America, and increasingly, The West, has a existential problem on its hands.
And it isn’t White Supremacy - despite what the media, universities and The Biden Administration repeatedly tell us.
It’s Woke Supremacy.
Woke Supremacy has become a potent cultural and political force in America, Europe and Canada. Its pernicious effects are present in virtually all institutions, from corporations to universities, from government agencies to the church.
But what is Woke Supremacy exactly?
Presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, describes the phenomena this way: "it’s the tyranny of the minority”.
While that description is accurate, it doesn’t explain the “why” behind Woke Supremacy. To truly comprehend that, we must examine the psychological/spiritual roots of this mental virus. Only then can we begin to grasp why a minority of extremists believe they can shout-down, cancel and brutalize the majority. And, yes, even murder others - and feel very good about themselves as they do so.
Perhaps no one is a better poster child for Woke Supremacy than mass murderer, Audrey Hale, of the infamous and heartbreaking Nashville shooting.
Her manifesto, which was partially leaked this week - after authorities tried to suppress it - offers us a glimpse into the Woke Supremacist mind.
Hale was positively giddy moments before killing children who she believed possessed something she called “white privilege” (her words) at Covenant Christian school near Nashville. She wrote of her upcoming shooting spree, “I’m a little nervous, but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks”. Hale couldn’t contain her enthusiasm about the opportunity to slaughter as many of “those crackers” (again, her words) as possible. She even notes with disgust the Covenant childrens’ “mop yellow hair”.
To understand what drove Hale to murder kids she never met, but hated for how they looked and what income bracket they belonged to (and possibly also despised them because of the God they worshipped), we need only read the trans rights group, Trans Resistance Network’s, tweet following news of the massacre. After acknowledging the tragic nature of Hale’s murderous rampage, their equivocating tweet says:
“The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Aubrey Hale, who felt he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and by consequence, himself.”
Audrey Hale, of course, is a gender dysphoric lesbian woman, hence the Trans Resistance Network calling her a “he” in their tweet.
The above statement from the Trans Resistance Network, coupled with Audrey Hale’s words, gives us a sense of the pathological nature fueling Woke Supremacy: I am a victim of injustice, therefore I have a right - even an obligation - to do almost anything to others, including murdering them, in order to exact revenge and achieve justice.
For the Woke Supremacist, victimhood becomes an excuse to victimize.
This perverse logic of Woke Supremacy is on display everywhere in our culture today. Here’s just a few examples:
When men who claim they’re women ruthlessly demand women’s spaces believing themselves to be victims of a culture that prioritizes heteronormativity.
When people feel entitled to hate, belittle or berate others simply for the way they vote. (See video below)
When BLM rioters feel justified in robbing and burning whole neighborhoods because they’re victims of “systemic racism” and “inequity”.
When environmental extremists destroy priceless art, block highways and disrupt sporting events by glueing themselves to the ground, because they’re victimized by climate injustice.
When Antifa terrorizes and brutalizes others in the name of fighting “fascism” (the fascists they oppose are simply people who hold traditional or religious values).
When radicalized students rip down posters of Jewish children kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, and gleefully chuckle as they do it, because they believe Israel is a “colonizer” so innocent civilians deserve what they get (below).
When Pro Palestine students call Jew a “f-ing k*ke” then receive a kiss from a Woke Supremacist friend (below) because light-skinned Jews are “oppressors”.
Or when Woke Supremacists murder a Jew, like Paul Kessler, because he dared exercised his 1st amendment right and demonstrate his support of Israel’s right to exist (below).
Paul Kessler died after being attacked in Thousand Oaks on Nov. 7, 2023 by a Woke Supremacist.
In each and every case I mention above, the Woke Supremacist views themselves as a victim and therefore feels justified in doing almost anything in response - including, increasingly, using deadly force.
And unlike White Supremacy, which we’re warned about incessantly, Woke Supremacy has genuine institutional power - its intolerant/censorial worldview dominates Hollywood, news media, universities, corporations and government agencies.
In fact, Woke Supremacy is the driving ideological force of one of the two political parties in America - The Democratic Party. (The same party, ironically and fittingly, that gave America the KKK, Jim Crow and who also fought to preserve slavery - in other words, the party that openly practiced true White Supremacy now traffics in Woke Supremacy.)
Thanks to our educational system, the most privileged nation on earth, America, is now a nation of oppressed victims. And Woke Supremacy is now fully entrenched in our collective psyche. However, we ought not be surprised. Adopting a disposition of victimhood is seductive. In our intersectional, DEI-obsessed society, claiming to be marginalized immediately gives people power over others and inoculates them from self-examination. Seeing oneself as “oppressed” validates one’s hate - and gives people license to engage in violence.
But victimhood, as Audrey Hale so clearly demonstrates, is a dead end - literally. It kills optimism, happiness and, tragically, people. Living in a perpetual state of blame removes any motivation to change ourselves (with God’s help) - which is hard but achievable - and exchanges that worthy pursuit for a futile and frustrating quest to remold a fallen world to our liking (which is impossible).
So, can the scourge of Woke Supremacy be eradicated? Or has this societal disease - which derives its power through a mentality of victimhood - progressed too far?
Tragically, when it comes to Woke Supremacy, things may have to get far worse before they get better. But perhaps a first step in addressing the problem is naming and acknowledging it. After all, we can’t defeat a vicious, viral and deadly ideology we don’t understand.
Very well-crafted explanation of what we all wish was obvious to everyone by now. The only tiny revision I’d support would be to include the enthusiastic participation of *both* US political parties. Thanks for doing this, and let’s hope this kind of understanding becomes almost routine.
Very well-crafted explanation of what we all wish was obvious to everyone by now. The only tiny revision I’d support would be to include the enthusiastic participation of *both* US political parties. Thanks for doing this, and let’s hope this kind of understanding becomes almost routine.