By RT contributors and editors<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019ve been building up to this, shoveling through a year\u2019s worth of virtue signaling to remember those who made 2020 unforgettable in its wokeness. Now, it\u2019s time for the final countdown.<\/p>\n \u2018Woke\u2019 became word of the year in 2019, according to Global Language Monitor, but it was (as we had predicted) in 2020 that global wokeness reached its peak. Not in its initial, benevolent meaning of being \u2018alert to social injustice\u2019, but in the sense of logic-defying nonsense and faux virtue, a contest of who shouts the loudest and stands up the tallest on the back of racism, sexism, and a plethora of other social issues.<\/p>\n We have awarded 60 Wokies so far, in categories from art and\u00a0entertainment<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0business<\/a>. What follows is the absolute top 5 of 2020 across several spheres of life.<\/p>\n A late comer to the awards ceremony, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has managed to hit two of the biggest topics of 2020 \u2013 racism and vaccines \u2013 with its bizarre guidelines offering only\u00a0\u201cBlack, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC)\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the option to refuse a mandatory jab. Though it\u2019s just a flu shot and not some hotly-debated Covid-19 vaccination problem, the woke blueprint is there.<\/p>\n The premise here is that non-white students, after years of discrimination that included cruel medical experiments, are less trusting of any medical treatment forced on them, and thus should be allowed to apply for exemptions. Whites, with all their inherent privilege, are not permitted to distrust the doctors. The fact that both groups are going to be jabbed with the same drug, by the same doctors, is irrelevant.<\/p>\n The catch 22, of course, is that this black distrust leads to a black community with fewer vaccinated people \u2013 a black community that suffers more from disease than the privileged, but choiceless, whites. Good luck to the virtuous Cornell administrators getting out of that conundrum.<\/p>\n ALSO ON RT.COM<\/span>Cornell University is so scared of being seen as racist, it makes vaccines mandatory for WHITES ONLY. Spot the problem here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster went full Orwell in 2020, literally redefining \u2018racism\u2019 after a black college graduate complained the existing dictionary definition did not adequately describe her self-identification as a victim. Rather than acknowledge that a woman bullying the dictionary into changing the definition of a word is the very definition not of victimhood but of privilege, Merriam-Webster vowed to appease 22-year-old Kennedy Mitchum by substituting a broader, systemic definition of racism within its pages.<\/p>\n Embracing the thrill of redefining words on the sly, Merriam-Webster then surreptitiously edited its entry on \u2018sexual preference\u2019 in October amidst Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearings. The once-innocuous term was reclassed as\u00a0\u201coffensive\u201d<\/em>\u00a0when used to refer to a person\u2019s sexual orientation after Barrett dared to utter it in\u00a0response<\/a>\u00a0to a question from Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono\u00a0– even though\u00a0LGBT<\/a>\u00a0publications like the Advocate were themselves using it quite uneventfully. Chalk up another one for the memory hole.<\/p>\n ALSO ON RT.COM<\/span>Merriam-Webster redefining \u2018racism\u2019 to fit BLM narrative turns the dictionary into an instrument of Orwellian thought control<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Imagine being so woke that you find the word \u2018women\u2019 sexist. That\u2019s exactly what Tedx London \u2013 a volunteer organization that hosts Ted-style talks \u2013 thought when they were organizing their fall events this year. Figuring that the word \u2018women\u2019 wasn\u2019t progressive enough, Tedx London swapped it out with \u2018womxn\u2019, in their own words to shed\u00a0\u201clight on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and to be more inclusive of\u00a0\u201cnon-cisgender\u00a0women<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The keen observer will notice that Tedx forgot to swap in the \u2018x\u2019 when referring to the trans ladies, but to the truly woke, Tedx could have gone one step further, eliminating any reference to gender entirely with the hip new term \u2018folx\u2019. Despite the fact that the word it\u2019s based on, \u2018folk\u2019, is gender neutral to begin with, some\u00a0academics<\/a>\u00a0felt like tacking the letter \u2018x\u2019 on regardless,\u00a0\u201cas a LGBTQ+-inclusive signifier,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0\u201cto represent the unknown quantities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Next year at Tedx London: A talk on the representation of non-cisgender Latinx womxn in folx music.<\/p>\n ALSO ON RT.COM<\/span>What is \u2018woman\u2019? Language police want to rewrite ‘sexist’ dictionaries \u2014 their real objective is THOUGHT CONTROL<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n If you still cling to the notion that math is about cold, neutral numbers, check your privilege. The whole \u2018exact science\u2019 thing is a Western invention that\u00a0\u201cdictates economic oppression and is used to marginalize people of color,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to the Seattle school district plan to introduce the ethnomathematics curriculum. It was done in 2019, but discussions peaked this year, with several educators and students arguing along the lines of\u00a0\u201cthe idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cthe idea that math is objective or neutral IS A MYTH.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n If this sounds a little bit crazy to your privileged self and you are worried it may lead to a plunge in students\u2019 academic achievement, just remember that \u2018academic achievement\u2019 is a\u00a0racist trope<\/a>\u00a0imposed on black students,\u00a0proper English<\/a>\u00a0is supremacist, and physics needs to be\u00a0decolonized<\/a>.<\/p>\n ALSO ON RT.COM<\/span>In the world of ETHNOMATHEMATICS, 2+2=oppression and \u2018achievement\u2019 is a white supremacist construct<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n A\u00a0collection<\/a>\u00a0of imbecilic, dead-eyed actors morally preening by reading words on camera so that everyone knows they hate racism and\u00a0\u201ctake responsibility\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for\u00a0\u201cevery not so funny joke, every unfair stereotype\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is the Mona Lisa, the Hamlet, the Beethoven\u2019s Fifth, and the Citizen Kane of virtue signaling.<\/p>\n This video is a pure masterpiece and the apex of the art form. It will never be equaled or topped\u2026 well, at least not until the next shameless spectacle of woke virtue signaling comes along in 2021! Virtue signaling \u2013 the gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n5. Cornell University, where vaccines are only mandatory for whites<\/h2>\n
4. Merriam-Webster, helpful provider of woke vocabulary<\/h2>\n
3. BRONZE: Woke womxn and folxy ladies, for excxllxnce in inclxsxvity<\/h2>\n
2. SILVER: Ethnomathematics, for dismantling the supremacist idea that 2+2=4<\/h2>\n
1. GOLD: The \u2018I Take Responsibility\u2019 video and everyone in it<\/h2>\n