5 thoughts on “What Was Your “Woke” Breaking Point?”
Being told that the mere thought of a “Whites Only Club” was Vile Racist BadThink and a “Blacks Only Fraternity” was GoodThink… On a University campus many years ago.
My red pilling took place during Obama’s first year in office. I remember posting on sff.net, “Tell Satan to turn up the gas on Teddy Kennedy. I can’t hear him screaming.”
For me, it was Greenpeace in 1989 or 1990. I worked at Du Pont at the time for a couple of summers. Du Pont was bragging about its role in the recent Montreal Protocol, among other things being prepared to make CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) alternatives to meet the needs of signatories to the treaty.
Someone was passing around a recent Greenpeace ad. It depicted the Earth in a frying pan, and accused DuPont of “cooking the Earth” because those alternatives to CFCs were still greenhouse gases. While I suspect in hindsight, that copy of the ad might have been an unofficial corporate bit of intrigue, it still led me to realize how seedy environmental outrage was. Getting the environment fixed (at least from their point of view), a la the Protocol, wasn’t the purpose of organizations like Greenpeace. Inventing villains and peddling outrage was their business model.
I’ve since seen that trick replicated not just throughout the environmentalist movement (just look at complaints about US nuclear plants for a really bad example, they just about copy/paste a bunch of boilerplate) and of course, the Woke do it.
I think when I finally read 1984, I got it. This was the Two Minute Hate. This whole movement was driven by people addicted to outrage.
The Duke Lacrosse debacle was a major turning point for me. Women don’t lie about rape! And how dare I question the word of an Oppressed Woman of Color!
Even when the lacrosse team was exonerated, and District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred and jailed, and Crystal Gail Mangum was later convicted of murder … people *still* claimed the men must have been guilty, and the university left in place the sanctions it had imposed against fraternities for their supposed heinous crimes. And none of the “activists” in the Gang of 88 ever repented, AFAIK.
When this guy made a career of shouting “Look at me, I’m an illegal immigrant!” and the government did nothing. At one point federal agents apprehended him and still the government has done nothing for the last ten years.
Being told that the mere thought of a “Whites Only Club” was Vile Racist BadThink and a “Blacks Only Fraternity” was GoodThink… On a University campus many years ago.
My red pilling took place during Obama’s first year in office. I remember posting on sff.net, “Tell Satan to turn up the gas on Teddy Kennedy. I can’t hear him screaming.”
For me, it was Greenpeace in 1989 or 1990. I worked at Du Pont at the time for a couple of summers. Du Pont was bragging about its role in the recent Montreal Protocol, among other things being prepared to make CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) alternatives to meet the needs of signatories to the treaty.
Someone was passing around a recent Greenpeace ad. It depicted the Earth in a frying pan, and accused DuPont of “cooking the Earth” because those alternatives to CFCs were still greenhouse gases. While I suspect in hindsight, that copy of the ad might have been an unofficial corporate bit of intrigue, it still led me to realize how seedy environmental outrage was. Getting the environment fixed (at least from their point of view), a la the Protocol, wasn’t the purpose of organizations like Greenpeace. Inventing villains and peddling outrage was their business model.
I’ve since seen that trick replicated not just throughout the environmentalist movement (just look at complaints about US nuclear plants for a really bad example, they just about copy/paste a bunch of boilerplate) and of course, the Woke do it.
I think when I finally read 1984, I got it. This was the Two Minute Hate. This whole movement was driven by people addicted to outrage.
The Duke Lacrosse debacle was a major turning point for me. Women don’t lie about rape! And how dare I question the word of an Oppressed Woman of Color!
Even when the lacrosse team was exonerated, and District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred and jailed, and Crystal Gail Mangum was later convicted of murder … people *still* claimed the men must have been guilty, and the university left in place the sanctions it had imposed against fraternities for their supposed heinous crimes. And none of the “activists” in the Gang of 88 ever repented, AFAIK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Antonio_Vargas
When this guy made a career of shouting “Look at me, I’m an illegal immigrant!” and the government did nothing. At one point federal agents apprehended him and still the government has done nothing for the last ten years.