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How to End Wokeness?

When you remove the core ideology and central concept from an action, it becomes a bizarre form of protest that's akin to streaking down the avenue in your undies and yelling "global warming".

Wokes, the so-called "far-left" in the USA is quite an interesting group. They are neither truly far, nor left. They lack class consciousness and any crumb of ideology, so they haven't advanced any actual leftist cause to a radical extent. They're definitely not from any oppressed minorities or classes; wokeness typically comes from privileged Americans with cushy lives.


When you strip an action of its ideology and main idea, it turns into a kind of weird protest demonstration that’s like running through the streets in an empty pair of underwear, and then attach a premise of an activist looking slogan to it afterwards, perhaps on social media.


This also mainly benefits the right-wing, as it provides them with a clear enemy, one they can easily target to mobilize their own mindless masses. And since it lacks any class consciousness, it results in a lukewarm uprising that doesn't threaten the capitalists and only attracts lazy millennials and Gen-Zers whenever they feel like it. Acts like taping themselves to German highways, throwing lentil soup at the Mona Lisa, or sticking a Mustang exhaust up their wherever don’t serve any clear purpose.


They're not even targeting the top 1% like the protests before; though within that group, there's a huge wealth gap as well. If wokes actually targeted actions that would genuinely bother the top 0.1%, it would make a real impact, and they might get in real trouble for their actions that may get the movement to a halt. But at least then the movement would have some real consciousness.


So, those who want to end wokeness should convince them to target the 0.1%.


If they actually target them that would be a proper protest.

If not, everyone will see that they were just releasing gas, to depressurize society with drawing radicalized attention to trivial issues and most importantly they were a useful tool to consolidate the right.

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