Links - 29th October 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Tristin Hopper: Poilievre says there are too many 'heritage months' in Canada. There are 17 - "At a B.C. town hall last week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said there are too many federally recognized heritage months, and that it’s “kind of getting hard to keep track of which month is for what cause or for what group.” The spur for the question appears to have been a Liberal MP’s recent attempt to have July declared as Somali Heritage Month... The busiest single month for this happens to be the current month. Right now, Canada is officially recognizing National Indigenous History Month, Italian Heritage Month, Filipino Heritage Month and Portuguese Heritage Month. June also used to be Pride Month, until the Department of Canadian Heritage upgraded it to the four-month-long “Pride Season,” meaning that one third of the Canadian year is now under pride observation. In addition, the Government of Canada also recognizes five commemorative weeks, and 48 “important and commemorate days.”... As to which group gets the most days, Indigenous Canadians get six. There’s National Ribbon Skirt Day, National Indigenous Languages Day, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Veterans Day, Red Dress Day, and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In second place, it’s a tie between the military and transgender people, with four each. The military has the Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge , Canadian Armed Forces Day, Remembrance Day and the aforementioned Indigenous Veterans Day. While for transgendered Canadians, there is International Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Day of Remembrance and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia and. There’s also the International Day of Pink, which an official Government of Canada write-up describes as a day of action against “transphobia and transmisogyny.” Transgender Day of Remembrance is not only held shortly after conventional Remembrance Day, but it’s also the only day in the calendar to share billing with another calendar day, as November 20 was already National Child Day. Altogether, there are now just 20 days, all of them in December, in which the Government of Canada isn’t officially commemorating something."

Damani Felder on X - "If Democrats really believe in open borders and that "diversity is our strength" then Christopher Columbus did nothing wrong. See how that works?"

Emma Dunwell on X - "Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri, a consultant gynaecologist who worked at Guernsey’s Princess Elizabeth Hospital from 2016 to 2019, admitted REMOVING the OVARIES of TWO women WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT — including one case with no identified medical need. A 2025 Medical Practitioners Tribunal found him guilty of misconduct. 24 instances proven out of more than 100 allegations, covering the ovary removals plus hugging and kissing a patient, intimate examinations without a chaperone, and other boundary issues. The Tribunal ruled his fitness to practise was not impaired and issued only a warning, citing a LOW risk of future harm. One patient told the tribunal that the removal of her left ovary without consent “had ruined her life”; another said the procedure had brought on the menopause prematurely. The GMC successfully appealed the decision in the High Court, which ordered a fresh tribunal after finding the original reasoning “wrong or unjust” in places, and interim conditions now prevent him from consulting female patients without a chaperone except in life-threatening emergencies. He CONTINUES TO WORK as a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. This man should not just be fired, he should be in PRISON!!!"

Sara Ghorbani on X - "The dehumanization of Muslim girls and women continues in the west. The Shafia sisters, Zainab 19, Sahar 17, Geeti 13, and their dad’s first wife in a polygamous marriage Rona Mohammed Omar 52 were murdered by their father, mother and brother in an honour killing in 2009. The brother is now applying for parole. He helped murder 4 women in his own family because they were wearing western clothes and had boyfriends in Canada and their step-mother was their only refuge and also she wanted a divorce because she was tired of the abuse. He murdered 4 people. And the media was worried if it was appropriate to call it honour killings and there was much debate amongst them all and the court charged them with “committing murder under the guise of honour killings”. As if honour killing is a mask these people wore to pretend something they aren’t to commit something that isn’t really real. And he’s now up for parole. Less than 15 years after being convicted of 4 murders. And for as long as the west plays this game, they are complicit in the violence women like Rona, Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti don’t survive."

Meme - _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan: "It's wild looking into the economics of these books, they sell basically no copies to actual customers, the big goal isn't to get on best-seller lists but rather to gun for library/school library/curriculum guides, and for awards like the Coretta Scott King or Jane Addams (which improve your chances of getting on library lists), you can even get funding for them from non profits like We Need Diverse Books and SCBWI, and once they're actually on the shelves they essentially never get read, they're books that exist so school administrators can feel good about putting them on reading lists and so libtard librarians and feel good about putting them out for prominent display on the shelves"
wanye @xwanyex: "My kindergartener went to the school library for the first time at school yesterday and the book he checked out is about the importance of the first day wearing your hijab. He said he thought it was a book about an adventure on the ocean."

Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "When I talk about cultural and systemic variables that obviously often have a larger effect on group-level performance, this is a good example. In Southern Nigeria, the literacy rate - which, in a post-British nation, means ~what it does here - is 80+%. In the North, it is often 30%. The difference? Islam and the non-education of women."
Damn Islamophobia!

Meme - Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman: "It's remarkable that a woman can complain about free speech in Britain while supporting execution for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia. This might be one of those paradox of tolerance situations."
Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews: "A 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for insulting Prophet Muhammad."
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh: *Palestine flag* *Jordan flag* *UK flag* "We do not accept insults to any of our beloved prophets from Adam to Noah, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad peace be upon them all. Well done Saudi Arabia."
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh: "Doctor. Exposing the capture of Britain by foreign lobby groups. Free speech. Suspended by @gmcuk for opposing genocide and supremacy."
Free speech is for you to kill Jews and smash spines with sledgehammers, not for you to talk back to Muslims who are mocking your religion

AnechoicMedia on X - "What mainstream coverage doesn't want to get into about the Six Flags death is that both recent high profile cases of a rider being insufficiently restrained and ejected from a vehicle involved riders who were morbidly obese and black. It will likely come out that the ride was mechanically sound but the restraints were not secured or could not in their position contain a heavy, flexible body when subjected to ride forces. I could find no cases in the past 15 years or so of a mechanical failure being the cause of a rider being thrown from a vehicle. One parallel trend that Steve Sailer has emphasized is how post 2020, traffic fatalities surged, particularly for blacks. This came after a steep drop in police enforcement of technical violations, speeding, and even reduced DUI arrests. The new social discomfort about being confrontational with blacks over non-violent crimes created a lawless environment and ultimately more deaths. For a low wage park employee, having to scrutinize a fat guest's restraints, or confront a guest to throw them off the ride, can be highly embarrassing or risk a confrontation. As we know, black people can be loud and indignant about being refused service, and it is considered socially unacceptable to call out a fat black person. Workers have to weight every confrontation with the possibility of becoming the subject of a viral video and fired for insensitivity. It is probably relevant that the only other recent case of a rider being thrown from a ride, in 2011, involved a double-amputee war veteran, who was allowed to ride despite the posted rules. This person can similarly be viewed as a protected class that one is expected to be deferential to, particularly around that time. So it's plausible that post 2020 America has difficulty enforcing safety rules in a uniform manner, unless we staff parks with hardened security guards who ruthlessly refuse service to guests who don't fit in a ride's safety parameters. Since this is unlikely to happen, it's possible we'll just lose certain types of public attraction for everyone."

alyssa on X - "Liberals: hate has no home here!
Also liberals: we hate white men, Jews, MAGA, Charlie Kirk, billionaires, ICE, Trump, and free speech!"
"Hate" is anything that threatens the left wing agenda

Meme - Amelia M. Christnot @AChristnot: "*learns about NASA Moon landing in school*
"Don't you mean Neil Armstrong DISCOVERED the Moon?"
"No, the Moon's always been there. That would be stupid."
"Tell me again about Christopher Columbus.""
Comment (elsewhere): "Henry Cavendish didn’t discover hydrogen. It was always there. See how stupid you sound?"

Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ on X - "Greta Thunberg : née extrême gauche, élevée prophétesse, adulte militante de causes interchangeables.
Née le 3 janvier 2003 à Stockholm dans une famille d’artistes aisés, Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg a reçu dès le berceau le kit standard de la bonne conscience scandinave progressiste : confort matériel, accès aux discours moralisateurs et un terrain idéal pour transformer l’angoisse personnelle en posture publique. À huit ans, elle découvre le climat. Résultat immédiat : dépression, mutisme sélectif, arrêt de l’alimentation. Diagnostic d’Asperger (qu’elle rebaptise « super-pouvoir »), TOC et tout le reste. Plutôt que de chercher un équilibre, la famille bascule : veganisme, fin des vols internationaux pour la mère (carrière d’opéra sacrifiée), culpabilisation permanente. Les parents, d’abord réticents à la grève scolaire de 2018, finissent par gérer la logistique d’une adolescente propulsée icône mondiale. Rien de plus classique : un foyer culturellement aligné à gauche qui transforme le trouble d’un enfant en capital militant. Le reste suit la trajectoire prévisible. Fridays for Future, discours apocalyptiques à l’ONU (« How dare you ? »), couverture médiatique massive, Personnalité de l’année du Time en 2019. Le climat sert de cheval de Troie à un anticapitalisme implicite, à la décroissance et à la culpabilisation des pays développés. Puis, comme souvent chez cette génération formée aux campus et aux ONG, le curseur glisse : soutien à l’Ukraine, puis bascule massive sur la Palestine. Depuis 2023, Greta multiplie les signes : photos « Stand with Gaza » juste après le 7 octobre, chants « Crush Zionism », keffieh, flotilles pour Gaza en 2025, et en octobre 2026 présence à une manifestation berlinoise le jour de « l’anniversaire » du massacre du Hamas, au milieu de slogans d’intifada et d’arrestations pour propos antisémites. La justice climatique devient « justice globale », c’est-à-dire le catalogue standard de l’extrême gauche occidentale : anti-Israël prioritaire, relativisation ou silence sur le Hamas, alliance avec des mouvances qui n’ont rien à voir avec le CO₂. Le parcours n’a rien d’une révélation tardive. Il est cohérent avec un milieu familial artistique et progressiste suédois, une éducation par la peur et la culpabilité, puis une récupération par des réseaux qui traitent les adolescents angoissés comme des porte-voix. L’histoire est simple : ce n’est pas le climat qui a radicalisé Greta. C’est le logiciel de gauche déjà présent dès le départ, auquel le climat a donné une audience planétaire avant de se diluer dans les causes du moment. À 23 ans, l’icône continue d’incarner exactement ce qu’elle a toujours été : le produit d’un environnement qui confond émotion, posture morale et radicalisme interchangeable."

Brivael Le Pogam on X - "Je ne sais pas à quel point les gens se rendent compte que tout est en train de basculer. Ce matin, Pedro Sánchez a dissous les Cortes. Élections le 29 novembre. Ce n'est pas une info espagnole. C'est un signal. Je le répète depuis longtemps : nous allons vivre un nouveau 1789. Ou plutôt un nouveau 1989. La chute d'un mur qu'on ne voit pas, celui du communisme mental. Cette social-démocratie progressiste qui gouverne nos vies depuis des décennies, qui ment, qui corrompt, qui escroque, et qui a fini par se prendre pour l'ordre naturel des choses. Ça a commencé en Amérique du Sud. Argentine, Bolivie, Chili, Pérou… un pays après l'autre, des peuples qu'on disait condamnés au socialisme ont repris leur destin en main. Là-bas, le mouvement de libération est presque achevé. Il traversera l'Atlantique. Il est déjà en train de le faire. Et quand le mur tombera, on verra enfin qui le tenait debout. Les institutions supranationales : l'ONU, l'OMS, la Commission européenne, Davos. Toute cette technocratie que personne n'a élue et qui décide de tout. Les médias subventionnés, qui ne vous informent plus, ils vous rééduquent. La culture officielle : Hollywood, les cérémonies de récompenses devenues des tribunes politiques, les artistes qui vous font la morale depuis leur villa à Malibu. Le sport, transformé en vitrine militante où l'on exige des athlètes qu'ils récitent le catéchisme avant le coup d'envoi. Tout ça forme un seul et même système. Un empire du mensonge. Et les empires du mensonge finissent toujours de la même façon : d'un coup, après avoir semblé éternels pendant des décennies. Demandez à Berlin. Ce qui vient après n'est pas le chaos. C'est une renaissance totale. Libérés de ce poids, nos pays vont retrouver ce qu'ils avaient oublié : l'envie de construire, de créer, de prendre des risques. Et ça arrive au moment exact où s'ouvre l'ère de la superintelligence. L'abondance, la science, l'espace. Ce ne sera plus de la science-fiction. Et comme d'habitude, l'histoire prouvera une chose : il ne faut jamais parier contre Elon Musk."

Bethany Cherisse on X - "The people that told us for so long to "trust the science" wholeheartedly deny the scientific reality when it comes to almost every subject. For example:
1. The fact that men are biologically wired to respond to certain visual and physiological stimuli, a reality deeply rooted in literal neurochemistry, is dismissed in favour of purely social constructivist and radical feminist narratives. These narratives insist, against all objective reality, that not only can men choose to reject their internal programming even in the face of blatant and overt stimulation, but they are obliged to restrain themselves in the name of female liberation to permit women unfettered freedom to violate every boundary entirely free from consequence.
2. The fact that biological sex is immutable, determined at conception by chromosomal combinations and manifested across trillions of cells in the human body, is denied in favour of personal preference and psychological feelings that wilfully reject an absolute empirical truth.
3. The fact that a predisposition to dishonesty is a fundamental part of human nature, driven by complex psychological mechanisms which are entirely non-sex-specific, is disregarded to support a biased sociological framework which insinuates that one sex is inherently less capable of lying, demanding they be blindly believed while the other is automatically presumed guilty.
4. The fact that both the male and the female sex are equally capable of criminal behaviour, malice, and moral failure, as evidenced by centuries of historical data and criminological study, is obfuscated to maintain prejudiced ideological hierarchies of victimhood and villainy.
These people do not care about facts, or reality, and the ideological garbage they spew forth comes entirely from a place of delusion in which they have distorted true reality to support a pre-constructed false narrative that aligns with their own inherent confirmation bias and sociological causes. They have weaponised the language of objective truth to institutionalise subjective feelings. By selective enforcement of scientific principles (that is, worshipping data only when it serves a specific narrative, and demonising it when it offends their dogma) they have made it clear for the world to see that they favour feelings over facts. Ideology over science. Personal beliefs over objective reality. Narrative over evidence. Social constructs over immutable laws that govern our very existence. Reality does not bend to emotional demands, and no amount of ideological manipulation can change the facts. The emotional preferences of those who wish to rewrite reality will never change what is unalterably true. Feelings are irrelevant."

Meme - "Sha'Carri Richardson, a Dallas native and Olympic gold medalist, was arrested earlier this week at the SeaTac Airport in Washington State."
"This is the bias BS we deal with"
Hot Takes Nobody Asked For: "sha'carri richardson was arrested for fourth-degree domestic assault. a tsa agent reported seeing sha'carri richardson assault her boyfriend, christian coleman, leading to police intervention. security footage allegedly showed richardson shoving coleman into walls and columns and throwing headphones at him, contradicting their claims of a purely verbal argument."
"No matter how fast you can run, there will always be a bald middle-aged dad-bod police officer that can catch you lol"
This is what "anti-blackness", "racism" and "white supremacy" look like

Blue Lives Matter on X - "CONQUERED: New York school districts are shifting public school menus to certified Halal meat, with South Colonie planning to make all options Halal. ⠀ South Colonie Central School District in the Albany area added Halal meals in early 2025 after community feedback. Over 300 Halal meals were requested in the first week at middle and high schools. District officials have said they hope to make all meat options Halal by the following school year. ⠀ Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island passed a resolution in 2022 for permanent Halal options in all 19 kitchens. Niskayuna Central School District now offers daily certified Halal turkey and cheese sandwiches in every building. Middletown has served Halal meals since May 2025. Bay Shore added labeled Halal lunch options in September 2025 after student advocacy. ⠀ These changes are recent. Most programs began or expanded in the last few years as Muslim populations grew in the Capital Region and Long Island. New York City public schools already run one of the largest Halal programs in the country, with options in dozens of schools. ⠀ Public schools once faced lawsuits over any Christian prayer or display. New York was the site of Engel v. Vitale, the 1962 Supreme Court case that ended official school prayer. Districts now reshape taxpayer-funded menus around Islamic dietary rules without similar pushback. ⠀ Halal slaughter requires animals to face Mecca while a Muslim butcher recites prayers. When entire districts move toward 100 percent Halal meat, every student eats under one faith’s rules. Accommodation for a minority becomes the standard for everyone. ⠀ The pattern tracks the rapid growth of Muslim communities in New York and the broader American push for Sharia-compliant institutions. Parents who want standard American school food are left with fewer choices. ⠀ Wake up, America. #NewYork #AmericaFirst"
Too bad for Sikhs.
Time to outlaw the wearing of crucifixes to prevent theocracy.

Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "I often say leftists are blank-slate fundamentalists, but that misses their deeper priority: the sublation of the West. Commitment to any particular concept is secondary to that goal. Spend enough time around leftists, and you'll see that priority emerge. Years ago, I was at a party attended mostly by academics when I got into a conversation with a family member of one of the participants. He was married to an African woman and, strangely, turned our conversation toward genetics. He enthusiastically, and a little drunkenly, explained that Africans were genetically superior to Europeans because African populations had greater genetic diversity. What struck me was how openly he asserted racial biological superiority in a room full of leftist academics. Loudly, he pointed to biological differences as evidence of superiority, precisely the kind of biological essentialism that blank-slate fundamentalism supposedly rules out. I later heard similar claims from academics in non-published settings with more careful qualifications. Stripped of the usual usual academic hedging, the underlying priority was naked and easy to see. Blank-slate fundamentalism was negotiable. Even claims of biological supremacy could apparently be entertained if they served the larger project of leftist praxis: the sublation of the West. The same priority drives pressure to slant research on human origins, warfare, and other subjects toward preferred political conclusions. Doctrinal consistency isn't the lefts priority. The sublation of the West is, and these commitments can be abandoned or contradicted when they interfere with the larger objective."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "BREAKING NEWS: The Sudanese Australian lady who recently declared on prime time Australian TV that white Australians have no culture is in fact the daughter of a Sudanese war lord who abducted and enslaved hundreds of child soldiers and dozens of them died of starvation. Australian state broadcaster ABC selected her to speak for the pro-migration side in a national migration debate. She is the daughter of Sudanese warlord William Nyuon Bany - I found these detailed descriptions of his war crimes in a Human Rights Watch report from 1995."

Anon🇬🇧Restore Britain🇬🇧 on X - "Leftism is a religion of self-hatred. It teaches white people to hate their race, boys to hate their sex, women to hate their femininity, British people to hate their country, and Westerners to hate their history. It frames every inherited strength, every cultural achievement, and every natural difference as something to be ashamed of or dismantled. What a loathsome, poisonous thing it is. It thrives on guilt, resentment, and the constant demand that people reject who they are in the name of some higher moral purity. Leftism is a hate group.🫡🇬🇧"

Robert Sterling on X - "Want to know what radicalized me? We have two political parties. One thinks sentences like: “The Somali gang member who shot two people outside a high school football game in suburban Minneapolis has been released on bail” are perfectly reasonable. The other doesn’t. One party wants to open our borders to millions more people from economically disadvantaged, culturally misaligned countries like Somalia. The other doesn’t. One party’s 2024 presidential candidate supports ending cash bail. She even sponsored legislation to get rid of it nationwide. To quote her: “End money bail. Our bail system is unjust and broken.” The other doesn’t. One party’s most prominent member of Congress advocates for abolishing prisons (looking your way, AOC!). “I want to abolish our carceral system that’s designed to trap Black and Brown men.” The other doesn’t. We all have to choose. Politics is now a zero-sum, winner-take-all game. That wasn’t always the case, and I wish it weren’t the case now, but it is. I didn’t make the rules. So I’ve chosen. Like it or not, you’re going to have to choose too."

The English Remnant on X - "The Weaponisation of Language
One of the most effective tactics of the modern left has been the corruption of language itself. Words that once had clear meaning have been twisted beyond recognition - redefined to suit their agenda and silence dissent.
They call censorship “safety.” They call propaganda “education.” They call perversion “pride.” They call cowardice “tolerance.” They call patriotism “hate.”
Through manipulation of words, they’ve managed to reshape moral reality. By controlling the language, they control what people are allowed to think. Change the definition, and you change the debate. When “man” and “woman” become “identities,” when truth becomes “offensive,” and when disagreement is rebranded as “violence,” reason itself is under attack. It’s not ignorance - it’s strategy. Because when the meaning of words collapses, truth becomes whatever they say it is. And that’s exactly how control begins. Language built our civilisation. The twisting of it will destroy it - unless we start speaking plainly again.
“When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.” - Confucius"

Ahmed Al-Khalidi on X - "Imagine being so afraid of history that you literally chisel one word out of a monument. In Brussels, there is a monument honoring Belgian soldiers who fought slave traders in the Congo. The original inscription referred to “Arab slave traders.” Then the word “Arab” was removed. Think about that for a second. Belgium’s crimes in Congo should absolutely be taught and remembered. But why should that mean hiding another uncomfortable part of history? If Arab slave traders were involved, why erase the word? Why not leave the monument as it was and add context explaining the full history? Are we supposed to learn from history, or edit it until nobody feels uncomfortable? And this is the bigger question: if people are willing to literally remove words from historical monuments because the facts are inconvenient today, what else are they trying to erase from our collective memory?"
It's only important to learn history even when it makes you uncomfortable when it makes white people look bad

Lily Jay on X - "Has anyone else noticed that people convert to Islam because of study, reason and logic, whereas people who choose Christianity say they saw Jesus in a dream?"
i/o on X - "No, I've not noticed this. What I have noticed from my own experience:
(1) Converts to Islam in the US are often violent black felons who converted in prison.
(2) Most Muslim converts to Christianity in the US are immigrants who escaped the repressiveness of Muslim societies."

Mansa Musa Owned 12 Times More Slaves Than The US’s Largest Slaveowner
Wanjiru Njoya on X - "Mansa Musa, great African hero to liberal journalists, was a slaveowner. They now try to say his slaves were his family members, but nobody has 12,000 family members that they classify as property, force to work without pay, and sell to others for profit. They were slaves."
Swedish Reactionary 🇸🇪🌲 on X - "Fun fact: in Mali there was a tradition of cannibalism. When a certain envoy arrived the sultan would give them a black slave woman to feast on as observed by Ibn Battuta in the 1300s"

Meme - *Woman putting up 'Hate has no home here' sign with Pride sign heart*
Livid woman indoors: "THINGS I CAN'T STAND:
MAGA, The GOP, Big Corporations, Police Unions, People who disagree with me, Wealthy elites, anti-woke people"
"No: Trump Supporters, Conservatives, Billionaires. Corporate CEOs, Free Speech Advocates, Police Officers, Right-Wing Media"
*Framed 'be kind'*
Books: "Social Justice. Equity. Anti-racism. Climate action. Progress not hate.
*"Good people fight hate <3" mug*

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "You need to understand how Right-wing people under 40 view the Left. When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats. These are not the sort of people that make up our Left-wing counterparts that we grew up with, went to school with, or work with. When we think of Leftists, the first thing that pops into our head are a bunch of disgusting, depraved, spiteful mutants who want to destroy everything around them as payback for the crime of being born. We think of Discord troons that invaded our hobbies, Reddit mods who are drunk on the most insignificant power imaginable, that one girl from high school or college who became a literal Communist, and that friend or family member who cut off all contact because we refused to treat their mental illness like a status symbol. We think of people who, if they ever became a majority of the country and actually managed to possess political power, would inevitably kill tens of millions of people out of blind envy and petty cruelty. Younger people on the Right come across as impatient and anxious in their mindset and mannerisms because they understand what will eventually happen when these people succeed their Gen X and Boomer predecessors in the Democratic Party. They know what is to come if their own generational cohorts on the Left actually take power, and they feel incredibly exasperated that it seems like none of their parents or grandparents understand just how late the hour truly is."

Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui on X - "“Just 34% of British Jews believe in God”, according to the 2024 Institute for Jewish Policy Research study. And we already know that 94% of British Jews identify as racially white, according to the 2021 census. So, an overwhelmingly white and atheist group of people have convinced the U.K government that they are very special victims of racism and antisemitism is a crisis in the U.K. 🫠"
First, they came for the white people. Then, they came for the Jews

Melissa Chen on X - "Somewhere in Kelston, on the road between Bristol and Bath, a pothole has been there for so long it now has its own postcode. Nearby in a little cottage, a nice old lady has been on an NHS waiting list for a hip replacement for three years. Meanwhile, YOU, the British taxpayer are funding a full PhD at Bristol University for Ilhan Omar's gay brother-cum-ex-husband Ahmed Elmi. I repeat. You, the British taxpayer, are funding this gay Somali man, who likely has committed immigration fraud, to produce self-indulgent nonsense dressed up as research at a Western university, while he lectures you on the need to decolonize Western academia."

Japanese on Twitter Before/After Auto Translation / Who's not Rioting across the West

These probably contributed to my first one week ban from iFunny:

"Japanese on twitter:
Before auto translation *anime characters including excited girls*
After auto translation *Hitler*
広大な海 @0yx38 (Transiated from Japanese): "Looking at France right now, it feels like France under the Nazi regime was more beautiful."

"You know who isn't rioting across Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, who is not burning down historic buildings and churches, not looting shops, desecrating monuments, not raping young girls, not massively collecting welfare, not protesting and not blocking streets of our cities every day instead of working, who is not turning our cities into ruins while covering this with fake calls for justice that benefit only muslim?
Jews"

Links - 29th October 2026 (1 - Feminism)

Meme - Wokal Distance @wokal_distance: "At some point liberal women need to decide: are they oppressed by men because men have all the wealth and opportunity, or are there no good men because men are failures who don't make enough money."
"The Good-Man Shortage Has Gotten Exponentially Worse. The crisis is both boon and a challenge for high-end matchmakers helping women find love. By Anna Louie Sussman,
"But in the half-decade since heteropessimism entered the lexicon and women started openly decrying the shabby state of men - less educated, less likely to own a home, more conservative - the field of matchmaking has changed. "Almost all of our inbound calls are women at the moment,' says Amy Van Doran, founder of Modern Love Club, a high-end matchmaking service whose services begin at $100,000. Over the course of reporting this story, I spoke to women who paid anywhere from $60,000 to $150,000 to find a partner and matchmakers who set their fees in the"
The Cut: "The good-man crisis is both a boon and a challenge for high end matchmakers helping women find love, writes Anna Louie Sussman."

Meme - "Feminist Threads
Imagine being a 13-year-old boy scrolling and seeing "men ain't shit" on every feed. Then we wonder why he won't open up, won't trust, won't talk. This culture is raising broken sons and calling it progress."

European Heritage Society on X - "12 years ago this woman put out a video that went huge online. She walked the streets of New York for hours while a camera filmed every guy who catcalled her. People on the left immediately saw that almost every single one of those guys was black or Hispanic. That is about as far as their noticing ever reaches. So they labeled her a racist. She tried to quiet them by saying White men do the exact same thing and she would release more clips to prove it. Those clips never appeared because that ”reality” did not exist."

‏ً on X - "Miriam Margolyes recalls why she never forgave John Cleese and Graham Chapman
“Women weren’t allowed to join Footlights in the days when I was there.”
“They stopped speaking to me off stage, so that is called being sent to Coventry.”
“It wounded me terribly. And I wasn’t invited to the cast party.”
“I’ve never really forgiven them.”
“They lacked that thing, which is the human part of the gene.”
“I’m glad he’s old and unfunny.”"
John Cleese on X - "Several of us, rather repressed and socially unskilled lower middle class boys, had literally never met someone so brash and vulgar, and I'm afraid we shrank away from her. No abuse or anything. We just kept out of her way. Recently Miriam also blamed Bill Oddie for our bad behaviour. Not fair. He wasn't in the show that year. 1962 I think it was. 64 years ago How time flies..."

Meme - Justin Dewayne Parker: ""Women develop ability to fly. Or not really, but they feel like they can fly, which means they can--- and whatever the case, men definitely cant fly, because men are falling behind. Because they suck." - Sheila Steinberg, New York Times, 2026"
"Women work longer hours than men by MATTHEW HORLEY. Women are working longer hours while men are putting in less time for their money. And yet the pay gap between the sexes has widened, research revealed yesterday. A nationwide survey of 1,600 employees found that women now work almost 34 hours a week on average - half a day longer than the figure of 30.4 hours five years ago. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) which carried out the research, the shift reflects the growing number of women in more demanding management roles and professional jobs. Over the same five-year period, men's average work hours fell from 45.5 hours per week to 44.8 hours, although among the hardest working males the number putting in more than 49 hours a week has passed the three million mark."

End Wokeness on X - ""Feminist icon" NY Governor Hochul just put on a hijab for Muslim men"
Geiger Capital on X - "Feminists love to talk about the "patriarchy" and how White men want them to live in Handmaid's Tale, and then immediately pander to the most patriarchal and restrictive system on earth."

Sana Ebrahimi Ledene on X - "Miss Governor, Women in Iran and across Muslim communities get beaten and murdered for refusing the hijab. I was kicked out of school, multiple times, for "improper hijab." That was my life. So am I an Islamophobe for saying "fuck you" when you cosplay as a champion of women’s rights while wrapping yourself in the same symbol that was used to police, punish, and erase me and millions of women around the world just to court Muslim votes? No. I’m not. FUCK YOU. @GovKathyHochul"

Howling Honkdog on X - ""we are the granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn". I knew your memaw she taught Bible school and makes pies for special occasions."
Ryan on X - "That quote ends up making an argument for more witch burnings, because it implied we missed some last time."

𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ on X - "Women coined the terms “pick me” and “Male centered” in an attempt to shame other women for openly loving men, desiring partnership, it is mean girl behavior disguised as feminism."

Meme - "I Will never go to Iceland ever again, I felt short and the men didn't catcall me or flirt with me at all."
"The non catcall and flirting is a good thing, no?"
"The men were good looking so I was wanting some catcalling and flirting . All the men are tall and decent looking. I felt like I was in Ken land."

