“Where climate change offers the apocalypse and Black Lives Matter offers absolution from the Original Sin of white supremacy, “being trans” gives one a soul. The three issues form the trinity of Wokeism.”
I wasn't aware that BLM offers absolution. I think it is strictly old testament, fire and brimstone, and even though we can live out lives constantly trying to "do better" a messiah has not yet arrived who will allow forgiveness for the sin of being born white.
I think this is a major fault in the new religion. Eventually, surely, people are going to want forgiveness of perceived sin.
True. In the eyes of BLM and The Woke, whities will always, always be evil and intolerable. Really white people should just be driven off the planet, hurled into space where they can consider how sick it is to be born white. 🤣
As the vanguard movement of progressive ideological fads, woke activists aren’t honest missionaries of a secular faith in which meaning and identity are derived from political activism, but dogmatic authoritarians convinced that righteous motives justify demanding of others unquestioning adherence to a totalistic political agenda. They don’t want converts, they want targets and unswerving submission.
Normies of the World Unite. You have only logic, the scientific method and freedom of speech to gain. It is long since time for an international movement of rational people to stand up to the Wokeful tsunami destroying society and dedicated to the destruction of the human race. The Woke are demonstrably against human flourishing. They want to see the rest of humanity become as broken and twisted as they are.
Lind says "with the repeal of the New Deal through the privatization of Social Security and Medicare"... did I miss this? They don't seem privatized to me..
False equivalency. The woke cancel people for what they say, which stands in direct opposition to free speech. These doctors physically mutilated children and violated their oaths, which are crimes.
Then argue for their indictment if you think there is sufficient evidence of criminality, or those they have wronged can sue them in civil cases (and they probably will). We have mechanisms to deal with harmful actions. We don't need to gin up a crowd of holier-than-thous to shame them.
I'm giving up any hope for this possibility. Based on Democrats' behavior and statements during the recent House hearings, they seem completely incompatible with our Bill of Rights.
The only value I'm interested in uniting over is free speech. If we don't get that right, the rest doesn't matter. If we do get that right, the rest can fall in place. The enemy isn't "wokeism" (or, at least, that's not the fight that happens first): it's the censoriousness of wokeism as well as the censoriousness of many anti-woke positions.
I'm going to quibble for a moment over aesthetics: I hate the term "normie." It's a dismissive (often disparaging) term used by the extremely online to describe the non-extremely online. I get why you used it -- it groups people into two camps, and the "normie" camp is huge, and you want a large coalition, but it doesn't really speak to a lot of people who are *not* extremely online. It's infantilizing language, as if normal people are these cute little oblivious children. Like almost all phrasings that spread like wildfire through Twitter (see also: "cringe" as an adjective), I wish it would die.
I'm appreciating your sober perspectives, Andrew. Somewhat disappointed to find that you don't have a Substack. Moderate, thoughtful views are badly needed
Many terms that were originally dismissive were later adopted and became popular. The term "Yankee," if I am correct, was a disparaging term that was later proudly adopted by Americans during the Revolutionary War.
True. I think I'm mostly rationalizing my dislike of social media neologisms. Humans are mimetic and all cultures and subcultures generate their own internal lexicons and references. In the past, we'd see these break out of their more specific community due to widely-watched movies or television.
However, since the advent of social media -- especially the ubiquity of Twitter among media professionals -- makes these tics start and spread almost universally throughout the media in a very short time, so suddenly *everyone* is using the word "cringe" as an adjective. This isn't *necessarily* a bad thing (though incorrect usages bother me); it's an aesthetic issue which I must acknowledge is far from universally shared and lacks objective superiority.
“We might further agree that we need an approach to addiction, mental illness, and homelessness that emphasizes recovery, not addiction maintenance.” Thank you for this inclusion. I’m in recovery and grateful to be free of alcohol and drugs. There is no half-way with most people like me.
Was it coincidental that when menopausal women rejected Hormone Replacement Therapy (breast cancer concerns), how new consumers popped up via "gender dysphoria"? It's been a boon for Big Pharma, as trans consumers are on HRT for life, unlike most menopausal women who were on HRT for a couple of years. Twenty+ years ago, 'women's magazines' were full of HRT ads. With the cancer scare, those ads disappeared. This is a Normie issue.
And wrong sex hormones for anyone 18 or over with "informed consent" is Planned Parenthood's new business model. Fewer abortions, apparently, meant they pivot to serving this new and exploding market!
