Woke Extreme Agreeability and Affirmative Action are Toxic
It's Impossible to Agree on Everything and Not Advisable to Affirm Everything
We all know that Woke Gen Z can’t tolerate any disagreement with their political views, but I meant it more broadly now, not just in politics. It looks like Wokesters are unhealthily agreeable with regard to literally everything and can’t tolerate any slightest disagreement or critics. Any even slightly critical attitude they perceive as a personal attack and broader as ‘bigotry and hatred’. Again, with regards to everything, not just political views.
You criticize their dress? You’re bigot and hater. You think they had made a mistake and tell it to them actually for their own benefit? You’re bigot and hater. And so on. These people are such snowflakes that they can’t tolerate anything even slightly uncomfortable for them, even if it would benefit them in the long run.
Instead, they expect anyone to tiptoe around their sensibilities and vulnerabilities (which are multitude). If you don’t even know their sensibilities, it’s not an excuse for you either (though to ask them of their sensitivities would be also too insensitive, so you should just guess and if you guessed wrongly, you’re bigot). Again, the ridiculous absurdity of this attitude is impossible to overstate.
Very tied to this extreme agreeability and tiptoeing around each other sensitivities is Woke extremely affirmative attitude. They affirm literally everything about each other – every idiocy, every delusion, every lunacy. I feel like I’m woman. Sure you are. I feel like I am a pony? Sure you are. I feel I don’t even know what? Sure you’re right. Again, it’s ridiculous.
This extreme, pathological fear to make someone uncomfortable and to hurt their feelings prevents us from healthy, honest discussions which are impossible without criticisms and disagreements. And when we can’t speak our minds because we’re afraid to ‘hurt’ someone’s extremely sensitive feelings, we can’t really be ourselves – thus the Woke destroy our authenticity so their feelings won’t be hurt. Also, truth dies in oversensitive society because truth actually hurts people’s feelings more than anything else. So, both truth and authenticity are sacrificed on the altar of Woke sensibilities.
Woke ‘affirmative action’ is even worse. Now, not everything has to be affirmed. Delusions and mistakes actually shouldn’t be affirmed, same as downright evil. To affirm someone’s delusion that for example ‘they’re born in the wrong body’ actually hurts these people, not helps them as they believe. To affirm any other mental or physical illness (like obesity, anorexia, obsessive-compulsory disorder, etc.) instead of treating them actually hurts people afflicted with this illness, not helps them again. And to affirm real evil like pedophilia is just unacceptable.
The Woke do not understand any of it. They do not understand that by saying things they don’t want to hear you might actually be helping them while by saying what they want to hear and affirming their delusions you might be harming them. Woketards are just like dogs or cats who fail to understand that by refusing them one more morsel of this delicious treat you actually care of their health, not are being stingy and mean to them. But, again, dogs and cats being animals don’t have developed enough brain to get it. But I thought Woketards are humans? Or are they actually?
Now, if we are serious, where this toxic attitude and paranoid fear not to hurt anyone’s feelings actually comes from? I believe it comes from psychotherapy, and from suicide prevention therapy and treatment of traumatized people especially. Now, in those cases extreme sensitivity is indeed warranted because any careless word might have irreversible consequences for these kinds of people.
However, the trick is that not everything (not even every mental illness!) should be treated in this way, and to treat everyone as if they were deeply traumatized or prone to suicide is simply wrong. Thus, to assume that people would commit suicide over ‘wrong pronouns’ or would be traumatized because of ‘misgendering’ is ridiculous. Moreover, it actually again devalues and trivializes serious mental traumas just like comparisons of Trump with Hitler devalue Holocaust, and thus is offensive to actually traumatized people just like the latter is offensive to Holocaust victims.
Moreover, not even every mental illness should be treated in such a way. Some of them are actually better treated in exactly opposite way - via exposure to things which make people uncomfortable to overcome the issue via shock therapy instead of shielding people from it.
Overall, not all life is a psychotherapy, and we should well remember it and stop treating all our relations and interactions as therapy sessions, sigh. I have a feeling our Woke generation had entirely forgotten it, and treat every social interaction exactly as a therapy session, and every single individual as deeply traumatized and prone to suicide. This is wrong, this is ridiculous, and this is actually harmful.
To conclude, it’s impossible and it’s not even advisable to agree with everything and to affirm everything. We should stop making not hurting someone’s feelings our top priority and start caring of being authentic and truthful instead. We should stop tiptoeing around others’ sensitivities as well – in the contrary, it’s them who should learn to control their emotion instead of trying to control others’ actions. In addition, we must stop conflating real life with psychotherapy and to treat every social interaction as a therapy session and every single individual - as a deeply traumatized prone to suicide mental health patient. Life isn’t therapy, again.
If I disagree with the wokesters, then they disagree with me. Am I equally justified in calling them hateful names?
Learning SELF-CONTROL and avoiding histrionic emotionalism is alien to the progressive mindset: they reject all counsels of prudence and wisdom. The practitioners of “the crying game” have used it to such success in manipulating clueless parents and educators that they really do need to crash and burn against the walls of Stoic indifference. Let them wail, cry and weep all they want but do not reward such infantile behavior