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Although change is sometimes good, this isn't one of those times. Overnight, the US has changed into something alien, something ill. Wokeness has arrived with a vengeance, and it doesn't bode well for the nation's future.

In the beginning, it seemed reasonable to dismiss 'abolish culture' as a bad joke, symptomatic of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a very real clinical status known for unhinging even the brightest minds. Just the joke was told years ago, and nobody is laughing anymore.

The outset sign that something sinister had infected the left side of the American cranium occurred in the unlikeliest of places: the higher campus, the manicured citadel of free thought and expression where the very thought of censorship is wholly repugnant. Simply that was yesterday. Today, university students consider information technology their solemn duty to silence any individual or individuals who practice not share their (liberal) worldview. Peak insanity occurred in February 2017, when fierce protesters hurled rocks and torched buildings at the University of California, Berkeley to prevent bourgeois speakers – including controversial commentator Milo Yiannopoulos – from addressing a group of students. From there, it was off to the insanity races.

In the wake of this collegiate brain rot, said to take taken root during World State of war Two with the arrival of 'Cultural Marxists' from Germany to America'southward unsuspecting shores, statues in the boondocks square are being toppled, 'offensive' corporate logos removed, and historical works of American art and literature forever shelved; even being so bold as to advise that '2+2=4' risks turning a person into a social pariah.

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Meanwhile, the honorable want for edifice a meritocracy – which, according to the inquisition, stinks to high heaven of white supremacy and privilege – has been replaced by a politically correct mediocrity. In other words, America is on the express lane to Idiocracy, population 330 million.

This cult-similar craze, where the bigots are engaged in a foreign competition to find new things to rage almost, is no longer a campus activity. With the introduction of 'critical race theory', another damaged product of the academic brain that teaches that all white people are inherently racist, the corporate globe has gone full-diddled woke to the point where Coca-Cola, when information technology is non pushing alternative sexual lifestyles on children, is instructing its workforce to "exist less white."

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Meanwhile, United Airlines recently announced it will be culling white male pilots in the cockpit in favor of minority groups, because I guess enough planes are not crashing. That is non to suggest that the flying skills of minorities are somehow junior to those of white males, but rather that nil good e'er comes when it is forced from above.

While this inquisition is obsessed with purging from American club whatsoever hint of 'racism,' or favoritism towards whites, information technology never pauses to consider that these 'concluding solutions' are fomenting a new sort of racism, this time confronting the white population. Although it may fly in the confront of the new woke math, two wrongs will never make a right.

In a timely and thoughtful article on the field of study, the bourgeois commentator Victor Davis Hanson forwarded a question that must exist on a lot of minds these days: "Tin can the great 'awokening' succeed?" Perhaps fifty-fifty more to the signal is, what happens if information technology does?

Examining the situation with Orwell's 'Brute Subcontract' in mind, Hanson suggests that Wokeism takes it on faith that the white population in these mail-George Floyd times will quietly agree with the position that "some bigotry is good and different from other discrimination." In other words, although most people agree that the former racism against blacks was incorrect, the sort of racism now targeting white people in the name of 'social justice' and the 'common skillful' is an entirely unlike animal, and ane that even white people will agree is acceptable.

Under such improbable circumstances, Hanson continues, it volition seem natural to toss around with reckless abandon terms like "whiteness," "white privilege," "white supremacy," and "white terrorists" about all 230 million American whites, "in a way that it would exist terribly incorrect to talk pejoratively and collectively in terms of any other group."

Hanson asks if whites in the United States will happily condone blatant bigotry where, as just two examples, "criminal suspects shall not be identified by race unless they are white," while, at the same time, America's most elite colleges can justify restricting "white admissions to around thirty-40 percentage of their incoming classes?" Hanson is of the opinion they will non, but offers no hint as to what that refusal may entail, aside from some self-inflicted damage. And hither is where information technology may exist forgotten that white liberals were themselves responsible for the woke movement in the starting time place.

"The liberal white aristocracy class engineered a arrangement of woke racialism that they assumed rested on some sort of unspoken 70 percentage white" who would absorb the brunt of the anti-white inquisition, Hanson reasons. "[The woke white aristocracy] did not sign upward for a 30-40 pct white allotment that cuts into the white woke; that is, the good and the morally superior whites." From this perspective, white elites pushed their woke calendar for self-proceeds while never suspecting that i day, much like Dr. Frankenstein, their hideous creation would one twenty-four hour period render to devour them.

For all the brilliance of Hanson'south insight into the disturbing woke phenomenon, he missed a point that I believe needs emphasizing. First, to subject an entire race of people to the near despicable sort of stereotypes, which portray whites equally dyed-in-the-wool racists with piddling hope for rehabilitation, is unforgivable precisely because it is faux. It is unfortunate that anyone would have to labor the indicate, merely U.s.a. history is simply loaded with likewise many examples of whites fighting on behalf of fairness and equality to go unmentioned. Yep, slavery was a horrible chapter in American history, just it cannot be discussed in a vacuum as though there was never a Civil War or a battle for ceremonious rights, or affirmative action, for example, and many other pieces of legislation specifically designed to help minorities.

2d, it would announced that the entire woke brigade has learned naught from the harsh lessons of history – which should come up as no surprise, since universities have largely cancelled such invaluable studies, get figure – and what can come as a effect of ruthlessly attacking a single race of people. Nobody can imagine a genocide happening today, any more than the Jews and gypsies could have imagined one occurring in the early days of Nazi Frg. Merely and then again, nobody could have imagined just five years ago that white people in the United States would become the focal point of such an ugly 'cancel culture' detest entrada, largely fanned by an uncritical and complicit media.

Attacks of a racist nature against whatsoever group are simply disgusting, and it is shocking that such a matter is allowed to happen in America, one of the most racially various countries in the world. It should be remembered that the US did non go diversified by blow; it became that way because it was encouraged to happen by the American people, the majority of whom are (still) white.

It's time to stop the race-baiting and observe the real source of this racial discontentment earlier the United States finds itself with far worse issues to consider than the hidden racism of a Dr. Seuss book or the name of a pancake concoction. The world is watching, America; get information technology together.

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