No Irreducible Fractions in Wokemath
The Wokeratti will continue to reduce the situation until they are not at fault and their opponents are, even if they are forced to do a drive-by on their own allies.
Dealing with the Wokeratti is perpetually frustrating and ultimately, a waste of time.
There are four reasons I find it an exercise in futility:
Woke is a zero-sum game.
Woke logic operates in reverse.
In the woke religion, the victim and victimizer can be the same person.
In wokemath calculations (the standard mathematical process of the woke), in the pursuit of a target there is no such thing as an irreducible fraction.
Woke is truly a zero-sum game. Their perspective is that if someone has something, it means someone else does not and it is the fault of the person who has the “something” that the other person does not have it. They also seem to be adamant that the person who has it, the “have”, obviously either stole it or had some unfair advantage over the “have not”. This theft of resources or status is simultaneously a conscious effort of the “have” and/or some historical cultural advantage the “have” had nothing with which to do.
The most common examples of the above are their claims of a lack of “equity” (equal outcomes) caused by structural racism and “white privilege”, neither has basis in fact, but that doesn’t matter in the mind of the Wokeratti because their ideals live through reverse logic. Rather than operating on a logical basis that says, “because these things are correct, therefore I am correct”, they opt for the approach of “because I am correct; therefore, things with which I agree must also be correct.”
They will never find, nor can they see or accept, any evidence that contradicts their positions, because they simply reject any evidence that does not fit their standards. The error in this situation is that their standards are determined solely by what fits their narrative. The corollary to the premise above would be “because I am correct and things with which I agree must be correct; therefore, all other things must be incorrect.
In the world of the woke, the victimizer and the victim are often the same person. We see this one all the time, the most recent public exposition was the situation in LA where members of the City Council were caught on tape disparaging a white colleague, Mike Bonin, a gay man who has a husband and an adopted black son, as being “for the blacks” and having a son that is a “changuito” (which translates to “monkey”), who is being raised by his two dads as “a white kid”.
City Council President Nury Martinez was the one making the comments. She took a situation where she was caught being clearly and obscenely critical of a situation that one would think meets the woke dream (two Catholic gay men, married by none other than Eric Garcetti, the mayor of LA, who are raising an adopted black child) and doubled down, shedding the cloak of victimizer and donning another as the victim. She tried to hang on to her position with the City Council by resigning from her leadership position, but when that act of faux contrition didn’t get traction, she resigned from the council, claiming she was still a victim as a female and a person of color who had suffered from the structural racism endemic in America.
In wokemath, there are no irreducible fractions.
An irreducible fraction is one where the numerator and the denominator are integers that have no other common divisors than one. In other words, it is down to the simplest terms and can’t be taken any further.
That is never true in woke math because the fractions in wokemath can always be reduced when they are looking for a target, a scapegoat or in protection of a member of the Wokeratti. Even in the most absurd cases, they will continue twisting the situation until they can find some reduction where they are not at fault, and you are. Almost every time this math process is so obviously false, normies will shake their head at the outcome as the victim/victimizers continue to slice the pie in thinner and thinner pieces. They will continue this process until they can claim the motivation of the target is racism or some other favored “ism” which they believe renders their premise operative, and as in the LA situation mentioned above, not even two married gay dads with an adopted black child, whom one would assume are members in good standing of the Wokeratti, are exempt from their absurd reductive conclusions.
In other words, they will continue to reduce the situation until they are not at fault and their opponents are, even if they are forced to do a drive-by on their own allies.
All things considered, the Wokeratti prove that Thomas Paine was right when, in 1776, he penned in “American Crisis”:
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."
Not that there is much point in doing this usually, but I did find one talking point that shakes wokelings. Younger woke. I laid out to one young woke man all the things he believes in. Easy peasy list as I didn’t have to ask him. I knew he was woke, ergo I knew what he believed. I said ‘each of these are incredibly complicated issues. Yet you and all your friends agree 100% on each of your positions’. He said that was because they were the intelligent correct positions to take. Why would they not agree? I then asked if he had done independent full thinking on each of these. Which he claimed to have had, of course. I asked if it were possible he was wrong. Nope, not possible because these were correct and factual. I then asked if Israel should get out of the West Bank? Of course Israel should! I asked why? What is his reasoning. He said ‘it’s been Palestine for 1000s of years. Israel has no right to steal their land’. He was adamant. Britain set up Israel, TransJordan Lebanon etc as countries. They didn’t exist as countries before that. TransJordan was called that as Jordan had a piece of land that was across the Jordan River. The West Bank. The Jordanian Army used the West Bank as a place from which to blitzkrieg into Israel, kill some people, and then race back. Israel took this land from TransJordan as a defensive move. When Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement part of it was Jordan, not called TransJordan anymore, ceded West Bank to Israel. ‘Very few places on the planet have more legitimacy than Israel claiming West Bank. It was unorganized territory until the late 1800s, then it was part of Jordan. Jordan gave it to Israel. How was it Palestine for 1000s of years?’ He was befuddled. He admitted he knew none of this. He then asked in an accusatory fashion ‘which web sites did I get this from?’ Very telling. They don’t read books. I said ‘no websites. Books. Which I read decades ago. Books written by academics before the academy became overtly biased.’ He said he would look into it. I then said ‘you actuallly hadn’t done any work on this. None. You were 100% convinced of your correctness. You claimed to have done work, when in fact you hadn’t. Is it possible all your other beliefs are equally as poorly thought out? What actual work have you done on Climate Change, for example?’
H.P Lovecraft's THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH is a fine allegory and metaphor for American society in 2022.