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The Global Right's Catch-22

How Global Efforts Against the Woke Onslaught Might Destroy Culture

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Alan Schmidt
Nov 19, 2024
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A while ago, Martin Sellner had a meeting regarding a proposed policy to remigrate third world refugees out of Germany. In a saner time, this dispute thousands of miles away would not mean much to me as an American. However, I worked for a German company with some absolutely insufferable people. When the media storm over the event occurred, our company communications director sent out a frantic message to all employees saying how Democracy was at risk in Germany and Mustache Man was minutes away from rising from the grave. Some sensible comments asked what this had to do with software, with the rest of the hive in the company expressing their performative horror that “this is happening again.” Even the CEO chimed in with a sanctimonious statement.

Reading the screed, it became clear here was no difference between this woman, who lived in Germany all her life, and an Ivy League New Englander. How she wrote, her political ideals, and her thought process were all identical. She wasn't tr…

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