Meme - Viral 146: "I have NEVER meta secure man offended by a woman saying she hates men."
Cory Rogers: "This is such a bullshit catch-22. A man can absolutely be secure and still be offended by women saying they hate men. In fact, standing up and saying hatred toward an entire group is wrong is probably a hell of a lot more secure than sitting there quietly because you're scared somebody might call you insecure. The way this is phrased is basically the adult version of the old schoolyard question, "Does your mom know you're gay?" There's no clean answer. Say you're offended by women hating men and apparently you're insecure. Say you're not offended and now you're basically saying hatred toward men is acceptable. Convenient little setup, isn't it? Being secure doesn't mean having no standards, no backbone, and no reaction when someone openly hates people because of their sex. A secure man can hear "I hate men" and say, "Yeah, that's fucked up." That's not insecurity. That's having enough self- respect to call bullshit when you hear it."
Of course, if a man hates women he's evil and a misogynist

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Peer Review
Brandon Warmke on X - "Peer review, now with even more ideological filters: "'[N]ow is the time to unsettle your feminism and begin imagining a decolonial future.'" In the realm of peer review, this takes the form of grounding our reviews in relationality, centering sovereignty and liberation, practicing critical reflexivity, and owning our positionality as we build relationships with the communities we evaluate. As Indigenous decolonial feminism calls social work to 'reckon with its past and begin to plan for a better future,' so too does it call feminist reviewers to reckon with our own complicity in white feminism and colonial knowledge production that maintains the homogeneity of social work scholarship.""
Wild West Brit on X - ""Centering relationships in the review process" is another way of saying "it's not what you know, it's who you know". Corruption follows."
As usual, feminism is corrupting society

James L. Nuzzo, PhD on X - "Steven Prohaska writes in this letter to the editor: "WalletHub’s gender equality study — which contrasts workplace environments, education, health and political empowerment for men and women — is fundamentally flawed. The authors of the study state, “In certain states and for certain metrics where women showed an advantage over men, we treated the state as having gender equality.” But when one group is better off than another, that’s not equality. The study ignores substantial disparities in the other direction. Men are disproportionately represented in dangerous jobs, making up over 90% of workplace fatalities. Women now earn more college degrees than men and usually live longer. Most voters are women. A study’s methodology cannot accurately be described as measuring “equality” if female advantages are scored as equality instead of inequality. A study purporting to assess gender equality should take a more balanced approach to measuring disparities.""
James L. Nuzzo, PhD on X - "Here is the section of WalletHub's report where they explain their methodology. As you can see, anytime men scored higher in an area than women, WalletHub considered that gender inequality. However, anytime women scored higher in an area than men, WalletHub considered that gender equality. This is the same irrational and unjust methodology that the World Economic Forum uses in its Global Gender Gap Index."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Think for a second about this real and common methodology, also often used gor whites and minorities."
Weird. We're told that feminism loves and helps men too

Fathers' involvement and children's developmental outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies - "Objective: This systematic review aims to describe longitudinal evidence on the effects of father involvement on children's developmental outcomes.
Methods: Father involvement was conceptualized as accessibility (cohabitation), engagement, responsibility or other complex measures of involvement. Both biological fathers and father figures were included. We searched all major databases from the first dates. Data on father involvement had to be generated at least 1 year before measuring offspring outcomes.
Results: N = 24 publications were included in the overview: 22 of these described positive effects of father involvement, whereof 16 studies had controlled for SES and 11 concerned the study population as a whole [five socio-economic status (SES)-controlled]. There is certain evidence that cohabitation with the mother and her male partner is associated with less externalising behavioural problems. Active and regular engagement with the child predicts a range of positive outcomes, although no specific form of engagement has been shown to yield better outcomes than another. Father engagement seems to have differential effects on desirable outcomes by reducing the frequency of behavioural problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, and enhancing cognitive development, while decreasing delinquency and economic disadvantage in low SES families.
Conclusions: There is evidence to support the positive influence of father engagement on offspring social, behavioural and psychological outcomes. Although the literature only provides sufficient basis for engagement (direct interaction with the child) as the specific form of 'effective' father involvement, there is enough support to urge both professionals and policy makers to improve circumstances for involved fathering."

Hannah Spier, MD on X - "Stop saying feminism lied to women. Who are we trying to put the blame on this time? Women themselves curated a false reality that we readily believed because it was too tempting to challenge; it allowed both victimhood and the sense of being a better person. It flatters our ego. Belonging to an opressed group means doing the ordinary becomes extraordinary: you're stydying law (medium whoop) despite being a woman (big whoop). The missing information was always available to us, we hear all these stories about feminists becoming antifeminists (like myself) and it's always after our own lives have been impacted. When we realize widening our perspective and shedding the false reality would be advantageous and provide a good change. Then suddenly it's "we were lied to!" It was the others (economy, politicians, government, fill in the blank) leading us the wrong way."

Kat Spartz ⏸️ on X - "“I once calculated that, globally, the average man kills approximately 0.00005 people per year, whereas the average woman kills approximately 0.000006. (Notice the extra zero.)That’s a huge difference. But it’s one found only among a tiny minority of people at the extreme of the aggression distribution, where the differences are much more pronounced”🎯 Good illustration of the point I make about people fearing men “because they’re more violent”.Yes, relatively speaking. But it’s absolute rates that matter. It is vanishingly unlikely that any man you encounter on the streets will hurt you.Fearing men generically across the board is misandry and we shouldn’t encourage it.
Source: A Billion Years of Sex Differences by @SteveStuWill"

Hannah Wallen | Too Dangerous For #Facebook! on X - "Women bitched and whined about men having hobbies, men maintaining their own friend groups after marriage, and men having any free time of their own. Now, if those limitations have resulted in men relying on their wives for socialization, women bitch and whine about that, too. Men can't even organize masculine approaches to therapy like men's sheds where men can work on issues while working on projects in an environment that isn't hostile to men & masculinity without women demanding entry and destroying that environment."
Possum Reviews on X - "Reminder that feminists actively protested and got a men's homeless shelter in New York shut down and then celebrated it in 2024."
Susan Zhuang 莊文怡 on X - "Today, thousands of members of our community joined together to say no to building a men’s shelter next to our schools, daycare centers, and senior centers. Together, we are calling for more affordable housing, senior housing, mental health services, and improving our programs"
One Eyed Man on X - "Something similar happened in Italy. There, feminists protested. They wanted billboards to be taken down. The billboards were against violence towards men."
Weird. We keep being told that feminism benefits men too and that feminism has never opposed men's homeless shelters

Meme - Green New Deal: "As a woman I am extremely aware the only reason I have rights is because women before me got mouthy, organized, and made herself inconvenient. Thats why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors"
Shawn Michael: "Its easy and fun to be mouthy in a society where men protect mouthy people. Please go be mouthy on behalf of oppressed women in muslim countries, let's see how that goes."

Meme - ""How feminism works"
APPROPRIATE
Fat tattooed woman with green hair: Wanna buy a pic of my beaver for 4.99?
Woman: Ah, you are such a strong woman
INAPPROPRIATE
Thin, attractive blonde flashing cleavage: Wanna play some ball with me?
Woman: Tabloid? Please shame this disgusting whore!"

Cathy on X - "Here I am, saying it again...IF MEN WERE RAPED at the rate women are... there would BE TOUGHER LAWS!"
Jeffrey Ketland on X - ""CDC finding: women rape men as often as men rape women""

David Maywald on X - "Michael Arbon speaks with David Maywald, Chair of the International Council for Men and Boys, about the widening gaps facing boys and young men in education, men's health funding and a lack of public empathy.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a9MI5yDIqE4
David explains the concept of Gynocentrism, pointing to disparities in medical research funding and domestic violence services and argues that resilience, mentorship, and faith are essential to helping young men find purpose and belonging..."
Damn misogyny!

