![]() It would appear that Woke World has succeeded in having its brand of enlightenment accepted by the entire US society. As it turns out, the troll succeeded in having several whites kneel and perform the same self-deprecation ritual. Perhaps most cringeworthy is a video in which a troll pretends to be a Black Lives Matter activist and demands that a young white woman kneel before him and confess her white privilege, and apologize for her transgressions, while he films the act of self-abnegation. READ MORE: Taking a knee not enough? VIDEO shows Massachusetts police chief LYING FACE DOWN at urging of BLM protesters Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, announced his resignation days after discontent among the newspaper’s staff erupted over a headline on a column about the impact of the civil unrest following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We spoke out when Vice President Mike Pence came to our show ten days after the election,” Miranda said, evincing the requisite disgust when uttering the name “Mike Pence.” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a video statement on Friday saying “we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier” when they protested police brutality by taking a knee during the national anthem. “We spoke out on the day of the Pulse shooting. ![]() ‘Hamilton’ playwright and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and ‘Hamilton’ producer Jeffery Seller apologized for not speaking up soon enough about the Floyd killing. After backlash from fellow professional athletes, New Orleans Saints NFL star quarterback Drew Brees issued two apologies for suggesting that kneeling during the national anthem amounted to “disrespecting the flag.” White parishioners in Houston genuflected before their black compeers, apologizing for centuries-long racism. The examples are legion and include New York Times Editorial Page Editor James Bennet’s forced resignation amid a staff revolt after Bennet published an op-ed by US Senator Tom Cotton (R - Arkansas) entitled “Send in the Troops” (in response to widespread rioting in US cities). In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we see these personalized, Maoist-derived rituals in full force. Also on rt.com White residents wash black priests’ feet during George Floyd vigil in US Today, they lead to diminished social standing, public humiliation, and the loss of jobs. Autocritique and struggle sessions could lead to imprisonment or death as the comrade was often found to be insufficiently pure. ![]() ‘Autocritique’ or self-criticism often began with voluntary submission of the guilty party, who subjected herself to a brutal verbal self-inspection and denigration before the jury of her comrades. In social media and physical encounters across the US and beyond, the Black Lives Matter movement, left-leaning political groups, and mainstream organizations have engaged in soft forms of struggle sessions and forced self-criticism routines, eerily resembling those the Red Guards oversaw at Mao’s behest during the Communist Chinese Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976.ĭuring the Maoist Cultural Revolution, in struggle sessions, the guilty party – accused of selfishness, ignorance, and the embrace of bourgeois ideology – was pilloried with verbal and sometimes physical assaults by her comrades–until she broke down and confessed her characterological and ideological flaws. In response to the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin and accomplices, woke culture has intensified cringy prostration and humiliation rituals that can be traced to the Maoist Cultural Revolution.
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