The dangers of woke and political correctness—Part 2: The environment and the gender-issue
My initial plan was to write about the environment and the gender-issue as two separate posts. However, since I don’t know enough about these topics, and they don’t really interest me very much to be honest, I decided to cover them both in one post instead.
The environment
The reason that I mention the environment is that it was yet another topic where the discussion quickly became one where you either support rather extreme ideas, or you will get labeled in various ways in order to get you stigmatized.
Before I elaborate further on this, I just want to let you all know that of course the environment is something that I care about. However, sadly, I also have to admit that I have become somewhat discouraged from really worrying too much about it.
The reason for this is precisely the fact that not only did the whole discussion quickly become extremely polarized, but also what can best be described as hijacked.
I really wish that there could be some type of balance when it comes to these types of discussions. It is really unfortunate that, just like in the case of the whole racism-debacle which I have written about in a previous post, there tend to be no such balance at all as soon as people start debating these types of questions.
Despite my nomadic lifestyle, I happened to be in Sweden for a few months back in 2018, when the environmental debate was at its height. Or maybe not at its height, but it was definitely something that was very high up on the agenda for various PC-actors since it was constantly being talked about in the media and televised news broadcasts.
In Sweden, the environmental debate quickly came down to being in support of one of two extreme alternatives. Either you were in full support of Greta Thunberg, or you were a so called “climate denier”.
If we begin with Greta Thunberg, it is very bizarre how a 15-year old schoolgirl managed to become some kind of spokesperson for a whole movement of this magnitude, with very radical ideas regarding global warming and other environmental issues. Despite that, this very same movement quickly turned into the politically correct side to support.
Once again, the media set the agenda for what was right and what was wrong, and they reported about Thunberg as if she was some type of Messiah who had appeared from out of nowhere to save the world from the environmental threat.
Furthermore, it was yet another case that exposed the hypocrisy of the politically correct woke-movement and of the mainstream media, as well as the majority of politicians. I am referring to the fact that since Thunberg picked a topic that is a legit one to both be in support of, and apparently also to skip school for, the whole establishment decided to support her.
In order to give you an example of what I mean when claiming that this is hypocrisy, let’s imagine the following scenario: Imagine if Thunberg held a sign on which it did not say “Skolstrejk för klimatet”, Swedish for “School strike for climate”, which was the case in real life. To be more specific, let’s imagine a scenario where her sign instead said “School strike against mass-immigration”.
I think we all know what the outcome of that scenario would have been. Greta Thunberg would most likely have been arrested by the police, and the same thing would probably have happened to her parents. Thunberg would definitely not have ended up being portrayed as some sort of hero around the world at least, but rather as a sick person who social services most likely would have placed in foster care.
What followed in real life after she had gained fame, when Thunberg started traveling around the world to meet with various world leaders and other prominent figures, as well as being invited to speak at the UN climate summit, is straight out bizarre! I wish it was a joke, but it is not, rather an example of the crazy scenarios which the actions supported by the media and the whole woke-movement tend to result in.
I mean, what on Earth does a 15-year old schoolgirl know about the possible factors causing climate change and global warming? Is it enough to attend elementary school to become a professor of climatology? We all know that the answer is no, but since Greta Thunberg was supporting the “right” cause, people saw between the fingers when it came to this.
As previously mentioned, it all ended up with Thunberg traveling around the globe to meet with Barack Obama and other celebrities, almost like some kind of Jesus-figure. Once again, what on Earth would she have to teach someone like Barack Obama about climate change? The answer is very likely “nothing”, and that it was all a PR-stunt.
Those involved in the aforementioned stunt were of course hoping to benefit from it. Someone like Barack Obama could for example have seen it as a way to improve his public image by supporting a “good cause”, while the Thunberg-movement was looking for improved credibility in the public eye, followed by an increase in numbers. Rather than resulting in such beneficial gains for Thunberg and the people she met with, the PR-stunts would turn out to have the opposite effect on me and many others.
As mentioned in the beginning of this post, global warming itself is something that I see as a real issue which deserves attention and to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, the topic being hijacked by extremists shun the light away from the original problem. Instead, it became a matter of whether to label people as anti- or pro-Thunberg. I became fed up with it as a result.
Swedish state media, known as SVT, once again showed their true colors and did what they aren’t supposed to do, meaning not being neutral and unbiased when it came to global warming. In their news broadcasts, they would for example constantly invite the same “experts” to get their views on the matter.
These so called experts, and especially a man who goes by the name of Johan Rockström, a professor of environmental science who also happened to be a supporter of the Thunberg-movement, were more or less presented as authorities when it came to what views people should have regarding climate change.
To more or less only present the views of one single individual, meaning Rockström, is obviously not the way to do it for an organization that claims to be neutral and unbiased. What makes it even worse is that Rockström is better described as a climate-activist who has a strong tendency to always assume worst-case scenarios which he then presents as facts.
In my opinion, Rockströms many appearances on state television only resulted in increasing the polarization when it came to the environmental-debate. Mainstream media and wokeness-people simply seem incapable of realizing that all they achieve by having this “you’re either with us or against us” view of the world is to strengthen their opponents.
