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Broadly the biggest issue with wokeness is the introduction of thought terminating cliches that only require self-invocation to exercise, as opposed to collective consensus. Terms have been assigned significant valence without need for review, and at peak wokeness it was necessary to grovel in advance at the mere prospect of a new term being theoretically introduced at an unspecified future date, leading to pre-emptive self-abasement and outgroup preference signalling to convey ideological purity. The keystone logic allowing this subversion of logical order is the attribution of all disparate outcomes to external factors, placing the burden of responsibility on others who are presumed able to exercise power. This incentivizes weakening of self to force others to exercise their power and resources for yourself, and this is the defining presentation of wokeness.
Wokeness required coopting existing high-valence terms and applying it without necessary scrutiny. Genocide is thrown about casually by wokists because genocide is understood to be a Bad Thing. But what if there is no actual genocide? Then just change definitions! Trans genocide is because trans people commit suicide at higher rates, and the lack of trans health care is what causes suicides, so trans health care MUST be mandated to prevent genocide. To effect this, suicide must be redefined as solely due to the trans experience or lack thereof instead of considering other psychological or temporal events, health care must be expanded to include puberty blockers for minors so as to prevent even the possibility of suicide, and trans people must now encompass the entirety of nonconforming presentations so as to ensure everything gets redirected to trans advocacy instead of considering crossdressers or tomboys or autogynephiliacs. With social justice language employing the progressive stack to artificially inflate the moral value of the disempowered, it was inevitable that actors would seek to performatively disempower themselves to exploit the social meta.
Accepting this unreality was acceptable only when indulging it had manageable consequences. ZIRP facilitates economic unaccountability, allowing all manner of sinecure and commisars to be present because scalping a few sacrifices was preferable to having mass revolts from employees more scared of peer social sanction. But as economic and social reality ground its way back to the forefront, it became impossible to continue hiding behind social justice language. Crime is real, even when committed by blacks. Mass child rape of white girls by muslims did happen, despite frenzied attempts to abuse statistics. Migrants did surge over the US border, bringing crime instead of good vibes. Transwomen are actually stronger than natal women, because men are THAT much stronger and transwomen being 30% weaker than men matters little when men are 70% stronger than women. DEI hiring did not increase corporate bottom lines and instead brought increased dysfunction. And with each turning of realities screws, it became more and more difficult for wokeness to assert the value of its foundational presentation. Given the speed of the vibe shift, it just transpired that the screws were much shallower than even skeptics may have dared realize.
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