The woke supremacy: the suprematism of the “awakened” is today the most dangerous in America (and beyond)
As all those who follow American things know, in the United States there is a riot of neologisms, new socio-political and political-legal brands, extravagant definitions, acronyms … In at least one case there is also the case of an authentic grammatical monster: the expression woke, which is used as an adjective (meaning "aware" and "well informed ") while it would be a verbal form (the past tense of to wake, which means "wake up", "wake up", " awaken ").
In use for some years, the term has skyrocketed in popularity since it has been on the lips of leftist militants to essentially denote being vigilant in the face of social injustice and racism. The radical movement – and hugely popular brand – Black Lives Matter (BLM) , for example, embraced it with enthusiasm, while Tim Scott, a Republican and black senator from South Carolina, with a stroke of linguistic genius added a noun to it, coining the new expression woke supremacy (which evokes the hated white supremacy ), with reference to the self-persuasion of people on the far left that their opinions are more important or valid than those of those who think differently.
The Catholic website Crisis Magazine has recently occupied the phenomenon to which this new expression refers, with a sobering piece, signed by RC VanLandingham and entitled "The threat of woke supremacy " . Supremacist movements are bad, VanLandingham argues. Of course, those based on the idea of racial supremacy are. But, beware, even those who focus on the persuasion of ideological supremacy can be.
Of course, it is not that belief in the supremacy of a certain ideology is in itself an evil. This would be absurd, since it is right for a person to believe that the ideology that follows is superior to the others. Otherwise, what is the point of following that ideology? “For example, as a Catholic I believe that the Catholic faith is superior to all other faiths. If I didn't, I wouldn't be Catholic, ”explains VanLandingham. The problem arises only if I believe I am "personally" superior to other human beings who do not share my ideology or belief. To put it simply: if I think I'm superior to you because I'm right while your head is full of lies, well, then I'm automatically going to the wrong side. "Such supremacist thinking," VanLandingham writes, "has been responsible for the persecution, imprisonment and even murder of millions and millions of people throughout history, including tens of millions in the twentieth century alone."
Now, in America today, "the main supremacist danger does not come from Christian supremacists, or Jewish supremacists, or Muslim supremacists, or even white supremacists or black supremacists, but from woke supremacists". Being woke , to begin with, is damned by hypocrites and moralists, like the Pharisee in the parable, who thanks God for not being a sinner like the tax collector. In short, the "awakened" believe they are better than others and despise those who are not like them. And most of all, they are damned keen to let the world know that they are the best. Just like the Pharisees against whom Jesus warned us.
And then, the reasoning continues, “to be truly woke means to be ruthless. God tells us to forgive those who have sinned against us, but 'the awakened ones' never forgive. They'll destroy a teenager for a tweet he made years ago or get a person fired for a skin color joke. When a person offends the woke crowd, that person must be treated like a social leper, no matter how humiliated, and he is expected to languish in misery forever. "
And then these people live in lies, that is, in a world where there is no objective truth. "For example, the 'awakened' pretend that there are more than 60 sexes instead of the two created by God." But the Woke Supremacists don't stop there because being a Supremacist requires the submission of those who are different. It means destroying those who have not 'woken up' enough. It means not tolerating someone disagreeing with their views.
The picture painted by VanLandingham is bleak on one side, frightening on the other. And after all, putting the reader on duty is precisely the main objective of the article. Not for nothing, as an explanation of what can happen, the news is cited that last March the CIA published a video aimed at the recruitment of new personnel in which the American intelligence agency kneels before the woke cult, demonstrating moreover who is actively trying to recruit the most immodest, narcissistic and grotesquely selfish people in the world: the woke millennials .
Commenting on the Breitbart news , John Nolte writes:
“Look at this obscenely pompous garbage and see if you can catch the one word that isn't used […]. The recruiting video features a narcissist who prances without restraint ranting about how awesome she is and how proud she is of herself, not for her accomplishments, but for something she has no control over: her identity, her race, her his sexuality ( cisgender ) and even – do you realize? – his 'generalized anxiety disorder'. […] But have you noticed what is the one word this disgusting CIA agent didn't use? Not once did he use the word 'American' ”.
"I'm proud of myself. Period, ”says another agent. Now, Nolte rightly observes, “who the hell is talking like that? I'm proud of myself? Sometimes. Sometimes I'm not that proud of myself. Either way there is no 'point', it's just that I'm a down-to-earth, self-aware adult who knows I'm far from perfect and not an insecure peacock who believes my 'identity 'define me precisely ”.
VanLandingham, for his part, concludes with a cry of alarm:
“And now imagine those same woke supremacists who run corporate America at the helm of the CIA, the NSA and the FBI. How long will it be before those who espouse the teachings of the Church find themselves spied, on the No-Fly List , or banned from government jobs? How long will it take before you are imprisoned, 're-educated' or even executed? "
Well, a glimpse of the dystopian scenario evoked by the Crisis Magazine piece is the freshest news – reported by only a few sources of information, including the Washington Examiner – that a US Space Force Lieutenant Colonel , Matthew Lohmeier, has been relieved of command of the United States. '11th Space Warning Squadron , stationed in Colorado, having lost its reliability and the "confidence" on the part of the Space Force "in its ability to lead". What the hell did the high officer do to deserve such ignominious treatment? Well, none other than denouncing in public comments, and in a newly released book, the impact of a grassroots neo-Marxist agenda within the military and how the Black Lives Matter movement, the postmodernism, Critical Race Theory (another political-legal monstrum ) and political correctness influence the national security of the United States. The book is titled "Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military" . It might be worthwhile to embark on reading …
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