In fact, I would not be surprised at all if this turned out to be yet another one of the factors that contributed to Donald Trump’s election-win back in 2024. Woke-people’s tactics of labeling everyone who don’t share their worldview with various degrading terms does clearly not work in their favor. How difficult can that be to realize? All that they achieve by acting the way they do is to lose supporters, while handing new ones to their “enemies”, which is exactly what their rhetoric suggests that they view people with differing views as.
So what has ended up becoming of Greta Thunberg now eight years after she first appeared outside of the Swedish parliament with her sign as a 15 year-old girl? The answer is that Thunberg is now no longer just an environmental-extremist, but also a left-wing extremist. Or so everything suggests, despite herself claiming to not be involved in politics.
In one way, I think it is great that Thunberg is supporting the Palestinians, just like I do. I just wish that she would do it in a different way rather than becoming and surrounding herself with a bunch of left-wing extremists. The fact that the far-left has hijacked the whole pro-Palestine-movement, at least in many European countries, is something that is really upsetting. But let’s take a closer look at that in a future post.
So to get back on topic, does my words mean that I hate Greta Thunberg? Absolutely not! One has to remember that she’s autistic and has previously been struggling with depression back in her younger days. Also, the fact that she is supporting the Palestinians, albeit as a left-winger, has made me change my mindset about her to a certain degree.
In fact, political differences should not be a hindrance in this situation, everybody all over the world should come together and boycott the mass-murderers and baby killers that is Israel. Unfortunately, the Israeli propaganda-machine combined with factors such as white guilt and Western naivety to name a few, has resulted in ordinary people thinking twice before showing their support for Palestine. I believe this is caused by the fear of being labeled as “anti-semites”, a classic Zionist trick used to quiten their opponents.
This has, at least in Sweden, resulted in a society where mainly extremists are the ones who dare to stand up to Israel. Since left-wing extremism is in many ways politically correct in Swedish society, those are by large majority the main extremists partaking in pro-Palestine demonstrations in the Scandinavian country. I will elaborate my thoughts on this in a separate post. For now, let’s move on to the next topic of discussion.
The gender-issue
The latest topic on the woke- and politically correct-agenda, at least as far as I am concerned, is the whole gender-issue. Just like in the case of other topics of this kind, it seems impossible to stick to nuanced debates when discussing gender.
The LGBTQ-movement has in my opinion turned into the opressors rather than the opressed, despite their claims of beloning to the latter category. I base this on the current debate climate in many Western countries, where LGBTQ-people are portrayed as superior beings compared to those who are heterosexual. I refer to this as LGBTQ-supremacy.
I do for example remember when I visited Peru back in 2023. I then rented a really nice flat in Lima through Airbnb. The host was a homosexual guy who seemed cool at first. However, it didn’t take long for him to start talking about LGBTQ-people as superior to heterosexuals. I didn’t really care at first, since it’s not like I spoke to him every day, and most of the time he was a nice person.
However, it wasn’t long until the talk about homosexual-superiority turned into straight out racism against white people. Once again, I brushed it off, partly because I really liked his flat and didn’t want to have to move away because of getting into a conflict with him. Also, he was not really an important person to me.
However, about two years later I contacted him again to inquire about the apartment, since I was thinking of going back to Peru. Then the hatred against whites started right away. Before, when I visited Peru the first time, I didn’t really know whether he was being serious or not. This time though, it seemed very clear to me that he was definitely serious.
Great way to lose a potential customer! Of course I would not stay with someone who literally sat and blamed a certain ethnicity and group of people, which I happen to belong to, for everything that is wrong in the world. That is called racism, but starting to argue with him would have lead nowhere. Also, I am not a very easily offended person.
Reporting him to Airbnb, blocking him and removing him from Facebook was enough. What baffles me is that he did it as if expecting that I would be completely fine with it. Do I look like one of those self-hating white communists? And would he have acted like that towards people of different skin colors? Probably not.
Anyway, I know that I am just talking about one single individual here, but the reason for me mentioning him is that I think his attitude represents that of the LGBTQ-supremacists in quite an accurate way. At least that’s what it has seen like to me, but enough about him.
I really don’t want to write too much about the gender-issue, because it is not something that I know of or care a lot about. That’s precisely because of the fact that extremist views regarding the matter are being promoted in a way where it sounds like everybody should follow the LGBTQ-opinions, or else they are evil people.
To sum up my view on this whole issue: I could not care less about what people do in their bedrooms, as long as it is consensual and doesn’t involve any minors. The same goes for sex-changes, what people choose to identify as, and so forth.
However, stop trying to force your views on me and others! Can I please be able to turn on the television, or go to the cinema without having pro-LGBTQ content thrown at me? Also, considering how the current situation in the world looks like, I am of the opinion that there are more pressing concerns to focus on rather than this.
Lastly, considering the fact that people who are directly affected by this issue are still a very small minority of the planets population, I think that they are getting a disproportionately large amount of attention in the media.
It would also be really nice if the very same media could stop being the driving force behind all these politically correct campaigns, stigmatizing people and everything that goes against their naive ideas, while trying to decide what opinions that people are allowed to have and not. That is all that I have to say about this.
Anyway, peace and love to everyone who has read this post, and let’s hope that the situation in the world will start improving very soon. Take care of yourselves! You’ll hear more from me soon!