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Cortney Voegele
There should always be a line that, once crossed, signifies to someone that the ostensibly good or noble thing they currently support has soured or, as the case may be, gone completely bad. We all know the history of the twentieth century (or, so I delude myself into believing). Certain features of the Woke ideology, even if only on its extreme fringe, show shocking potential for being a totalitarian nightmare unfolding before our eyes, especially because so many good and decent people so vigorously (and viciously) support it all of a sudden. Even the rapidity with which it is spreading is disorienting, and thus alarming.
In 2016, I got curious about Trump phenomenon and was checking out right wing sites to figure it out. I had to search for what an SJW was and ran into the whole Jordan Peterson debacle. I really like JP and the slander from the left against him was insane. Then saw the footage of Evergreen State College (I almost went there) and I became very committed to idea of doing whatever I could to heal divisions in our society-mostly by listening to people I might not usually listen to. Very eye-opening experience.
And the moment? Well my immediate work colleague was a lesbian, and made it plain-and-clear, really for the benefit of her co-workers, to let them know that she left her sexuality at home and came to work with her attitude and personality attuned to work only.
Well that was like a red rag to a bull, and my colleague recognised it as out-and-out homophobia. She called it out, so did some other lesbians in the firm and even a few gay men who recognised Dennis to be just a practising homophobe. Plenty reacted and there were no signs of anyone endorsing Dennis. Except in HR. HR really liked Dennis, and made it clear that Dennis reflected the firms views.
First was the CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle WA, an anarchist boot camp that made national news during the 2020 protests. I was at the protests and witnessed the confrontations with police and protesters leading to CHAZ. I was really uncomfortable with the narratives I was seeing propagated by the left and in my FB feed about how the conflict was 100% police violence upon 100% peaceful protest. I was there and that frankly was untrue; nothing going down was one-sided. Then police retreated and CHAZ sprung up, quickly unfolding into multiple shootings and violent assaults. Two Black teenagers were shot; other people went missing; lies; armed self-appointed CHAZ guards patrolling the periphery which was by the way public sidewalks belonging to all taxpayers as well as small businesses already struggling under the pandemic, now having this wildly dangerous encampment on their door and forced to close and lose whatever little business they might gain during the pandemic shutdown.
Another personal breaking point was being informed by an ex-friend that all concepts of time are a manifestation of white supremacy. This was in response to my being upset that my boyfriend was hours late, causing me to almost miss a flight. My boyfriend is white, but my being upset with him was white supremacist, brilliant!
My woke breaking point came when I first became aware of what woke was. It was some really sick stuff and I wanted nothing to do with any of it. It was obviously Marxism working to cause as much societal chaos and division as possible pursuant to a communist revolution in America. Yeah, I know all about the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory.
I think my wall first started to crack in 2017 after Justine Damond was killed and seeing woke publications I read at the time try to justify vitriol directed at her and the racist/sexist notion of white women as undeserving of any empathy ever, no matter how innocent.
The progressive woke agenda has many objectives ranging from destruction of historical monuments to revising history , destroying science and l classical great literature , the normal family and respect for and obedience to law and order. All of these factors should make anyone very suspicious of and reject such an ideology which is Marxist driven, hates the American experience and is profoundly anti Semitic as well.
It is worse than anyone thinks. I work for a large corporate creative team, and as a writer I am not allowed to say anything. It is bonkers right now. If you say something that is an established brand message in a piece of creative, even something used previously in say 2019, it is now seen as insensitive and racist. We have 22 year old ethnic studies majors with zero life experience (who come from far more privilege than I do btw) think everything is a horrific attack on their psyche. And THAT is who has final say in anything we make. I could provide a million examples but it is too exhausting to think about. I am a lifelong democratic voter and have read the NYT for 20+ years. But now? Once Trump gets away from the Republican Party I will vote Republican for life. Unless they became insane too.
