The Hyper-Reactive Left in Context
A critique of the benign modern Left when contrasted to the factually dangerous Right.
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NOTE: As always, I’m aware of the jargon and length of this piece. I use jargon to be precise in my language and to challenge my readers to look up terms themselves rather than me expanding the writing even further. This is with the intention and hope that we can all “level up” our language rather than me oversimplifying in this era of diseducation, disinformation, and social media attention spans. If we are to help unify the divisions of the world, I do not think “dumbing down” is the answer. Let’s all push our boundaries, as I certainly did in writing this.
Last, this essay is still undergoing revision as I work to splitting it into two separate pieces, I posted it rougher than usual due to recent developments in the media. ~M
Defining Left vs Right
The importance of community and togetherness have been dramatically highlighted through the Covid-19 pandemic. As we saw in the first wave response of respecting “front line workers” and medical professionals, this highlights the “we” mentality required in a public health crisis that which is in direct opposition to the “I” exacerbated by the narcissistic Trump administration and largely explains the social divide we are witnessing.
Perhaps the “Left” is presented as more radicalized due to its long-standing activism in response to the direct assault on our environment: decades of climate denial in this endgame which continues to be pushed aside in pandemic precedence, meanwhile regressive and oppressive policies on BIPOC/LGBTQ/labour rights —all classically issues of the Left — simultaneously peaking in this era of an unparalleled intersection of political issues.
At the start of the pandemic, it seemed like the causes of the Left were finally gaining traction (I describe what I mean by finally, in Part 2). Yet instead, we are now witnessing a backlash deflection and minimization of progressive political activism as “woke” by those wielding the power to influence public perception. If there was any “conspiracy” it would be controlling the narrative on what is actually Left.
In this two-part series I will first break down the obviously oversimplified Left/Right conventions in language as I will be using them as I lead readers further into my writing. I will then put these terms in a greater context to dissect their propagandizing of “wokeism” by the mainstream media.
Let’s begin by summarizing the battles of the contemporary progressive Left:
- Climate change, pollution, and sustainability
- Women’s rights
- Justice and awareness facing First Nations communities & decolonization
- Racism
- Workers’ rights
- Access to healthcare
- Poverty, classism, affordable housing
- Unjust incarceration and the extension of the police state
- Sexual/orientation liberation
- Mutual aid and direct democracy
- Drug reform (you know… psychedelics & mental health reform)
Blanket statement minimizing of the “Left” delegitimizes the multi-faceted battles and minimizes progress as a whole: from Amazon’s unions to women’s rights & civil rights — and all those listed above. For example: American Left — Wikipedia — a glimpse at a very broad topic… so it's a little reductionist to minimize the Left as “woke” as the mainstream capitalist media (MSM) propagandize when nearly everyone has benefitted from the progress made — often through bloodshed — during the battles of social justice freedoms that we now take for granted.
Propaganda in Action
There’s a reason why Christian Smalls, going the Black Panthers tended to align with anarcho/socialist values, named or not: it’s not a coincidence when they are examining the root/overarching power dynamics that oppressed them. And precisely why many of these discussions remain taboo and completely reframed by the dominant MSM as seen in the images above.
You have more in common with that “purple haired” outspoken Lefty that you are taught to hate by Fox than the generational wealth billionaire. Many are now programmed towards resentment because we can literally see these “targets” on the street… and they might just inspire you to wake up to your own internalized oppression. When was the last time you saw a billionaire? This is propagandized divide and conquer in action.
And most of this, coming from supposed active community leaders (community tending to be the “We” of the Left) now filling their heads with right wing pundits directly opposed to their living breathing values — those listed above. Do you even know what your values are? Have you consolidated them into a workable definition? Work backwards to find out.
I’m writing this to fill this gap (to the best of my ability) in political literacy I see in society today. A gap caused by Right-wing propaganda. With many people thinking they have Right-wing or Centrist views while disavowing the Left — when they themselves likely hold Left wing without admitting it, simply due to misidentified diseducation. So let’s clear things up, at least from my political experience, keeping in mind my deliberate use of the term “Modern Left”.
What we are seeing is a response to the complete incoherence of political discourse we’ve seen accelerate during the pandemic: blatant hypocrisy, and stark gaps in logic. Especially to people uninformed in the larger political landscapes and in-depth critiques by authors — not bloggers or pundits. As always, no judgement at the individual level (to my friends and colleagues)— I see this as a deliberate failure of the high school education system and numerous interwoven facets I’ll be exploring as this book/blog series advances.
