WOKE – Got Lost
When Woke Became a Weapon
A prime example is what just happened to Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle Jeans.
And naturally, the internet lit up — because what’s more American than a blonde woman in tight jeans under a waving flag?
To some, it was patriotic.
To others, it was white nationalism in high-waisted denim.
Because apparently, if you’re blonde, busty, and not apologizing for it, you’re now one step away from a book burning.
Like MAGA, the Woke just became angry, if it wasn’t their way, it was wrong, so wrong it was as affront. They had to have demonstrations, they needed to shout, when all they really had to do was calm down. Not everything is a personal attack.
Good movements can lose their way when they become obsessed with control. The ideals that began as a call to conscience slowly hardened into a set of dogmas, and then into a kind of cultural authoritarianism.
In the name of inclusion, speech was policed. In the name of justice, individuals were shamed, fired, or silenced for using the wrong word, asking the wrong question, or simply disagreeing. Forgiveness was replaced with punishment. Grace became weakness. The only safe position was total, uncritical agreement.
Soon, people began to notice that the movement had stopped persuading — and started enforcing.
Woke culture turned into something that often felt more like a religion than a political cause: complete with rituals, heresies, and moral purges. Even longtime progressives — writers, professors, comedians, feminists, even civil rights leaders — found themselves under fire for stepping slightly outside the ever-shifting lines of acceptable thought.
Worse, the obsession with language and symbolism began to overshadow real progress. Elite institutions performed grand gestures of virtue signaling while doing little to address deeper problems like poverty, housing, education, and opportunity. Identity became the central lens for everything, while class — the great unifier of struggle — was pushed aside.
As the movement turned inward, it lost public support. Ordinary people, even sympathetic ones, began to walk away — not because they didn’t believe in justice, but because they didn’t recognize the movement anymore.
