Wednesday, June 24, 2020

What is your "woke" red line?

Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher asked his readers, particularly the progressive ones,  what act of woke aggression would be their breaking point.  His focus on the post was that the BLM/ ANTIFA/ Progressive mobs have moved from Confederate statues to statues of white people generally.  As he put it in the final lines of his original post:


Don’t play innocent. The unwillingness of decent liberals to draw a line in the sand and defend it is why these statucidal Stalinists get away with it.



The bigger question, which Mr. Dreher didn't seem quite ready to consider is: The "breaking point" to do what, exactly? Write a blog post complaining about it? A letter to the editor of your local paper, doing the same?

Are you willing to join a counter protest? Are you willing to line up as part of a human chain to protect one of these monuments? Post "All Lives Matter" on your Facebook page?

Are you stockpiling canned goods and ammunition for if (when) the violence really starts? Making contacts among your neighbors to determine who will stand with you to physically fight the mobs and who will cower?

Are you just waiting to get to November so you can secretly cast a vote for Trump and hope that's enough?

I'm past my breaking point. Have been for a long time, which is why I used to call for working out a peaceful separation. We're past being able to peacefully separate now. We're either going to quietly accept the cultural Marxist ascendancy with all the horrors that will historically follow it or a lot of blood is going to be spilled to create the physical territories necessary for separation.

I think our society is on a knife edge. There are just enough people in society who still want to believe that "the rules" are still in effect. They believe that even if they are aggrieved in some way, that there's an appeals process and a "fair" way to fix the situation. More importantly, they believe that if they engage in truly anti- social or extra- legal behavior, that they will be punished.  It keeps just enough of us in line that the blood hasn't really started spilling yet. 

Every time a statue comes down at the hands of a mob or an autonomous zone goes up and the laws and order go unenforced, a few more people come to believe that the social compact is dead.
Either the law and social order apply to all or they apply to no one. You do not want a plurality of whites coming to believe that the rules don't apply any more. I think we're getting close to that typing point and a lot of people who have been patient and peaceful up until now are just waiting for somebody else to go first. 

That's when the Great White Riot kicks off again. It has been noted elsewhere, but bears repeating: White people basically have two settings: "Follow the rule of law within an agreed upon framework for social harmony," or "Kill Fucking Everybody."

Maybe it won't happen. Maybe enough Soma has been administered to enough of the populace to keep them submissive as long as the Netflix streams hold out.

But if it does, if somebody actually decides to go first... 


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