A side note in the Spotify \/ Rogan story is the use of the word “unity,” which came up in a few of the twitter comments. <\/p>\n
What does the woke left mean when they say “unity”? <\/p>\n
I think it’s something like this: All Americans should be united behind fundamental principles of fairness and decency, and we should exert public pressure on people who don’t conform to those standards. <\/p>\n
That sounds about right because it’s both a genuinely good sentiment and completely useless without more information. <\/p>\n
Where is this list of fundamental principles? Shouldn’t we all know what those principles are? Who adjudicates it? How much pressure is appropriate when? <\/p>\n
Is free speech a fundamental principle of fairness? Is allowing a speaker to speak without interruption part of fundamental fairness and\/or decency? Is it fair or decent to try to get a person fired because you disagree with him about who should swim in the women’s swimming events? <\/p>\n
To me, this illustrates one of the main weaknesses of wokeness. They take a grade-school level platitude, that everyone should agree with, but then they import a hundred other assumptions they won’t be honest about. <\/p>\n
It’s like Twitter or Facebook with their “community guidelines.” <\/p>\n
Tech: “You’ve violated our community guidelines.” <\/p>\n
Innocent person: “Really? Which ones? How did we violate them?” <\/p>\n
Tech: “We determine that, you peasant. Shut up.” <\/p>\n
“Unity” is one of those values that only makes sense in a certain context, within prescribed limits. There’s a lot of unity under a tyrannical dictatorship, but we don’t want that kind of unity. <\/p>\n
Wokeness requires a shallowness of thinking that’s unworthy of a sixth grader — which is why it’s catching on. Nobody’s learning how to think any more. Or if they are, they’re allowing undisciplined sentiment to have the upper hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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