“Where climate change offers the apocalypse and Black Lives Matter offers absolution from the Original Sin of white supremacy, “being trans” gives one a soul. The three issues form the trinity of Wokeism.”
As the vanguard movement of progressive ideological fads, woke activists aren’t honest missionaries of a secular faith in which meaning and identity are derived from political activism, but dogmatic authoritarians convinced that righteous motives justify demanding of others unquestioning adherence to a totalistic political agenda. They don’t want converts, they want targets and unswerving submission.
Normies of the World Unite. You have only logic, the scientific method and freedom of speech to gain. It is long since time for an international movement of rational people to stand up to the Wokeful tsunami destroying society and dedicated to the destruction of the human race. The Woke are demonstrably against human flourishing. They want to see the rest of humanity become as broken and twisted as they are.
The only value I'm interested in uniting over is free speech. If we don't get that right, the rest doesn't matter. If we do get that right, the rest can fall in place. The enemy isn't "wokeism" (or, at least, that's not the fight that happens first): it's the censoriousness of wokeism as well as the censoriousness of many anti-woke positions.
I'm going to quibble for a moment over aesthetics: I hate the term "normie." It's a dismissive (often disparaging) term used by the extremely online to describe the non-extremely online. I get why you used it -- it groups people into two camps, and the "normie" camp is huge, and you want a large coalition, but it doesn't really speak to a lot of people who are *not* extremely online. It's infantilizing language, as if normal people are these cute little oblivious children. Like almost all phrasings that spread like wildfire through Twitter (see also: "cringe" as an adjective), I wish it would die.
“We might further agree that we need an approach to addiction, mental illness, and homelessness that emphasizes recovery, not addiction maintenance.” Thank you for this inclusion. I’m in recovery and grateful to be free of alcohol and drugs. There is no half-way with most people like me.
Was it coincidental that when menopausal women rejected Hormone Replacement Therapy (breast cancer concerns), how new consumers popped up via "gender dysphoria"? It's been a boon for Big Pharma, as trans consumers are on HRT for life, unlike most menopausal women who were on HRT for a couple of years. Twenty+ years ago, 'women's magazines' were full of HRT ads. With the cancer scare, those ads disappeared. This is a Normie issue.
I am so glad to see you take on this issue. I'm an LGB activist and journalist in SoCal, and have been folowing your for a couple of years. I contributed to your gubenatorial campaign --you helped me understand so-called "homelessness"! I have been trying to think of a way to get you info about the complex issues of child medicalization (we've had demos at Children's Hospital LA), men in CA women's prisons, self ID as demonstrated in the Wi Spa & Santee Y incidents (I'm covering the Wi Spa hearings now), and more. I am reachable on all platforms and would love to send you more info about what many of us have been doing.
As I read an The Free Press's gamechanging post earlier this week from a former Trans-activist and this marvelous post, I am reminded of that nifty aphorism, falsely attributed to Mark Twain, that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." What rhymes is this modern-day mutilization of children at the throne of transgender ideology with the 1935 invention of the prefrontal lobotomy. This brutal psychological surgery - separating the frontal lobe with the rest of the brain to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and other conditions - fell out favor in the early 1950s after 60,000 surgeries in the US. While still legal in the US, the side effects and consequences were permanent, debilitating, and tragic. Transgender surgeries on minor children today rhymes with prefrontal lobotomies of yesteryear.
I don’t know. Most ‘normal’ people I know still buy into the bullshit narratives spun by the mainstream media. I think Covid mandates and failed vaccines have moved the dial a bit - but overall people aren’t prepared to acknowledge how bad things are because it involves a real shift in worldview. My spouse gets angry with me not when she thinks I am wrong - but when she knows I am right about something uncomfortable.
“Where climate change offers the apocalypse and Black Lives Matter offers absolution from the Original Sin of white supremacy, “being trans” gives one a soul. The three issues form the trinity of Wokeism.”
Very well stated.
