The Woke Mind: Why you should NEVER expect the woke left to behave logically.
The psychology behind why the woke do what they do.
The Woke Mind is a series of articles that seeks to explain, in plain English, how you can expect the woke left to behave and why they do what they do. If we don’t understand this, we can’t defeat them.
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WHY??? WHY????? WHY??????
I understand why people struggle to wrap their heads around the woke left.
Oftentimes, people come to me desperately trying to understand why they do what they do, since it all seems completely illogical.
Why do they refuse to acknowledge evidence when you show it to them?
Why do they think it’s ok to teach sex to kindergarteners?
Why can’t they define a woman?
And so on and so forth.
They believe there must be a logical answer to all of these questions.
That’s natural.
Their brain is desperate to identify patterns they can easily understand to help them make sense of this experience. That’s part of our survival mechanism - our brain is constantly analyzing our environment to make sure nothing out of the ordinary is going to put us in danger.
But this search for logic in what the woke left does will fail every single time for one simple reason: The woke left does not value behaving logically.
Expecting them to behave logically is a fool’s errand.
It’s like expecting a cat to behave like a dog.
You can hope and dream and wish upon a star all you like, but you can’t make a cat behave like a dog. It’s a cat. You have to accept a cat for what it is and be realistic that it will not change into a dog just because you want it to.
The woke left does not value logic. They don’t see virtue in being logical. They will never engage you in a logical conversation.
And that’s because they covet POWER above all else.
Not logic.
POWER.
Do you understand the four goals of the woke left?
In order to understand why I say the woke left covets power above all else, please refer to this article to understand their primary aims.
So, now, if we’re on the same page that the primary goal of the woke left is to gain power, we need to take the next logical step the equation:
Does a logical conversation about their beliefs lead to the woke left gaining power, or does it lead to them losing power?
Let’s return to the questions I offered at the beginning of this essay and evaluate whether answering them logically will gain or lose the woke left power.
Why do they refuse to acknowledge evidence when you show it to them?
If you show them evidence that critical race theory is taught in K-12 schools, acknowledging that it’s critical race theory will make them LOSE power.
They would be admitting what we all know is already true, that they are using public schools to push a political agenda, which exposes their game.
They can’t give you an honest, logical answer to the question. So, instead, they say “critical race theory isn’t taught in K-12 schools” or “critical race theory is just teaching accurate history” because it maintains their power.
Why do they think it’s ok to teach sex to kindergarteners?
If you ask a woke leftist why they are integrating sex into classrooms in elementary school through classroom decoration, books, lesson plans and teachers’ personal stories, and they acknowledge that they believe it’s ok to talk to five-year-olds about sex, that’s not a good look.
They would basically be admitting they are the groomers that James Lindsay says they are.
So, of course, they can’t do that because it would lose them power and hand a win to their political opponent.
Instead, they’re going to deflect and say they aren’t teaching sex, they’re teaching gender (which they will distinguish from sex).
Why can’t they define a woman?
And you may see the pattern here, but the reason they can’t define a woman is because defining a woman as an adult human female would lead to them losing power.
Admitting there are two biological sexes would itself lead to them losing power.
Admitting there’s such a thing as biological sex at all would lead to them losing power.
Yes, they will say “trust the science” and “there is no such thing as biological sex” within the same breath without any sense of irony because the goal is not to construct a logical thought. Therefore, this irony doesn’t register as a problem.
Being illogical itself gains power.
The woke left is completely aware that these tactics piss you off. They want you to say “that’s not what I asked” or “you didn’t answer the question!” or “HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BELIEVE THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A WOMAN???”
It’s a feature, not a bug.
They know that frustrating you destabilizes you and takes away your ability to think clearly.
They know, to onlookers, you look like you’re the one in hysterics when you get frustrated.
They know that the act of frustrating you will gain them even more power. It gives them power over you, because you walked right into it and they were able to exert control over you.
And it also gives them power over any on-lookers (remember, when you’re posting on social media, people are always watching) because they’re drawing them into their fucked up illogical world.
Your discomfort is the point. It’s part of why they do it.
There is only one exception to this rule.
None of this is not to say that the woke left never uses logic. They do.
However, they will only do it under one specific set of circumstances.
And you should know what those circumstances are by now: When it benefits them to do so.
If you present them with a scenario and the most logical answer also happens to gain them power in the situation, they will be logical.
For instance, what if you’re at a school board meeting in extremely woke Burlington, Vermont, where the far left control local politics, and there’s not a single non-socialist on the school board?
If you ask “does budgeting based on equity mean that we are funding students differently based on their race?”, believing this may seem kind of racist (and it is)…but you’re forgetting your audience.
The woke leftist you’re talking to is going to logically know that the school board will support this idea. They are going to say “yes” to your question.
And then they’ll use the opportunity to follow up and really nail it home by saying something that school board would logically agree with, like “some communities need more to get ahead than others and therefore it’s only fair to give those communities what they need.”
That’s a completely logical conversation…that leads to the woke ideology being ingrained into the school budgeting process, because they behaved logically based on the people listening, with the specific goal of gaining more power in the situation.
Never confuse your values with their values.
People have different values and different ways they see the world.
You value logic. You think that’s the best way to live and a good idea.
The woke left disagrees.
You do not share the same values.
In discussions such as this, this is not a debate on whose values are better. You think yours are more valuable. They think theirs is more valuable.
Screaming “WHY AREN’T YOU BEING LOGICAL” at the sky isn’t going to change the situation.
You must observe it from a detached perspective to know that a cat is a cat, and you can’t wish it or scream it or REEEEEEEEEE it into being a dog.
Just because you want the woke left to value logic over power will not make them do so.
You must accept them as they are and for what they truly value based on what their behaviors tell us they value.
It is illogical to do otherwise.
They are what they are and it will not change anytime soon.
Accept this fundamental fact and you’ll be a whole lot more effective in dealing with them. Resist it and you’ll continue to scream into the sky in frustration.
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You also get the true believers.
Reading Frank Dikotter on the Chinese communist revolution has helped me see into the woke mindset and to see just how far they'd be prepared to go.
At some point, with a lot of different ideologies, you just hit a brick wall. It’s a kind of psychopathy. It affects people in vast numbers. Far more than we realise. It doesn’t forward their agenda (ie. gaining power) to admit the root truth behind many of their motives because it’s not considered ethical. But in actuality Paedophiles want to have sex with kids because they like it, they like the idea of it and the act of destroying innocence, cannibals eat people because they like it, they like the idea of it, the power it affords them. It is about power - you’re right. No amount of moralising or logic will override their lust for their certain brand of power. As a former friend said to me recently: “oppression is okay if you are on the side of the oppressor.” Vast swathes of the population feel this way. Right or wrong - doesn’t matter. It’s raw power. You can’t argue against this.