I am so glad to see you take on this issue. I'm an LGB activist and journalist in SoCal, and have been folowing your for a couple of years. I contributed to your gubenatorial campaign --you helped me understand so-called "homelessness"! I have been trying to think of a way to get you info about the complex issues of child medicalization (we've had demos at Children's Hospital LA), men in CA women's prisons, self ID as demonstrated in the Wi Spa & Santee Y incidents (I'm covering the Wi Spa hearings now), and more. I am reachable on all platforms and would love to send you more info about what many of us have been doing.
As I read an The Free Press's gamechanging post earlier this week from a former Trans-activist and this marvelous post, I am reminded of that nifty aphorism, falsely attributed to Mark Twain, that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." What rhymes is this modern-day mutilization of children at the throne of transgender ideology with the 1935 invention of the prefrontal lobotomy. This brutal psychological surgery - separating the frontal lobe with the rest of the brain to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and other conditions - fell out favor in the early 1950s after 60,000 surgeries in the US. While still legal in the US, the side effects and consequences were permanent, debilitating, and tragic. Transgender surgeries on minor children today rhymes with prefrontal lobotomies of yesteryear.
I don’t know. Most ‘normal’ people I know still buy into the bullshit narratives spun by the mainstream media. I think Covid mandates and failed vaccines have moved the dial a bit - but overall people aren’t prepared to acknowledge how bad things are because it involves a real shift in worldview. My spouse gets angry with me not when she thinks I am wrong - but when she knows I am right about something uncomfortable.
“Where climate change offers the apocalypse and Black Lives Matter offers absolution from the Original Sin of white supremacy, “being trans” gives one a soul. The three issues form the trinity of Wokeism.”
Very well stated.
I wasn't aware that BLM offers absolution. I think it is strictly old testament, fire and brimstone, and even though we can live out lives constantly trying to "do better" a messiah has not yet arrived who will allow forgiveness for the sin of being born white.
I think this is a major fault in the new religion. Eventually, surely, people are going to want forgiveness of perceived sin.
I remember the BLM movement so vividly. It’s the moment I knew something wasn’t right in the thick of the pandemic.
I turned off my TV and haven’t turned it back on sense then.
True story.
Love this. Wisdom 🤘🤘
True. In the eyes of BLM and The Woke, whities will always, always be evil and intolerable. Really white people should just be driven off the planet, hurled into space where they can consider how sick it is to be born white. 🤣
As the vanguard movement of progressive ideological fads, woke activists aren’t honest missionaries of a secular faith in which meaning and identity are derived from political activism, but dogmatic authoritarians convinced that righteous motives justify demanding of others unquestioning adherence to a totalistic political agenda. They don’t want converts, they want targets and unswerving submission.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/wokeness-is-out-of-control
Nailed it!
Exactly.
Normies of the World Unite. You have only logic, the scientific method and freedom of speech to gain. It is long since time for an international movement of rational people to stand up to the Wokeful tsunami destroying society and dedicated to the destruction of the human race. The Woke are demonstrably against human flourishing. They want to see the rest of humanity become as broken and twisted as they are.
As for a name: Coalition of the Sane
Yes
Michael Lind just issued a very similar call to arms in Tablet Magazine.
"By its nature, a broad anti-progressive front must include Democrats as well as Republicans and independents."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/power-mad-progressive-utopianism-must-be-stopped
Lind says "with the repeal of the New Deal through the privatization of Social Security and Medicare"... did I miss this? They don't seem privatized to me..
Cheers to the normie news network. All doctors who did harm to children must be named, shamed, and punished: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-do-no-harm-part-2
Name, shame, and punish? This starts to look very much like the censoriousness and over-purity of the woke.
False equivalency. The woke cancel people for what they say, which stands in direct opposition to free speech. These doctors physically mutilated children and violated their oaths, which are crimes.
Then argue for their indictment if you think there is sufficient evidence of criminality, or those they have wronged can sue them in civil cases (and they probably will). We have mechanisms to deal with harmful actions. We don't need to gin up a crowd of holier-than-thous to shame them.
Maybe more like a truth and reconciliation process.
I'm giving up any hope for this possibility. Based on Democrats' behavior and statements during the recent House hearings, they seem completely incompatible with our Bill of Rights.
The only value I'm interested in uniting over is free speech. If we don't get that right, the rest doesn't matter. If we do get that right, the rest can fall in place. The enemy isn't "wokeism" (or, at least, that's not the fight that happens first): it's the censoriousness of wokeism as well as the censoriousness of many anti-woke positions.