What I see is a total lack of political landscape cohesion, fragmented opinions piecemealed together by what social media siloes us into, the topics we should be outraged about without exposing the fundamental structural mechanisms behind them — addressing the problem at the root.
This is the same as what I am observing in the anti-vax movements: No, no one has ALL the answers (but as I wrote in my first Covid article, 1+1=2, always: facts are facts), but many have a more solid factual platform and simply know more than many of us. And we/they should be approached with a respectfully inquisitive demeanor. So, when I hear “how can anyone know the truth”, I refer to my *first* essay, and the fact that we do have facts and it is these that the Right minimize, mischaracterize, or outright avoid.
In pandemic politics, the more misinformed people get the further Right they lean, and the further Right they lean, the more misinformed they become.
Taking “mandates” as an example — we have/had to try all the tools in the toolbox if we are to truly be a compassionate society minimizing the deaths leaving children orphaned or parents childless from preventable deaths. Were these oversteps? Let those with legal expertise in the courts decide, rather than blaming “Trudeau”, especially when these were largely enacted by and in the jurisdiction of Conservative politicians. The knee-jerk lack of legal expertise is mind-numbing. As I’ll repeat — not everything needs your algorithmed opinion. It's okay to take your time to come to a conclusion and admit you don't have all the answers.
Because in my view, the same people attacking the minority “woke” Left to such a toxic degree, without equally if not more vocally attacking the actually violent Far Right (as I’ll dissect below) would almost certainly be the same people fighting against the Civil Rights Movements of the 60’s. Because what would that movement have been like, if they had access to social media at the time?
So when I see images like this, I have to point out that “Leftists” are on a near daily basis calling these issues out — by critiquing at the root: state capitalist oligarchies. On the one hand, this is a textbook boiling frog scenario — while we may not acutely be posting about every twist and turn of capitalism-in-action, these issues above are symptoms, and frankly idiotic memes like these paint & perpetuate some phantom “silent Leftist” when on the other there 100% absolutely were tweets and activists raising voices in condemnation. Talk about self-serving narrative-framing and revision of history. Do I really need to go back in history to prove this?
While there may be infighting on how to progress on the fronts listed at the start of this piece, with so much of a focus on liberation and justice — typically battles of the Left — and again by-definition are fought against both currently and historically by the conservative, often religious, capitalist Right who push back progress against the list above. So — liberation from whom?
… Into the Wrong Team
You can see I’m just loving how activists these days are written off as “Leftists” when flat-out we are the ones helping the world. Because anything unsustainable and un-egalitarian is by definition sociopathic.
There is a difference between “Liberals” who largely function on the Right-wing spectrum (being capitalists, etc) vs the legitimate Left. This is why the actual Left criticizes both Trump AND Biden — two facets of state capitalism. And this is a cause of infighting as the acutal Left self-corrects & self-analyzes tactics.
Yet just because you may disagree with aspects of AOC why do people leap into the arms of… Republicans and… MTG? (No links there because that's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down…) Stick WITH your “team” while you critique and improve tactics. You don’t jump ship… and then end up on Fox News.
It’s the same whataboutism mechanism I see when people criticize benign TCM while ignoring the real dangers of capitalist biomedicine: in this case critical of the Left meanwhile why aren’t you posting about the far worse Right? Do I need to reference my endless links on recent US domestic terrorism?
I’m not saying don't focus on these problems — again that’s how we progress — I’m simply saying keep sight of the context as there are MUCH bigger, more immediate threats out there, and why are these being diverted from our attention to these less urgent concerns? Especially by (idiot) pundits like Shapiro or Carlson.
And while party alignments shift over time (case in point, it was Lincoln’s Republicans who were loosely the party of freeing the slaves. Though, this is up for debate), regardless, the battles themselves, not party alignment, are the focus.
We now have a disillusioned segment: We have become so accustomed to the progress and integration we have made on these fronts (with countless lives lost in the process), that we forget exactly which team we are fighting on. LGBTQ+, BIPOC or environmentalist folks identifying as Right — propagandized to fall in line with the very same machine that fought against the privileges (*ahem* — rights) we now take for granted, the same wing that oppressed the warriors who fought for the freedoms they now enjoy.
This is entirely a direct and conscious assault from capitalist mainstream media fearmongering deflection.
