By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms. Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it a…
sheltered the kid too much I think. If he had been made to work in the fields or construction or the mines or something he wouldn't be like this. I don't even know what he's talking about, because he is constantly vague about who he's actually levying these "woke ideology" accusations against, and what these doctrines of "woke ideology" even are. And he just makes shit up to bolster his non-points like "The left is getting money from the Ford foundation! They're so stoopid the Ford Foundation isn't trying to change society!!"
Who is getting money from billionaires on the left? What actual "left" is he talking about who's getting Ford Foundation money?? He's a radlib shitlib just making stuff up to be mad at, exactly embodying everything he accuses these illusory "wokes" as. I've worked alongside and with and in a good few different socialist organizations; and they and we were all broke as hell and got no money from anyone but themselves, because we were working class, unlike this academic petty bourgeois finger-wagger.
And his whole "They changed STRUCTURAL racism to SYSTEMIC racism, so instead of implying that there's racist outcomes even if there's not a racist in charge, they're implying that racism is everywhere and embeds itself in everyone's outlooks" it's both dipshit, and has always been both, and they reinforce each other cyclically. base and superstructure. Basic Marx. For all his whining about how idpol (a liberal thing that he's ascribing to "left") and "woke ideology" (which he doesn't actually describe a doctrine or a specific group espousing this and championing this, just a weird tangent about litigious individualist civil legislation and "diversity consultants") 'obscuring class lines and betraying itself from Marxism, he doesn't seem to have actually read much Marx or many Marxists; because a lot of the shit he's talking about demonstrates large gaps in his knowledge.
Honestly I'd exhaust myself going through all the ways this guy is wrong, backwards, being obtuse, and politically stunted. I don't think he has any connections whatsoever to any actual on the ground working socialist organization and probably never has; I think he probably got criticized by a trans student for being an out of touch old white cishet guy and teaching concepts from fascist authors, and instead of reflecting (or even just ignoring it but not seeing it as some grand conspiracy); does the classic petty bourgeois reactionary "OMG WOKE CULTURE IS AUTHORITARIAN! WOKE IS HURT ME AND ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BC I WANT TO READ FASCIST BOOKS WITHOUT IMAGINING PEOPLE SOMEDAY MAKING ME FEEL BAD FOR IT;" which is incidentally exactly the same kind of shallow and thought-terminating attitude and political ethos that he's ascribing to "wokeness," only from an actual position of power as a university teacher and academic. He is the post-structuralist reactionary "radical" fixating on non-issues and obscuring the real ones that he accuses others of being and doing. The inflated self-importance of these people, who know nothing about and contributed nothing to real working class struggle, is so off-putting.
sheltered the kid too much I think. If he had been made to work in the fields or construction or the mines or something he wouldn't be like this. I don't even know what he's talking about, because he is constantly vague about who he's actually levying these "woke ideology" accusations against, and what these doctrines of "woke ideology" even are. And he just makes shit up to bolster his non-points like "The left is getting money from the Ford foundation! They're so stoopid the Ford Foundation isn't trying to change society!!"
Who is getting money from billionaires on the left? What actual "left" is he talking about who's getting Ford Foundation money?? He's a radlib shitlib just making stuff up to be mad at, exactly embodying everything he accuses these illusory "wokes" as. I've worked alongside and with and in a good few different socialist organizations; and they and we were all broke as hell and got no money from anyone but themselves, because we were working class, unlike this academic petty bourgeois finger-wagger.
And his whole "They changed STRUCTURAL racism to SYSTEMIC racism, so instead of implying that there's racist outcomes even if there's not a racist in charge, they're implying that racism is everywhere and embeds itself in everyone's outlooks" it's both dipshit, and has always been both, and they reinforce each other cyclically. base and superstructure. Basic Marx. For all his whining about how idpol (a liberal thing that he's ascribing to "left") and "woke ideology" (which he doesn't actually describe a doctrine or a specific group espousing this and championing this, just a weird tangent about litigious individualist civil legislation and "diversity consultants") 'obscuring class lines and betraying itself from Marxism, he doesn't seem to have actually read much Marx or many Marxists; because a lot of the shit he's talking about demonstrates large gaps in his knowledge.
Honestly I'd exhaust myself going through all the ways this guy is wrong, backwards, being obtuse, and politically stunted. I don't think he has any connections whatsoever to any actual on the ground working socialist organization and probably never has; I think he probably got criticized by a trans student for being an out of touch old white cishet guy and teaching concepts from fascist authors, and instead of reflecting (or even just ignoring it but not seeing it as some grand conspiracy); does the classic petty bourgeois reactionary "OMG WOKE CULTURE IS AUTHORITARIAN! WOKE IS HURT ME AND ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BC I WANT TO READ FASCIST BOOKS WITHOUT IMAGINING PEOPLE SOMEDAY MAKING ME FEEL BAD FOR IT;" which is incidentally exactly the same kind of shallow and thought-terminating attitude and political ethos that he's ascribing to "wokeness," only from an actual position of power as a university teacher and academic. He is the post-structuralist reactionary "radical" fixating on non-issues and obscuring the real ones that he accuses others of being and doing. The inflated self-importance of these people, who know nothing about and contributed nothing to real working class struggle, is so off-putting.