Woke provides the special sauce for tyranny

The dictator of George Orwell’s “1984” knew that “Who controls the past, controls the future: Who controls the present, controls the past.” This is the special sauce of tyranny.

How do you gain control? 

Force of arms is one way. It is expensive, obvious, and fraught with the danger of armed insurrection.

There is another way: Control language. 

If you control language, you control thought. 

When you first can’t say certain things, it’s not long before you are unable to even think certain things. 

When your mind is manacled, guns are not necessary.

How do you take control of the language?

Start in academia, which is intensely progressive, where underworked, hypersensitive tenured professors have gobs of time to invent concepts as novel as Covid-19 that  can be spoon fed to impressionable freshmen.

Well, except we’re no longer allowed to say “freshmen.”

That’s according to the University of Washington.

As often happens, some of the worst newest ideas come from the rich groves of academia. Many universities have devised glossaries of acceptable and unacceptable words. I have chosen the University of Washington to provide one example.

Among the other words or phrases the UW ayatollahs find objectionable are these: grandfathered, webmaster, first-class citizen, dumb terminal, man in the middle, brown bags, cake walk, he, she, mantra, housekeeper, minority, ninja, guru, peanut gallery, redline, blind spot, guys, crazy, virgin, lame, and, of course, normal.

Because “normal” is a pejorative to those who think they are not normal.

The driving force, they will tell you, behind the speech codes is “inclusion,” and eliminating any chance whatsoever that anyone would be offended in any way. More than 20% of surveyed college students say that offensive or impolite speech should be prohibited, despite the First Amendment. They are mentally manacled. And humorless.

I urge you to follow the UW link and find the excruciating pains UW has taken to dance on the head of a pin. 

Quick example: Peanut gallery, banned. Here is the UW explanation: Peanut gallery originally referred to the balconies of segregated theaters, where African Americans had to sit. Peanuts were introduced to America during the slave trade, and thus became associated with Black people.

Did you know that? Neither did anyone else, including Black people. Like the word “gay,” its original meaning has been replaced by another. So why ban it?

Just a few days ago, the World Health Organization ordained that the colorful “monkeypox,” which just raised its head in one Philly school, is to be referred to as “mpox.” 

Let me guess. Monkeys took offense?

Next to be scrapped — charley horse? (Asking for Mr. Ed.)

And don’t get me started on chicken pox.

As I explained yesterday, Woke started out as an awareness of social injustice, but has been stretched so far that it now includes CRT and DEI and a belief that white people are irredeemably racist.

So now we are into government entities, where not too long ago, when she was still Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi ordered all gender terms to be banned from use in official language.

While this banned such hideous terms as chairman, and congresswoman, it also dumped “mother,” “father,” “sister” and “brother.” 

You aren’t allowed to have a “mother” and “father,” you have “parents.” 

Thanks, Nancy. We all feel better now.

Meanwhile, over at the State Department, Secretary Antony Blinken is pushing his own version of Newspeak, also dropping down the memory hole words such as “mother” and “father.” 

The mealy-mouthed explanation was to make comfortable the almost nonexistent few who do not think this way.

How many people do you know who do not have at least a mother or a father?

Well, IMHO, if you were hatched, you may have to suffer when hearing about the mothers and fathers that 99.99999999999% of us have.

See, one of the tenets of Woke is that if you are oppressed — and everyone is except for straight, white, Christian males — your sensibilities and rights triumph over all others. This is the tyranny of the minority. 

First Woke takes away your words, then they take away your thoughts.

Back in 2022, I wrote that the Social Security Administration was going Woke and would permit those enrolling to self-select the gender to appear on their record. No bureaucratic involvement. No documentation. No pesky official saying, “You’re a woman?!”

But there’s a catch.

You had to select either male or female.

Those bigots! 

Haven’t they ever heard of bi, or tri, or pan? Don’t they know there are more gender selections now than Heinz has varieties?

Meanwhile, a few days back, news broke that Google’s AI Chatbox image generator went crazy Woke and was providing Black founding fathers and female popes. 

Way back in 2014,  Facebook offered 58 gender choices — and that was 10 years ago!

Please click on the FB link for a laugh. But what’s not funny is getting you to obey. 

The National Institutes of Health also leaned in, publishing a bulletin on pronouns.

It’s kind of a dense read, but the best part is the chart of invented pronouns the people with the invented afflictions characteristics want you to use.

If you do, you are supporting their mental illness.

OK, I said it. Go ahead — cancel me.

I can believe that 4-7% of humanity is “other,” meaning nonbinary, gay, queer, bi, tri, pan, or asexual. That stat has been around a long time. 

I do not believe the staggering number of Gen Z people who claim it — 20%, according to a Newsweek survey.

That is not reality. That is just not believable, as I have stated before.

Yes, I believe in evolution, but that happens over many generations, not just one.

Personally, I believe gender hysteria is a Woke-induced psychosis along the lines of the Salem witch trials.

And as the percentage of youth claiming to be queer goes up, so does their suicide rate.

Coincidence or correlation?

It is one thing to be accepting of another person’s beliefs, but that doesn’t require saying you believe fantasy.

I am awake, but not Woke.