The woke right, real and imagined, May 14th, 2025.

Let me begin with an observation that I read somewhere many years ago.

I believe that we think carefully about it for a few minutes, it will help us navigate our VEX topic.

That VEX topic is whether or not there is even such a thing as the woke right, and if

there is something like that, how extensive is it?

So here's the observation.

In an ethnic class, you don't have to choose sides.

The other side does that for you.

We will have occasion to hearken back to this wholesome truth.

A statement of the problem.

Naming is a function of dominion. In scripture, naming is far more than a simple matter of attaching a label.

Naming is an act of authority, or as it may be, an act of attempted authority.

Because of the fall of man into sin, one of the things we do in the grip of that sin is to name

falsely. Naming is supposed to clarify things and aid us in understanding, but we either smudge

everything up or we invert things completely. The former is confusion, and the latter is deception,

but neither one helps to clarify anything. In conservative circles, the joke has long been

that a racist is someone who's

winning an argument with a liberal. Do we really want to drift into a situation where a member of

the woke right is defined as anyone who's winning an argument with James Lindsay? I'm entirely

open to the idea that there is such a thing as the woke right and am prepared to listen to arguments.

But what we have going on now, at least on X,

is simply dogmatic assertion, with the hope that there's enough tar on the brush.

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