By John (the other John).
In a logical world, the standards for accountability, blame, reward,
and empathy would be self-explanatory, which is to base it on an act(s)
done by a specific person, and harm suffered by a specific person. So if
a person does something bad, then he/she is to blame; and when someone
does something good, then he/she deserves the accolades. This sounds too
simple. But under wokeism, the tables get “turned upside down”. Let me
explain.
With wokeism, the concepts of blame, reward, and
empathy are not assigned based on a person’s actions, but rather they
are calculated by the application of intersectional-metrics, in which
the more intersectional a person is (ex. black, trans, illiterate, has
STD’s, etc…) the more favourable they are; and the less/non
intersectional a person is (ex., straight white Conservative Christian
male), the more unfavourable they are. So if (for example) a black trans
person commits a slew of crimes, then they are not judged to being
“guilty”, but rather they are designated as a “victim” (oppressed), and
thus worthy of affirmation and celebration. And if (for example) a
straight white Conservative Christian male achieves high honours in
academia or at work, then he is designated as being “guilty” (oppressor)
due to some fictional privilege and as being “racist” for some act
somebody else did hundreds of years ago.
Oh, I forgot to
mention, the people who concocted these intersectional-analytics are the
same people who apply them. So basically, facts must be ignored. These
people make the rules AND they execute the rules AND they adjudicate the
application of the rules; essentially, they are the legislature, the
executive, and the judiciary. You see how this works? That is power!