Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "heretics. clips"
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"Woke" is the successor to "politically correct". "Politically correct" is a translation of a Russian phrase from the Soviet era. It was a recognition of Soviet enforcement of dogmatic "truth". When official non-acceptance of a fact is causing a problem, and your friend is contemplating saying the unsayable in public, you say, "You may be factually correct, but you are politically incorrect." This usage filtered its way into the Western left, and, as leftist authoritarian memes tend to do in a freer society, began to become so noxious that nobody would use it outside of dark sarcasm as a contemptuous term of ridicule. And we all would have lived happily ever after.
This tends to happen to leftist euphemisms once the sane folk figure out what the cryptic terminology means. Hence the restless reinvention of new leftist euphemisms. The waxing leftist power bloc, deprived of "politically correct" needed a new euphemism for their suppression of "wrongthink". Since they were more and more indoctrinating young folk in their causes du jour as a result of the "long march through the institutions" having locked down key institutions of higher learning and the teacher's unions for primary and secondary schools, it was convenient to couch the party line as an awakening to inspire and relate to their new charges/victims. They needed a shibboleth adjective to separate the sheep from the goats, and settled on the stylishly hip-hop sounding "woke".
It was a shortcut for the authoritarian notion that anyone who challenged the establishment position on various issues calculated to divide the society and empower the authorities, such as alphabet "community" dogma, discrimination on the basis of race or sex, certain "environmental" issues, should be slandered, marginalized, cancelled, fired, jailed, or killed. Residual love of freedom in the West resulted in this euphemism sharing the fate of former euphemisms, being used ironically or sarcastically by their intended victims, to the point that they could no longer use the term in public without risking being laughed out of the room.
Since the term is now used almost exclusively by freedom loving folk, some latecomers and youth quite innocently get the impression that the term was coined by conservatives as a derisive term for leftists. No, the leftists coined and defined the term and now that their intended victims are wise to it, will have to devise another (and so on, lather, rinse repeat). In the meantime they will have to make do with calling their victims names, suing them, censoring them, arresting them, and assaulting them.
I hope you found this lesson helpful, and if you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask. It may take me a while to reply. The side which tries to settle a question of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. That's how you know who the bad guys are.
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