CHARBONNEAU – The Asleep and its war on Woke seek return to Dark Ages
Pierre Poilievre in the heat of debate.
A WAR ON WOKE is being waged by The Asleep led by Trump in the U.S. and Pierre Poilievre in Canada.
It’s being waged on a number of fronts including attacks on the poor, the environment, and on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs (DEI).
In America the battle plan was plotted by Russell Vought, now head of the Office of Management and Budget. His slash-and-burn agenda was integrated into Project 2025, the conservative blueprint prepared by the Heritage Foundation.
His cuts target the poor by imposing work requirements for recipients of food stamps, ending public service student-loan forgiveness and phasing out some federal Medicaid funds for states.
The term “woke” appears 77 times in Vought’s document. He intends on slashing the “woke agenda” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by cutting billions of dollars in “woke foreign aid spending”; and eliminating entire programs for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Vought also aims at plans to abate the climate emergency, calling them the “secular, woke religion.”
“The battle cannot wait,” enthuses Vought.
President Trump has taken steps to dismantle DEI initiatives, despite the fact that they improve the bottom line for businesses.
The global management consultant company, McKinsey, released a series of four reports over the past decade exploring the connection between corporate DEI and financial performance.
Their findings were clear — companies with higher levels of gender and racial diversity on executive teams tend to produce higher financial returns.
In a war that takes no prisoners, Big Tech is caving in to Vought’s clarion call.
Big names such as Amazon, Meta and Walmart announced plans to cancel or roll back their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
DEI programs have become a politicized lightning rod for criticism. The DEI acronym has become a weapon in the war against inclusion.
Out of fear of succumbing to the wrath of the unstable orange man who haunts the White House, Canadian research groups are also caving in.
In order to keep U.S. funding, a Canadian cancer research group is a changing wording in their documents to comply with misinformation from The Asleep.
For example, “gender” is being replaced with “sex.”
Ignorance abounds. The differences between sex and gender are obvious. Transgender people have been in the closet for too long. Now, those born of one sex and identify with another gender have become a social norm.
However, The Asleep find the obvious disturbing; they see the world in black and white, not as a rainbow.
Bioethicist Françoise Baylis, professor at Dalhousie University, calls the American directives to change language in Canadian research deeply offensive.
“A lot of work has been done, over a very long time, to get people to understand the difference between sex and gender,” she said.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre echoes the blathering of The Asleep. He promises to: “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.”
We must take up arms in the war on woke. The zombie hordes of The Asleep want to drive us back into the Dark Ages.
David Charbonneau is a retired TRU electronics instructor who hosts a blog at http://www.eyeviewkamloops.wordpress.com.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
absolutely bang on!!!
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I tried to find out more about the group you referred to as The Asleep. I found nothing on Google. Where are you getting your information?
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I believe The Asleep is the writer’s sardonic reference to those who blame “Woke” for a wide variety of ills.
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As someone who studies mediaeval history, I object in the strongest terms to your use of “Dark Ages” as a pejorative term. Historians have done a lot of work, over a very long time, to get people to understand that the so-called “Dark Ages” never really existed and were an invention by Italian humanist writer Petrarch and later pounced upon by anti-clerical writers of the enlightenment. Your use of the term has offended me to my core.
Your uninformed blathering will set back historical studies by centuries; this unchecked hyperbole is mimesis of the type of speech we hear from our southern neighbours. You need to refrain from publishing any more of your thoughts until you’ve participated in some re-education.
Let the reader understand.
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This is mostly fear mongering nonsense in my view.
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Well that’s one perspective. There’s another where this pushback is being fueled by progressives pushing so far as to cause people to be fired from their jobs for expressing contrary opinions grounded in biological science. Where one can no longer speak the mind or express dissent without severe repercussions. Where the UK Supreme Court must rule that the definition of a woman is a person with a biological sex of female at birth. Where a growing chorus of athletic governing bodies are forbidding biological males from competing in sports against biological females.
Are all of these people the army of asleep claimed by Mr. Charbonneau? See, Mr. Charbonneau is a member of a political class that seeks to wedge and divide, and is quite intolerant of anyone who doesn’t hold the “right” ideas. Me. Charbonneau has often placed dogma above science, and conjecture before the facts.
Believe it or not, people can still be welcomed and accepted even when common sense reigns. It just means that society does not accept a bridge too far, or that anything goes just because you say so, or that because you say the sky is green does not mean that I have to say the sky is green.
There are no zombie hordes. It’s mostly people wanting the return of freedom of expression for all, not a select few, and a return to common sense in the social discourse.
Trump is a reaction to, and a reflection of, a political ideology that looked down on the other, that stopped upholding the right to expression and free speech, and peddled a dogmatic intolerance that purported that the sky was green, and demanded not only your fealty to that, but also the wholesale adoption of that view.
Enough.
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A bridge too far or a bridge too fast? Although I don’t entirely disagree with my friend “Earliest Bruce” (please pick a name and stay with it) I think he’s fighting the tide and significantly downplaying the history of the “right ideas”.
Trump is not a reaction to “progressives” but rather the latest poster child of the extreme “right ideas”, in a similar ilk as a George Wallace or Joseph McCarthy before him. It’s the “progressives” who are the reactors, they are the reflection the this historical political ideology of elitism, where the masses are told to stay in your lane, think of Fahrenheit 451 as a utopian society rather than the dystopian writing that we know it to be.
I have no doubt that my friend here is not a Trumper, but he’s far closer aligned with much of Trump’s yesterday beliefs than those of tomorrow as represented by the progressive extremists, making him, Early Bruce, my opposite reflection. I have no doubt that we have far more in common than either of the binary camps who’ve set extreme polar flags in the present day culture war. Sadly, there is no centralist camp where either of us can set our caps.
So as much as I want to pick apart his thesis I find myself questioning, maybe the extreme progressives have gone too far too fast.
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