The less clear one was the BLM riots of 2020. Now, I marched in a protest, and have worked throughout my life as an educator (at the middle, high, and university levels), and this past spring was teaching kindergarten remotely at an elementary school in Coney Island, Brooklyn. All of my students were kids of color.
I dated a man who ended up claiming to be transgender to his lesbian friend. Now, he vehemently denied it to me. I ended up breaking up with him for various reasons (lying, infidelity, etc.) but still was curious enough to look into the trans community. Specifically, I went onto reddit and read original posts from self proclaimed MtF individuals. I was curious if their experiences aligned with my ex-boyfriends.
Honestly, I am a survivor of domestic violence so issues facing women and girls has always been near and dear to my heart. But having feminists turn on me and accuse me of being scum of the earth? Having the left say that I should DIE? That I should be physically assaulted?!
So, then I started reading more. About everything. From critical race theory to queer theory to post modernism and back again. And I found myself more and more alienated from woke culture that I never had bothered to question before.
You fail to see that them male clients may have been the victims of neglect or abuse, and that their buying sex is a sign of total emotional weakness, fragmentation and post tramatic. Unharmed men do not need to buy intimacy.
Sadly, I have found that attempting an adult form of discourse around this has only been met with accusations of racism, being told that I cannot trust etymology because white people decide what words mean, that even attempting to research and not inherently knowing everything gets me labeled as some sort of ignorant, Googling scum, and that by questioning anything I am deemed aggressive.
I too think that kindness, along with rationality, are paramount to living the right sort of life and to ordering the right sort of society. I also believe strongly in civil rights, personal freedom, the rule of law, personal responsibility, and am also a struggling Christian. This makes me some sort of conservative libertarian bleeding-heart liberal.
Hundreds of thousands go out to protest and invoke their rights to speak after the death of George Floyd (may he RIP), during the peak of the greatest pandemic of the last 100 years. Many people collectively decided that the suffering of one group is more urgent than the immediate cost of 100,000 deaths, and attempted to burn down the system in progress.
I commented on this article back at the end of June. My politics are right of centre, but barely. As someone to the right, I had been thinking about my breaking point. I realized it early on. I am a USN chaplain. My breaking point would be if my Sailors and Marines were ordered to fire on US citizens.
I am rather late in understanding what has been happening and only realized that there was an issue when the protests started. My breaking point was at my last job when a leader of a group for minorities asked what we were going to do as a government agency to give them an advantage for access to public services. My response was that we are a public agency so we must treat everyone the same, there are no special groups. There was dead silence in the room and everyone moved on without further input.
The most recent event for me is a male adult that I have known since he was a child decided he was a woman. My response to this is that you can make whatever choices you want but I also get a choice how or if I want to engage with this.
When I was in my 20s I thought communism might be a good thing and heard a few quotes from Mao that sounded good. I lost all of that when I read an autobiographical book, Red Azalea, about a woman who grew up during the Red revolution in China.
common application of antisemitism among white supremacists, ethnonationalists, national socialists et al., the most visible avatars of the ideology and movemenets critical social justice and anti-racism claim to oppose.
I was not truly Woke, but center-left, and perceived the evolution of these ideas as just politeness and fairness. My breaking point was the firing of Brendan Eich, the father of JavaScript, from the position of CEO of Mozilla Foundation for donating to a fund that was agitating against gay marriage. It was 8 years ago.
I think I had two breaking points that happened quite close to one another. One was the Kavanaugh debacle. I followed that closely, read everything I could find, and it led me to believe that there was nothing to it, yet the media and all the woke types were screeching for his head from day one and refused to even consider the possibility that he was innocent.
I remember the growing unease I felt when multiculturalism became all the rage on college campuses in the early 1990s. I was an undergraduate student, and I was forced to take 6 hours of specifically multicultural electives to prove my mettle as an enlightened individual. The Woke Movement was still drowsy at the time but was stirring in its PC bed.
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