What do Winston Churchill, Broadway musicals, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, and the U.S. Supreme Court have in common? Read on if you dare, down the rabbit hole to Woke Wonderland.
If Alice thought the Cheshire Cat and the Jabberwocky were wacky, she ain’t seen nothing yet. Welcome to Woke Wonderland — they’re all mad here. There is an inherent contradiction in so much of woke ideology, because it is Marxist and therefore divorced from reality. Thus we are told that there are infinite “genders” and a man need only call himself a woman to be one — and yet we are also told that women are oppressed by men. We are called racist if we believe skin color is irrelevant and praised as anti-racist if we treat skin color as the defining characteristic of a person. We are told to mourn illegal alien children and yet scream with joy when American babies are aborted. And a very angry unbirthday to you.
There are two recent illustrations of this contradictoriness in wokeness that involve two famous women, both of them left-leaning but separated by their ability to deal with basic reality. I am referring to Supreme Court Justice and new Broadway flop Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Harry Potter authoress J.K. Rowling. Jackson, who previously told Congress she could not define what a woman is, just made her one-time debut in a Broadway play where she giggled about female empowerment. Meanwhile, Rowling pointed out to a deluded “transgender” that by the standards of transgenderism, she could declare herself to be WWII hero Winston Churchill on the grounds that they liked the same things.
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On the subject of world war and other catastrophes, have you yet had the displeasure of watching Ketanji Brown Jackson make a fool out of herself and a mockery of the Supreme Court on Broadway? In a specially arranged performance in the appalling feminist nightmare, that butchery of Shakespeare called “&Juliet,” Jackson screeched and tittered and hopped about praising “female empowerment,” which her character intelligently praised as “sick.” And sick is what you’ll be after watching her. Talk about sound and fury signifying nothing.
Just as “&Juliet” is a vile and unclever perversion of the great Shakespeare, Jackson is a corrupt and stupid joke of a SCOTUS justice.
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Meanwhile, Rowling is trying to explain to “transgender” radical “India” Willoughby that liking pink or feeling manly doesn’t make you the opposite sex, any more than liking cigars makes you Churchill. “The thing is, @IndiaWilloughby, I really do enjoy cigars, whisky and facing down totalitarians, so by the same arguments that make you a woman, I am indeed Winston Churchill,” Rowling posted Dec. 19. In response to a comment, Rowling added her own version of the late British PM’s famed quote, “We will fight on the beaches of TERF Island etc etc.” TERF is a rude wokism for feminists who don’t appreciate it when men go masquerading as women.
Rowling made an excellent point. If “feeling” female makes you female, if wearing long hair qualifies you to play on women’s sports teams, should I be able to claim Native American Indian scholarships on the grounds I like teepees, or get slavery reparations because I feel black? Should I get to pay no taxes on the grounds that I identify as being poor, or can I fly off a cliff because I think I’m a bird? Nonsense.
But that’s what woke leftism is: nonsense. It not only has no connection with reality, but it cannot even claim the honor of being an internally consistent fantasy. Just like the Queen in the Looking Glass, wokies believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast — and twice as many more after lunch.
