{"id":65708,"date":"2021-03-11T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65708"},"modified":"2021-03-12T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:44:00","slug":"65708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65708","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are<\/a><\/p>\n

Most Americans hate woke politics \u2014 and most minorities don\u2019t share \u201cwoke\u201d priorities.\u00a0Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party.\u00a0Despite endless charges of \u201cracism,\u201d former President Donald Trump took the biggest share of minority voters of any Republican in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

Woke tyrants ride high, even so; according to a Cato\/YouGov poll, 62 percent of Americans self-censor their political expression. Only a tiny minority of consumers\u00a0care about Mr. Potato Head\u2019s toxic masculinity<\/a>, about \u201cAunt Jemima\u201d as a brand or about the #MeToo aggressions of Pep\u00e9 Le Pew. Yet corporations, universities and governments rush to placate that minuscule slice of the population, trashing large chunks of our culture in the process.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote: How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?<\/p>\n

How does this happen?\u00a0To some degree, the woke abuse the good nature of Americans. For the most part, Americans want their fellow citizens to be happy. If they hear something makes others unhappy, they generously look to change things.<\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s fear. Writing about the goings-on at New York\u2019s Dalton School,\u00a0Bari Weiss notes<\/a>\u00a0that even parents who think the political correctness has gone too far are afraid to speak out:\u00a0They think their kids\u2019 shot at the Ivy League could be at risk.\u00a0And it\u2019s not just Dalton.<\/p>\n

Weiss quotes one mother: \u201cI look at the public school, and I am equally mortified. I can\u2019t believe what they are doing to everybody. I\u2019m too afraid. I\u2019m too afraid to speak too loudly. I feel cowardly. I just make little waves.\u201d Another says: \u201cIt\u2019s fear of retribution. Would it cause our daughter to be ostracized? Would it cause people to ostracize us? It already has.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his book \u201cSkin in the Game,\u201d Nicholas Nassim Taleb writes about the surprising ability of small but intransigent minorities \u2014 3 percent to 4 percent is enough \u2014 to change the direction of entire societies. He writes: \u201cThe most intolerant wins. . . . Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. . . . [I]t will eventually destroy our world. So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does this mean we should be less tolerant of our own minoritarian tyrants? In a word, yes.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean that they should be forced into camps, or even driven from their jobs and from polite society, as the woke are all too willing to do to their opponents. But they need to be deprived of the thing that is most important to their self-image:\u00a0moral credibility.<\/p>\n

The woke think of themselves \u2014 and want everyone else to think of them \u2014 as deeply moral. If they have a flaw, it\u2019s that they just care too much.\u00a0They\u2019re too idealistic, too empathetic, too eager to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s bulls\u2013t (pardon my French, Pep\u00e9!). If you look at what they do, rather than what they say about themselves, it quickly becomes obvious that the woke are horrible, awful, people, and they should be treated as such and reminded of this whenever they raise their head.<\/p>\n

Historically, it\u2019s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech.\u00a0It isn\u2019t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context.\u00a0It isn\u2019t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers.<\/p>\n

You know who does these things?\u00a0Horrible, awful people.\u00a0Selfish people.\u00a0People with serious mental and emotional problems who seek some sort of vindication for their deficient characters by taking power trips while imposing suffering on others.<\/p>\n

Treat these tyrants as what they are:\u00a0awful people who shouldn\u2019t be listened to and who need to work hard on joining the better half of the human race. And remind them of it, over and over. Because it\u2019s true.\u00a0Deep down, they know it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are Most Americans hate woke politics \u2014 and most minorities don\u2019t share \u201cwoke\u201d priorities.\u00a0Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party.\u00a0Despite endless charges of \u201cracism,\u201d former President Donald Trump took the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65730,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions\/65730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}