Honestly, it’s probably enough to apply Justice Potter Stewart’sunderstanding of pornography: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material … but I know it when I see it.”
Not good enough, dude! You have to be able to tell good quality from garbage.
Truth is not the goal of a never-ending quest to describe what is, but simply whatever they proclaim it to be. When there is no hard and fast truth, anything is possible. Facts are not stubborn things, but malleable building blocks which gain or lose authority based on their usefulness for constructing preferred narratives.
That's how they explain alternative facts, right??
Thus, the woke incessantly offer versions of events that are at odds with the known record. They told us that the summer of 2020 riots were “mostly peaceful;” that antifa was only an idea; that the nation is
overrun by white supremacists and Christian nationalists. They insist that women earn a fraction of the pay men get for performing the same work; that
unarmed blacks are shot by the police at much higher rates than other Americans; that all disparities between blacks and whites in
wealth,
health,
and education are completely due to racism. And they assert that critical race theory is only taught in some law school classes, that mathematics is
racist and sexist,
men can menstruate, climate change is an
existential threat, and Gov. DeSantis wants to prevent teachers in Florida from saying the word “gay.”
Downright tame compared to rightie propaganda, isn't it??
The crucial dynamic is not just the assertion of fraught claims but the continued advancement of them after they have been debunked. The New York Times, for example, didn’t just declare in its “1619 Project” that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery, it pooh-poohed complaints from leading historians that this was false.
As TV’s Dr. House observed, “everybody lies.”
But woke lies have a larger purpose beyond gaining a temporary advantage. They are a strategy aimed at defining reality. Yes, people have always argued over truth, but history shows that societies governed by rigid, facts-be-damned ideology crush freedom, human dignity, and progress in order to coerce submission.
This soul-crushing dynamic is inevitable because people aren’t blind – they can see they are being lied to. This is the chief reason why American politics has become so angry and divisive. The woke left is trying to impose a false world view. When people push back, they are silenced, demonized, and canceled. Dissent is not an option because the entire woke project depends on acceptance of their worldview.
Woke isn’t just a word, it’s a revolution.
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