Browse 167 quotes about Woke.
“Not free at last, but free at first - be the first to question inhuman convention, be the first to question unjust law, be the first to question cruel logic, be the first to question a bigoted population.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“When 'sacred' is anagram for 'scared', to sin is our Earth Gospel.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Call out the monkeys in a million different ways - make intolerance the most unacceptable tradition in human history.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“The same progressive activists who campaign against microaggressions might also call for the banning of conservative speakers, for the forbidding of displays of support for certain political candidates, and for the creation of safe spaces where progressive ideas can go unchallenged by opposing views.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Sensitive to slight, they police even unintentional verbal offenses; concerned with the oppressed, they champion minorities and vilify the privileged; reliant on help, they publicly air lists of grievances. The university is the epicenter of victimhood culture. As such it is the epicenter of microaggression complaints, as well as trigger warnings, safe spaces, and hate crime hoaxes.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The claim that nations and nationalism are modern ideological constructs invented by intellectuals and spread by means of state authority and the state's apparatuses is a misleading half-truth that is itself a modernist (or postmodernist) ideological construct originating with intellectuals and requiring deconstruction.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars
“The new norm has become so stringent that even suggesting that there is a physical difference between a man and a woman can be considered a violation of sexual integrity.
The Black Lives Matter movement is captured in this as well. The tendency toward increasingly exhaustive standards with respect to racism intensified to little productive end: The chances that such rules truly contribute to the overcoming of the narcissistic superiority feelings that are involved in racism is, in fact, rather small.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“The -woke- see people in terms of their group identity rather than their individual qualities. Race, gender and sexuality -as opposed to class or economic disparities- are taken to be the determining factors when it comes to mapping the power structures that undergird society. This is why intersectionality plays such a significant role within the discourse of Critical Social Justice.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“First and foremost, -wokeness- is a belief system underpinned by the postmodernist notion that our understanding of reality is constructed through language. Its adherents are convinced that words can be a form of violence and that censorship -either by the state or Silicon Velley tech giants or societal pressure (colloquially known as cancel culture)- is therefore necessary to guarantee social justice.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“The map of the Critical Social Justice world is not composed of the coordinate systems of latitude and longitude, but the invisible power structures derived from a Foucaldian understanding of human relations.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“Just as the symbol of Christ's crucifix encapsulates the triumph of the victim and has been exploited historically as a means to exert power over others, the rainbow Pride flag now serves a similar function.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“The struggle for gay rights was about equal treatment before the law and making visible those whose persecution by the state had driven them into the shadows of society. Now that equality has been achieved, Pride has descended into a corporate orgy of identitarianism. The rainbow flag and all its tawdry spin-offs are a marker of virtue for companies that wish to sell products to the gullible and declare their commitment to -diversity and inclusion-.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“It is only through reckoning with the truth that we might seek to ameliorate the many inequalities of our world. For all the emphasis on -lived experience-, objective truth still matters. We should be wary of those who tell us otherwise in order to preserve the delicate scaffolding of their pseudo-reality.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“Being opposed to progress has always been the wrong side of history.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“CRT poses, in essence, a sharply pointed question. What, really, were the chances that the white, propertied men of the early American Republic would set up a judicial and political and economic system that didn’t privilege...white, propertied men? Critical Theorists would say those chances would be, approximately, . . . zero.”
Source: Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More
“In Western democracies, not only do elected governments, who were elected to represent the people, not favour their own citizens, society, fueled by left-wing mainstream media, has made it racist and bigoted to suggest they should.”
“The police in the UK are too scared to act in case they are labelled racists. This is what uncontrolled immigration does to societies. It's the same in Europe. The best way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.”
“The left don't attack racism, they attack the race, which of course is the definition of racism. They have this idea that no matter what is done or said to white people, it is not racism. That is their mentality.”
“The problem with the woke people, the social justice warriors, or the left, is that they consider Islam to be a race, and therefore to criticize Islam is racist. In fact, Islam is a religion, which anyone can join, or be indoctrinated into, men, women, and children, unless you are gay of course, because then you would be murdered.”
“Modern whites coddle hate and prejudice,
and use free speech as justification.
If any humane white ever questions hate,
they're branded, woke traitor to the nation.
Till this day, white people manufacture
99% of the world's human rights violations.
