I would suggest looking at these movements as being spawned in communism. Communists have taken over the education system and spew out this nonsense from one generation to another. Wokeness is an example of their latest schemes to destabilize society. Black people have laughed at why so many white people are at the front of race protests…
I would suggest looking at these movements as being spawned in communism. Communists have taken over the education system and spew out this nonsense from one generation to another. Wokeness is an example of their latest schemes to destabilize society. Black people have laughed at why so many white people are at the front of race protests. There are huge benefits to dividing people into factions (tribes) in order that they fight against one another. Just ask Obama who before becoming president was a community organizer and communist.
Karl Marx was concerned about the destruction of family life engendered by the Industrial Revolution. Communism was his response to that to preserve family well-being. Obama is a different matter.
Other wirters (it doesn't matter who, and I'm only echoing comments I have read elsewhere) place the blame far earlier. Yes, Marxism and Communism can be blamed for much, but calling for the abolition of Slavery would be stretching it a bit, especially when you consider Great Britain outlawed it decades earlier, early 19th century.
Permit me a disclaimer: I'm by no means arguing that slavery was a good institution. But at least in the USA, the abolition movement was primarily a Northern, which is to say Puritan, social movement. Turns out (or at least, so claimed my source) that nearly all major reform movements (again, in USA history) can be traced, at least in part, to parts of our culture that had their roots in Puritan ethics. You could probably find a similar analysis for other nations. No one era or area can take all the blame (or credit) for social revolutions. How about the French Revolution of late 18th century? Or the Protestant Reformation launched by Luther a few centuries prior? Etc. All of these, and many more you and I've probably never heard of, produced profound ripples downstream and still affect us to the present day.
I would suggest looking at these movements as being spawned in communism. Communists have taken over the education system and spew out this nonsense from one generation to another. Wokeness is an example of their latest schemes to destabilize society. Black people have laughed at why so many white people are at the front of race protests. There are huge benefits to dividing people into factions (tribes) in order that they fight against one another. Just ask Obama who before becoming president was a community organizer and communist.
Karl Marx was concerned about the destruction of family life engendered by the Industrial Revolution. Communism was his response to that to preserve family well-being. Obama is a different matter.
Other wirters (it doesn't matter who, and I'm only echoing comments I have read elsewhere) place the blame far earlier. Yes, Marxism and Communism can be blamed for much, but calling for the abolition of Slavery would be stretching it a bit, especially when you consider Great Britain outlawed it decades earlier, early 19th century.
Permit me a disclaimer: I'm by no means arguing that slavery was a good institution. But at least in the USA, the abolition movement was primarily a Northern, which is to say Puritan, social movement. Turns out (or at least, so claimed my source) that nearly all major reform movements (again, in USA history) can be traced, at least in part, to parts of our culture that had their roots in Puritan ethics. You could probably find a similar analysis for other nations. No one era or area can take all the blame (or credit) for social revolutions. How about the French Revolution of late 18th century? Or the Protestant Reformation launched by Luther a few centuries prior? Etc. All of these, and many more you and I've probably never heard of, produced profound ripples downstream and still affect us to the present day.