Argumentative Penguin
2 min readMar 12, 2021

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Presumably the Danish had a sudden benevolence of the oppressors moment then? Last time I checked, it also had white men... then without going into a bun-fight of epic proportions they magically had egalitarianism. The red stockings disbanded in 1985.

Could it be that dismantling the patriarchy works better when screaming 'white men are all evil' isn't how it works best? For one thing, it ignores the class issue - and that allows wealthy white politicans to co-opt the working class into a faux race war rather than finding common ground with minorities in the same economic class.

It could be that increasing tax levels and bringing in universal health and social care might be a better solution. Wokeism distracts from the actual solution by offering an easy target for angry people. It might've been easier to get real progressive legislation through the US Senate via Bernie Sanders (white guy) if the argument didn't descend into who gets what gendered bathroom and pronouns.

It's a very bleak world view that believes that human life is a zero sum game - I don't believe that in the slightest and it's an incredibly nihilistic view of the shared human history of men and women.

The answer is socialism. Socialism is what people need and what people should be fighting for. Economic redistribution to give people the space to have further discussion. Wokeism isn't happy with that. it wants a boogeyman and endlessly circular discussions about how evil white men are and how oppressed everyone is.

Things that lead people out of poverty will get us to the next stage of human society. That's not about identities and power disputes - that's about economic redistribution. That's about pushing the demos leftwards through classi liberal democracy and carefully managed socialism. It doesn't matter what skin colour and genitals you have. Those arguments lead precisely nowhere.

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