Ideological ritual and the death of reason
MINI-BLOG: How the woke race narrative is propped up by the warping of discourse
Below is a two-minute video that perfectly captures the gulf between elite groupthink and reason.
This woman is the embodiment of the cultish, neo-racist ‘progressive’ dogma that’s been pumped out of universities for decades. The liberal press, politicians and midwit activists have all massively amplified it, and its central claims have been treated as virtually unquestionable for a number of years. Yet they collapse under even the lightest scrutiny.
The young guy is the opposite. He’s looked at the facts, and drawn rational conclusions free from ideology.
Have a watch. Her rebuttals, her expressions…they have a phoney quality. It’s a performance propped up by the way discourse itself has been warped by others who share her belief system, and by the enforcement of speech codes that shield that worldview from criticism.
I really see parallels between the way people like this act and speak, and the videos of North Koreans ululating and fake-crying when their leader dies. Or members of strange sects who all adopt the same affected mannerisms. Language and behaviour cultivated specifically in order to signal ideological purity. And the power that that conformity confers is used to intimidate those who might disagree with its enforcers into silence. ‘Do not talk to me in that manner’, ‘do not cut me off’, ‘educate yourself’, ‘do better’, ‘check your privilege’ - we all know what these phrases (and others like them) mean. They mean ‘I hold the correct opinions, and you’d better not challenge me or else…’
The good news is that pushback against this braindead dross is growing. The bad news is that in influential liberal circles, it survives. It might come back in a slightly modified form but it’s still there, trust me.
A new religion.
This is an edited version of a Substack note I wrote a couple of days ago that was widely shared.
END NOTES
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FURTHER READING
For a far more detailed read on the subject matter I address here check out my essay ‘Statistics vs the racial grievance grift’ — it’s a mega-debunking of the woke narrative around race, packed with hard evidence, and went quite viral when I published it. I’ve linked to it below.
Statistics vs the racial grievance grift
This three minute clip from a talk by Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist, is worth watching. It provides an insight into the level of pushback anyone who seeks to challenge The Narrative around race is likely to receive. ‘People lose their minds’, he says. That’s about right.
I could only watch the first 90 seconds of the video before I wanted to vomit at the arrogance of this Woke deluded woman. Thanks anyway for posting the vid.
I watched the whole video. She is so condescending and tried so hard to control the discussion, who says in a debate/discussion to treat her like a mom? She didn't show much respect for him, the shaking of the head and such. I really wish they would go away, but you are correct, it will just morph into something else.