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The Amazon blurb says that The Woke ideology is colonizing Western Civilization. This ideology views the world through a Marxist-inspired lens of “systemic power dynamics” that divides us between the “privileged” and the “oppressed.” This colonization has successfully captured many of our noblest and most vital institutions through time-tested strategies and tactics. People from almost every sector of life are concerned about this capture but feel paralyzed and helpless as this ideology activates itself and wields its power. The good news is that Woke tactics are predictable and can be countered.

Campuses are supposed to be about the pursuit of knowledge and the debate of ideas, but debate could offend so it is gone, and knowledge has been replaced by a toxic indoctrination where students are unwillingly spoon-fed political correctness crap

This guide is an invaluable contribution to understanding, recognizing, and ultimately countering “Wokecraft” wherever it appears. While the guide is tailored to the university, its lessons are applicable throughout government, K-12 education, the private sector, churches, and even formal and informal affinity groups. This makes the guide a much-needed contribution as people seek to push back against the destructive Woke ideology.

The people remain ignorant, manipulated by the wokeness scam, and gullible, never knowing they're constantly drinking the Kool-Aid and being brainwashed into following elite agendas that often go against their own interests

Charles Pincourt is a professor of engineering at a large university. He writes about the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) perspective in universities, how it has become so successful there, and what can be done about it.

James Lindsay is the founder and president of New Discourses. He is the author of six books including Cynical Theories, and is a leading expert on the subject of Critical Race Theory.

The Woke often use social pressure (so-called canceling), and obfuscation

Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond describes what "Woke" is, how it takes over academic departments and universities, and what it takes to prevent its spread. The "Woke" are "true believers" in the Eric Hoffer sense. They undermine the long-standing Western tradition of rational argumentation, the presentation of evidence, and respect for ones opponents in a debate. The Woke are inherently activists who seek to spread their ideas not by persuasion so much as by the use of ordinary words that have a specialized meaning which is not fully defined until after they have reached their goal. The Woke often use merciless, social-media-based social pressure (so-called canceling), threats, and obfuscation. Authors James Lindsay and Charles Pincourt show how to recognize the woke and how to enlist allies to resist their ugly efforts. My way or the highway, closed-minded—these are ways to describe Woke thinking. Wokeness is tyrannically authoritarian—it doesn't put up with dispute, disagreement, or alternate ways of thinking. This book is an excellent description of what it is and how it works. It is brief, well organized, and helpful, although the ideas it deals with are complex and very large and so the reader must read very carefully and think hard, especially if they've never read anything about Woke thinking before.

Schools indoctrinate our young with a victimology culture in which white males, past and present, are the victimizers and blacks and browns and females are the victims

The students' rebellious impulses are stuffed back down their throats and they are shamed. You must believe what we tell you to believe and we will tolerate no deviation from the sacred woke bibles. So the "liberal" in liberal arts is no longer about freedom, discussions, or liberty, it is about the liberties the dogmatic "progressives" take with the minds of our young. They do not teach, they indoctrinate. Dogma, not knowledge, is imparted. Student rules and regulations are warped to fit the poisonous woke dogma. Courses reflect woke dogma and history has been rewritten to reflect this poisonous woke dogma. An Orwellian nightmare of political reeducation, sensitivity training, speech codes, groupthink, and intimidation is laid on not just students but professors as well. Some have quit, disgusted with the zealots. Some were fired for not preaching the PC bible and toeing the party line. Conform or begone!

An Orwellian nightmare of political reeducation, sensitivity training, speech codes, groupthink, and intimidation is laid on not just students but professors as well—never question anything, except everything conservative, and accept our woke wisdom, never thinking for yourself

The 1950s were tainted with an overdose of conformity pressures; but the 21st century is reeking with pressures of mindless conformity, pressures from dogmatic 'progressives' who do not want you to think for yourself—just absorb wokeness

Happily, the University of Chicago’s Academic Freedom Statement guarantees “all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn.” Most importantly, it makes clear that “it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.”—FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). Unfortunately, only a few percent of colleges allow free speech—the rest push woke horse puckey.

This woke lady is giving us the woke perspective in a debate, and she expresses her feelings about being debated or argued with

The trouble with wokeness is how much it resembles a mental state known as brainwashed

Here’s how the wokeness scam works: Pretend like you care about something other than profit and power precisely to gain more of each. Woke scammers will assure you their concerns are real even if Black Lives Matter utterly ignores the thousands of gun deaths inflicted on young blacks by other blacks—46 times as many as the few gun deaths inflicted on young blacks by cops. Also, Progressive social reform policies helped to create generations of welfare dependency, family breakdown, poor educational outcomes, and stunted economic growth. If the woke really cared about the people, they would cease pouring money down bottomless "progressive" ratholes representing miserable failures and let the poor taxpayers keep their money, especially since Biden has wrecked the economy. This manual gives you concrete real world examples of what to look for in the wokeness craze and what to do.

Exposes the dirty little secret underlying the third step of corporate America’s act, its Prestige. Here’s how it works: pretend like you care about something other than profit and power precisely to gain more of each

"Pincourt and Lindsay are far far beyond simply “being alarmed” about Woke. Lindsay has supplied massive evidence for BLM/Woke/CriticalStudies as nothing less than the current aggressive frontline manifestation of Marxism. You can call it ‘neo-Marxism’ or Cultural Marxism … the reality is the identical mission at the root: to deconstruct the freedom/individualism/capitalism born of the Enlightenment to make room for communism. Marx’s mission." (Source: A new anti-woke book, John Donohue, whyevolutionistrue)

Cultural Marxism—whose mission is to deconstruct the freedom/individualism/capitalism born of the Enlightenment to make room for communism, Marx’s mission (the Woke movement is largely repackaged Marxist theory)

The authors of Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond are talking to other academics with the basic intention of providing a survival manual to help resist the relentless attack on reason, logic and empiricism being mounted by the proponents of Critical Theory and neo-Marxism. This woke ideology is no joke, and it won’t just fade away. Ordinary people now need to pay attention to this virus, and join the push-back. The woke ideology thrives on people’s apathy. The authors must be given credit where credit is due in the ongoing fight against tyranny. Get this book and find out how to resist.