Wokeness is finally awakening those it seeks to vilify and destroy by its racist oppressor/oppressed agenda. Reasonable people, many who consider themselves liberal, have begun to realize that the landscape shifted beneath them as they slept through our culture’s descent into progressive madness. The questions are: has too much damage already been done? Can an effective sustained cogent responses organize and around what leadership? Are the generations now coming of age likely to ever reject the indoctrination they’ve received in lieu of education? The massive edifices of Big Academia, Big Media, and Big Tech are working overtime to drown the baby of rational resistance in its crib. UnHerd, the Free Press, Claremont Institute, the new University of Austin, and others give me cautious hope but there is much work to do against formidable odds.
“UnHerd, the Free Press, Claremont Institute, the new University of Austin, and others give me cautious hope but there is much work to do against formidable odds.”
Agreed. And this recent decision by Clackamas County to dismantle DEI is a reminder that Blue States are actually Blue Blobs: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, and San Diego are all deep Blue cities (blobs on the map), but travel 50 miles (or less) inland and you’re in Red country and those folks have a voice too.
The other day you expressed frustration that one might write a comment on Unherd to little effect because of bias in the readership. I have no idea whether your comment aligns to the tribal jungle drums, but I agree with your concerns. Turning this around will take time. It took about 40 years to march through the institutions in one direction …. it will take many to turn it back. Positively, pockets of resistence are breakIng out across the piece (work, colleges, finance (ESG), etc. My fear in the UK is that Starmer will get a Liam Byrne-style note, have no room for manoeuvre economically and double down on left wing cultural views, which would also go some way to appeasing Momentum.
Roddy Campbell
3 months ago
“Commissioners would be wise to lean into the expertise and history of the equity office in Clackamas County to understand the important work of the equity office that addresses the unique needs of our diverse workforce and community.”
Never, EVER, vote for someone who talks like that.
It has a creepy tone, I’m not familiar enough with American politics to follow the tone, is it smug self serving hubris, or is it a veiled threat. Either way, you are right, such people should be shunned and definitely not elected to positions of power.
The tone has corporate echoes to it. Learned language which seeks to make the author sound clever.
David Baker
3 months ago
A small point, but Clackamas County only contains about 1% of Portland, if that. The vast majority of Portland is within Multnomah County, Clackamas mostly covers the rural and hilly region to the south and southeast of Portland.
Daniel P
3 months ago
The world will be better when all such things are wiped out.
Whatever the intent, the results have been a disaster.
Matt Sylvestre
3 months ago
The people who truly benefit from the extremes of the DEI ideology are comprised entirely of a few wealthy authors and a handful of white NPR tote bag wielding HR ladies… They should all get real jobs and leave the rest of us to work together to get along; things were moving largely in a good direction before they showed up and told us, if indirectly and in the name of “equity”, to start treating each other based on our most trivial characteristics again…
Matt: Your first sentence slayed me. First big laugh of the weekend. Thanks,
T Bone
3 months ago
I’m to the point where the most intolerable thing is not Woke lectures but lectures from the “Always Centrists” claiming people are exaggerating this stuff.
Always Centrist defines “Establishment.” If the people that think they get to dictate the Overton Window just run with with whatever the current thing is until it runs out of gas than they aren’t good Guardians of Democracy.
Believe the stuff you say and be prepared to defend it. If its a good idea it will stand up to scrutiny eventually. Debate in good faith. Everybody has plenty to learn. These left-wing people make things too complicated and can’t defend anything rationally but still act like they know everything. Anybody in the “Center” defending current Left Wing Orwellian Ideology will eventually need to backtrack.
Michael K
3 months ago
Mention “Oregon was the only state in the US to explicitly bar black people from living in it upon its founding; violators could be whipped.”
Doesn’t mention that the last of those laws was repealed 100 years ago.
Wokeness is finally awakening those it seeks to vilify and destroy by its racist oppressor/oppressed agenda. Reasonable people, many who consider themselves liberal, have begun to realize that the landscape shifted beneath them as they slept through our culture’s descent into progressive madness. The questions are: has too much damage already been done? Can an effective sustained cogent responses organize and around what leadership? Are the generations now coming of age likely to ever reject the indoctrination they’ve received in lieu of education? The massive edifices of Big Academia, Big Media, and Big Tech are working overtime to drown the baby of rational resistance in its crib. UnHerd, the Free Press, Claremont Institute, the new University of Austin, and others give me cautious hope but there is much work to do against formidable odds.
“UnHerd, the Free Press, Claremont Institute, the new University of Austin, and others give me cautious hope but there is much work to do against formidable odds.”
Agreed. And this recent decision by Clackamas County to dismantle DEI is a reminder that Blue States are actually Blue Blobs: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, and San Diego are all deep Blue cities (blobs on the map), but travel 50 miles (or less) inland and you’re in Red country and those folks have a voice too.
The other day you expressed frustration that one might write a comment on Unherd to little effect because of bias in the readership. I have no idea whether your comment aligns to the tribal jungle drums, but I agree with your concerns. Turning this around will take time. It took about 40 years to march through the institutions in one direction …. it will take many to turn it back. Positively, pockets of resistence are breakIng out across the piece (work, colleges, finance (ESG), etc. My fear in the UK is that Starmer will get a Liam Byrne-style note, have no room for manoeuvre economically and double down on left wing cultural views, which would also go some way to appeasing Momentum.
“Commissioners would be wise to lean into the expertise and history of the equity office in Clackamas County to understand the important work of the equity office that addresses the unique needs of our diverse workforce and community.”
Never, EVER, vote for someone who talks like that.
It has a creepy tone, I’m not familiar enough with American politics to follow the tone, is it smug self serving hubris, or is it a veiled threat. Either way, you are right, such people should be shunned and definitely not elected to positions of power.
The tone has corporate echoes to it. Learned language which seeks to make the author sound clever.
A small point, but Clackamas County only contains about 1% of Portland, if that. The vast majority of Portland is within Multnomah County, Clackamas mostly covers the rural and hilly region to the south and southeast of Portland.
The world will be better when all such things are wiped out.
Whatever the intent, the results have been a disaster.
The people who truly benefit from the extremes of the DEI ideology are comprised entirely of a few wealthy authors and a handful of white NPR tote bag wielding HR ladies… They should all get real jobs and leave the rest of us to work together to get along; things were moving largely in a good direction before they showed up and told us, if indirectly and in the name of “equity”, to start treating each other based on our most trivial characteristics again…
Matt: Your first sentence slayed me. First big laugh of the weekend. Thanks,
I’m to the point where the most intolerable thing is not Woke lectures but lectures from the “Always Centrists” claiming people are exaggerating this stuff.
Always Centrist defines “Establishment.” If the people that think they get to dictate the Overton Window just run with with whatever the current thing is until it runs out of gas than they aren’t good Guardians of Democracy.
Believe the stuff you say and be prepared to defend it. If its a good idea it will stand up to scrutiny eventually. Debate in good faith. Everybody has plenty to learn. These left-wing people make things too complicated and can’t defend anything rationally but still act like they know everything. Anybody in the “Center” defending current Left Wing Orwellian Ideology will eventually need to backtrack.
Mention “Oregon was the only state in the US to explicitly bar black people from living in it upon its founding; violators could be whipped.”
Doesn’t mention that the last of those laws was repealed 100 years ago.
Objective reality always wins out in the end.
Exterminate the brutes.