We are Living in History
I see this this as all a natural process in the historical sense of things: people seem to forget that times change. Specifically using self-identified men as an example, in the previous centuries in the West as women were oppressed and their rights restricted at every turn by men — men were taught to act “manly”, to “buck up”, that emotion was a sign of weakness. And so now as documented by Robert Bly etc in the 90’s, we have a rebound generation of “soft men”: the male who either rebelled against the aggressive male — or was traumatized by it, having only recently had the opportunity to explore it.
It is only natural that we have these trends. And it is only natural that self-identified men begin redefining — essentially for the first time likely since the Middle Ages (I’m clearly generalizing) — what a healthy masculinity looks like: one that retains “masculinity” while respecting women and the oppressed. And this definition changes across cultures and times and is now seeking synthesis of these facets. And that by definition implies exploring new norms. But instead — they are simply brushed aside as “Leftist” demasculinized snowflakes (I’m going to avoid shit-posting anything related to Tucker’s documentary here). Rather than pioneers. As they are only just getting their collective bearings in history. Certain parts of the Middle East will inevitably experience this, in their own cultural timeline (without Western “intervention”.)
Just like falling down when learning how to ride a bike, wokeism is a stage. People complained about women in “male” lead roles (especially in the action genre) a mere few decades ago, and now have since normalized to it. This is a stage in history, and while being hyper-reactionary often backfires — the key point is that this is a context in history. Times change.
Evidence: Even the more improvised-language pronouns have been normalized in the past decade, generally now widely accepted as they/them — even on platforms such as LinkedIn. No “compelled speech” misinformation required — just basic human decency.
If gender and sex-positive education fucks up this current generation, it’s no different than the oppression of the previous; the point is progress — again, we are living through history, not at its end point.
But may I ask… Is wokeism killing people and planet? Can you show me the death count? Because Right-wing state capitalist ecocide, colonialism, anti-science that fills ICU’s, police brutality, and backwards anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric resulting in trans youth suicides sure are.
Always keep your endgame in sight: Are you contributing to measurable impact on the life or death issues we face today… or are holding back? The history books will not look kindly. So which wing do you ride, again?
PART TWO: The “Reactionary” Left
Is the current, what I “reactionary Left” a problem? Yes — we always need to be checking ourselves: as righteous as many loud members of the Left may be, we must always examine results. Are we succeeding in educating others on the mechanics of privilege and oppression — or are our tactics obnoxious, short-handed, demeaning, trolling; only furthering the separation which in turn fill the ranks of the right via guilt trips, virtue signalling and blame? Please reflect on your goals and desired outcomes.
Yet — I can’t stress this enough: the Left issues of minority/gender identities, gross economic/class inequality, sexual orientations, racial abuses etc, has literally been suppressed, oppressed, gaslit, murdered, burnt at the stake — centuries worth of suppressed cultural PTSD psychology. This is only NOW able to be brought into the light, via social media to be examined (and yes, I’m aware this can appear to be praising capitalist social media, but social media is not an ipso facto emergent property of capitalism, if anything it is being bastardized from the original anarchist ethos of Web 1.0).
The voiceless are for the first time in human history able to build communities, a generation of what I call cycle-breakers connecting across distances via the internet— asking to simply be recognized. As human. As another, beautiful expression of all the spectrum of what that means, validated. To connect and rebuild the world that — especially here in North American First Nations communities — attempted to normalize. Pink hair and all.
Am I being an apologist here? Is this an unconscious agenda or motivated reasoning? I’ve come to these conclusions from years of examination working backwards from the end values listed at the start. If you wish to disagree, please first inform yourself on the articles and videos I share here first. My reason is motivated by anything other than pursuit of solutions to explain the trends we are seeing.
I specialize in, and work with mental health every day. What I see on the meta-social level is a mass “Left” catharsis. Cathartic responses are rarely pretty. They can be loud, they can be intense, they can result in saying or acting out things — they may even come to regret. And some rage is absolutely, without question — a completely rational and valid response. Especially to a world normalized (also this) to being literally on fire, choking on plastic.
On the other hand, the Right-wing “reactions” I see are largely not trauma informed. Yes, of course the end goal in psychological reclamation is that at times we need “buck up” and stop victimizing ourselves but more often than not in my clinical experience I’ve come to see these as generationally inherited traumas. And those criticizing them, are the same ones who historically inflicted them. Let’s hear it from Gabor Mate, a STARK contrast to Jordan Peterson’s approach, keeping in mind that JP’s audience is primarily white middle class conservative boys:
So, these trends of wokism and cancel culture are as natural as PTSD fight or flight responses, except this trend is on a cultural level in a similar trend as those of the sixties, the previous major cultural revolution in the West. Further, when I say “reactionary” another factor is have you noticed that it is primarily university students being bullied by elite experienced professional media pundits with unparalleled power to shape public influence?
