THE WOKE-RIGHT

A recent discussion revealed some confusion about the term woke-Right, which I used in the subheading for my book: The Hegemony of Political Correctness: and the rise of the woke-Right. I may have used the term a few times on social media prior to the book’s publication in 2021, but, so far as I am aware, I was the first person to use the term.

In The Hegemony of Political Correctness, I identified a number of issues that are subjected to various basic concepts of political correctness (eg the barbarist, the Inquisition, producer capture, race war politics and anti-Whiteism, political AIDS, and others). I then compared this and the creed’s three different aspects, institutional, economic, and its false morality.

Regarding the false morality, I wrote:

‘The moral and political aspects of the hegemony of political correctness, its false morality, also consist of three parts: first, it is the basis of a false morality that has been accepted as the definition of morality across the West; second, this false morality is the trigger for the Inquisition against those deemed heretics; and third, the growth of the woke-Right has weakened opposition to political correctness. They have accepted that false morality of political correctness and supplanted the genuine conservatives.’

The point being is that the interaction of the concepts and aspects of political correctness renders the creed robust to opposition. Simply reacting to the latest politically correct outrage by describing it as being ‘political correctness gone too far’, or ‘political correctness gone stark raving bonkers/mad’ does not constitute opposition to it at all. Nor does a declaration of the politically correct that he/she ‘shares their aims, but not their methods’. A genuine Conservative would not share their aims at all. It further accepts that the purported morality is genuine rather than false. The creed needs to be rejected out of hand and not merely the manner of its implementation.

Today, there is an ideological and moral battle to be fought, just as in the 1970s the Conservatives had to fight three ideological battles: the Cold War, the battle between capitalism and socialism, and the fight between the failing orthodoxy of Keynesianism and monetarism. The dissident Right needs to engage in this ideological battle rather than acquiescing to the rampage of political correctness across the societies of the West.

Neither the woke-Right or presiders (who just go with the flow) offer any prospect of fighting the ideological battle. The acceptance of the false morality of political correctness is the primary reason for its hegemony. That must change. The fight between patriotism and political correctness is the fight between good and evil. It is as clear cut as that.