who protests. Not to mention the fact that the Home Office is still dragging its feet on paying compensation to the victims of the Home Office's cruelty

There's cognitive dissonance and then there's whatever the hell is going on in the minds of the government when they attempt to join in celebrating the contributions of postwar arrivals from the commonwealth

#uk politics #never tory #windrush #the uk is not innocent