The Fragility of the Woke

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ATikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.

She won a huge audience, as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn’t want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn’t like.

This wouldn’t have been much of a story. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video — one that showed her weeping in a near-fetal position.

She fought back tears while complaining about how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social-media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.

The Harvard grad instantly became an unwitting poster girl for the current protest movement and the violence that has accompanied it. What turns off millions of Americans about the statue toppling, the looting, the threats, and the screaming in the face of police is the schizophrenic behavior of so many of the would-be revolutionaries.

On one hand, those toppling statues or canceling their own careers on the Internet pose as vicious Maoists — the hard-core shock troops of the revolution. Their brand is vile profanity, taunts to police, firebombs, and spray paint.

In homage to Italy’s Blackshirts of the past, they wear black hoodies, don makeshift helmets, and strap on ad hoc protective padding — part lacrosse attire, part cinematic Road Warrior costume.

The televised stereotype of the Antifa activist is a physically unimpressive but violent-talking revolutionary. He seems to strut in laid-back, blue-city Minneapolis but wisely avoids the suburbs and small towns of the nation’s red states. He spits at police when standing beside fellow agitators but would never do that when alone confronting an autoworker or welder.

When police march against the Antifa crowd and their appendages in order to clear the streets, they often scream like preteens, objecting to mean officers who dare to cross them.

When arrested, the trash talkers are usually terrified of being jailed or of having an arrest on their records.

Federal authorities are currently searching thousands of videos to ferret out looters, arsonists, and assailants. Perpetrators who are caught are shocked that the evidence that they once posted online in triumphant braggadocio is now being used to charge them with felonies.

What is going on?

Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and their large numbers of imitators and loosely organized wannabes are mostly made up of middle-class youth, often either students or graduates. They deem themselves the brains of the rioting, the most woke of the demonstrators, the most sophisticated of the iconoclasts. In truth, they are also the most paranoid about being charged or being hurt.

What explains the passive-aggressive nature of these protesters and rioters?

Many no doubt are indebted, with large, unpaid student loans. Few seem in a hurry to get up at 6 a.m. each day to go to work to service loans that would take years to pay in full.

While some of those arrested are professionals, many are not. Few seem to be earning the sort of incomes that would allow them to marry, have children, pay off student-loan debt, buy a home, and purchase a new car.

Historically, the tips of the spears of cultural revolutions are accustomed to comfort. But they grow angry when they realize that they will never become securely comfortable.

In today’s high-priced American cities, especially on the globalized coasts, it’s increasingly difficult for recent college graduates to find a job that will allow for upward mobility.

The protestors are especially cognizant that their 20s are nothing like what they believe to have been the salad days of their parents and grandparents — who did not incur much debt, bought affordable homes, had families, and were able to save money.

Earlier generations went to college mainly to become educated and develop marketable skills. They weren’t very interested in ethnic and gender “studies” courses, ranting professors, and woke administrators. For the students of the 1960s who were, protesting was a side dish to a good investment in an affordable college degree that would pay off later.

But when such pathways are blocked, beware.

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The CRAP could have been stopped instantly by either a few brains being splatted or a lot of the leftist idiots getting the shit kicked out of them and having permanent limps or deformed arms.

None of these clowns understand what is going to come down on them, not a one. When you have the good citizens of towns about to be visited by the Antifa children, band together, irregardless of race, armed and ready, it’s a hint of what America is ready for.

@Boris Badenov:
agree, none of these mindless demonstrators expect to die. black terrorist movement, democrap, all labor on the victim. floyd was a career criminal. the press never told you the huston threw his ass out of the city. louis farrakhan, and the nation of hate provided security for this POS funeral.

Antifa and BLM need a history lesson.
The first thing a socialist does when he attains power is KILL all of those useful idiots who helped him win the “revolution.”
Mao did it when he sicced the brownshirts on his own commie students, millions of them.
Stalin did it after the 1919 revolution ended, killing all those fellow travelers who put him in power lest they become his competitors later.
You guys are toast whether you “win” or lose.

First, the proper term is “woked”. Please make the necessary edits.

There’s a reason why the most idiotic of the idiots cover their faces when they go on their idiot-rages. What they do is stupid and when you do it without concealing your identity, the world, rightly, collapses upon you. Hopefully this little bitch will suffer greatly until she realizes how utterly stupid she is and makes personal corretions.

@Nan G:

What do you think Hitler did to the goons. criminals, muggers, murder, rapists who secured his power. He killed them all. the gestapo, in the beginning, was composed of prisoners, work for Hitler, did his bidding, killing people like they had done before. you are now free and work for the Nazi cause.

The woke only seem fragile when they are identifiable.
Victim signaling (acting woke) justifies victim groups (the woke) seeking retribution/
Reparations against alleged oppressors (all us non-woke people).

There is even competitive virtue signalling!
But studies show who does this sort of crap.
Psychopathic, manipulative, and narcissistic people are more frequent signalers of “virtuous victimhood.”

The so-called “dark triad” personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—lead to characteristics like “self-promotion, emotional callousness, duplicity, and tendency to take advantage of others,” one paper explains.

In other words, people willing to live off their moms from basements well into their 20’s, 30’s even 40’s are perfectly set up to become virtue signallers, the woke.

No wonder so many BLM’ers are whites.