wokeism needs liberalism to win before it can grow. you'll never see a country go from conservative, straight to woke. but wokeism is not even close to the same ideology as liberalism is. liberalism, at its core, is laissez faire morality. liberalism doesn't give a fuck about moral matters. if having no welfare means blacks are a permanent underclass of society, then so be it. if tolerating promiscuity means all women will get sexually harassed on a regular basis, then liberalism doesn't care. liberalism doesn't care if people are racist, sexist, or homophobic. wokeism on the other hand, thinks those are the greatest, and possibly only true evils that have ever existed. liberalism on the other hand, thinks authoritarianism is the only evil that has ever existed. liberalism hates any kind of coercion or use of government power to change people's behavior or beliefs. while liberalism despises social engineering, wokeism embraces it. liberalism despises hiring people based on their identity, wokeism embraces it. i'm not saying this to defend liberalism by the way. i think liberalism is almost as toxic as wokeism is. the only reason why liberal societies are more tolerable then woke societies are is purely because liberal societies by nature cannot crush conservatism and push it entirely out of the overton window of acceptable discussion the way wokeism does. in woke societies, it is completely unacceptable to be conservative. in liberal societies, it may be a bit frowned upon but people are urged to respect your beliefs anyway. but the behavior that liberalism encourages is awful and will eventually result in society's destruction even if wokeism becomes a small minority of the population.
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