By inventing the term ‘WOKE Right’, author, mathematician and cultural critic James Lindsay has created a nonsensical anti-concept that has done more damage to causes on the Right than any fake news media could. Fake concepts are far more dangerous than fake news narratives.
In the intellectual confusion surrounding political concepts, it should not be surprising that many on the Right have come to both accept – and fear – being labeled ‘WOKE.’ But the joke is on them, and it was made possible by yet another political fiction called the ‘political spectrum.’
The ‘political spectrum’ was perhaps the most brilliant and effective propaganda victory that the Left ever created. Following the political maxim of ‘define or be defined,’ the Left succeeded in defining the Right as simply another variant of the Left – fascist instead of communist or socialist.
Lindsay has mischievously created the concept of WOKE Right in such a convoluted way as to make any objective understanding of either word impossible. Worse, the concept of ‘WOKE’ serves no useful purpose as an adjective. The term ‘WOKE Right’ is a contradiction. The term ‘WOKE Left’ is redundant. Continue reading »
