Why it's worth worrying more about wokeness/communism than fascism/Nazism in America:
1. Everyone agrees that Nazism is dangerous, despite its being extinct among all but bikers, schizophrenics, and prison gangs. Hitler’s name is synonymous with the devil, and the first instinct of any political simpleton is to tar his opponents with Hitler’a name. If we don't discuss Hitler and Nazis more often, its for the same reason that fish don't discuss water. It is thoroughly baked into the cake of contemporary western politics.
2. Meanwhile, alignment with communist ideals, association with communist fellow travelers, etc is and has been utterly unremarkable among the western elite. Open admiration for the same faces little societal pushback or moral condemnation, and awareness of communism’s historic crimes is lacking among Americans save perhaps for those who emigrated or whose parents emigrated from places like Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, and so on.
3. No form of extreme right wing ideology, let alone Nazism, has any traction among western elites. Woke does. Given that a highly technical and specialized modern society will be in large part defined by the attitudes and goals of “the managerial class” in Burnham’s terms, the beliefs of that class will eventually concern everyone. It therefore makes sense to be concerned about woke ideas even when they are held by only a small percentage of the population writ large. If that small percentage includes substantial portions of people within media, government, business, academia, education, NGO work, and so on, then it is guaranteed to be a leading indicator for the direction of society as a whole
Dan Held
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