Wednesday 9 August 2023

"Wokesters' loyalties are clearly not with the working poor."


"[Wokesters'] loyalties ... are clearly not with the working poor.... [T]his anti-enlightenment movement, popular chiefly among rich whites [is] a movement closer to the far-Right in its dismissal of universalism, militant identitarianism, and fervent support of censorship...
    "[The Woke write] newspaper columns celebrating price-hikes for inner-city car parks, without even a nod as to how crushing they would be for working parents, many of whom are forced to duck out of employment to manage their children at school’s end....
    "[The Woke enjoy] a good chuckle with fellow bourgeois commentator (of which we have no shortage) Moana Maniapoto about the plight of poor white men, oblivious to the deeply conservative subtext of ‘white privilege’ (another gift bestowed upon us by the woke). According to this charmer of a doctrine, if you are white and poor there really is no excuse, because you’re white, and so shouldn’t expect sympathy. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and just stop being bloody poor and unhappy, will you?! Like so many wokisms, this is reheated conservativism.
    "Their open contempt for the poor is crystal in the central drive of this political project: to concentrate cultural, and all other power within their [professional-managerial] class.... [I]t’s well past time that the obnoxious, rich kids currently boring us all to death were told to pipe down, and the working poor were finally given a chance to speak up."

~ Dane Giraud, from his post 'Attacking woke politics is the most Left-wing thing you can do'

1 comment:

MarkT said...

Not that his brand of leftism - victimhood based on income, as opposed to victimhood based on gender, race, etc is much better; but it’s probably more honest. It’s also good to see support for an errant ideology start to crash within its own ranks based on its inherent contradictions, which should remind us that ultimately bad ideas will decline naturally, and have no real power in the long term.