The Ruling Class Promotes Identity Politics And 'Anti Wokeism' For The Exact Same Reasons
Channel: Caitlin Johnstone
Date: 17/12/2022

Does it not seem odd to you that half of the ruling class has been getting half of the population to fixate on identity politics while the other half has been getting half the population increasingly panicked about "wokeness"? Does it not seem a little too convenient how all the mainstream right-wing politicians are making anti-wokeism a major part of their platforms, how all the mainstream right-wing pundits are doing everything they can to make their audiences more panicked about how "woke" everything is getting, and how you've got Elon Musk talking about "the woke mind virus" in exactly the same way more liberal-aligned oligarchs champion social justice issues?

This is because both anti-wokeism and identity politics serve the same establishment agendas, entirely by design. The more people are fixated on the mainstream culture war, the less likely they are to decide they want to do things like defund the Pentagon or take back everything the rich have stolen from them. Time you're spending yelling at the other side of the cultural divide is time you're not spending eating your landlord as God and nature intended.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article version: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-ruling-class-promotes-identity

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