Feel-Good Story of the Week: Left-Wing Groups Destroying Themselves From Within Over Wokeness

This piece from The Intercept is long, but take your time reading it. It's nourishment. As Ramesh Ponnuru quipped, "I'm not going to read [the story] all at once. Some things have to be savored." Indeed. We cover the 'woke excess' beat on a regular basis, both in this space and on the radio, because it matters. A relatively small, loud group of activists wields disproportionate control over our culture and free expression right now -- and every scalp claimed, every unjust or undeserved 'cancellation' achieved, makes us all a little bit less free. This was our concern when Mary Katharine Ham and I wrote End of Discussion in 2015, and things have only devolved further in the ensuing years.

One of the interesting real-world lessons of wokeism is that some of the people most at risk of being pulled under by its insatiable practitioners are committed leftists themselves. They operate and marinate in this milieu. They legitimize its capricious whims through participation, indulgence and appeasement. In quite a few cases, those who are voluntarily or even enthusiastically steeped in this toxic stew are the ones who ultimately succumb to it. And what recourse do they have? They've effectively consented to the lunacy by being leftists and going along with the madness. Which is the jumping off point for the aforementioned story, in which 'progressive' activists complain about the stultifying and paralyzing influence of their own side's rules vis-a-vis the work they're attempting to accomplish. The opening anecdote comes from an abortion rights organization in the wake of George Floyd's murder:

[The manager] talked about the role systemic racism plays in society and the ways that Guttmacher’s work could counter it. Staff suggestions, though, turned inward, Prism reported, “including loosening deadlines and implementing more proactive and explicit policies for leave without penalty.” Staffers suggested additional racial equity trainings, noting that a previous facilitator had said that the last round had not included sufficient time “to cover everything.” With no Black staff in the D.C. unit, it was suggested that “Guttmacher do something tangible for Black employees in other divisions.” ... In the eyes of group leaders dealing with similar moments, staff were ignoring the mission and focusing only on themselves, using a moment of public awakening to smuggle through standard grievances cloaked in the language of social justice. Often, as was the case at Guttmacher, they played into the very dynamics they were fighting against, directing their complaints at leaders of color. Guttmacher was run at the time, and still is today, by an Afro Latina woman, Dr. Herminia Palacio. “The most zealous ones at my organization when it comes to race are white,” said one Black executive director at a different organization, asking for anonymity so as not to provoke a response from that staff.
It goes on to describe how this pro-abortion group has been 'ripped apart' (interesting phrasing, given the 'care' they exist to support and defend) by internal grievances and divisions, often centered on identity and race. ….









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The woke left and their cancel culture are pathetic and have a cancerous impact upon society at large. Their rules and unforgiving and intolerant nature make them an enemy to be feared. It is indeed interesting and a feel good moment when such insufferable fools turn on each other.

 

This tearing each other apart from within couldn’t have happened to a more deserving collection of misfit people. Too bad, so sad.

 

Democrat voters act in good faith but really need to keep a critical eye on what is actually going on.

Most elected Democratic politicians do not lean to the left but to the corrupt.

 

The Latinos know that some of the Dems are loco!

Mexican-Born Texas House Candidate Rides Rightward Latino Drift to Historic Victory.

Republican Mayra Flores is only more gracious than she is jubilant at the high honor entrusted to her by her beloved voters. ​

Gratitude at an opportunity to serve rather than smugly assuming one is entitled to rule. That's the key difference between the parties to today.

"With her win in Tuesday’s special election, Mayra Flores will be the first Republican since Reconstruction to represent Texas’ Rio Grande Valley in Congress."

Anchored to the deep GOP history of liberation.

"The decisive win by the 36-year-old healthcare worker who was born in Mexico, the daughter of migrant workers, highlights the continued rightward drift of South Texas, which had long been viewed as a safe Democratic stronghold. After flipping the House seat in Texas’ 34th Congressional District, Flores will be the first Mexican-born Republican member of Congress, and the first Mexican-born congresswoman."

¡Arriba, Arriba! ¡Ándale, Ándale!

 

What makes the GOP any different?

 

It is difficult to prove this one analytically but look at the results of the current Democratic president.

Starting a war (I know the media claims otherwise) for no desirable result is the ultimate wrong.

Add to that abandoning our allies in Afghanistan without telling them and leaving a huge amount of weapons for our enemies to use.

And then add the crisis at the border, rising fuel prices, and rising inflation.

None of those things happened when the GOP was in charge.