If you right the wrong, it's cussed as wokeness,
To support white terrorism is patriotism.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Most of us who champion free speech also believe in the idea of etiquette and the social contract. We simply do not believe that such parameters should be legally enforced by censorship or compelled speech diktats.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“Bad social science might result from systematic bias, but to embrace blame analysis as a way of evaluating theory or to transform sociology into advocacy for the oppressed is to do something else entirely.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Much scholarship is nothing more than political activism, and much teaching nothing more than indoctrination.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell’s 1984 than to Brave New World.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“A particular lethal combo is when culture of victimization -we were wronged last week, last decade, last millennium- is coupled with a culture of honor's ethos of retribution.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Collective guilt, the damaging impact of cultural appropriation, our servility to amorphous power structures, the primacy of identity politics; all of these concepts and more are now uncritically accepted by many of those in positions of authority. When politicians use phrases such as 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism', for instance, they are deploying the language of Critical Race Theory without necessarily understanding the full implications of the ideas behind the buzzwords. They are the unsuspecting agents of applied postmodernism.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“That racism still exists is taken as evidence of the failure of the liberal project, but of course nobody has made the case that it has been eradicated. If a disease is cured but a few symptoms linger, one does not claim that the treatment was ineffective. Social liberalism is an ongoing process because it recognizes the imperfectability of human nature.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“Victimhood culture makes it hard to avoid wrongdoing. If you have any kind of privilege, the social world is full of peril; you always risk giving offense. Engage in small talk and you might be guilty of a microaggression. Cook a new dish or adopt a new hairstyle and you might be guilty of cultural appropiation. Teach about something unpleasant and you might be guilty of triggering someone. Express your religions or political beliefs and you might be guilty of violence. Whatever you do, you must do it in a way that is supportive of victims and reproachful of their oppressors.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The logic of victimhood culture means no speech is clearly protected.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“It is only when faced with deep differences, with cultural miscommunication and moral conflict, that we become aware that our way of seeing the world is not universally shared.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The older revolutionaries sought to change the social environment in the hope (if they were idealists and not mere power seekers) of changing human nature. Then coming revolutionaries will make their assault directly on human nature as they find it, in the minds and bodies of their victims or, if you prefer, their beneficiaries.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“Whereas democracy is founded on the negotiation of diverging viewpoints, ideology is sustained through intolerance of dissent. You are, as the saying has it, either with us or against us. This is the essence of bigotry.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“The ongoing culture war, whose existence if often denied by its chief antagonists, is no longer something that any of us can afford to ignore. Culture warriors have always been small in number, but lately, they have inveigled their way into positions of power and influence. As a result, the sphere of combat has extended into our homes, our schools, our places of work. Families, friendships and other relationships have been ruined. Many of us would prefer not to participate, but weapons have been forced into our hands. Culture warriors threaten to divide us even as they claim to be healing division. They couch their regressive ideas in progressive terminology, and those who attempt to slow their momentum are quickly subdued.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“There are all sorts of examples of how we have been urged to take on trust a variety of extraordinary claims. Practitioners of 'Fat Studies' maintain that there are no authentic health risks to obesity, and that the seemingly irrefutable evidence to the contrary is the product of the inherent bigotry of the scientific method. An image of an individual with a bloodstained crotch is shared online to prove that men can menstruate, when we can all quite clearly see that this is a biological female who identifies as male. According to the new puritans, the observable realities of existence are a mirage. Only they have access to the truth, and we are all invited to jettison verifiable facts and nod along. Is this really any different from a preacher who insists that his supernatural interpretation of the world must be uncritically accepted without any evidence to support it?”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“Where the New Left promoted the politics of unity, today’s intersectional reactionaries promote the politics of division.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“For the new puritans, nothing need be explained or rationalized, because objective truth has become subordinated to -lived experience-. Where Marx saw society as an ongoing competition for resources and power between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (a development from Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic), the high priests of Critical Social Justice see society as stratified according to identity politics.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it. As platitudinous as this might sound, it is worth reiterating at a time when cultural revolutionaries are promoting a tunnel-visioned approach to history and the arts. An alternative reality based on a denial of the past is no kind of reality at all.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“...vegans are often urban intellectuals disconnected from Nature, in denial of the principles that govern it.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“Only Marxists still claim that capitalism necessarily mistreats employees. A good boss has nothing to be ashamed of, just like a good farmer.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“Veganism is a totalitarian political ideology beyond simple diet. Veganism has its own moral code. Thus, for a vegan, artificial insemination of farm animals is the equivalent of rape.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“Los estudiantes universitarios de hoy han vivido unos tiempos extraordinarios y, en consecuencia, muchos de ellos han desarrollado una extraordinaria pasión por la justicia social.”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“One problem with taking on a physical or mental disability as an identity is that it disincentivizes any possible mitigation of the disability.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Consequently, we now have Social Justice texts -forming a kind of Gospel of Social Justice- that express, with absolute certainty, that all white people are racist, all men are sexist, racism and sexism are systems that can exist and oppress absent even a single person with racist of sexist intentions or beliefs (in the usual sense of the terms). sex is not biological and exists on a spectrum, language can be literal violence, denial of gender identity is killing people, the wish to remedy disability and obesity is hateful, and everything needs to be decolonized.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Mental health activism also frequently regards mental illness as a marginalized identity. One problem with this approach is that people tend to get attached to their identities and this may discourage some from seeking treatment and trying to recover.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“The ideas of Social Justice scholarship often look good on paper. That's almost always the way with bad theories.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Communism is a great example of the human tendency to fail to appreciate how our best theories can fail catastrophically in practice, l even if their adherents are motivated by an idealistic vision of "the greater good".”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Social Justice cannot succeed because it does not correspond with reality or with core human intuitions of fairness and reciprocity and because it is an idealistic metanarrative.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“Religions and many theoretical constructions are metanarratives, but liberalism and science are not.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“People in liberal systems are free to believe anything they wish, and they're free to argue for anything they want, but to claim that such beliefs are knowledge and demand they be respected as such is another matter.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody