Wokal Distance On The Power Of Naming The Enemy

Originally posted to Twitter yesterday by Wokal Distance, collected here and edited for clarity.

This is the game the woke are playing:

• Don't call it "woke" that's racist
• Don't call it "Critical Social Justice," that termnis made up
• Don't call it "Critical Race Theory," that's incorrect

They don't want their ideology to have a name. Let's talk about why.

The people who say terms like "Critical Social justice," and "woke," are pejorative, made up, meaningless, or substitutes for the N-word, are playing a rhetorical and linguistic game in order to undercut and subvert your ability to criticize their ideas.

Here's how it works:

I'm going to explain this using Zebras as an analogy. Trust me, this will explain it perfectly.

Many animals have fur, feathers, skin or skin that matches the colour of their environment. This acts like camoflouge so they can blend in and hide. This owl is a fine example.

Zebras are different. They're covered in black and white stripes even though the environement they live in is mostly brown and green. If you see a zebra by itself, it's very easy to see. It's like they have a neon sign over them saying "lions, please eat me".

But the zebras' stripes don't help them blend into the environment, they help it BLEND INTO THE HERD. Zebra camoflouge works by making zebras blend with the herd so that lions can't focus on any one zebra and target it. If lions can't pick a target, the Zebras are safe.

Scientists discovered this as they studied Zebras and got confused about which zebra was which... because the zerbas look alike and blend into the herd.They tried to fix this by taging a zebra with red paint so they could recognize it from the others.

Guess what happened?

The Lions killed the tagged Zebra. A tagged zebra stands out from the herd so lions can tell it apart and focus the hunt on it. The lions don't catch weak zebras, they catch the IDENTIFIABLE Zebras they can focus on. This is a great analogy for the game the woke are playing

The reason the woke attack any and every term you use to try to name their ideology. Once a worldview can be named and defined, it can then be pointed out, highlighted, and subjected to criticism. Once you can *IDENTIFY* a worldview or set of ideas you can focus on it.

The woke don't want anyone to be able to give a name or label to their ideology because if that happens we can "tag" examples their ideology with a label when we see it. This allows us to highlight it, point it out, and examine it when we see it. They don't want that.

Once a worldview can be named, labelled and defined, it can then be pointed out, highlighted, and subjected to criticism. You can't criticize something you can't focus on.

That is what the woke want. They want to make their ideology, their WORLDVIEW impossible to focus on.

Because we label things and name them in order to help us "tag" them, so we can point them out and focus on them, the woke are trying desperately to destroy all of our linguistic "tags." They know once we tag them we will be able to examine thier idea and criticize them.

Woke ideas really can't withstand proper rational and logical analysis. The Lions of Reason--evidence, logic, rationality, etc.--will eat the Zebras of Wokeness, CRT, and Critical Social Justice for lunch- if the Lions of Reason can focus on and identify the woke Zebras.

And this is what the woke want to avoid. The woke think our criticisms our criticisms are not legitimate; just an attempt by us to protect our ideolog so we can hold on to "power and privilege." For thst reason the woke seek to insulate themselves from our criticism.

So, to avoid getting eaten by the Lions of Reason the woke want to mix their ideology into society and have it blend in so it becomes just another part of the social fabric. They don't want wokeness to be, seen, pointed out, highlighted, or (in woke parlance) "made visible."

They want hide their worldview by making it impossible to focus on and impossible to tag, label, or name. so they can say they are "just doing history" or "just dicussing gender," and "blend in" as though they fit right alongside reason, evidence, logic, and rationality.

Using labels like "woke," "CRT," AND "Critical Social Justice," allows us to tag woke ideas so we can hold them up to the light and examine them. It also lets us point out wokeness to other people so they can see it too, and reject it. This is what the woke want to avoid.

They want to act liks all the bits of woke activism we see are unconnected phenomena spontaneously springing fourth in the name of justice in an undefineable way. When in fact woke activism is the fruit of a well thought out and clearly defined academic ideology/worldview.

This is why they are so desperate to discredit any word, term, or phrase we use to names, label, point out, or highlight the woke ideology. Do not let them do this. Do not let them play games and use linguistic and rhetorical sleight of hand to hide their worldview.

Label, name, highlight, and point out their ideas. Label fairly. Use labels from their literature. But label those woke ideas and then subject those woke ideas to the bright light of rigorous criticism and analysis.

Gee, this sounds very familiar. Lots of stolen moral authority here. I wonder what would happen if you hit them with the Witch Test?