So let’s keep things in a bit of heart-based context, shall we? Afterall — it is the modern “Far Left” is most commonly represented by & protecting these marginalized populations — oppressed by definition: by conservatives (think: religion — please keep in mind the reasons why we use the term “conservative”), and the modern Far Right (colonialists, Nazis, capitalist oil barons decimating landscapes and indigenous populations, you name it).
On Free Speech and Cancel Culture
There is a difference between banning books, and not enabling perpetuation of hate. As I wrote in a previous piece:
Pay attention to those who are minimizing it, enabling it, avoiding it, creating conspiracies to blame-shift. These same personalities stir fear in some (relatively) non-existent threat of some “Leftist” enemy coming after your free speech (secret: they aren’t [Reference to Bill C-6]). And even if they were they are a temporary and often immature minority — meanwhile the actual governmental right-wing in the US are preparing to ban books and freedom to discuss theories on the origins and perpetuation of racism. When left unexamined, this may be a sign of things to come here in Canada. Where is JP’s outrage here [in reference to Republican book banning/anti-CRT], exactly? And to whom does this selective outrage serve?
So when it comes to political discourse again: focus on results. This doesn’t enable or excuse using people with moderately “Right-wing” values as punching bags, but it does offer a glimpse into the social psychology as to why it happens by the reactive abused Left. And as gender-fluidity, sexual orientation and race relations continues to improve [he writes with hesitation], so will the enantiodromia normalize. This is transgenerational trauma, emerging at once (social media is essentially a mere decade-and-a-half old) via the safety net of global cross-community connection. This movement is in its infancy. The first time many of these marginalized communities have experienced a sense of not being alone — and are coagulating and empowering each other, across borders, across isolation, sharing and redefining abuse responses. Because no one else has.
Something the majority likely haven’t experienced in such a degree.
Perhaps they are victimizing themselves precisely because they are victims; perhaps it is minimized as “identity politics” precisely because these identities have been ignored for ages, and bullying/dehumanizing, rather than offering compassionate critiques perpetuates the cycle. Leftists are more rabid to the direct degree that social media has allowed cross cultural examination, heightened awareness of the issues and oppression. This is a natural stage of pushback. And even when flawed, will find equilibrium.
Super quick cases in point (I have more but just want to get this posted):
Also:
The battles of the Left are multi-faceted. And while I diagnose that the “roots” of these current issues are late-stage colonialism/capitalism, a major defining factor is the cross-cultural values of the Left, which offers a dissertation-worthy discussion when contrasted to the single-mindedness of the Right.
In the meantime, tell me… How many “anti-hate” websites from the Right can you find? (And if you find them, and identify as Right, do you follow them?)
There are substantial numbers of Conservative active on Twitter, yet when I see these overblown accusations of censorship, yes of course shadow-banning is a problem — but it affects *both* sides. The only things I can conclude from the Right base is speaking to are the ones generally banned for misinformation and hate speech. As we watch this saga unfold, I again turn to the professionals: for example let the EU decide.
Speaking of Snowflakes…
- CRT And Moral Panic Sources — Google Docs
- Conservatism turned toxic: Donald Trump’s fanbase has no actual ideology, just a nihilistic hatred of liberals | Salon.com
- Master troll Ted Cruz predicts Democrats will become “obstructionists at a level we’ve never seen” | Salon.com
Basically…
Freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences.
Forced Representation or Collectivist Species Democracy?
Understanding Collectivism and Individualism — Fact / Myth (factmyth.com)
Democracy. About that. The human community quietly looking out for eachother. In a pandemic. As I have for my disabled sister and by extension, those like her. As the majority of you have for your families, colleagues — and strangers in the grocery store.
Strangers. Others. Humans.
The rest of us being the some 90% of the public (and truckers), who are quietly keeping your computers running, fridges full, treating your long-Covid, and tending to you in ICU.
Soo… Democracy.
And so, if this is your first experience with feeling the pinch of freedoms taken away — can you now not empathize with people who daily, weekly, endure racism, those mocked for their disabilities? If you were pro-convoy/anti-vax… these numbers show that you are… dun dun dunnn — A minority. Sound familiar? Can you now not sympathize?
