"The Left said racism is bad, so racism must be good.
"The Left said patriarchy is bad, so patriarchy must be good.
"The Left said Fascism is bad, so...
"Because the Woke (or Dissident, or New, or 'New Christian') Right defines itself by glorifying everything the Left said was bad, it becomes an extension of the Left's tortured and destructive caricature of society. They become an extension of the Left and take up its methods.
"The Left wasn't wrong that racism is bad. The Left was wrong about what racism is. The thing the Left referred to as 'racism' isn't racism. Most of it isn't even real. The purpose of most of those claims was to extract power, and it worked because racism is actually bad.
"The Woke or New or Dissident Right ... has adopted a basic reactionary reversal of the Left's pronouncements while accepting the Left's characterisations, framing, and belief in power dynamics."~ James Lindsay on 'The Woke Right'
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Right on - and well stated. Just as there was little to differentiate fascism from communism in the 1930's in terms of practical consequences , so there's little to differentiate the woke left from the woke right in the 2020's. The only difference is in the marketing. These two phenomena are also 85-90 years apart, which is consistent with the cyclical/generational theory of history.
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