From Not the Bee:
Go here to read the rest. Never forget that wokeness is a castle of lies and more people are realizing that with every passing day. Call them out on their lies every chance you get.
Woke Breaking Point
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I was never woke. I attribute this to my traditional Catholic faith, which with I have been graced since childhood. Nothing to do with any great virtue on my part which at times was sorely lacking. Christ is God and God is loving and good. Thanks be to God.
Also never woke (though I was full on “legalize everything” lolbertarian at one point which easily could have led me there). But my “woke people are something I have to take seriously” came when a relative threatened to disown me because I didn’t support the “correct” choices in a science fiction book popularity contest. He started to go on about how the “science fiction community” had certain unwritten rules about being “nice” (read: being woke) and that it was only fair that anyone who didn’t do that be thrown out. I said “I don’t care at all about that stuff; if they say it’s a fan award then I’m supporting what I think was the best even if the other voters hate the author” and he reacted like I had tried to get him to read Mein Kampf or something.
The funny thing was that I had had relatives in the past announce their support for things like riots that burn down stores (to “promote awareness of racism”; this was way before George Floyd by the way), call for complete government control of all aspects of life, say that “faithful Catholics” had to support gay marriage, etc. All of that stuff is more serious than a dumb science fiction award and should have been more shocking. But I chalked it up to “people get passionate about politics and say more than they really mean.” It was the very fact that the award controversy was so trivial that made me pay attention. It signaled to me that wokeness is something that touches all aspects of life with no escape.
Those people are hyperbolically [hyperbole was a drama and literary device] delusional and a small, noisy minority somehow in control of our totally-broken institutions.
Early on, I became cynical and ironic – question everything. I always was sarcastic and a pain in the a$$.
Lesson: In the typical 21st century ‘village’ there are far more than one idiot.
He started to go on about how the “science fiction community” had certain unwritten rules about being “nice” (read: being woke)
Only in groups where they already bullied anybody who doesn’t agree out of the room or into silence.
I got lucky, I never accepted “woke.” My parents took everything as a “turn it around and see if you can argue the opposite” opportunity, on the explicit theory that if you can’t argue against something you don’t know enough to argue for it.
Took me years to figure out that was part of my difficulties with making “friends,” since they wanted an obedient foot soldier.
I never was woke. I never will be woke. May God damn (yes, that’s the right word: damn, curse, anathematize) liberal progressive feminist secularism straight to the eternal fires of hell to burn forever and ever with Lucifer its inspiration and his infernal minions the demons its diabolical helpers. I utterly despise, loathe, abhor, detest, and hold in abject disdain and disgust that putrid, vile, murderously perverted gangster organization known as the Democratic Party, along with BLM, Antifa and Planned Parenthood.