“Peak Woke”

The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.

That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.

The inclusion of Sir John A. Macdonald Day on a McMaster University calendar has led to an apology to students for the “grave oversight.”

“We inadvertently included the mention of Sir John A. Macdonald day, which is a day that commemorates a person who was responsible for the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada,” the email, sent to medical students at the Hamilton, Ont., university, said. “We are committed to creating a culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect in our department, and we recognize that our calendars should reflect the values and identities of our members and the communities we serve.”

A lot of our institutions of higher woke should be allowed to go bankrupt.

Remember how we were boycotting Bud Light for trying to impose the cultural values of your standard Chardonnay-swilling divorced shut-in cat lady upon America? As you recall, Bud Light decided that it would celebrate some ugly dude who pretends to be an even uglier woman as some sort of hero, and then compounded it by having its wine woman – it’s always liberal wine women – executive explain that its consumers are a bunch of knuckle-dragging savages who are too stupid to understand the nuances of today’s society, which apparently means pretending dudes are chicks. It was obnoxious and gratuitously insulting to its audience and just caught fire. We are fed up with having giant faceless corporations trying to impose their garbage values on us, and Bud Light happened to step into the kill zone. And it got crushed.

Marvel Studios, the superhero-movie behemoth, endured its worst year ever at the box office in 2023.

A few explanations have already been offered for Marvel’s ailing fortunes. Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, Marvel Studios’ parent company, has said that fans are tired of so many sequels. One pundit has blamed a lack of quality control. Another feels that 15 long years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has resulted in an ‘ennui de superheroes’ among the cinema-going public.

Welcome to Woke of the Weak where I’ll update you about the most woke, progressive, insane, and crazy clips and stories that the left thinks is tolerable and well, point out why exactly they’re nuts.

The left has a tendency to live in their own little fantasy world and has the expectation that everyone should agree with them. Whether it’s their ideas on gender, sexuality, right or wrong behavior or pretty much anything else under the sun, the left likes to make anyone who disagrees with them out to be the villain.

“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday.

It must be a rhetorical question. Professor Carol Swain, who was ripped off by Gay and complains “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work,” has some idea.

“A white male would probably already be gone,” Swain, a black woman herself, told journalist Christopher Rufo recently.

After Oct 7, some purple-haired genderqueer activists on TikTok have taken to reading the Koran and are pondering converting to Islam. That may seem like a leap, but once you’re a teenage girl who decides to be a boy for internet clout, changing to Islam is less difficult.

Hijabs, like dyed hair and androgynous clothes, have long become just another accessory of restless social change. Commercials that claim to relate to the youth invariably include a woman in a hijab as a progressive marker alongside a purple haired they/them, an ascetic activist type in a t-shirt and random minorities laughing together while having lattes on a college campus.

In a recent statement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we learned that Christmas is not racist.

This clarification, while reassuring, highlights a troubling trend that a holiday with religious origins is being challenged as racist and discriminatory at all. This matter isn’t rooted in the holiday’s current essence or practice, but stems from the mere acknowledgment of Christmas as a national holiday at all. It’s a concerning fate for a holiday that for most Canadians is secular in all but its namesake.

Progressives will turn on Hispanics as fast as they did conservative blacks and pro-Israel Jews.

Will the far-left target Hispanics next? If that sounds far-fetched, then you have not been paying attention to the far-left. Now targeting American Jews for supporting Israel’s right to self-defense and Israeli hostages’ right to freedom, how will far-left extremists react as Hispanics continue to desert President Biden and the Democrats?

A working group under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada believes training future doctors should concentrate more on social justice and anti-racism than “medical expertise.”

The idea was proposed by an anti-racism expert working group as a potential addition to CanMEDS, the framework for physician training slated for renewal in 2025. If implemented, it would elevate what is increasingly a destructive, divisive Marxist ideology over the Enlightenment ideals of science and reason.