Couldn't have said it better!

Why wokesters behave as badly as they do, in 22 words.

There’s nothing much to read here this time, but what you do read may give as much food for thought as a lengthier piece.

Maybe some will say “oh, I knew that already” when they read Gurwinder’s profound perceptivity below - good for you. For the rest of us, it neatly packages the puzzlement of woksters’ much-too-often appalling behaviours into one simple and understandable summary.

For me, and anyone else who grew up learning that our behaviour mattered, and there were consequences for bad behaviour - perfect angels though we still may not be - it has been confounding as to why wokesters, and that includes transactivists, seem to feel they have a free pass to behave exceptionally badly, as they seem to be in the habit of doing.

Like always, there will be numerous threads which have led to the increased conviction that their bad behaviour is justified by the possession of virtuous beliefs. Wokesters are not alone with this, of course, but it’s their behaviour which has been in my field of vision the most in the last several years.

We all have beliefs, and coupled with our personality, they can influence how and what we say and do. Sometimes, that can lead to us regretting how we might have allowed our emotions to get the better of us, but wokesters’ beliefs and behaviours are escalating to zealotry, and zealots have no regrets.

For clarity, only the picture is Gurwinder’s, the rest is my musing. To read more of Gurwinder, go to The Prism, although much of it is paywalled. He is also on X at @G_S_Bhogal.