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The right wing conspiracists would talk about a "New World Order" and something they called "problem-reaction-solution", so they thought this Left authoritarian Woke movement, was designed deliberate by something (the elites?) to push society to voting right as a knee jerk reaction..

I wonder if those conspiracy theories themselves are Chinese propaganda of some kind, or maybe Russian, or are the propagandists themselves giving away the game plan in plain sight. Right in front of you, where the psychological blind spot is. As Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian regimes seem to like Trump and a having right-wing party in power.

So is it a meta conspiracy??? And the real people behind it are China and Russia? That's likely too far fetched though.

I think the authoritarian Woke subtype are against meritocracy as a concept. https://postmeritocracy.org/

By the way, the author of the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto is known as "Bantik" on 1990s Usenet, there is high quality evidence on the Web that that's correct, some of it has been removed from Google. That just shows the background behind some of the most prominent people in DEI programs, at least in open-source.

https://archive.ph/P258A https://archive.ph/NsPmk https://archive.ph/EkJzO https://web.archive.org/web/20180717044421/http://s35819.gri... Bantik writes, in 2000: https://everything2.com/title/How+to+Be+a+Charismatic+Cult+L... - "How to Be a Charismatic Cult Leader"

But is there a wider problem if people stop discussing controversial but very important topics on the Internet in general? Can something be done to fence off the low quality comments, without removing them? Instead of outright banning political controversy?

And the "sociopaths" behind some of these programs (ones that I know in open-source software) hate criticism of the ideology behind it. Because they see the criticism as a threat to their power.

Really, this stuff can be psychological/psychiatric (no or little empathy, obsession with power and control, projective behaviors). I've experienced it first hand.

The relevant psychiatric disorders are Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder, the two co-morbid produce a monstrous "malignant narcissist". Who can appear charming and charismatic in public, but horrendous psychological abuse goes on behind closed doors. So few would suspect it. It's these aforementioned "dark triad" personalities who are most attached to this authoritarian strain of woke ideology. It all feeds the ego. And their power base. Also, they fundamentally believe "might is right".

Often they will accuse others of lack of empathy, for being racist, as a means of avoiding confronting their own behavior of the same nature. They lack empathy, and they use "projective identification" to displace it on to others, denying their own problems as a small child would. Part of their psyche is stuck at an infantile level of development.

It's ~1% of the population, and I think it's actually equal between the sexes, with men using aggression and threats, and women using relational aggression instead. Often society fails to recognize the female offenders.

Vladimir Putin is strongly suspected to have the disorder. Stalin, and Hitler too. All of them "dark triad" personalities. https://highconflictinstitute.com/personality-disorders/puti...

It's almost like OCD in a way, they have to feel in power, they must be in control, if they don't keep the compulsion up, then they will feel worthless, almost dead inside, and that feeling of worthlessness is breakdown inducing. The disorder forces them to get extremely good at manipulating people, so they have the upper hand (power) at all times, just as a person who plays chess all day will get good at it. And they've been doing it all their life, since early childhood. They can even enjoy it, experiencing sadistic pleasure upon seeing their victims suffer.

By the way, voice recording them (if legal to do so) helps enormously, if you're the victim of it or suspect it.

I dislike all forms of censorship of lawful speech, whether it's coming from the Left or the Right. And the spirit of the First Amendment is what matters. I do understand that private sites can censor your lawful speech legally, but I still think it's somewhat morally wrong to do so.

In the 2010s and 2020s the censorship[1] (and cancelling of open-source software authors) is coming mostly from the Left - and I hate it.

In the 1990s the censorship was coming from the Right - and I hated that as well. I still remember a group called "Focus on the Family" and its pressure on the government to adopt widespread Internet filtering.

I have no problem with trans people in any way whatsoever, what they do with their bodies and in their private lives is absolutely none of my business. I only get annoyed when segments of their political movement start to enact speech codes[1] and other means of impeding our right to freedom of speech. I understand it doesn't mean all trans people are doing this, it is just a vocal minority.

To clarify: When I complain about "Woke" I complain about those people within the movement who are trying to take our hard-earned Western liberties away, including freedom of speech and thought. These liberties were acquired over hundreds of years of hardship by so many people, throughout history. People who chose to suffer in the name of liberty, for the good of other people. And certain segments of the Left want to diminish or even eliminate them.

And by the way I agree with the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, yes there is a serious problem with discrimination against Black people by law enforcement. And other minorities too. Those with less power in society tend to be discriminated against the worst. It really does appear to be a "pecking order", almost something from the animal world, which is terrible.

But I still don't think censorship (and especially cancelling people) is ever a suitable response to discrimination or offensive speech. Offensive speech should be countered with further, lawful speech.

