There’s a reason why “wokeness” entered the US mainstream after the genocidal ‘War on Terror’. The objective was two-fold:
1) To distract the population from protesting against US wars, and get them to protest for “safe” woke topics that are exactly zero threat to the empire.
2) To portray the regime in a positive light (e.g. pretend to care about gays) There used to be MASSIVE protests against US wars back then. What happened to them? They were replaced by pride parades. Those who once protested against the US military now protest for LGBTQ rights.
The regime was spooked by the massive opposition. They needed new battles for the culture wars, to distract the population from class war and the empire. The first thing they did was to appoint (let the people “elect”) a Black President, the ultimate expression of woke culture.
And few represented this shift better than Obama, the figurehead who played his part well to enable the transition. Just look at his “evolution” on same-sex marriage within 4 years. He opposed it when the empire didn’t need it. Then when it did, he started supporting it.
Few battles are better for the culture wars than LGBTQ rights. It keeps the population distracted, creates two camps that fight each other, and takes up time and energy while the US empire can carry on with its business. Peak “democracy” in action.
Every minute spent protesting in favor of LGBTQ rights is a minute not spent protesting against the genocidal US Empire. No wonder the empire loves it. Of course it’s not that LGBTQ rights are not important. But that’s the whole point. The regime doesn’t really care about them.
It just wants you to think it does. This is how culture war topics are chosen. They need to sound genuine and have plausible deniability. Climate change is another good example. The biggest culprits are corporations and the US military. But don’t forget to turn off the lights.
LGBTQ is the perfect topic. If someone says that six million innocent lives are more important than the rights of gays in developed countries to marry, they can be plausibly accused of homophobia.
Say if a murderer is also a pickpocket, he will obviously want you to discuss only his pickpocketing, to divert attention away from the murder. Nothing would make him happier than to be charged with pickpocketing, as long as his murder trial is dismissed. And if you ask why, they will retort “So you don’t care about his pickpocketing victims?” Checkmate.
As I often put it, Propaganda (“Journalism”) is simply the art of cherry-picking facts.
Addendum: Thus, you should support LGBTQ rights and more diversity because these issues deserve your support, not because the US regime actively attempts to re-directs your support to them. After all, the US regime doesn’t really support marginalized people the way you do.
It’s merely taking advantage of them. It wants to distract you as much as it can, from not just the global US war empire but also poverty, unemployment, free healthcare, more gun control, suicides, and all the myriad issues at home.
The US regime’s support for oppressed and LGBTQ people is based on evil and opportunism, your support for them should be based on respect and solidarity. Your solidarity for such causes should be independent of the agenda of the US regime.
Support the cause you want based on your own analysis, not because someone else, especially the most genocidal regime on Earth (which ALWAYS has an agenda), also supports it. Even worse is supporting something because of peer pressure, just to look progressive or “woke”.
In short, a US official claiming same-sex marriage should be legal has the same value as a Nazi claiming two plus two is four. Both are true, but just as you don’t need a Nazi to tell you that two plus two is four – do you need a US official to tell you to support LGBTQ causes?
(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread posted by @MaitreyaBhakal on July 03, 2023, with minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)
