Woke 101: The top 10 things you must understand about the woke ideology
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Woke 101: The top 10 things you must understand about the woke ideology
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When you first become aware of the woke ideology, it can be a very confusing time.
I want to make things a little less confusing. If you’re new to this, here are the top 10 things you must understand to be effective in fighting back against the woke.
If you have questions, please ask. We need as many people as possible to understand these things.
#1: Woke exists on both the political right and the political left.
I define woke as authoritarian. Yes, that means to be actively unwoke is to be actively unauthoritarian.
It’s authoritarian because woke wants to control what you think, what you say, what ideas you can consider, and how you live your life. Woke wants to restrict you. It demands your conformity and subservience. And it wants you to fear what will happen if you don’t comply.
Woke exists on both the political right and the political left. We are not in a battle of Democrat versus Republican, Progressive versus Conservative, Left versus Right.
We are in a battle of authoritarianism versus libertarianism.
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#2: The woke left is the aggressor, the woke right reacts.
The woke left and the woke right are similar in many different ways.
In fact, they’re similar in most ways.
Except for this one: The woke left aggresses on the woke right, and the woke right reacts.
How the dynamic works is that the left does something crazy (we’ll talk about whey they do that in a moment) and then the right reacts against the crazy thing. In doing so, the right usually will make themselves look like the actual aggressors, which is exactly what the left wants them to do because it makes the left look like the victim.
This cycle happens over and over and over again every time there is a new crisis, and pushes both camps to greater extremes each time. During all of it, the left maintains the upper hand. They are always in the power position.
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#3: We focus on the woke left because they are more dangerous.
I focus most of my time and energy on the woke left because, frankly; they present a greater danger to us.
The woke left controls every major institution in this country - the media, entertainment, education, corporate America, and government.
The woke left is far more strategic than the woke right. They play the long game, a battle of inches, and have been doing so for a very long time.
And the woke right is very easy to predict because (going back to the last point) they always react. They are never proactive. So you can always be a few steps ahead of them in the game of chess we’re all immersed in.
With that said, here’s what keeps me up at night: If we defeat the woke left and remove them from all of their positions of power, then who do we replace them with? Because if we replace them with the woke right, we’ve just exchanged one brand of woke for another. That’s not an improvement.
In fact, I think the woke right will be vicious if they ever get power, like a toddler unable to control itself and demanding revenge.
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#4: The woke left has four primary goals.
Everything the woke left does is designed to attain one or more of the following goals:
Gain as much power as possible.
Use that power to destabilize the system by causing problems.
Blame capitalism as the real cause of the problems they caused
Stir up public animosity toward capitalism to pave the way for ushering in their Marxism revolution.
Every time they do something crazy, look at it through this lens - they are destabilizing the system. It’s a feature, not a bug. It’s their goal. That is how they get their revolution.
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#5: White supremacy has nothing to do with skin color
The greatest weapon the woke has is redefining terms in the English language. They speak in a code that only they understand, and they use this to confuse people.
One of their most significant victories was changing the definition of racism.
This might sound crazy, but white supremacy has nothing to do with skin color. They say black people are white supremacists all the time.
White supremacy means capitalism.
It means who owns the power structure.
Who is the boss.
Who owns private property.
Who is the landlord.
If you do any of these things, then you are considered complicit in white supremacy, and it doesn’t really matter what your skin color is.
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#6: They don’t want to abolish men OR women
Oftentimes, people will think the woke left hates men because it seems like everything they do is against them.
And then other times, people will think the woke left hates women because of the controversy over trans women in women’s sports.
The truth is they don’t hate either gender. The woke left is just fine with men who agree with them, and women who agree with them.
There are plenty of white male socialists, trust me.
The truth is that their goal is to abolish ALL gender. They want to get rid of men and women and create a world full of non-binary they's.
They even explain in their trainings that “trans” no longer means “transition.” It means “transform.”
They won’t want trans people to transition from man to woman. They want to transform the concept of gender entirely to abolish the gender binary.
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#7: Do not confuse the symptom with the cause
The most common mistake you see people make about the woke left is that they confuse the symptom of what they are doing with the cause of what they are doing. When they do this, they are trying to solve for the wrong problem.
The woke left laid the groundwork for what they have now decades ago. Ever since then, it’s been a battle of inches.
First, they took over the universities.
That gave them control of the colleges of education, where the teachers are trained.
Once they got themselves in charge of training the teachers, that got them control of the schools.
That gave them control of the children.
But it took them decades to build a critical mass of teachers trained in their ideology.
I think that happened 15-20 years ago.
Once they had a critical mass, they started formalizing equity and social justice as a part of the administration and policies in K-12 schools. This solidified it. And now it’s virtually undefeatable.
They started graduating kids that had been slowly fed the ideology their entire lives. They don’t know anything else.
Those kids act crazy and do crazy things.
They write books and put on plays sexualizing kids.
They have mostly peaceful protests.
They cause chaos.
You see, the books you’re banning, and the sexualizing kids, and the protests are not the problem.
They’re a symptom of the problem, the result of the long march that began a long time ago, before we were born.
If you confuse the symptom with the root cause of the problem, you will be solving for the wrong thing, and you will make no progress.
Matt Walsh makes this mistake all the time. Learn from him:
#8: Yes, it’s Marxism
Everything the woke left does is grounded in Marxism, and they are winning.
If you watch socialist presentations from 5 years ago, those are the talking points of the Democratic party today.
Watching socialist presentations gives you a free preview of what’s coming.
We do it every week on my YouTube channel on Saturdays at 6pm eastern.
#9: The most important battleground is the public schools. Everything else is a distraction.
There are a lot of important issues you can focus on. I get it. It can be overwhelming at times.
But the schools are the most important.
If we lose the schools, we lose the war.
Because the woke left is so invested in abortion, demanding it up to and even after birth, people think you should just let them abort their kids. That way, their ideology will die off.
But that discounts the fact that they control the schools.
They don’t need to have kids of their own.
They’ll just take yours, and they’ll use the schools to do it.
This is literally called for in the Communist Manifesto.
And wait until you hear about abolish the family. That’s a whole new fresh hell, but not something you want on your introduction to woke. There’s plenty of time to get to that.
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#10: The only way to beat the woke left is not to play their game.
Imagine the devil came to earth and said:
“I want to play a game. We’re playing it on my field. I get to make all the rules. And I get to change the rules at any time. If you lose, you come to hell with me for all eternity. If you win, you get a get out of hell free card.”
Are you going to agree and play that game?
If you did, you would be a moron.
You’re going to lose.
You’re playing the devil’s game, on the devil’s field, and the devil controls all the rules.
Only a fool would take that bet.
The only way to beat the woke left is to opt out of playing their game.
You have to create a game of your own, and make them react.
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Woke 101: The top 10 things you must understand about the woke ideology
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#1 "I define woke as authoritarian. Yes, that means to be actively unwoke is to be actively authoritarian."
Should that be 'actively UNauthoritarian' ?
Also in #7 you say "the books you're banning and...are the problem."
Should that be the books you're
banning and...are NOT the problem?
(I only mention things that may matter, not simple _tyops_ 😉)
Conference there for English Language Arts Teacher Education July 2023 theme: Centering Hope and Organizing for Justice. Unflippingbelievable, but not surprising.