Woke Is Not Over
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Summary
The War on Woke has been ongoing for decades, it went mainstream, and it s a war that we re still engaged in. The terms are evolving, but the underlying cause is still the same: anti-white critical race theory.
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Now that Trump scrapped some DEI policies, has woke been defeated?
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Republicans loyal to the pre-1964 Constitution see that the only way back to a country free
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of political correctness and wokeism is to repeal civil rights laws.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 took away our rights and freedoms.
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It brought us the beginning of woke policy such as affirmative action, diversity quotas,
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desegregation, and the end of freedom of association.
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Early wokeism, political correctness, proved to be the enforcement arm of so-called civil rights.
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Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and law professor Robert Bork both pointed out that
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the Civil Rights Act created conflicts with the constitutional protections
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accorded to private property and freedom of association.
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The end of Jim Crow ultimately led to demands for transgender bathrooms and open borders.
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It led to special rights and enormous privileges for minorities,
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but none for the white majority because all white people are racist and should be replaced.
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It's led to the left imposing their views on everyone and suppressing dissenting opinions.
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Cancel culture, thought crimes, political prisoners, that's your civil rights.
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It went mainstream and it's a war that we're still engaged in.
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In fact, this war has been going for a good century with the introduction of critical theory
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originating from the Frankfurt School founded by communist intellectual Jews in 1923.
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They were chased out of Germany, came to America,
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and they repay us by saying our culture needs to be destroyed.
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What had seemed in 1964 to be just a friendly reform revealed itself to be something much more.
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The changes of the 1960s, with civil rights at their core, were not just a major new element in the constitution.
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They were a rival constitution with which the original one was frequently incompatible,
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and the incompatibility would worsen as the civil rights regime was built out.
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It was enabled not by new public attitudes towards reactionary opinions,
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but by new punishments that could be meted out against those who expressed them.
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The power of political correctness is generally derived from the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
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President Trump did sign an executive order rescinding Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246,
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However, wokeery has already captured a broad range of powerful institutions such as
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academia, media, Hollywood, private corporations, and the public sector.
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that it gained most of its momentum in Obama years and with the rise of Trump,
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and that it peaked in 2021 with Biden in the White House.
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White people got white privilege, white man bad burnout, trans and black power fatigue.
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We also got COVID lockdowns, inflation, censorship, and more wars.
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Suddenly, the feels of a whining fat black woman complaining about the lack of black ballet slippers,
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or a tranny who couldn't use a particular toilet, wasn't a priority.
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We hear less of intersectionality and microaggressions.
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Die exec roles are rapidly disappearing, and polls suggest that woke opinions are on the decline.
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Some on the left states because their ideas have already taken hold, that America is less racist now.
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And we do see Republicans who claim to be anti-woke, but brag about the latest gay, black, or immigrant hire
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and signal how they aren't racist like those bad Nazis over there.
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Hi, I'm an Israeli, I'm a Jew, so I'm asking, please vote for Trump.
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By the way, liberal Jews who helped push woke more than anyone are even turning against it,
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Many lefties also admit, yeah, we push too hard with the forced quotas and die policies.
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A few planes and bridges may have gone down because of it.
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So maybe placing people artificially for political reasons isn't the way to go.
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We have committed that 50% of the classes will be women or people of color.
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Today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or people of color.
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I think the next decade will be very telling to know how die has changed the country.
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Racial demographics and Gen Z will be a huge part of the puzzle.
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Meanwhile, anti-white critical race theory is still being taught in schools.
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And countless woke movies are being churned out of the anti-white factory.
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don't call CRT anti-white because it will lead to a pro-white white identity movement.
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It's anti-racist, which is the same thing because according to CRT,
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The term woke might be in terminal decline, but a new one will come.
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And the ideas are going to be around for a while.
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Just because you close an office or take the tampons out of the men's bathroom
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Everyone who menstruates deserves to menstruate with dignity.
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So that means being able to menstruate in a way that feels comfortable to them,
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that feels safe to them, using the products that they're most comfortable using,
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Wokeness surged under Trump, receded under Biden.
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We may see universities tone it down and pretend to be neutral,
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but the scheming and repackaging will most definitely continue.
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Both the woke and mainstream anti-woke movements have lost their edge.
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We'll see a compromise between the two in the mainstream.
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Meanwhile, the extreme fringes will continue to push the conversation in their direction,
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