We have to be mindful of the fact that "the enemy of my enemy" sometimes sees us as its enemy.
Wokeness isn't the only totalitarian ideology that has tried to take over culture in recent years. Feminism obviously did this, and succeeded, in the 60s. Another example, much less well known, is that of the cult of Scientism, aka scientific rationalism. This ideology, contrary to its gaslighting and bullshit, is a totalitarian ideology that began to rise in the late 70s and was ascendant all the way til the 2000s, when it was split in 2 by Wokeness, creating Atheism+. Scientific rationalism is to rationality as social justice is to justice.
All of these are scummy totalitarian ideologies that try to take over culture by taking over academia. All of them must be kerb-stomped back into the sewer they crawled out of if Western society is to continue to exist free of totalitarianism.
All are arguably an extension of Marxism, just replacing class grievance with gender/race/etc, but these types of comparisons are a bit oversimplified IMO. For example, vanilla Marxists vehemently oppose wokeness. Also, most of the literary foundation of wokeness didn't exist during early feminism.
As cannon fodder, nothing more. If we'd followed this adage more strictly in the 1900s, we wouldn't be dealing with this now.
We have to be mindful of the fact that "the enemy of my enemy" sometimes sees us as its enemy.
Wokeness isn't the only totalitarian ideology that has tried to take over culture in recent years. Feminism obviously did this, and succeeded, in the 60s. Another example, much less well known, is that of the cult of Scientism, aka scientific rationalism. This ideology, contrary to its gaslighting and bullshit, is a totalitarian ideology that began to rise in the late 70s and was ascendant all the way til the 2000s, when it was split in 2 by Wokeness, creating Atheism+. Scientific rationalism is to rationality as social justice is to justice.
All of these are scummy totalitarian ideologies that try to take over culture by taking over academia. All of them must be kerb-stomped back into the sewer they crawled out of if Western society is to continue to exist free of totalitarianism.
Feminism and wokeness are the same thing. The only difference is how much power they've managed to accumulate.
All are arguably an extension of Marxism, just replacing class grievance with gender/race/etc, but these types of comparisons are a bit oversimplified IMO. For example, vanilla Marxists vehemently oppose wokeness. Also, most of the literary foundation of wokeness didn't exist during early feminism.