I'm going to quibble for a moment over aesthetics: I hate the term "normie." It's a dismissive (often disparaging) term used by the extremely online to describe the non-extremely online. I get why you used it -- it groups people into two camps, and the "normie" camp is huge, and you want a large coalition, but it doesn't really speak to a lot of people who are *not* extremely online. It's infantilizing language, as if normal people are these cute little oblivious children. Like almost all phrasings that spread like wildfire through Twitter (see also: "cringe" as an adjective), I wish it would die.
I'm appreciating your sober perspectives, Andrew. Somewhat disappointed to find that you don't have a Substack. Moderate, thoughtful views are badly needed
Thank you for the kind words! I'm not really prolific enough to sustain my own Substack, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Thrilled to see you over on mine - thank you!
You might like this post in particular: https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/sobriety-and-wokeism-are-diametrically
Many terms that were originally dismissive were later adopted and became popular. The term "Yankee," if I am correct, was a disparaging term that was later proudly adopted by Americans during the Revolutionary War.
True. I think I'm mostly rationalizing my dislike of social media neologisms. Humans are mimetic and all cultures and subcultures generate their own internal lexicons and references. In the past, we'd see these break out of their more specific community due to widely-watched movies or television.
However, since the advent of social media -- especially the ubiquity of Twitter among media professionals -- makes these tics start and spread almost universally throughout the media in a very short time, so suddenly *everyone* is using the word "cringe" as an adjective. This isn't *necessarily* a bad thing (though incorrect usages bother me); it's an aesthetic issue which I must acknowledge is far from universally shared and lacks objective superiority.
It often annoys me that I end up adopting so many of them. But they're often quite useful, despite typically being inelegant and puerile
True. Perhaps "Sensible Humans" :-).
“We might further agree that we need an approach to addiction, mental illness, and homelessness that emphasizes recovery, not addiction maintenance.” Thank you for this inclusion. I’m in recovery and grateful to be free of alcohol and drugs. There is no half-way with most people like me.
Was it coincidental that when menopausal women rejected Hormone Replacement Therapy (breast cancer concerns), how new consumers popped up via "gender dysphoria"? It's been a boon for Big Pharma, as trans consumers are on HRT for life, unlike most menopausal women who were on HRT for a couple of years. Twenty+ years ago, 'women's magazines' were full of HRT ads. With the cancer scare, those ads disappeared. This is a Normie issue.
And wrong sex hormones for anyone 18 or over with "informed consent" is Planned Parenthood's new business model. Fewer abortions, apparently, meant they pivot to serving this new and exploding market!
Follow the money!
Are you going to print cards for Normies? If so where do I register. They should be universally accepted even for voting.
The “Normals”. Sounds better than “Normies”
Normies of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your obnoxiously ideological acquaintances!
I am so glad to see you take on this issue. I'm an LGB activist and journalist in SoCal, and have been folowing your for a couple of years. I contributed to your gubenatorial campaign --you helped me understand so-called "homelessness"! I have been trying to think of a way to get you info about the complex issues of child medicalization (we've had demos at Children's Hospital LA), men in CA women's prisons, self ID as demonstrated in the Wi Spa & Santee Y incidents (I'm covering the Wi Spa hearings now), and more. I am reachable on all platforms and would love to send you more info about what many of us have been doing.
As I read an The Free Press's gamechanging post earlier this week from a former Trans-activist and this marvelous post, I am reminded of that nifty aphorism, falsely attributed to Mark Twain, that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." What rhymes is this modern-day mutilization of children at the throne of transgender ideology with the 1935 invention of the prefrontal lobotomy. This brutal psychological surgery - separating the frontal lobe with the rest of the brain to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and other conditions - fell out favor in the early 1950s after 60,000 surgeries in the US. While still legal in the US, the side effects and consequences were permanent, debilitating, and tragic. Transgender surgeries on minor children today rhymes with prefrontal lobotomies of yesteryear.
What they said (I’m in too!).
I don’t know. Most ‘normal’ people I know still buy into the bullshit narratives spun by the mainstream media. I think Covid mandates and failed vaccines have moved the dial a bit - but overall people aren’t prepared to acknowledge how bad things are because it involves a real shift in worldview. My spouse gets angry with me not when she thinks I am wrong - but when she knows I am right about something uncomfortable.