The quoted text in my first post above is taken from the book, it's not my specific personal opinion. If it were to be the case that Extinction Rebellion and other peaceful protest groups were to be labelled "extremist" I would be seriously considering that we are living in a police state. It's completely unacceptable to brand peaceful political movements as "extremist" to me. That has no place in a free society.

As demonstrated before by history, I'm worried that the left-wing Woke movement might provoke a right-wing backlash, and it's why Trump or someone even worse could get into power at some point. I think we need to keep protecting our individual liberties, so people don't end up voting a right wing party into power, as a knee-jerk reaction.

I hope I've thought it all through properly. So it looks like I'm a bit of a fence sitter on the matter, but are still strongly in favor of individual liberty.

By the way, many of my posts here are getting 50:50 with an almost equal number of upvotes as they are downvotes. Many just "0", or "1", but not -1 or any worse than that. So HN opinion seems to be split on it?

1. The "Contributor Covenant" code of conduct and others. These codes of conduct are the main censorship issue I'm bothered about nowadays.

I couldn't really care any less about what you say. What are you going to do about it? In the worst case I will get banned from this site completely, and good, then I'll voice my opinions about the Chinese Communist Party elsewhere then.

I'm so fed up with what the Woke-leftist movement is doing to our liberties, and its Maoist "long march through the institutions" that I'll keep protesting it peacefully in every way I can.

And censorship is one thing that the modern Left is very keen on nowadays, and of course it's being done in the name of the "collective" or "greater good" - typical collectivist behavior there - and an example of the disdain for individual rights today.

This supposed decades long, communist driven ideology has penetrated every part of society - maybe all the way from teamwork in the workplace - to relations between the genders - and just maybe design work and building architecture. And it's got something to do with postmodernism as well, but I haven't looked into that fully yet.

Communist countries have very long term plans lasting decades.

Here's a book about it: David M. Jones, The Strategy of Maoism in the West - Rage and the Radical Left:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strategy-Maoism-West-Rage-Radical/d...

https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacedx5ta6zzpq2ix4km2x5sf...

"This notwithstanding, the passionate fervour that informs contemporary anti-racist rhetoric, and that of environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion, and the LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other) movements that share its goals and feed off its righteous indignation, constitutes a calculated iconoclastic assault on the West’s history and culture."

"Culture war was, after all, one of the People’s Republic’s earliest exports to the West. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has, for years, explicitly viewed it as its ‘magic weapon’. Why, then, this book asks, did a twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary ideology become so adaptable and spectacularly successful in the West?"

By the way, I've been censored multiple times on this site, for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party and it's connections with the woke movement, by the way. It's awful.

My submission is now the top Google result for "beijing woke" and "woke propaganda war" right now, and the HN censorship is plainly visible for everyone to see worldwide.

It's the 7th result for the term "woke propaganda", by the way.

13:08 UTC: To any potential Chinese Communist Party trolls, the more you try to censor me, the more I'm going to be posting about you. Same for russian trolls. Your propaganda is destroying the lives of innocent people here in the West.

This Woke stuff apparently has its roots in communist party propaganda https://www.hoover.org/research/beijings-woke-propaganda-war...

I've submitted that link to the HN front page by the way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263411

From the article:

"While the CCP conducts whole-sale racist genocide against its ethnic and religious minorities, Beijing denounces America’s so-called “systemic racism” using those same tools."

"The primary method of Mao’s brainwashing in Yenan was “consciousness raising,” which has become since the 1960s the main strategy of the American Left, especially the radical American feminist movement."

Supposedly it's decades long work by the Chinese Communist Party that started in the 1960s and led up to where we are now. I wonder if the Soviet Union was also involved?

Here's an article, from what appears to be a reliable source: https://www.hoover.org/research/beijings-woke-propaganda-war...

"The effects of this brainwashing are shown in the American Left’s adoption of the CCP’s key concepts and nomenclature."

"Today’s common use of the word “progressive” by the radical Left traces its intellectual origin straight to the Marxist-Leninist “dialectical” categorization of people into reactionaries and progressives. It is not from the modern legacy of the American Progressive Movement represented by William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Henry A. Wallace."

"The primary method of Mao’s brainwashing in Yenan was “consciousness raising,” which has become since the 1960s the main strategy of the American Left, especially the radical American feminist movement."

"This was the first time I heard that phrase, which, over the years, moved out of China and on to the streets and fashions of America in the 1960s."

By the way I'm getting a lot of upvotes, and downvotes too for this post. So it's a mixed reaction from the readers of this site.

Sadly the LA9310 DSP instruction set is considered highly proprietary[1] by the manufacturer, NXP. So I'll give this one a miss, and choose a FPGA based SDR instead. Some of the FPGAs even have a completely open-source toolchain, that has been developed by reverse engineering the bitstream format.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357451