A brief intro to Woke ideology.

Disney has fired Chapek and is now quadrupling down on woke bullshit. It won't go well for them, but here's how I would define woke ideology as a belief system.

I think it boils down to the following ideas:

1. Modern society is fundamentally broken/evil, and built on oppression.

2. Individuals are subordinate to collective identity groups, and that we may know most of the essential facts about a person and (importantly) that we may judge their respective role as either oppressor or oppressed based on the intersection of traits such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. Some identities are oppressed, others are oppressors, and whether or not you as an individual have actually been either of those things is immaterial.

3. There is no neutrality. Unless you are actively engaged in Political Activism or - to use a term from Marxism - "Praxis", you are on the side of the oppressors. Or... As Ibram X Kendi claims, there are only racists and anti-racists (narrowly defined as those who agree with his disfigured definitions and political solutions).

4. Those deemed oppressors are irredeemable. Debate is largely unnecessary, because the moral case is already settled. Thus cancelling and otherwise causing harm to such people is justified.

5. Words alone have tremendous power - thus "words are violence". Changing and controlling the language controls ideas. Thus people cannot be allowed to say or hear what they want.

6. Extremism to eliminate the non-woke heretic is virtually always justified on basis that their rejection of wokeness must - by default - mean that the heretic is a hateful bigot.

As a result, we end up with people who don't tolerate criticism, who have no sense of humor, aren't interested in or particularly capable of honest debate, who are quick to judge others, and who believe they are justified in restricting speech in various ways.

Woke zealots have a long history of not merely boycotting or choosing not to listen to certain kinds of speech, but also shouting down speakers, cutting broadcasts, harassing "unacceptable" speakers, doxxing, threatening and acting violently against people they disagree with, and so on.

It is never enough to merely choose not to hear "bad" ideas as an individual. You must also prevent others from making the same choices. That's quite different from merely boycotting.

It has all the hallmarks of religion, including its own terms, rituals, heretics, infallible leaders, and zealots.