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The Silent Majority Is Woke
Today I was skimming Twitter and I came across this story about Lauren Southern’s (whom I had never heard of before) parents being kicked off AirBnB for … being her parents. AirBnB had kicked her out back in 2018 or 2019, but her parents had booked a romantic getaway only to have it canceled because … well, I guess because they raised a terrible person by AirBnB’s measure.
My parents just got banned from AirBnB for being related to me.
They have never booked anything for me. They do not represent me in any way. They aren't publicly political in any way.
How is this sane in any way @Airbnb pic.twitter.com/SOF01xkJFS
— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) February 7, 2023
Part of this is likely because of their attempt to stay on top of their ESG rating, so Wall Street doesn’t downcheck them.
To learn a bit more about her, I watched a video of hers on YouTube.
Her premise is that we are in the stage of wokeism where the average person goes along to get along, yes, but that even the true believers aren’t really believers anymore. They just adhere to the forms, which includes voting for Democrats because everyone around them is telling them that conservatives are evil.
I think she may have a point, but I disagree that the true believers don’t believe anymore. I think they still do, but there is almost a level of comedy that we see similar to what Solzhenitsyn wrote about in The Gulag Archipelago. Where the process is absurd, but everyone still follows it because deviation is death. When I was looking for Soviet jokes for my post on the subject, I came across this one.
A member of the party was stopped by the Cheka on the streets of Moscow. The agent said to him “Comrade, I see by your pin that you are a committed Communist. I assume you read Lenin and his writings on what a true Soviet man should be?”
“Of course I do. Vladimir Illyich is wise and we should follow his teachings.”
The Chekist then said “Well comrade, I see you are smoking, but Comrade Lenin has said that smoking is bad for the Soviet man. What do you say to that?”
The man quickly replied, “Then I shall immediately stop smoking!” He put out his cigarette and threw the pack away.
The Chekist then said ,”Good, comrade, good! But I see that bag you are carrying. It is clearly Vodka, is it not?”
“Yes,” the man replied.
“Well, Comrade Lenin just this week said that drinking is detrimental to the Soviet man, what do you think of that?”
The man immediately threw his bottle in the trash and said, “If Comrade Lenin said that drinking is bad, then I shall immediately stop drinking.”
“Good, Comrade, good!” said the Chekist, “but, I see you have a sandwich there. Is that meat I see in it?”
“Yes,” said the man warily.
“Comrade Lenin just today said that eating meat every meal is wasteful and good Soviet men should only eat meat once a day at dinner. What do you think of that?”
The man reluctantly deposited his sandwich in the trash and said, “If Comrade Lenin says it, it must be true and I will refrain from eating meat except at dinner.”
“Excellent, Comrade, excellent. You are a true Soviet man. Are you willing to lay down your life for the Soviet Union?”
The man looked at the Chekist and said “Of course! This life isn’t worth living.”
The wokeists own the media, and the own the government, and they own the education system. Not to mention the media, and Big Tech, and soon every corporation in the Chinese model. The price of disobedience is to be cut off from everything, yet no one seems to care. Certainly not McConnell, McCarthy, and McDaniel, who frittered away a chance at winning Congress. With friends like these…who needs enemies (and we have plenty of those)? Is there a silent majority, or a better question, do the “independents” really care about elections, or are they cowed either by the woke mob, or the realization that the GOP isn’t going to naturally do much different if they gain power?
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You’re both right. If you’ve had kids within the last 25 years, you know what the post-Christian culture is doing to us and our kids. For the first time in the US, being Christian is counter-culture.
Yes! And when my brother was hurting, there was (and still is) huge outrage in how we have let the trans stuff go so far.
Those who think we are too pessimistic don’t believe in the personal accounts. Which isn’t entirely surprising, because we believe what we see. But it shows an incredible lack of humility and empathy.
It’s a hilarious typo and the editors fixed it when the promoted it.
This sounds like a joke for the Soviet Jokes post. In Soviet America Social Credit Score monitors you!
You’re both right. If you’ve had kids within the last 25 years, you know what the post-Christian culture is doing to us and our kids. For the first time in the US, being Christian is counter-culture.
I don’t know. When I became a Christian in the late 70s I thought it was specifically counter-cultural.
Good for you. I did reread it a few times and figured your meaning was completely clear and unambiguous. Not so with mine (which due to the No More Comments has not been correctible).
Really? Compared to today? It was still normal for most families to be church-going and for most people to get married in a church. I think our Judeo-Christian values were much more commonly held back then.
But, it was about 20 years ago I commented to a friend in the narthex after Mass that our kids might be the first Christian martyrs in America. We’re not there yet, but with FBI targeting and corporations showing intolerance for long-held views about sexual morality — and just male-female sex differences, period — it seems we’re on the approaches to persecution.
Of course, my kids have succumbed to the culture and fallen away, so they’re probably safe. My friend’s kids? Not so much. They stand out.
I think perhaps I always saw the end from the beginning. But yes, today seems more or less like what I knew I was getting into way back then.