As the vanguard movement of progressive ideological fads, woke activists aren’t honest missionaries of a secular faith in which meaning and identity are derived from political activism, but dogmatic authoritarians convinced that righteous motives justify demanding of others unquestioning adherence to a totalistic political agenda. They don’t want converts, they want targets and unswerving submission.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/wokeness-is-out-of-control
Normies of the World Unite. You have only logic, the scientific method and freedom of speech to gain. It is long since time for an international movement of rational people to stand up to the Wokeful tsunami destroying society and dedicated to the destruction of the human race. The Woke are demonstrably against human flourishing. They want to see the rest of humanity become as broken and twisted as they are.
As for a name: Coalition of the Sane
Michael Lind just issued a very similar call to arms in Tablet Magazine.
"By its nature, a broad anti-progressive front must include Democrats as well as Republicans and independents."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/power-mad-progressive-utopianism-must-be-stopped
Cheers to the normie news network. All doctors who did harm to children must be named, shamed, and punished: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-do-no-harm-part-2
The only value I'm interested in uniting over is free speech. If we don't get that right, the rest doesn't matter. If we do get that right, the rest can fall in place. The enemy isn't "wokeism" (or, at least, that's not the fight that happens first): it's the censoriousness of wokeism as well as the censoriousness of many anti-woke positions.
I'm going to quibble for a moment over aesthetics: I hate the term "normie." It's a dismissive (often disparaging) term used by the extremely online to describe the non-extremely online. I get why you used it -- it groups people into two camps, and the "normie" camp is huge, and you want a large coalition, but it doesn't really speak to a lot of people who are *not* extremely online. It's infantilizing language, as if normal people are these cute little oblivious children. Like almost all phrasings that spread like wildfire through Twitter (see also: "cringe" as an adjective), I wish it would die.
“We might further agree that we need an approach to addiction, mental illness, and homelessness that emphasizes recovery, not addiction maintenance.” Thank you for this inclusion. I’m in recovery and grateful to be free of alcohol and drugs. There is no half-way with most people like me.
Are you going to print cards for Normies? If so where do I register. They should be universally accepted even for voting.
Was it coincidental that when menopausal women rejected Hormone Replacement Therapy (breast cancer concerns), how new consumers popped up via "gender dysphoria"? It's been a boon for Big Pharma, as trans consumers are on HRT for life, unlike most menopausal women who were on HRT for a couple of years. Twenty+ years ago, 'women's magazines' were full of HRT ads. With the cancer scare, those ads disappeared. This is a Normie issue.
The “Normals”. Sounds better than “Normies”
Normies of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your obnoxiously ideological acquaintances!
What they said (I’m in too!).
I am so glad to see you take on this issue. I'm an LGB activist and journalist in SoCal, and have been folowing your for a couple of years. I contributed to your gubenatorial campaign --you helped me understand so-called "homelessness"! I have been trying to think of a way to get you info about the complex issues of child medicalization (we've had demos at Children's Hospital LA), men in CA women's prisons, self ID as demonstrated in the Wi Spa & Santee Y incidents (I'm covering the Wi Spa hearings now), and more. I am reachable on all platforms and would love to send you more info about what many of us have been doing.
As I read an The Free Press's gamechanging post earlier this week from a former Trans-activist and this marvelous post, I am reminded of that nifty aphorism, falsely attributed to Mark Twain, that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." What rhymes is this modern-day mutilization of children at the throne of transgender ideology with the 1935 invention of the prefrontal lobotomy. This brutal psychological surgery - separating the frontal lobe with the rest of the brain to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and other conditions - fell out favor in the early 1950s after 60,000 surgeries in the US. While still legal in the US, the side effects and consequences were permanent, debilitating, and tragic. Transgender surgeries on minor children today rhymes with prefrontal lobotomies of yesteryear.
I don’t know. Most ‘normal’ people I know still buy into the bullshit narratives spun by the mainstream media. I think Covid mandates and failed vaccines have moved the dial a bit - but overall people aren’t prepared to acknowledge how bad things are because it involves a real shift in worldview. My spouse gets angry with me not when she thinks I am wrong - but when she knows I am right about something uncomfortable.