What is Woke And How Does it Act?

It is Time to Acknowledge What we Are Actually up Against so That we Can Avoid Becoming Like Them

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Woke n A totalitarian social and political movement based on hatred directed toward White people, men, the financially successful and Christians. It encourages a culture of outrage and victimhood, limits the agency of minorities and denies opportunities to those who were not born into specified “victimhood” in the name of anti-discrimination. It forces its white and male believers to hate themselves due to internalized racism and misandry. It replaces hard work with entitlement and refuses to acknowledge that anything it is doing could possibly be harmful. It emphasizes intentions and ignores results. It is, in short, a movement of bigoted, small-minded individuals who do not tolerate those who deviate from the established groupthink. It is a danger to all members of Western society, including those who practice it.

I, like probably all of you, am well aware of the death of Charlie Kirk and the fallout that has come from it. I’ve alternately cried and raged. I made my emotional battle over the whole disgusting mess public in my last post. It wasn’t easy for me to take the path of seeking reconciliation. I did it anyway. It was the right thing to do. Writing this one is going to suck as well. I’m a big boy. I’ll get through it.

Listen folks, I get the whole “We get to do the Cancel Culture thing” that is going on on the right at the moment. I won’t pretend that I haven’t gotten a kick out of seeing the other side become victims of their own tactics. I’ve raged against Dems and their crap for years now. I did so here previously. Seeing the tables turned definitely brought a smile to my face before I thought about it. It’s hard to fathom, but sometimes my gut reaction isn’t always the right one.

And I get the fear. I’m a card-carrying conservative. I have been since I first became politically aware. Knowing that a nurse cheered for the death of Charlie Kirk would make me nervous if she were about to give me an injection. If conservatives deserve to die then how do I know that needle is loaded with medicine and not poison? It wouldn’t be hard to get. If the person at the fast food counter posted gleefully when a group of teenage girls drowned because their parents voted the wrong way, how do I know they didn’t dust my burger with d-CON? And don’t get me started with the guy who comes over to service my furnace and has access to my gas line.

And yes, I get that liberals would compare using the wrong pronouns with actually shooting someone. I also know precisely how seriously I take those claims.

And so, yeah, I guess I can get with the cancellation of Lefties who want me dead. Lord knows I have no desire to die. I have things to live for: kids, family, a job. The last thing I need is some Wokist deciding that it might be fun to mix in some roach killer in my Starbucks. We have to do what we have to do to protect our own lives. If that means taking people’s jobs then so be it. I’d rather see them unemployed than my family sitting in the front row at the funeral home because I have a bumper sticker that supports police, fireman and the military. I get it. I really do.

But we need to decide what the line is. We can’t let this get out of hand. Seriously, where does it stop? What if they laugh at a Repub politician that falls stepping off a curb? Do we cancel them then? Seriously, because I’m a Republican and I might laugh at something like that. What if it’s someone who disagrees with us over the Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle thing? What’s the line folks?

And yes, we definitely do need to define one. If we don’t, we’re as bad as they are. Yeah, I said it. It’s time to decide what we stand up to and what we let slide in the name of Free Speech. As Conservatives we believe in individual rights. Are they only for people who agree with us? Are we the next totalitarian movement? I’m asking that seriously. Think before answering.

I’ve seen videos of lefties crying because of the murder of Charlie Kirk. For the most part, their concern was for Erika and the kids and less for Charlie himself, but I’m willing to settle for anything that keeps them from killing Conservatives. The thing is, in both cases, they were crying because they honestly believed that their side was the side that represented “empathy.” They were upset not because a man died, but because their own side was celebrating the death of a man in front of his family. I don’t agree with them on much, but we stand as one on this issue. No member of that family deserves to have seen what they were forced to see.

Here’s the thing: I’ve always been a conservative because I’ve always believed that the rights of the individual matter and that they collective is a product of the Leftist imagination and has no rights. I therefore do not believe in taking the rights of other to say what they believe away, even if I find it offensive. Offense is in the ear of the beholder, and they have as much right to say things that I find offensives as I have to say things that they find offensive. That’s life in the big city, folks.

And so those of us on the right need to have a conversation right freaking now about how far we’re going to take this. We can’t turn into them. They call us Nazis, but they’re the totalitarians, not us. They’re the side that uses the public schools to indoctrinate the kids they way Hitler used the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate German children, not us. They’re the people who want to put us in re-education camps and force us to use language they approve of, not vice-versa. And we can’t lower ourselves to their level or we become them. I mean that.

Now that doesn’t mean that you should tolerate real violence. Defend yourself if your life is in danger. It does mean that we need to stop treating their words as violence. We can’t tolerate behavior from our side that we won’t tolerate from theirs. It’s time to get our poop in a group, folks. Figure it out because too far is too far.