it’s fun-fact woke learning time! First a new vocabulary word!
Polysemy – Having a word or concept that has multiple meanings. What it does is allow the activists to say one thing, while meaning something completely different.
Employed skillfully, the woke can flit between the reasonable definition and the one they really intend.
The “woke mind virus” is a dogmatic, control-seeking ideology, not the benign traits listed. These 10 points misfire by assigning warped meanings to common virtues, fueling confusion and division.
- “Reading books, not burning them” sounds noble, but woke ideology often curates what’s “acceptable” to read, banning dissent subtly.
- “Embracing science” shifts to cherry-picking studies that fit narratives, not raw inquiry.
- “Changing your mind” becomes abandoning principles for trending dogma, not reasoned flexibility.
- “Issues aren’t black and white” morphs into relativism that dodges accountability.
- “True equality” redefines as forced sameness, not equal opportunity.
- “Liking to share” turns into mandating redistribution, not generosity.
- “Embracing cooperation” means silencing disagreement for fake unity.
- “Respecting rights” flips to prioritizing select groups’ feelings over universal freedoms.
- “Valuing culture and arts” becomes worshipping approved expressions, not creativity.
- “Caring for the planet” slides into eco-orthodoxy, shaming nonconformists.
By cloaking coercion in virtuous terms without admitting the shift, these points don’t expose the virus—they spread it, eroding clarity and free thought under a moral mask.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:36 am
Carmen
I take it you don’t agree with Jane Fonda, who said recently, “Let’s face it – being ‘woke’ means you give a shit about other people.”
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March 27, 2025 at 7:01 am
tildeb
This is the false narrative people believe about themselves in order to feel virtuous about being a literal or figurative fascist. This is the delusion behind which people join/support the local version of antifa, help implement and impose fascist/delusional policies on everyone, and then retreat behind the terms and identify as being ‘kind’. It’s a religious belief all the way down except the god figurehead is some future utopia. Gad Saad calls it out for what it is: a virus of the mind.
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March 27, 2025 at 9:58 am
The Arbourist
@Carmen
Jane Fonda’s recent claim that “‘woke’ just means you give a damn about other people” sounds noble on its face, but context is everything. She made this statement during her SAG Awards speech on February 23, 2025, while accepting a lifetime achievement award, urging Hollywood to resist political challenges with empathy. It’s a feel-good soundbite from a seasoned activist—someone who’s protested everything from Vietnam to climate change. But does her definition hold up when you look at how “woke” plays out in the real world, especially when her own actions and those of aligned activists are put under the microscope?
Take the protests at women’s prisons in Canada, where advocates for female inmates regularly face accusations of lacking empathy. These women argue for preserving single-sex spaces, citing safety and dignity for a vulnerable group—incarcerated females. Yet, they’re branded as unkind, even hateful, for opposing policies that allow trans women, some with histories of violence, into those same spaces. The critique is ironic: how is it uncaring to prioritize the protection of women at their most powerless? Data backs their concerns—reports from Canada’s Correctional Service in 2023 showed incidents of assault linked to mixed-sex housing, though exact numbers are murky due to limited transparency. Still, the protesters’ point is clear: boundaries matter when safety’s on the line.
Contrast that with the response they get. Masked counter-activists, often claiming to fight for a “kinder” society, show up to disrupt these rallies—sometimes violently. In British Columbia last year, a women’s prison protest was met with physical intimidation, forcing organizers to keep plans secret until the last minute to avoid escalation. These self-styled anti-fascists argue they’re defending the marginalized, echoing Fonda’s empathy rhetoric. But if “woke” means caring, why does it so often look like silencing—or worse, endangering—women who disagree? Fonda’s own history of activism isn’t spotless here either. Her 1972 Hanoi visit, posing with North Vietnamese soldiers while American POWs languished, earned her the “Hanoi Jane” label—not exactly a masterclass in universal empathy.
Polysemy’s the trick. Fonda frames “woke” as simple compassion, banking on the assumption we’ll all nod along to her rosy context. But words shift meaning depending on who’s wielding them. To the prison protesters, “woke” policies threaten female rights under the guise of progress. To their disruptors, “woke” justifies aggression as moral necessity. Neither side’s inherently fascist, but only one’s getting shouted down—or punched. If Fonda’s right that “woke” is just caring, then why does it keep coming at the expense of some people’s voices? Her words might inspire a Hollywood crowd, but they don’t square so neatly with the messy reality of who gets to define empathy—and who pays the price when it’s weaponized.
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