Woke 101: You must understand how they use language as a weapon.
Woke 101: You must understand how they use language as a weapon.
What they want you to think "queer," "whiteness," and "equity" means...and what they really mean.
This article is a part of the Woke 101 series, which will get you up to speed on the basics that they don't teach you when you become a soldier in the culture war.
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Last week, I asked my audience the following question:
I got about 100 responses…some were the same…and some were all over the place.
Most people had a good understanding of one of the terms, a smaller portion had a good understanding of two terms, and very few people had an understanding of all three.
That’s intentional.
Language is one of the left’s most important weapons. They take terms that commonly mean one thing and use them with different meanings to gain acceptance for whatever ideas they are peddling.
If they want you to think they care about gay and trans people, they say queer.
If they want you to think they care about racism, they say whiteness.
If they want you to believe they care about social justice, they say equity.
None of these things are true.
You must understand this trick.
The woke left speak in a code. It’s like a bastardized version of the English language in which they take advantage of our collective lack of critical thinking to slightly twist the meaning of words slowly, over time.
They use the schools to do it, starting in college. Then, once all the teachers that go through the schools of education learn the language, they start teaching it in K-12 schools. It’s natural to them - they’ve never known a different definition.
They’ve been working on this for decades, inch by inch.
Now the language has completely infected the schools in a way that most people don’t realize - your kids are learning the language of the woke left as their first language, something they’ll hear from most of their teachers (if those teachers graduated from a college of education in the last 20 years or so).
This isn’t the transition generation.
That was the last generation.
This is the first generation post-transition.
What I mean by that is that the definitions these words transitioned into have now been taught by two generations.
In this essay, I’ll give you three examples of how they’re doing this utilizing the three most important words you need to understand the true definition of in today’s context.
Queer
Whiteness
Equity
If you memorize the real definitions of these three words, everything will start to make so much more sense.
Queer used to be a slur for gay people.
Today, it’s not even a reference to gay or trans people - that’s the movement they’ve hijacked. Queer is a far-left political ideology.
In the first episode of The Book of Queer on Discovery+, this is how they defined queer theory:
“Whatever is at odds with the normal the legitimate, the dominant…”
You don’t even have to be gay to be queer.
Queer is not a sexual orientation. It is not a gender identity. It is what is at odds with the dominant.
You can just declare yourself queer and you’re considered queer.
You don’t need to have a reason for it.
Gay/trans people are not necessarily queer and queer people are not necessarily gay/trans.
To understand the code, you have to understand that the queer movement hijacked the LGBT movement and then changed the definition to advance their interests, which were not necessarily in the interests of the LGBT communities.
When you hear “queer” think “far-left political ideology”, or “queer marxism” and that will be more accurate.
Whiteness used to mean white skin
When queer says…
“Whatever is at odds with the normal the legitimate, the dominant…”
Whiteness says…
“Whatever supports the dominant power structure…”
When systemic whiteness was introduced to the definition of racism in 2020 (which I discuss in my book Actively Unwoke: The Ultimate Guide For Fighting Back Against Woke Insanity In Your LIfe), the term whiteness ceased to be about the individual and was instead adapted to the collective.
(It actually happened unofficially decades before that from academia, but changing the dictionary definition does seem like the ultimate achievement).
When you hear the term whiteness (or white supremacy), do not be fooled into thinking the people using it care about racism.
It’s not the individuals they’re concerned with anymore.
It’s the collective system.
The woke left’s greatest enemy isn’t white people. It’s capitalism.
Think about it: They love white people who agree with them. They hate black people who disagree with them.
You can also think about it as the bourgeois, as in who owns private property, the landlords, who the boss is, who owns the power structure.
Equity and equality are easy to confuse
When you hear equity, you need to think Marxism.
The woke left does not believe in equality as most people do - they do not believe in everyone having an equal opportunity to succeed.
Equity does not mean equal opportunities. Equity means equal outcomes.
They believe in “from each according to this ability, to each according to his need.”
It is the dictatorship of the proletariat.
That’s Marxism.
The four goals of the woke left are always and forever the same:
Gain as much power as possible.
Destabilize the system.
Attack capitalism.
