Why Woke People Are Their Own Worst Enemies

A professor cancels a guest speaker for wrongthink. His students protest. The university supports him. The speaker's fans harass the professor online. The professor loses his job. The speaker never asked for any of it. The students who protested are now unemployed because their department lost funding. The professor's family cannot pay rent. The speaker has moved on to his next engagement. Nobody won.In this episode, I examine the self-destructive patterns of the woke movement. The constant infighting. The purity spirals. The refusal to accept incremental progress. The belief that anyone who disagrees on one issue is an enemy on all issues. The woke movement has perfected the art of eating its own. A prominent activist is cancelled for comments made ten years ago. An ally is excommunicated for failing to use the correct terminology. A potential coalition is destroyed because one partner is not pure enough.The result is not a stronger movement. It is a smaller movement. The people who leave are not bigots. They are exhausted. They are tired of being shouted at by people who claim to be fighting for the same cause. The woke movement has become a circular firing squad. And it is the only one pulling the trigger.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because woke people are their own worst enemies. And they have no idea.