A few weeks ago the ladies of The View spent a good deal of time roasting Trump’s White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt. The nature of their attacks illustrates perfectly why this Blog is called “The Politics of Hate.”
Whoopi referred to Leavitt as a Barbie, a word that is no less reductive, insulting and hateful than the N Word. A Barbie is a White Female whose position in the world is strictly a matter of Privilege, having nothing to do with her intelligence or achievements. Joy echoed Whoopi when she said Leavitt clearly owed her position to the fact that a certain individual [i.e., Trump] saw her as a Ten. Yes, Leavitt is beautiful, but she is also articulate, courageous and qualified, having been active in politics for several years and indeed in Trump’s first term as president.
But what truly revealed the stupidity of the opinions expressed on The View, was Whoopi’s response to Leavitt’s declaration that Wokeness would in no way be a factor in the decisions of the current administration. Suggesting Leavitt to be a moron, Whoopi insisted that it was in fact Wokeness that made it possible for females such as she to achieve the status she presently enjoys. My response to Whoopi is that she quite literally doesn’t know what she’s talking about! The Women’s Rights movement, which gained momentum in the decades after WWII, was championed by rational, liberal Humanists whose mindset was significantly different from that of the contemporary Woke. The latter is literally a form of dementia which ignores the biological, moral and intellectual complexities of Human Nature out of deference to its sentimental devotion to Inclusiveness, a Neo-Marxist value which simplistically embraces any individual or group claiming to be a victim of oppression. It is common sense and not Wokeness that has liberated Western Women from many of the arbitrary restrictions imposed upon them in the past. It is Wokeness and not common sense that has ludicrously embraced Gender Parity in various socioeconomic realms, even though Men and Women are biologically and hence psychologically significantly different. It was Wokeness and not common sense that put Trans individual Demi Minor and his penis in a New Jersey women’s prison from which he had to be removed in 2022 after having impregnated 2 of his/her fellow inmates!
The View launches mindless Leftist rants into America’s culture on a daily basis. As I believe in Free Speech, I’m not suggesting it should be cancelled. But as I also believe in Man’s capacity for Reason, I am fairly convinced it will soon be a matter of history, a relic of a Woke era in which Western Civilization succumbed to the allure of mindless sentiment over the dictates of simple common sense.