The Woke Mind: The Twisted Psychology of the Social Justice Movement

by Ryan Rogers

Things were terrible because of greed and Citizens United and… something else I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I had to find answers, and I thought that I would find them in an endless supply of books and YouTube videos.

Ah, yes YouTube, the most reliable of sources!

Bernie Sanders is right that the US economy is not fair to all who participate.

You don’t say!

how much hurt there was in America right now and how there needed to be more love. She talked about how we aren’t fully seeing each other, but it is important that we embrace our differences.

Sounds like you’re making the point for the left, Ry!

I disagree with conservatives who say that Black Lives Matter was corrupt from the beginning. While the radical element was always present, it could have been something very special and beautiful, and for a brief moment, it was.

He makes some good points about not alienating allies but PoC do have reason to be angry and suspicious of white people given…history. It’s nuanced.

I was convinced that my country was about to be consumed by a wave of white supremacy and fascism.

FAST FWD TO 2025 👀

I devoted years of my life to an unsuccessful cause, and what’s more it wrought havoc on my mental health. I decided to set aside politics and get off social media for thirty days to give my mind a rest.

What a privilege to be able to walk away from a cause. Something a minority does not experience even when we are tired.

I was “insufficiently empathetic to the marginalized,”

Sounds like a missed learning opportunity

“A social justice warrior describes a person who is willfully trying to make a difference, but they are going about it in the worst possible way. Warriors for social justice typically are students of some humanities degree, who, after being traumatized by American history in college, speak of ‘tearing down the system’ without doing enough thinking, which results in gratuitous amounts of Tweeting hashtags and outrage without actually doing any work or research into solving the problem at hand. SJWs are symbolic, there is no action behind the outrage, virtue signaling and an abnormal Twitter habit” (Osborne, 11/18/2019).

A prime example of word count being mainly quotes from other authors’ work.