Wokeness Has No Jokeness
A more direct title might be 'wokeness excludes a sense of humour'. Because exponents of wokeness have no sense of humour, and clearly lack an appreciation of clever (not vulgar) humour, that will be the undoing of woke culture. Of course, the reign of terror enacted against the rest of us won't be over anytime soon. A lot of damage is being done, and before the serpent of wokeness fully consumes itself and dies a death that cannot come soon enough, it has more than a few endangered species yet to devour.
The first to be condemned, silenced, imprisoned, tortured and disappeared in any revolution are those who represent a threat to the powermongers. Most often those who first pay the price are clergy, musicians, poets, and now it seems comedians who dare to speak truth to power. Can anyone blame comedians for refusing to perform on university and college campuses rife with the demon of political correctness and its savage offspring wokeness, institutions of "higher learning" where flakes chain react into a toxic meltdown at the very hint of parody, i.e., a mere portion of truth?
Irony and the Limbo of Comeuppance
Who is responsible for creating a grievance culture of fear and intimidation? The very same comedians and progressive social commentators now complaining that their liberal, progressive, radical leftwing bedfellows are raining on their parades. When vulgar comedians such as Dave Chappelle and puff firebrands such as Bill Maher object to woke bullying, the irony of their complaints signal the bankruptcy of the modern liberal agenda. Like a person addicted to a narcotic, contemporary society must hit rock bottom before recovery and renewal can begin.
Woke Stroke
Catholic World Report has published a very useful perspective piece, which reads in part:
(P)erhaps the most dangerous statement made by Chappelle was left almost completely unreported in the mainstream media, and that was his comparison of men dressed as women to white people who wear blackface in insulting parodies of black people.
Women “look at transgender women the way we blacks look at blackface,” Chappelle told his audience. “They go ‘oh, this (expletive) is doing an impression of me!’”
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“Intersectional” ideology
The media frenzy has taken on a particular sense of urgency in this case for two obvious reasons. First, Dave Chappelle’s attacks on LGBT ideology have the potential to undermine the most important seam in the metal of the movement, and that is the “intersectional” joining of black civil rights and gender ideology.
This unnatural union has always been the weakest point in “intersectionality,” which is an attempt to fuse together various and disparate ideological causes within the broad spectrum of neo-Marxist identity politics. It may be understood more simply as an attempt by LGBT ideologues to co-opt racial minorities and their political movements. Comparing black people and other racial minorities whose skin color is a biologically-determined fact, with people who deny their own biology and insist that the rest of the world do so as well, is obviously insulting and demeaning to the former but politically beneficial to the latter. Chappelle appears to be alluding to this with his devastating “blackface” comparison, and his popularity and minority status simultaneously provide him with a degree of protection from intersectional LGBT activists who claim to be “allies” of black civil rights.
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