Argumentative Penguin
1 min readApr 28, 2023

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I think this is a fair definition - the problem is, this also includes me. And I'm a left of centre liberal and in no way wish to associate myself with 'woke'. That is largely because after correctly identifying 'societal injustices and forms of oppression' many individuals who identify this way produce solutions designed to overcome their own individual social injustice, quite often presented as the most urgent reform required in the modern universe. They are committed to overcoming 'isms' and 'phobes' often without taking the time to consider what might be fuelling such things. Woke is a selection of bourgeoise solipsists all deciding they have the solution and enforcing it at gunpoint.

I say that as someone who is not a Conservative.... what the Conservatives have been able to do so easily point out the batshit glaring inconsistencies between the subgroups and exploit the failure of the left to behave cohesively. That's why you've written a whole bunch of articles about how awful Keir Starmer is, because he's a 'phobe' and not really considered the wider political landscape outside of the trans-bubble. It's why Dianne Abbott is being frog-marched out of the Labour Party because each sub-group has control of the microphone for twenty minutes and uses their time to attack people who are ideologically (in the broad sense of the word) aligned with them.

Woke is Dunning-Kruger on steroids and it's far removed from the beautiful idea it once was. Once again.... still a liberal. :o)

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Argumentative Penguin
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