Usher in their Marxist utopia.
When they use the term equity, they are trying to get people used to the ideas that hold up that Marxist utopia.
They’ll ask, “isn’t it only fair to give everyone what they need?” and the public (which has been destabilized by inflation, which they will blame on capitalism) will say, “yes! It’s only fair that I get what I need!"…and that’s Marxism.
Most public school districts in the country have positions titled something to the effect of “Director of Equity.”
Most of them are not trying to provide equal opportunities for everyone.
They are implementing Marxism in your children’s schools right before your very eyes.
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I have long been alarmed by the queer movement's hegemonic tendencies. In a number of spheres, including elite mainstream media, "queer" is rapidly displacing "lesbian," "gay" and "bisexual." In so doing, queer has, to use a sinister term with its roots in the Argentine dictatorship of the 80s, disappeared lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.
Much of the time the people who use "queer" as a synonym for "gay" or "LGB" in publications such as The New York Times are doing so merely to signal that they are with it. They remember a similar linguistic evolution, the one that went from "Negro" to "BIPOC" with "African American" and "Black" along the way.
Every now and again, though, the context in which the writer uses the term "queer" reveals that he is a true believer and not a tourist.
For several years I have been saying that "queer" is neither a sexual orientation nor a gender identity but a scene. Queer is a set of learned leftist attitudes, beliefs and postures embraced by educated leftist urban youth who are terminally cool. I see three types of queer culture.
1. At its Judith-Butler worst, Queer "Theory" aims to topple all societal norms governing sex and sex roles (I refuse to say "gender"). This manifests itself, for example, in the indoctrination of K-12 students into gender-identity ideology in many American schools.
2. I hold a particular animus against the woke variety of queer that prevails at my university's version of what might be known on other campuses as the LGBTQ center. (I am a gay senior citizen taking break from a post-bac degree program in Spanish at Portland State University "PSU".)
You see, Portland State University's Queer Resource Center (QRC) recognizes only two types of stakeholders: Queer and Trans. The words "gay" and "lesbian" do not appear in the Queer Resource Center's mission statement. In fact, unless my repeated searches missed it, "gay" appears on the QRC's site only when citing unaffiliated outside organizations' use of the word.
As if that weren't bad enough, the Queer Resource Center's politics are stridently woke. It is expected that a good Portland State University queer will model the values of diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism. Its activities calendar is a festival of intersectional racial, ethnic and gender identity group culture. If you're BIPOC and trans, well, the Queer Resource Center is your home away from home. You’ll look in vain for a gay men’s board game night.
When I complained to the Queer Resource Center about its erasure of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, the reply as good as admitted that the queer hegemony was intentional. In any case, they added, everyone there was fine with it. If I didn't like it, why, I could click a helpful link to the complaint form.
It is deplorable that PSU’s only official organization for what used to be known as sexual minorities does not recognize or accommodate the university's mainstream gay, lesbian and bisexual students. That the QRC has so thoroughly embraced the leftist ideology of wokeness is unconscionable. It's as if PSU's French club expected students to support the ideology of Marine Le Pen and organized its programming around it.
Still, what else can one expect at a university whose president has declared that his "highest priority is sustaining and amplifying [the school's] commitment to racial justice"? That's what PSU's president Steven Percy, a generic-looking middle-aged white guy, announced some two and one-half years ago. Today, the first item on the list of strategic priorities of the Office of President is "Acting on Equity and Racial Justice." This means:
"We are fighting racism and advancing social justice across our campus by applying an antiracist lens to everything we do, measuring our progress and holding each other to account. We are taking steps to ensure success for all students, more equitable working conditions and an environment where people feel safe, belong, and prosper." https://www.pdx.edu/president
The situation at the Queer Resource Center seems to validate the virus model of the spread of woke ideology within organizations. When president Percy sneezes, the administrators all come down with a contagious case of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Anyone wishing to learn more about Portland State University's Queer Resource Center can visit its site by clicking on this link: https://www.pdx.edu/queer-resource-center/
3. As for lay queers, well they're just the latest iteration of insufferable disaffected, leftist urban youth, only with pink crew cuts.
You. We're fucked.