‘Deep‐Seated Misogyny’ Let's Talk About Women Nurses' Experiences of Workplace Gender Discrimination
Lisa Britton on X - "Nursing is about 90% female. Hospitals are female-dominated workplaces, and the study’s own participants said women themselves often perpetuate the ‘misogynistic norms.’ Yet the conclusion is still that men ‘come in and dominate’ via patriarchy. Is the framework looking for evidence or just confirming itself? We also have a shortage of men in nursing and other HEAL fields. Framing the few men who actually do enter as “the problem” doesn’t help anyone or the profession."
If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

End Wokeness on X - "Feminists… until they enter the doorway of a mosque:"
CartierFamily on X - "I hate to admit this but this makes me not take female politicians as serious. You support feminism against your own culture for “girl power” but embrace a culture that literally oppresses women’s rights? Completely unserious"

OutspokenSamantha on X - "Modern feminism has rendered so many women completely unable to think critically or independently. These women have been programmed to believe that only emotions matter - anger and rage leading the charge - and to follow the crowd at all times. It's sad to watch it play out constantly."

STUNNER on X - "Feminists found the cheat code for women. ONE TRICK and it never fails : EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION. You cannot recruit women with logic, you recruit them with TEARS. Because most women run on emotion, not evidence. If you make her FEEL like a victim, she will BE a victim forever, even with a perfect life. So what do they do? They sit online all day and feed her poison:
"Men are dangerous"
"Men are predators"
"Men will leave you"
"Men want to control you"
Take ONE story of a bad man, add sad music, add 1000 comments saying "yas sis, all men are trash" and now you have an army of women who have NEVER been abused, NEVER been raped, NEVER been kidnapped, walking around hating men they never met. They steal other women's trauma and wear it like makeup. "As a woman who has been through..." no you haven't. You're 21, living in your father's house, that your father paid for. Look outside. Is any woman panicking? Is any woman hiding? NO. They are in clubs shaking ass. On Instagram half-naked for male validation. On Tinder swiping every night. Having sex every weekend. 73 MILLION abortions in ONE YEAR. Does that look like a gender that is scared of men? Does that look like a gender that is oppressed and single and happy alone? No. That looks like a gender that is addicted to men while being taught to hate men at the same time. And that's why they are miserable. You can't be brainwashed and be happy at the same time. That is how you enslave a whole generation of women without ever putting chains on them. You just make them emotional, make them victims, and tell them the man who built their whole world is the enemy."

Right_in_the_middle on X - "For the purely anthropological element of this, here’s my perspective…take it or leave it. I’ve been anon and not disclosed my gender online. I’ve been a huge gamer my whole life and involved in “male-dominated” nerd activities. I’ve been a tomboy my whole life. You can get men to drop the filters around you if you don’t react like a woman. They test you. If you stay unbothered and can actually get their humor… Match the jokes long enough and they just absorb you in. I’m a curious, low-judgment person who mostly likes to observe social dynamics. I got very good at this. As I got older i no longer encourage men to view me as “not a woman.” Same way I let men hold doors and treat me like a lady. I think it helps them when they get to act like gentlemen around women and still have their own spaces for “male talk.” I’ve seen this from both angles… gender known and unknown. These are just personal observations. I’ve heard every form of crass, sexist rape joke, lewd description, and sexualization. In the end it boils down to: men like absurd, extreme humor, and they are sexually attracted to women. The horror!"

Right_in_the_middle on X - "I’ve spent a lot of time in “male spaces.” The worst you’ll hear is a lewd comment about a woman being desirable, or a remark about an “easy” woman. I’ve been forced to spend a lot of time in women’s spaces (by nature of being a woman) and will regularly hear open contempt for how gross, evil, unlovable, inhuman, and pathetic the average woman thinks the average man is. Or, worse, bragging about mistreating a normal, undeserving man. There is 0 recognition that this is bizarre or cruel behavior. So, actually, the men’s “locker room” is a pale evil in comparison."
They just hate men

'I went from "plain Jane" to "10/10" by ditching feminism and dating masculine men' - "An influencer claimed she transformed herself from a "plain Jane" into a "10 out of 10" after abandoning feminism and embracing a pro-masculine outlook on life and relationships. Hunter Vaughn, 28, says she spent much of her teenage years identifying as a feminist but gradually changed her views after becoming attracted to ambitious, disciplined men who prioritised self-improvement. The 28-year-old woman, from Massachusetts, United States, said the shift not only changed what she looked for in a partner, but also inspired her to become a better version of herself. She said: "I went from a plain Jane to a 10 out of 10. I became healthier, happier and much more confident in myself."... Hunter says she became focused on what she could bring to a relationship rather than what she could get out of one, adding: "I go for high-value men and I try to match that by becoming a high-value woman. I'm going to work on me, you're going to work on you and we're both going to work on becoming better people." Hunter said she believes too many relationships fail because one person ends up carrying all the responsibility while receiving little in return. The 28-year-old said: "Both people need to provide value. It doesn't matter whether that's financially, emotionally or through supporting the household. When one person is doing everything and the other person isn't contributing, it builds resentment."... Hunter says the biggest change wasn't physical but mental, adding: "It changed my mindset completely. I take better care of myself, I'm more confident and I'm much happier with who I am today. When you're around people who push themselves to be better every day, it encourages you to do the same.""

Survey finds male abuse approval - "More than half of women questioned at a Glasgow university said they approved of wives hitting their husbands. The Glasgow Caledonian students were among 6,500 women surveyed from 36 universities for an international study into attitudes on domestic violence. Of the 200 women, 60% said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner. A total of 8% admitted injuring them - the highest rate in the study... Among European students, only English women were more likely to have carried out assaults, with 41% admitting that they had punched or kicked their partners. However those inflicting injury was less than in Scotland, at 5%. Just under a quarter of those in Scotland admitted there were occasions when it would be acceptable for a husband to slap his wife... Worldwide, more than 4,800 female students approved of assaulting their partner and 2,000 admitted to pushing, shoving, slapping, throwing objects and twisting their partner's arms or hair."
Time to do more about male abuse of women and condemn those who think it's acceptable for a husband to slap his wife, because feminism is about gender equality and for men too

Meme - "Opinion: Margot Robbie changing her name to her husband's hurts my beautiful lesbian brain. Here's why. I don't flip a table every time this happens - but I actually do mind when it's the default decision with no discussion. Rebecca Shaw *Photo of not beautiful, possibly trans writer*"

Meme - Prof. Dr. Monika Dobberstein @DrDobberstein: " #Weltfrauentag #InternationalWomensDay"
"Protect your daughters Educate your sons"
DontFeedJay @Dontfeedjay: "This goes so fucking hard, if you're incapable of thought. Don't lock your doors, teach people that trespassing is bad. Don't safeguard your material goods, teach people stealing is wrong. Just teach everyone crime is wrong and we will never have to worry again!"
These are the same people who think you don't need to discipline kids because you can just reason with them, so it tracks. This also helps explains why they want to abolish prisons and keep releasing dangerous criminals: they think telling them not to commit crime again means they won't

Meme - *Crying Handmaid with boot on head*
"THE BOOT OF THE PATRIARCHY IS KEEPING US DOWN!"
*Bad choices as boot, which Handmaid is putting on her head*

Meme - *Captain Planet*
"Gi: Blaming men for everything
Female Wheeler: Double standards
Linka: Killing kids
Female Ma-Ti: Victimhood
Female Kwame: Hating white people
Female Captain Planet: with your powers combined, l am CAPTAIN SUPERFEMINIST"

Riley Gaines on X - "The liberal feminist masquerading as a fierce defender of women's rights was asked 3+ times to define the word "woman" Of course, she wouldn't. Its hard to take these people seriously when they can't define what they claim to defend. Masterfully done, @conservmillen"

Meme - "I think women project their feelings a lot when they discuss about the 'patriarchy'"
"Considering how massive the womens in-group bias is, as in, women can indeed defend another woman who killed her children, or defend a woman who thinks she can take consent away after sex like in cornell 7 case, its pretty apparent that women are projecting a lot. Women probably think that men think the same way as them, which explains partially their criticism of the patriarchy, even though men don't have this type of same in-group bias. Men as a group have bias towards women, not against them. Women just always tell on themselves. They are so fucking narcissistic."

