Seven Warning Signs Someone You Know Is Becoming ‘Woke’

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Look out for these seven warning signs that someone you know is becoming 'woke'.

Covid is not the only virus sweeping the West. According to experts, being ‘woke’ might actually be a type of ‘virus’ that infects the mind and impairs a person’s personality.

Historian Brett Sinclair has identified seven distinct personality traits that suggest somebody has become or is in the process of becoming ‘woke.’

‘Woke’ is now a common term for those who become unbearably incensed with faux progressive social justice issues. Often, this obsession takes the form of smug and aggressive protest activism – which infiltrates every aspect of a person’s life.

Rt.com reports: While there are well-known physical markers indicating a woke person (blue or purple hair, obesity, androgyny, wispy beards in men, annoying spectacles) I have for some time been a curious student of their habits and psychological mannerisms, which I have also noted, along with the physical traits, to have universal qualities. 

I had until recently assumed that these universal personality traits were evidence of a condition existing in the person first (i.e smug over-confidence) which left them susceptible to ‘woke ideas’. But more and more anecdotal experience is teaching me that becoming woke, or contracting the ‘woke virus’, creates its own type of human psyche in the unsuspecting host, which is recognizable across many observable cases. It is my opinion that this psyche is the result of the mind-virus, and not necessarily a pre-existing quality. Thus, if true, this means wokeness itself reshapes the mind. 

These qualities are:

  1. Smugness. An absolute, unwavering, and arrogantly condescending attitude toward all non-woke opinions. While a trait in itself, it is related to number 2.
  2. Lack of introspection. No trace of self-questioning or apparent inner monologue. No sense of fairness or understanding of relative opinion.
  3. Quickness to anger. Willingness to not only voice their opinion on any occasion, with anyone, even when outnumbered, but to do so angrily. A willingness to cut off any friend or family member who won’t comply with woke belief.
  4. Nihilist atheism. They will rant a lot about science, while at the same time ignoring science that doesn’t comply with their beliefs. They tend to assume you are dogmatically religious if you don’t agree with them. They will cling to a strongly negative nihilism believing that everything is ultimately hopeless, and that it is sardonic hubris to do or believe in anything (which ties into number 6).
  5. Dishonesty. They are willing to be openly dishonest to further their viral ideas. If they lose a point in an argument, they move on to a new point, never acknowledging or acquiescing that a point was lost. When all attack points are used, personal attacks begin. The past is a blank slate open to revision.
  6. Self-absorbed. This one took me a while to notice, but it seems a give-away idiosyncrasy that you are dealing with a woke-infection if the person has become abnormally self-centered, and in conversation, does not so much reciprocate, as talk about themselves, always positive or self-aggrandizing, often unrealistically. They may also insert self-pity, it seems to generally exacerbate a need for attention-seeking.
  7. Depression, low self-worth, anxiety. This one I also only noticed recently, it is likely the subconscious result of numbers 4 and 6 in particular. Any genuine personal questioning of the subject usually reveals deep worries and angst, and often mental health issues.

A recent experience with an acquaintance, a middle-aged woman who, through a new circle of friends, went from normal and apolitical to fully woke, permitted me to study changes (with a detached horror) as they occurred. Firstly, she began to exhibit extreme self-centeredness, as this new social peer group became important to her (I believe it was a ‘book club’). It began with her seemingly becoming incapable of talking about anything but herself. I had noticed that quality in other woke friends, and in many I could recall they were not previously like that, but this was the first adult person to transition slowly before my eyes, so I got out my clipboard and took notes. 

She became somewhat manic, high-anxiety, more worrisome, and less healthy-seeming. Along with this came casual smug political remarks in polite conversation. It goes without saying there were constant, needy Facebook posts about woke politics, or herself, or the ideal combination: posts about herself woke-crusading. Now none of this was part of her personality previously, at all, despite woke politics being with us many years now. It began for her with a new circle of peers that she obviously wished to impress and is culminating currently in her friends and family seriously considering an intervention of psychological help, not because of the constant virtue-signaling, but for the other more self-destructive personality changes. 

It reminds me of the science of psychopathy. I was very interested to learn in my youth, not just that psychopaths essentially have little or no emotional feeling, and certainly no empathy, but that they exist among us in high numbers. They don’t all become serial killers, but there are people you know who are psychopaths that you would never have guessed because they learn to mimic human behavior. Severe trauma in youth can appear to create psychopathy, so it can be an environmental condition. 

I’m not saying woke people are psychos (though they both share the narcissism), I am saying psychological conditions can be created, and that the modern world, with its rampant materialist consumerism, dogmatic atheism and self-hating education system, is perhaps manufacturing a new human psyche, one both frail and fraught and in its own perverse way, merciless. 

Watch as the virus spreads, watch and study and hope you have immunity.

18 Comments

      • Yeah, wait until her shot or her boosters kick in i a year or so. I have had my sad episode likewise with someone who go woke in a university. A sterling character, I had thought, but, destroyed utterly by an advanced degree.

    • They protest against the death penalty for vicious criminals, but DEMAND the death penalty for unborn, innocent babies.

      And while they demand that death penalty for babies, claiming, my body, my choice,” they also DEMAND we take the Liquid Idol “vaccine,” we have NO choice.

      • Also oddly enough many are vegans because they don’t want to have animals killed. In an extreme form they are against eating eggs because it interferes with chicks being born. What we are seeing is people that are insane, without the ability to process logic and likely demonically possessed.

  1. A female relative of mine, has been woke for about 51 years now. She will NOT back down and shut up. She will never admit that any stand she has taken, or politician she worships ,is in error. When Hillary was running for prez, she would use up expensive film snapping photos of her on the tube.

    • Did she get the pics of Hillary sitting on the secret service’s lap? Or when she regurgitated green balls into a water glass? Or when they had to pick her up and place her in the van? How about when she glitched out on that red headed reporter?
      I’d say
      Ignore your relative. They will become Judas

  2. Being an ‘initial’ boomer (born in 1946) I have lived a reasonably decent life here in the US. This nation of very mixed cultures is not perfect (name one that is) but there has always been opportunity to move ahead if one tried to.
    Now in retirement I am watching, from my self imposed ‘safe’ bubble, the loss of stability being replaced with a swirling vortex of insane divisiveness/wokeness which may only end in civil disruption unlike I have ever seen or imagined.

    For all of you woke ‘youngsters’ … GOOD LUCK.

  3. They just like to use good words for evil. Invert everything.
    How can someone completely programmed by lucifer be “woke’? They’re obviously deeply asleep.

  4. The SARS-Cov-2 virus is a hoax, never isolated, and the kill shot is death rated: Inversions, Lucifer’s favourite tool used to confuse and rule, as in woke = asheep, progressive = regressive, people of colour = people without colour (‘black’ is an absence of colour), protesting = looting, burning, murdering, feminism = wholly unfeminine, as in ‘not even a smidgen of the feminine’, mansplaining = a woemen losing the argument, diversity = white genocide, inclusivity = white genocide, victim = oppressor, glass ceiling = entitled females, anti-semitism = the truth in plain sight, refugees = invaders, and so many more that perfectly reflect the Newspeak of 1984.

  5. If the non whites we are pretending are Americans were deported white leftists would be powerless. This is impossible to deny. Non whites are what is wrong. Anyone who cannot see this is blind to reason.

    • So please explain why half of Africa has a lower homicide rate?

      Why Cuba has a lower homicide rate?

      Why nearly every Muslim nation has a lower homicide rate?

      Red or Blue, black or white – America is a dump!

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