This quote of the day is also the quote of the day from the Samizdata blog. It’s by the excellent Konstantin Kisin and concerns the various ‘warriors of woke’ who consistently and constantly push complete nonsense onto society and its members.

Mr Kisin said:

Those of us who believe that children can’t consent to serious medical interventions, that rational debate is better than name-calling, that countries need borders, that freedom of expression is better than censorship, are in the majority. That’s why we need the JK Rowlings, Bari Weisses and Jordan Petersons of the world. They shatter the illusion of consensus and give us a fighting chance against the tyranny of the minority. And this is why the way to end cancel culture is to embrace the cancelled, to make sure that people who speak up are rewarded for it, and to encourage others to say “ENOUGH”.

Mr Kisin is pretty well correct here. We do need truth tellers. Not the sort of ‘truth tellers’ who believe in nonsense like Chemtrails or Flat Earth, but those who tell basic honest truths such as censorship is wrong, debate must be intelligently carried out and that we should not cut little boys cocks off just because they like playing with Barbie dolls.

I also concur with Mr Kisin’s assessment of who holds the ultimate power here. The Woke Warriors, although they might currently be in socially powerful positions, are a very small minority in our societies. There are not many people who want to prop open the nation’s borders or want to mutilate children or silence those whose opinions they disagree with. Those who disagree with those sorts of things are not the minority but the majority. He’s right in that we must cherish and support those who have the courage and honesty to stand up to bullshit narratives and let us hope and pray that an intellectual and political 1848 comes soon but hopefully an 1848 without the bloodshed of the original and with a longer lasting success. We should also remember that we are many but the woke wankers and their supporters are few. Cleaving to and supporting the cancelled, even if we may not personally agree with the individual cancelled person, helps all and removes much of the power that the cancellers currently have.