Argumentative Penguin
1 min readMar 12, 2021

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/10/and-the-least-feminist-nation-in-the-world-is-denmark

You mean this place? My issue isn't with the endgame of egalitarianism, my issue is with the methodology of how we get there. The Danes have forged an egalitarian society exactly because they've shied away from wokeism.

They don't see life as a perpetual series of oppression based arguments- they just crack on. I'm with you on dismantling hierarchies that don't function, and replacing them with ones that do. That's the basis of a meritocracy.

I don't think the blending of Marxism and post-structuralism is the way to do that. Tell everyone they're a victim, blame everything on the patriarchy and cut any and all reasonable discourse about solutions in favour of pointing and screaming about offence. It doesn't encourage discussion or solution, it does the exact opposite. Woke is entrenching the problem it purports to solve.

I'd rather do what the Danes have done and build a society on cooperation. You can't cooperate in an argument, because nobody is working toward common ground. The argument itself becomes about 'who wins' - that's US politics beteween 2016 and now.

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Argumentative Penguin
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