Minorities have fought for decades for representation in the media, and is what we are seeing today on Netflix an overcompensation? Perhaps. Perhaps not — not when the dominant culture has been disproportionately represented since the dawn of television. Either way, does it personally affect you? Unless you are a snowflake who needs to have an opinion on everything — likely not.
Most had no problem with whitewashing of coloured characters for decades, up to and including Jesus himself, and NOW y’all have a problem? This is white supremacy in action. Let the trends be. Let it self-normalize and frankly just STFU when it comes to things that don’t actually affect you, dear delicate one. Leave it alone and focus on the real fights — not everything needs your opinion, not when the world is literally burning. As I hammered above, you’re being deflected, especially if you act/post more about the “Woke Left” than you do about climate and racism.
This democratization compensation is explored and seems to be validated by the Parasocial Contact Hypothesis. Keep in mind that you probably have an LGBTQ+ member of your family and BIPOC colleagues at work, so the representation in the Netflix era is likely proportionately accurate.
Once again, the science leans Left — we have never been a lone-wolf individualist species — this is a modern feature of increasing isolation and nuclearization of Western families. And while individual self-expression has exploded due to social media, I argue that social media is a direct outcropping of the human desire to connect from the isolated commercial-break television era of the previous Western nuclear family generations.
Hypocrisy?
Am I being sympathetic to on one hand support the “Left minorities” but on the other trash “Right minorities”? No. Absolutely not. First, this “Right minority” is not actually a minority, it is a predominantly whining white group sitting on a mountain of privilege that allows them to protest for weeks unimpeded when a similar movement by First Nations peoples would have been shut down… immediately before even getting to the freakin capitol.
Meanwhile poor old Joe Rogan's followers have increased.
Second, this is a choice for them. They choose to be unvaccinated (please don’t tell me this isn’t about vaccines — I will break down the “pro-choice” argument, seemingly hypocritical to my beliefs, in an upcoming piece). Meanwhile actual minority groups do not choose their skin colour, birth economic status, or orientation. I can go on slaughtering any other points about hypocrisy but instead I’ll let my readers reflect on these differences themselves in the meantime.
This isn’t about enabling and perpetuating victimhood — no one wants to remain a victim, and few people ever really do in their own psychological journey, which is now being reflected en masse.
This is about justice and reclamation.
This is despite classically defined, by-definition right wing conservative resistance to progress. (Don’t get me wrong — I think I believe the rational conservative-values segment act as a built-in species brake pedal to challenge & confirm unbridled progress, but this is a topic for another piece). Buuut unfortunately — rational conservatism has been almost entirely corrupted by fear-based anti-science/evidence, hyper-selfish, neo-religious personality-cult psychosis especially beginning in the Reagan era but peaking with Trump and his active campaign of “alternative facts”. A natural and inevitable mathematical species progression which we will look back on in history books as not only prolonging the pandemic but delaying climate change. (Please read Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”).
[*Breathes*]
Because frankly, this is mutual aid over survival of the fittest. As I’ll continue to poke — Take a deep dive into Mutual Aid literature.
And the inverse is not true. Privilege mechanics boils down to being born second or third base, and unrecognized head start (I will be breaking down the Mechanics of Privilege in another piece).
The Question Facing the American White Male Today — The Good Men Project
So, if you find yourself “angrier” at the Left, I’m proposing that it is the more you have been propagandized by the Right. And NOPE: it does NOT flow the other direction, in the context of the Convoy, one is based in pandemic misinformation, i.e. not based in reality and actually dangerous, the other is the factual HISTORY of systemized oppression. Violence is only sanctioned top down.
And the capitalist “Right” has a total monopoly on power and violence.
From my view, the hyper-sensitive left cancels things that perpetuate racism and misinformation because they are factually dangerous, meanwhile the right cancels entire books and topics that factually *reveal* their racism, violence, and misinformation.
And this is why some are bumping against an intolerant left: because tolerance… breeds Nazis and fills ICU’s.
A “Lefty” Critiquing the Left: How we can move forward
When faced with the targeted hate propagandised towards some rabid Left, ask yourself why are you being told to hate people seeking a better world? Why don’t you correct the Left rather than joining the Right?
Here’s a by-no-means exhaustive list how:
1. Don’t Troll: How to Contribute to Conversation
So, if you are on the side fighting for progress on the list I began this piece with, if you identify with these struggles, we need to be getting our collective shit together.
