A very interesting debate took place in England recently. British satirist Konstantin Kisin engaged in that debate at Oxford Union and, surprisingly, won over many woke liberals. I don’t agree with much of his views on climate change endangering polar bears and such but he scored high points with me for addressing free speech as the foundation of Western civilization and on race. He stated ”
The only way to deal with racism is to treat people based upon the content of their character, nothing else.
This, of course, echoes the great Martin Luther King Jr., who in his famous “I have a Dream” speech, first spoke those words. Anyone who denies this truth, practices racism in my opinion.
Moving onward he pointed out that one of the tenets of Wokeness is that feelings count more then facts. Really? Even a casual examination of such should reveal the utter childishness of it. Anyone can delude themselves into believing that a thing not based on facts has a bad habit of not budging when confronted reality.
No, Johnny, do not jump off a roof – you can not fly.
Back to climate change for a moment. Kisin pointed out a truth totally ignored by the Green movement This is an issue that will be decided by the poor people in Latin America, Asia, and (I add) Africa who couldn’t give a s**t about saving the planet. People in those lands are concerned with ending poverty and starvation so fossil fueled cars and trucks aren’t even on their lists of concerns. How can anyone expect starving people to worry about unproven polar ice caps melting theory’s when feeding their children is what matters?
Environmentalists here and in Europe would be far better employed to address those second world issues and stop playing at hero and try to actually become a hero to starving people.
Seems like some important truths that the Woke and the rest of us need to realize would be as Kisin said,
“the way to improve the world is to work, is to create, it is to build. And the problem with Woke is that it trained too many young minds like yours (addressing the audience) to forget about that”.