Wokeness as a secular religion
Over the last 20 years as religion has faded, it created a vacuum, and in its place, Wokeness has risen like a malignant cancer. It took root in leftist spaces and spread, infecting everything it touched. This new dogma treats the LGBTQ community as saints and nobles, elevating them to the highest ranks, deserving of constant worship. Slavery is the original sin, for which we must endlessly atone. And racism is the ultimate evil, which must be destroyed at all costs. Anyone who dares question this orthodoxy, or fails to demonstrate piety through endless virtue signaling, is branded a heretic, excommunicated from the fold, viciously attacked, and then shunned.
Wokeness is not having empathy for the downtrodden, it's the weaponization of empathy to coerce people into compliance with a corrosive, authoritarian ideology. It uses guilt and moral superiority to enforce conformity, manipulating people’s compassion to serve a radical agenda. Rather than fostering true understanding or addressing real suffering, it demands blind allegiance to a set of rigid, oppressive beliefs that stifle dissent and individual thought.
Wokeness is a cancer that poisons everything. It needs to be eradicated by any means necessary.
This was originally a reply to another poster, but I thought it was an interesting topic that deserved its own thread. It felt like something worth exploring in more depth, so I decided to post it here