Julie Ann McIlwaine: Murder conviction overturned for woman who killed abusive partner (aka "Woman who killed abusive partner has murder conviction overturned")
TheTinMen on X - "I'm on board with someone sometimes having to use deadly force against their abuser. But going downstairs, getting a knife, and stabbing your abusive husband in the chest ten times whilst he's asleep, is hard to justify as a "temporary loss of control"."
Women are always victims. Even when they're murderers

The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking

Left wingers themselves proclaim that the left wing agenda is all connected.

This article is a good observation on the nihilism of left wing ideology. This ties in to left wing ideology being and causing mental illness. But the writer's optimism is unfounded - the woke are moral absolutists and engage in ever stricter purity games, and brook no compromise.

The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking - The Atlantic
Much of the climate movement, particularly its most radical elements, has pivoted to Palestine.

Greta Thunberg was detained last month in Germany, during a sit-in at a munitions factory that sells weapons to Israel. She was wearing a Yalla Intifada T-shirt. Perhaps you thought Thunberg was a climate activist. She used to be. Thunberg gained fame by warning that greenhouse-gas emissions posed a threat to human life so urgent and existential that the world must put aside trifling concerns to solve it immediately. “I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire. Because it is,” she told the World Economic Forum in 2019. But someone else will have to put out the fire, because these days, Thunberg is possibly the planet’s most famous anti-Israel protester.

Much of the climate movement—particularly its most radical elements—has pivoted to Palestine. The Climate Justice Alliance, Extinction Rebellion, and Climate Defiance, among other green organizations, participate regularly in Free Palestine demonstrations. Most of the campus groups that were previously organized around demanding that their universities divest from fossil-fuel companies now demand that they divest from companies that do business with Israel. The same holds true across swaths of the left. Activists who previously treated racial justice, public health, or trans rights as the cause of a lifetime have determined that Gaza is now the cause of their lifetime.

Some of the pre-Gaza activism yielded tangible successes. Climate activists, for example, built a movement that persuaded Democrats to make their cause the party’s highest legislative priority, which is why the Biden administration expended so much effort passing green-energy subsidies. These gains were temporary: Donald Trump proceeded to repeal most of those policies. But instead of continuing to try to put out the blaze, many activists have simply moved on.

The draining of energy away from issues that once seemed so urgent has been slightly disorienting, even humorous. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently repeated a catchphrase that has circulated on the left, “Woke 1 was crazy,” which simultaneously laughs off the excesses of the social-justice left while implicitly assuming that a Woke 2 is just around the corner. The reality, however, is that Woke 2 is already here, and Gaza is its current preoccupation.

Woke 2 exhibits nearly all of the same behaviors as its predecessor—the fervent demands that society concentrate all of its attention on an apocalyptic crisis, the importation of academic jargon, and the reshaping of the social relationships and everyday decisions of its adherents.

To see these characteristics reappear in a completely different context from their original incarnation casts the woke phenomenon in sharp relief. Wokeness is not concern about a particular issue or issues, or even an ideology. It is, instead, a political style, a form of apocalyptic obsession that is serially fixated on different issues, waxing and waning in intensity. It offers the comfort of Manichaean morality—telling adherents that they alone can see the world in its true horror. But what it doesn’t offer, by design, is any practical resolution.

Unlike what the historian Richard Hofstadter once called “the paranoid style in American politics,” which dwelled on imaginary plots, the woke apocalyptic style concerns itself with actual social crises. Greenhouse-gas emissions really do pose a threat to posterity. Israel really has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians. Racism and police brutality, and the coronavirus pandemic—two other causes that inspired apocalyptic forms of activism—were likewise anything but a figment of the left’s imagination.

So what distinguishes the woke apocalyptic style from the understandable urgency one would expect activists to feel about any important social problem? The mindset has three defining traits.

First, its adherents gravitate toward the purest version of whatever position they select. They are facing down not just climate change, police bias, or a pandemic, but human extinction, racism, eugenics, and other existential perils. Only questions that can be reduced to a pure conflict between good and evil interest them. They generally reject any nuanced view of these issues as an effort to distract from the question at hand and drain the necessary moral fervor (though they prefer to call it “moral clarity.”) Beliefs they themselves held until very recently can become not just wrong but so abhorrent that anybody still endorsing them must be shunned.

A 2024 New York profile of the former Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, a seminal figure in both Woke 1 and Woke 2, explained his newfound focus on Palestine as a product of the revelation that the issue was actually quite simple. The profile frames this aspect of his thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in vivid terms: “That it was complicated, he now understood, was ‘horseshit.’ ‘Complicated’ was how people had described slavery and then segregation. ‘It’s complicated,’ he said, ‘when you want to take something from somebody.’”

Second, as a way of counterbalancing its tendency toward serial fixations, woke apocalypticism frequently asserts that every worthy cause is linked. During the 2014 protests against police abuse, Free Palestine activists persuaded racial-justice activists that their causes were the same. When COVID-19 seized the attention of the protest community, these same activists emphasized the racial-injustice aspect of the pandemic. “Palestinian Liberation is a disability justice issue,” the “People’s CDC,” a left-wing public-health group, has proclaimed. In the green activist community, the slogan “There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation” has become almost a ritual incantation.

In June, trans-rights activists chased California State Senator Scott Wiener from a trans-rights rally, screaming, “You do not belong here,” because they deemed his position on Israel unacceptably Zionist. (Wiener has accused Israel of “genocide” and called for cutting off U.S. aid for offensive weapons, but continues to support Israel’s right to exist.) All political coalitions try to emphasize links among single-issue activists, but it is nearly impossible to imagine, say, a Republican legislator being ejected from an anti-abortion rally because he supported a gun-control law.

The substantive basis for linking every cause together ranges from tenuous (the pandemic did harm minorities somewhat disproportionately) to nonexistent (Palestinian liberation has no bearing on climate change whatsoever). Yet insisting on a relationship upholds the bonds of solidarity among single-issue organizations, giving them permission to operate outside their domain and pursue whatever cause is presently animating their supporters. And it reinforces a sense of omnicrisis, that their project is not a series of discrete policy changes but the healing of a broken world.

The third characteristic of this activism is that its demands are irresolvable. The crisis is perceived as literally existential, a form of damnation that a response as small as legislation cannot dispel. Many racial-justice activists have directed their energy into tarring the United States as the sinful product of colonialism and slavery—a diagnosis that, while containing elements of truth, offers little practical redress. Unlike Marxism’s postrevolutionary paradise, woke politics has no end point beyond despair.

The Biden administration tried to address racial justice and climate change, two causes that preoccupied left-wing activists at the time of the 2020 election. Yet the impressive array of legislative and executive steps designed to advance both causes did nothing to placate activists, who by 2024 had decided that Gaza was all that mattered. They were not wrong to care deeply about the suffering in Gaza, but the amnesiac way in which they dropped causes that they had very recently proclaimed to be matters of literal life and death suggests that their stated motives cannot be taken purely at face value.

What seems to propel these activists is not the specific issue that at any given moment is causing them to feel—as Thunberg once demanded in response to the climate crisis—panic and fear, but instead the need to experience these sensations constantly.

Woke 1 was a tidal wave that crashed over blue America. Nearly anybody who resided in a deep-blue space—academia, publishing, Hollywood, the arts, news media, nonprofits—experienced an onslaught of new terminology and rituals. Some of this (land acknowledgments, for example) has survived as a sort of residue. Other elements (Robin DiAngelo) have receded into embarrassing memory.