And this is not how it’s done:
When it comes to conversing with those who are likely Left but might be disillusioned or victims of propaganda, what we need is dialogue, not short-quipped trolling (and I’m very much calling myself out here — few are immune).
Remember, the goal is to succeed in achieving your outcomes, not representing a Right-wing propagandized “Leftist caricature” which will likely only solidify their views and push them further Right.
And that can lead to the slippery slope to extremism — not your “fault” since they were likely prone to those views to begin with. (This can be seen as abuse tactics along the lines of “it's your fault I’m this way/look what you’ve made me do” so I feel it needs to be clarified.)
TRIGGER EMPATHY: I also recommend “pulling on their heart-strings” — most non-sociopathic humans have at least some experiences with injustice, or a “Left” issue — the convenient thing is that for all of the facets of colonialist/state-capitalist oppression is that they are all interrelated and thus gaps in logic are quickly evident because if they have been traumatized in some way, then it's not a far leap to transpose that pain to another struggle —hopefully triggering empathy.
REVERSE ENGINEER: When pressed, ask your fence-sitting friends leading questions: Do they support the general movements I listed at the top of this piece? Cuz yes if they support all these then they are Left, so why do they IDENTIFY Right? Can’t they see this is propaganda co-opting?
Basically — dialogue with the other team, don’t avoid or shut down conversation with an exhausted “fucking Leftists” (or “fucking Right-wingers” for that matter). Be open to learning and sharing, finding mutual ground and a problem-solving mindset.
You know — all the things the anti-education Far Right tend to avoid.
2. Disengage — Do Not Validate the Conversation
In more extreme blatant Alt-Right encounters, do not validate the conversation as worthwhile by participating. This is a losing battle. Disengaging is different than “cancelling”: this is protecting your own mental health by recognizing you will almost certainly be baited into an endlessly goalpost-shifting conversation. (That said, you can also report the post if it is indeed racist etc). Further, it pushes them down further the algorithm (discussed in my next article), hidden away in the cesspool… where it belongs.
3. Debunk Yourself: Surround yourself with LGBTQ+/BIPOC/Science-Based Experts
If you find yourself echo-chambering, surrounded increasingly by white friends, make a conscious effort to seek out the anti-racism/LGBTQ+ etc speakers that you resonate with on social media. Not the ones who confirm your biases — but the ones who challenge them.
This is in the same vein highlighting the blatant difference between unfollowing anti-vax misinformation vs following accounts that debunk.
4. Remember the Context: Keep your Critiques Universal
If you are more publicly vocal about the woke-ism of the Left than you are about the racism, ecocide, and blatant misinformation from the Right — then you are part of the propaganda perpetuating problem. Your private beliefs don’t matter — these are not what shape social media algorithms influencing other people’s views. I’ll keep hammering… silence is violence.
Here I recommend following deliberately unbiased news sources, some quick examples:
- Breaking News Headlines and Media Bias | Ground News
- Media Bias/Fact Check — Search and Learn the Bias of News Media (mediabiasfactcheck.com)
Rather than join ranks of the Far Right, perhaps let them inform you yes, but always keeping an eye on your goals — assuming, of course, your goals are for an egalitarian, science-based sustainable world. The clock is ticking, and we are deflection squabbling… while the Amazon becomes a desert (and not the one that should).
One side is playing offensive & controlling the narrative as they always have through Church or State Media, while the other is struggling to get a foothold for marginalized voices which sometimes backfires. There is a stark difference between Left “woke-ism” and outright Ring-wing gun-lobbying terrorism, anti-public health, climate-denying capital-storming, misinformation peddling, war mongering & profiteering, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ/CRT that results in *actual* calculable numbers of deaths and trauma. So go on, keep playing into this false dichotomy narrative from the Far Right that *results* in a *reactionary* and yes at times immature *response* from the Left. Keep enabling the far-Right woke-ism propaganda game and watch the body counts both in hospitals and on the battlefield grow.
Thus, in that vein, we can be a wee bit more forgiving to what we tolerate… and what we simply should not.
FURTHER READING (Much more on the way)
- Left critique of cancel culture https://instagram.com/clementinemorrigan
NOTE: I’m going to be hugely expanding this segment in my “Politics” chapters, in the meantime please watch this entire series below!
(Especially if you are a Peterson “fan” — which I totally “DESTROY” in my next article as I continue to seek the “Roots” of the problems we face today.)
