Debunking the Myth of Systemic Racism in America

Debunking the Myth of Systemic Racism in AmericaRick McDowell – You can find racism in the United States if you undertake a mission to look for it. Maybe at some Black barbershop, a middle-aged White businessman would encounter racism. But do not despair: there is always another barbershop. No need to set that one on fire or create national news in outrage.

It is hard to find anything at all that the unhappy Left does not consider racist. Pete Buttigieg, the frequently unavailable Secretary of Transportation, informed us that roads are racist. Seattle schools were the first to declare that “Western math” is racist, used to oppress people of color. California is expected to follow. Continue reading

Jiggery-Pokery Wokery

Jiggery-Pokery WokeryJ.B. Shurk – I must admit that I have grown fond of this new adjective, woke.  It saves me the time of pointing out how delusional, disingenuous, intolerant, illiterate, and religiously fanatical the woke minions tend to be.

Ultimately, to be woke means both “deceived” and “deceiving,” and for these reasons, it slides nicely into a linguistically fun Scottish phrase, jiggery-pokery, used to describe dishonest behavior.  Taken together, jiggery-pokery wokery is amusing enough to belittle the woke legions’ cult-like comportment and cut it down to size for its mindless silliness. Continue reading

Anatomy of the Woke Madness

woke ideologyVictor Davis Hanson – Wokism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.”

Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our history—whether by The 1619 Project and cancel culture or iconoclastic statue-toppling and Trotskyization of names and places. Wokeism becomes a child’s morality tale of noble non-white victims versus villainous white victimizers. Erasing the past and its language supposedly fuels a recalibration of the future, all in the here and now, a holy Year Zero

In the process, wokeism has done a lot of damage to America, and will do even more if left unchecked. Here are its chief characteristics. Continue reading

‘Mean’ wokeness is creating ‘cranky liberals’ like Bill Maher

DemocratsPatriots4Life – Fox News contributor and Democratic pundit Jessica Tarlov has just about had it with the left’s woke mob — and she wants her party to understand that if they keep following the uber-liberal throng, they are going to make loyal voters “cranky” and turn them into “disenchanted Democrats.” Which, she believes, will cost her party electorally.

In an op-ed for The Hill this week, Tarlov began by citing HBO’s Bill Maher who has become known of late for his criticism of the woke left and the Democratic Party. She admitted that she hasn’t been a Maher fan, having often been offended by things he says about race and Islam, but now, she said, he is hitting “all the right notes.”

And she has “been loving it” — especially the focus on “mean woke” people who are turning leftists like Maher into “cranky liberals” and “cranky Democrats.” Continue reading

‘Woke’ Leftists Are Creating Hell on Earth

wokeNiamh Harris – The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has warned that ‘woke’ leftists are creating a literal ‘hell on earth’ that stifles the kind of creative freedom he enjoyed in the 60s.

 

The iconic singer made the comments during a recent appearance on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music 1 podcast.

“I don’t know, we might get somewhere because it’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation,” Daltrey said.

“It’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves. I mean, anyone who’s lived a life and you see what they’re doing, you just know that it’s a route to nowhere,” he added. Continue reading