Woke 2, so far, is more of a ripple. Opposition to Israel has long held a place in the firmament of left-wing causes, but it reached preeminence only after October 7, 2023. A network of pro-Palestinian student activist groups sprang into action immediately after the attack, which they characterized as an act of liberatory defiance. The key dynamic that enabled their cause to expand beyond committed anti-Zionists was the intensity and duration of Israel’s response to October 7, which played directly into the attackers’ goal of creating a humanitarian crisis that would turn Israel into a pariah, elevating opposition to its very existence into a social cause.

The cultural manifestation of this movement is most evident in progressive capitals such as San Francisco and New York City. In June, a Brooklyn coffee shop announced on social media that Dan Goldman, a Democratic member of Congress, was a “genocide enabler” and no longer welcome there. The most recent cover story of New York putatively celebrates the coolness of the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) community, but defines it in ideological, not ethnic, terms. “To be in SWANA community,” it states, “meant embracing a set of shared beliefs: that Palestinians deserve human rights. That what happened in Gaza in the aftermath of October 7 constitutes a genocide. That social justice and social welfare override capitalist concerns.”

A companion article describes how this dynamic has seeped into the dining scene. “In the three years since October 7, awareness of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and the wars that keep proliferating have turned eating out into just one more way people are expressing their views on Israel, on Gaza, on Lebanon, on Iran.” It reports that one Middle Eastern restaurateur’s “decision not to speak or post about the war publicly has left many fans of his restaurants Miss Ada and Theodora confused about where he stands,” as if café owners, like presidential candidates, should be expected to articulate a foreign policy.

In political terms, Woke 1 had a profound effect on the Democratic Party. Demands by activists and staffers pushed candidates to adopt left-wing positions on crime, immigration, trans rights, and climate change that placed them out of step with the majority of the electorate. Woke 2 has had a similar effect, providing left-wing activists with a tool to discredit mainstream Democrats.

The movement’s insistence on calling Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians a “genocide” is its most important demand. Scholars do not agree on what this term means or whether it applies to Israel’s conduct, and resolving the question is unnecessary to establish a consensus that Israel’s response to October 7 was excessively punitive, or even that its military has violated the laws of warfare. But the tactic of demanding that Democrats label the conflict a genocide, and treating anybody who refuses as complicit in the murder of children, is not aimed at exposing supporters of Israel’s policy. It instead targets liberals who have traditionally viewed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a cycle of violence for which both sides bear responsibility. Describing the conflict as a genocide frames the problem not as a matter of shared guilt and shared responsibility to compromise, but as the straightforward oppression of an innocent people by a guilty one.

The term brings together the perspective of Palestinian nationalists, who see Israel as a source of unique evil in the world, with the apocalyptic left’s orientation toward generalized despair. The left-wing writer Noah Berlatsky recently argued  not only that the case that Israel had committed genocide was “open and shut,” but also that genocide is a routine occurrence. Other examples include British treatment of trans people (“The UK is moving towards, or already in process of committing, a genocide against trans and intersex people”) and Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID.

Leftists have discovered that requiring the term is a useful way to discredit Democrats who oppose them on other issues. “This is a moral Rorschach test,” the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said during his primary campaign in Michigan. “If you can’t identify the systematic murder of tens of thousands of kids as a genocide, and then you want to say that you’re a fighter for human rights and dignity, that’s just hypocrisy.”

Democrats who refuse to embrace the movement’s preferred term are, by and large, those who hold more nuanced positions on other issues. The demand to use the term genocide has broad application as an ideological sorting device. David Purucker, a sociology graduate student at the University of Oregon and a Democratic Socialists of America activist, recently illuminated the dynamic on a podcast from the centrist Niskanen Center. “And then just on the Palestine question, even though it’s not super salient to the broad Democratic electorate, it is, I think, is a really powerful signal of who is willing to take on the most sort of powerful parts of the establishment and really fight for the economic issues that are your priority,” he said. “I guess the sort of mental process would be like, Okay, if this person isn’t willing to call it a genocide in Gaza, how can I trust them really to stand up to the health-insurance lobby, for example?”

The Nation’s president, Bhaskar Sunkara, also a DSA member, likewise told Ross Douthat on a New York Times podcast that Gaza is “being used to separate Democrats who are committed to an old political establishment, including the foreign-policy establishment, and Democrats who are better.”

The Palestinian-nationalist movement has long sought to place Israel in a special category of evil. The woke apocalyptic left has assimilated many concepts and terms from that struggle, but its interest in the subject is slightly different. It uses the issue to affirm the pervasive horror of the modern world. Berlatsky’s Substack is titled, fittingly, Everything Is Horrible.

Despite the effort by some leftists to shrug off the craziness of the Woke 1 era, several left-wing candidates who have benefited from the energy of Woke 2 have found themselves haunted by their Woke 1 messaging. El-Sayed, the former candidate for Wisconsin governor Francesca Hong, and Democratic House candidates Darializa Chevalier of New York and William Lawrence of Michigan have all had to explain away or apologize for social-media posts using the left-wing academic jargon that was in vogue half a decade ago, some of them endorsing abolition of the police, Thanksgiving, or other well-liked institutions.

Any movement built on anti-Zionism as an organizing principle will tend to attract anti-Semites.When the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn elevated a left-wing faction that was similarly motivated by intense anti-Zionism, it resulted in “a culture within the Party which, at best, did not do enough to prevent antisemitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it,” a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found. The Democratic Party might be facing an equally grim future, in which what happened to Wiener and Goldman—experiences that Jewish liberals have had with increasing frequency since October 7—grows routine.

But there is also reason to expect, or at least hope for, a more constructive outcome. Woke 2 has generated fewer cancellations, firings, and acts of terrified self-censorship. There is no 2026 Harper’s letter defending the right of intellectuals to openly debate Israel, because such a letter is not necessary.

Perhaps this is because progressives have learned from their past censoriousness. Perhaps even they find it too implausible to claim that exposure to contrary beliefs about a conflict on the other side of the globe is a form of harm from which they require protection. Or maybe progressive institutions are simply too split over the morality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for woke activists to easily impose a new consensus and ostracize all dissenters. Whatever the explanation, Woke 2, with a handful of exceptions, has taken the form not of a silencing campaign but of a debate—angry and frequently stupid, but engaged in energetically.

In an atmosphere that permits deliberation, rage may give way to reason. Liberal supporters of Israel may concede to the Free Palestine movement that Israel’s current government has no strategy other than endless use of force, that it has willingly enabled settlers to terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank, and that American policy has done too little to alter these choices. The Palestine activists might be made to acknowledge that the carnage in Gaza would not have occurred but for Hamas’s desire to murder as many Israeli Jews as possible, and that the group deliberately maximizes deaths among Palestinian civilians by embedding their fighters in schools and hospitals.

In other words, the Middle East is complicated. Bringing the moralistic fervor of Western progressives entirely onto one side of a generations-long conflict between warring religious sects claiming mutually exclusive historical and divinely granted rights to control a sliver of land is unlikely to result in peaceful coexistence.

Pro-Palestinian activists are correct to argue that American support has enabled Israel to pursue a one-state solution and to rely on military force in place of diplomacy. What they have yet to grasp is that the Western left’s inability to repudiate Hamas has had a pernicious effect on the conflict: reinforcing a co-belligerent in a cycle of violence. The American civil-rights movement is not, in fact, the proper moral lens with which to understand a terrorist group that murders not only Jewish civilians but also dissident Palestinians, and whose objective is not the right to vote and sit at lunch counters but to impose sectarian theocracy. An effective and humane Western form of activism would recognize that disregard for Palestinian well-being is a trait shared by Hamas and Israel, and would challenge both accordingly.

The American influence on this intractable conflict can be exercised more constructively. What Middle East policy cannot accomplish—what no reforms in any policy domain can accomplish—is resolving the existential angst caused by a political style that cannot tolerate moral ambiguity.