The Jewish Elites Are The 'Woke Right'

Perpetual gaslighting

In Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage (2018), I was the first scholar to treat contemporary wokeness. I was also first to point out that the woke adopt from Marxism the oppressor/oppressed binary—that wokeness substitutes identity terms for the class terms of Marxist thought. This formulation was picked up by James Lindsay, who also adopted the statement “social justice is practical postmodernism,” without attribution.

Unfortunately, Lindsay, who pretends to be an expert of ideas he misunderstands, missed the key to wokeness—that it is an inversion ideology. That is, the woke hierarchy inverts the supposed existing hierarchy such that the supposed bottom becomes the top, and vice versa. It swaps the oppressor and oppressed of the dyad while maintaining the nominal status of the groups in question, so that the entity claiming to be the victim is, in fact, the aggressor. Thus, the term “cry bully.”

With Lindsay and company’s use of the term “woke right,” we’ve reached the highest levels of absurdity, hypocrisy, and gaslighting. “Anti-leftist” influencers, also known as Conservative, Inc., suggest that those who oppose the infanticide and democide conducted by the the state of Israel against the people in the Gaza Strip are the “woke right.” This formulation is, as with all propaganda, the exact opposite of the truth.

The state of Israel and the American Jewish elites are the epitome of the woke right. The Israeli ruling class is supremacist and it plays the victim even as it slaughters tens of thousands of people while starving tens of thousands more to death. It calls this slaughter “self defense.” And, as Norman Finkelstein noted, the Jewish elites are the most privileged group in America, yet they portray themselves as perpetual victims. If that isn’t woke, nothing is.

James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad, Ben Shapiro, Sam Harris, Dave Reuben, Dennis Prager and others are the intellectual bodyguards of this ruling elite. They and their minions call “antisemitic” anyone who notices the criminality, affiliations, and rhetorical tricks of the ruling elite.

Meanwhile, if antisemitic means the irrational hatred of semites, then Israel is the greatest antisemitic force on the planet. The Palestinians are semites, but that doesn’t stop Israel from annihilating them. And they dare to call the Palestinians themselves “antisemitic.” This blatant demonstration of the inversion ideology in action is astounding. Antisemitism is their human shield.

Unfortunately for the ruling elites, their magic words have lost their potency and mean nothing to anyone—other than to fellow Zionists, which includes most of the political class, whom they’ve either bought or blackmailed. See Epstein’s Mossad ties.

Israel’s crimes are being exposed as we speak. Candace Owen’s exposé of the attack on the USS Liberty and interview of a real victim of the IDF’s extended attack has reached over two million views as of this writing. Many more now know that Israel deliberately attacked the ship and killed many of its crew members, knowing full well it was an American vessel.

And Israel’s relentless bombing of Syria, after Assad has already ceded power and escaped the country, is further proof of the ruthless and criminal character of Israel and the ruling elites.

Yet they are the perennial victims. Ain’t that woke.