A Lesson About Wokeness (by Alice from Wonderland)
The story “Alice in Wonderland” was written in 1865, with the sequel “Through the Looking Glass” being written in 1871. In each story, there was a passage that exemplified wokeness before wokeness ever existed. In the first story, there was a character named “The Queen of Hearts” who put Alice on trial, with the typical punishment being beheading. And in this scene, the Queen had a predetermined conclusion of guilt before even hearing all of the evidence. Of note, the passage went as follows:
"Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first 1 —verdict afterwards."[2]
"Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!"
"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple.
"I won"t!" said Alice.
Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice….
"Who cares for you?" said Alice,..." You're nothing but a pack of cards!"[3]
In the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Alice was talking to Humpty Dumpty, whom was using a word (the word “glory”) but was giving it a different meaning which Alice did not understand:
I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you.
I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."[5]
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...You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word."[6]
2. Deliberation and review of evidence afterwards (so if the person is later deemed not guilty, it would be too late because the person was already beheaded).
4. Kyle Rittenhouse was deemed guilty because he is a white Conservative, and Joseph Rosenbaum was deemed a heroic victim despite being a white punk using the n- word on video and having been convicted for child rape BUT he was a member of Antifa burning down businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kyle was found not guilty, but his reputation is tarnished as a “white supremacist”. Here, it was punishment first, evidence later. The January 6 protesters too were deemed guilty because they are white Conservatives despite causing minimal
damage, whilst BLM and Antifa violently rioted for 120+ days causing billions of USD in damages and murdering dozens of people. To date, the main charges were trespassing for January 6, yet the media forever tarnished their reputations. Here too, punishment first, evidence later.
5. When you have the power, you can just make $h!t up, and there is not a damn thing the powerless person can do about it.
6. Today we call this use of words as either “weasel words”, “newspeak”, or “double talk”. (Alice pre-dated Orwell’s 1984 by about 71 years).
7. Example: Black Lives Matter does not mean that they care for blacks, but only those whom are harmed by a white person and can result in a big lawsuit.
“Racism” no longer means to have hate towards another group, but it now includes the component of group power (thereby only whites can be racist, and no blacks can be racist).
The Constitution requires “equity”, not “equality”.
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