Woke 101: The first thing you need to do to fight back against the left

You must understand your enemy.

This article is a part of the Woke 101 series, which will get you up to speed on the basics they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war.

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When I originally launched the Woke 101 series, it was intended to break down basic concepts that I wish I had learned when I entered the culture war.

However, what I’ve learned over the last year is that I didn’t go basic enough.

Almost every day, I’m asked the following question: “What can we do to fight back against the left?”

They expect me to give them a checklist of things to do (if you’re looking for that, I literally wrote a book with checklists in it). I used to start with that, and give people a list of things to do.

But in the last year, something has become resoundingly clear to me: Most people do not understand the left as much as they think they do.

I get it, the left is complicated. Of course, that’s a feature, not a bug. It’s intended to be complicated. And average people are busy and can’t focus on understanding an academic paper, or watching the latest three-hour stream in between dinner and when they put their kids to bed.

They see videos of crazy pink-haired people on Tik Tok and see videos of black kids fighting white kids posted by conservative influencers on Twitter, and they believe that represents the left.

All of that is a distraction designed to generate outrage for likes clicks, and money.

It creates a false idea of what’s happening on a large scale, and hides many of the more dangerous elements of the left.

So, I’ve started changing my answer to someone that people don’t want to hear when they ask the question: What can we do?

The answer is that you need to learn.

You need to forget everything you think you know about the left, and start over.

That’s not to say that everything you currently know is wrong, but there are also certainly some things that are getting in your way of fully understanding your enemy.

So, understanding them must be the first goal - if you do not understand what the woke (authoritarian) left believes and how they operate, you will never be able to defeat them.

I know that so many people want to skip right to tactics…but if you do that without understanding the enemy you’re fighting, you will execute the tactics imperfectly and gain exactly zero ground.

This is how we got book banning (which doesn’t work, and never will, because it’s not how they’re indoctrinating your kids), crusades to separate the LGB from the T (it’s not the T that’s the problem, it’s the Q), and moral outrage mobs against drag queens at optional events that no one has to bring their kids to.

How much energy and money has been wasted on tactics that will not only fail to make things better, but will actually end up making things worse?

If you want to turn back the cultural revolution in America, the first thing you need to do is learn.

And then you need to teach, because grassroots awareness and personal conversations with friends and family is the only way we wake people up.

We need to create an army of people that not only understand the left, but that are able to explain what is happening to their friends and family in plain English.

I want to create a definitive resource to help people learn in 2024. That’s what Woke 101 will be: a series of short articles that cut right to the core of the concepts we need to teach others.

Here are the topics on the list so far. Let me know if you have any suggestions in the comments:

1. You must understand your enemy

2. Woke means authoritarian

3. What woke has to do with socialism

4. Four goals of the woke left

5. How the left gains power

6. Chaos is a feature, not a bug

7. Capitalism creates all problems

8. Yes, they want a revolution

9. Capitalism and what it means

10. Why they want to abolish capitalism

11. What the left considers private property

12. They want to take your private kitchen

13. Equity versus equality

14. Language is the weapon

15. What liberation and abolition mean

16. What colonization and decolonization means

17. Why individualism and meritocracy are racist

18. Why time is racist

19. Whiteness means capitalism

20. How and “white people” were created

21. How to solve systemic racism

22. What anti-racism means

23. What fascism means

24. Why the police are racist

25. You don’t have to be white to be a white supremacist

26. The patriarchy

27. What gender equity means

28. The goal of drag queen story hour

29. Reproductive justice and the gender binary

30. How reproductive justice relates to queer ideology

31. Queer is a far-left political ideology

32. The difference between trans and queer

33. The different types of trans

34. Why so many people use “they/them” pronouns

35. Homonormativity versus queer

36. The difference between androgyny and non-binary

37. Why the left wants to destroy the nuclear family

38. “Adult supremacy” and children as private property

39. How they’re attacking parental rights

40. The alternative to the nuclear family - children raised by the collective

41. The obsession with polyamory

42. Surrogacy

43. What they want to do to education

44. Why school choice won’t save the public schools

45. How schools train activists

46. Why book bans will not save you

47. Introducing fugitive pedagogy

48. What anti-racist math looks like

49. What queer biology looks like

50. Why school boards will not fix the problem

51. Libraries are socialist, too

52. The timeline for the woke takeover

53. Does the left want to destroy religion?

54. How degrowth and depopulation fit in

55. What comprehensive sex education means

56. Why virginity is a social construct

57. Who is the leader on the left

58. What life will be like in the Marxist utopia

59. What the cancel mob wants

60. How the mob makes you bend the knee

61. Why leftists look odd

62. Three types of leftists

63. They want you to overreact. Your reaction is their goal.

64. They don’t behave logically

65. How we defeat the left

Questions?

Let me know in the comments!

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