The Reign of the Woke is starting to totter. The excesses of the tyranny of the small trans minority is getting significant pushback, from consumers boycotting awoke business fellow – travelers like Bud Light and Disney, to parents challenging schools that attempt to usurp their authority over their children. More important in the long run, some state universities ‘ governors are rejecting requirements for faculty and scholars to sign loyalty pledges to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology. The latest grove of academe to end this toxic practice is the Arizona system comprising five campuses with 142, 000 students. In addition, the Foundation for Individual Freedom in Education has filed suit against California’s community college system on behalf of six professors to stop the state’s imposition of regulations that require allegiance to highly contested political ideologies, nearly cancelling both academic freedom and the First Amendment. We should all celebrate these pushbacks, since the politicized dogma of” woke”, as well as the requirement of fealty to it, violates the very core of the university’s traditional mission and purpose:” to know the best that has been known and thought in the world”, as Matthew Arnold defined it,” irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind, and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other consideration whatsoever”, and” through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically”. The pseudo – concepts of” diversity”,” equity”, and” inclusion” have long been” stock notions” that our” woke” commissars” follow staunchly and mechanically”. Typical of all tyrannies, these words have been warped into propaganda advertising an illiberal political program of expanding the political power of one faction of citizens at the expense of others ‘ freedom –– the cost being paid by our inherent rights to freely think, and freely speak in the open square our opinions and beliefs. This political abuse of language was identified as far back as Thucydides ‘ justifiably popular description of social and civic breakdown that followed the violent revolutions during the Peloponnesian War:” Words had to change their regular meaning and to take that which was then given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter, prudent hesitation, specious cowardice, moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness, ability to see all sides of a question, incapacity to act on any”. Our unholy verbal trinity displays the same corruption. ” Diversity” is the most abused, having been written into federal law by the recently overturned Bakke vs. Regents Supreme Court decision of 1978. This word, however, rarely has been defined by our race – mongers, nor have the benefits supposedly provided by it. But it’s obvious that this bogus” diversity” always has had anything to do with real diversity, whether of intricate cultural diversity, or the more important diversity of individuals, their minds, and their characters. Instead, old” scientific” racism’s crude, indiscriminate, superficial categories like” black” or” white”–– much easier for government seeking to identify political clients for its purposes of distributing benefits like set – asides in government contracts–– now provide the only meaning of” diversity”. As David E. Bernstein writes in Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America,” The government developed its classification scheme via a combination of amateur anthropology and sociology, interest group lobbying, incompetence, inertia, lack of common oversight, and happenstance”. In brief, to achieve political political aims, no real diversity. And, just as 2400 years ago Thucydides recognized, today” diversity” in fact means the opposite: a firm, uniform orthodoxy of an authoritarian political ideology that brooks no dissent, and seeks to silence the real diversity of ideas and opinions in order to aggrandize more power and influence for one faction, the” woke” Democrats, at the expense of all the other various factions. Like” diversity”,” equity” also recalls a dysfunction of representative democracy recognized 2400 years ago. Real equality is the equality of opportunity and equal rights on a level playing field, where each is free to strive as much as his character, talent, hard work, and yes, luck, can take him. But one of the most destructive consequences of collectivism has been dramatic egalitarianism, which depends on levelling off all those disparities of talent, industry, and virtue. As Aristotle wrote,” it arises from the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal “. But since people are in fact unequal in various respects, to create absolute equality requires a tyranny that can take from some to redistribute to others against their will. And this leveling will require, as Rudyard Kipling put it,” robbing selected Peter to pay social Paul” given humanity’s inherent dangerous passions like greed and the lust for power. Furthermore, those who take will not base redistribution on merit or perhaps necessity, but rather on rewarding social clients and advancing one political ideology and interests over others. The dilution of standards and the abandonment of merit in order to ensure the right clients benefit, as well as the” diverse impacts” that obviously result from various differences in talent or virtue, are corrected, in addition to the egregious violations of our inalienable rights. However, in reality, the outcome is not justice — not even for the beneficiaries, who are forced to rely on political patrons and lose their sense of accomplishment— but rather injustice, as those who do succeed because of their merits must be penalized in order to reward the unsuccessful. However, even that injustice is not the worst outcome: eventually, as the state becomes more tyrannical and intrusive, the masses will in fact become more and more” equal” in their poverty and servitude, while the elite gains an increasing amount of wealth and power. Then,” Equity” turns into its opposite, inequality. The final corrupted word,” inclusion ,” is just a repetition. You will inevitably have” inclusion” once” diversity” and” equity” cause their trouble, which refers to the ruling party’s political clients who currently share in the favorable regulations, transfers of tax dollars, social and political recognition, and the privilege of being exempt from the laws that are applied with ruthless vigor to their political enemies. Only contrast the fates of BLM rioters to liberal Catholics, journalist Andy Ngo to Antifa thugs, trans activists to pro-life Christians, or Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton and the Biden clan. Also believe that the” equal protection of the laws” provided by the 14th Amendment exists? The DEI phenomenon runs counter to the principles and laws that make up our Constitution: unalienable rights that belong to individuals rather than groups and are only subject to” Nature and Nature’s God ,” not other men, the sovereignty of citizens to whom government derives its authority, and the primacy of laws over the power and interests of corruptible, flawed people. Last but not least, these meaningless platitudes pose a threat to the very foundation of our government — political freedom and political equality for citizens, families, and civil society. All those principles and the freedom they enable are weakened by the” woke” tyranny of DEI policies, and as a result, it needs to perish.
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