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Congratulations. You just compared the people who want you to stop using racial slurs to the people who killed millions based on their race.
- of course, this is slightly exaggerated, but not really. There's no clarification here and my reading wasn't awaredly malicious. The "wokeists" in the article are abhorrent virtue signalers, absolutely, but "cancelling" someone for (extreme example) a slightly risque joke is totally different from committing mass genocide.
Also: they do not just want me to stop using racial slurs. They also sometimes want me to deny, under penalty of social ostracism and financial ruin, what I think are rationally justified perceptions of reality.
And further: yes, in an absolute sense it does not make sense for me to fear hardcore wokists as much as Bolsheviks or Nazis. But my fear is, of course, relative to the actual threats that I face in life. Since I live in the US, wokists pose a much greater threat to me than Bolsheviks or Nazis do. Wokists have much more power in the US than either hardcore economic leftists or Nazis do.
The psychological type I am referring to is something like this: Hatred and desire for revenge and power wrapped up inside an ideology that claims to base itself fundamentally on something other than just hatred and desire for revenge and power. Psychological poverty and inflexibility - there is a one-sided obsession with politics to the point that everything is primarily seen through a political lens and other people are viewed not as three-dimensional but primarily along tribal lines. Moral obsession - a conviction that one has a moral mandate. Simplicity - ideology and propaganda that reduces complex issues to simple ideas and slogans. Intolerance for opposing thought and speech - love of censorship and so on.