Professor Frances Widdowson discusses Wokeism with David Leis.
(66 minutes).
Description (from web site):
In conversation with David Leis, Professor Frances Widdowson dissects and analyzes a virus plaguing most of the western world today: the industry of woke. Widdowson details her personal experiences of being cancelled and censored for simply seeking healthy debate on certain narratives, and the important of reclaiming freedom of speech and free thinking at Canadian institutions.
Virus? Anti-Christ pure and simpel!
Maybe we should stop jammering about universities. Does anybody in the western hemisphere know a politician dealing with objective realities?! Civilization is indeed under attack, that is why uni-polar might is riight is so important and all western population inhabitants will be offered up to that!
Isn’t it comical, Christianity warns of Anti-Christ’s coming. When it arrives, most westeners gave up on Christian belief and or follow a perverted form of it serving…
I would say our Controllers did a great job of keeping us dumbed down for centuries through a religious system based upon one book…The Bible!! Whatever “Christianity” was in the beginning, we would not even know!! It became just another Belief System one could adhere to by claiming that The Bible was THE Word of God!! None of us ever bothered asking exactly where the Bible came from or which “God” we were talking about!! I freely admit I was duped for most of my life & that is exactly what pushed me into starting to ask questions!! One has a right to know how one’s entire life was destroyed by adhering to a certain Belief System!!
Many people have their own particular version of “Jesus” that they believe in. We are each free to “believe” whatever we choose to believe, no question! But when we start browbeating others to believe exactly how WE believe, what is the point?!
Maybe one needs to feel “safe” within a small circle of like Believers?!
I suppose many people feel safer in circles of like mindedness. I have no idea of church and churchgoers, never participated. For me, the bible is a strange book full of strange encounters, not a word of God to be literal interpretated. To me God is real and visits us in human form from time to time. I agree, each human is free to belief whatever.
Neru, you’re absolutely right – and that seems to be true all around, wherever groups gather, religious or political or otherwise. There is some primal instinct about needing to belong to a group, and people do what it takes to remain secure within their circle. And, I think the Woke movement plays and preys upon that instinct.
The other day, I saw this quote to ponder from the Canada Health Alliance newsletter (unfortunately, they didn’t link to a source):
FROM: CHA Weekly Newsletter – August 30, 2025
Quote of the Week
“No one silences us more effectively than we silence ourselves.
The outcome of needing to be liked is fragile, fake relationships. Instead of bonding through love… We bond through agreement. But when relationships are built on unspoken agreements what happens the moment we disagree? The bond breaks. And often the relationship breaks with it. Truly solid relationships aren’t bonded by agreement. They’re built on respect for contrast and on curiosity about different beliefs and perspectives.
When love is real it isn’t threatened by disagreement. It’s deepened by it. Perhaps the real power isn’t found in being constantly liked. Perhaps the true liberation comes from caring less about how we’re perceived. Not to become cold to life or others… But to become free from the illusion of external validation.”
U.S. Filmmaker and Freedom Advocate Mikki Willis
Morrisville, I get the sense that your religious upbringing affected you in a bad way, and that you’re carrying deep trauma over your experience. I feel for what you’ve been through.
A friend recently mused: Life is Full of Options, Options, Options. One chooses one Option, and if that produces consequences that don’t serve well, one then simply chooses another Option to try – and there is one’s Life Path – bound together by a string of chosen Options, each yielding different consequences! And that got me to think about how Options are but Teachers in our Life’s Path, that ultimately lead us to Wisdom.
I’m thinking that you chose an Option to remove yourself from a religion that was not working for you (and harming you), and you must have derived some wisdom through that process. I hope that you have been healing as well, from that traumatic life experience, and finding ways of applying TLC to this long internal wound. Hopefully, as a start, to avoid any kind of community that tries to force a belief onto you.
We have friends who belong to various religions, Christian and non-Christian, and they seem to be very grounded by their experiences. And it gives me to wonder, as well, to what extent a person’s experience has to do more with how a person’s local community interprets a text that they use as the foundation of their religion, than the book itself? I’m not, myself, sure about any of this, as I was never forced by my Parents to belong to any religion (and they didn’t force any kind of belief system on me at all). You have a deeper experience of this, and I want to thank you for sharing about this.
When I saw your post, it made me wonder if you have been perceiving some commonalities between the Wokeism Project and your personal experiences from your former religion (the forcing of belief comes to my mind)?
Our friend, a Catholic priest, did mention that it’s hard to keep Wokeism at bay, even from people in the parish, as it is pervading society. (He can’t stand Wokeism himself – drives him nuts). Interestingly, given the bizarre church burning and anti-church sentiment across the country, thanks to the media, there has actually been an increase in the numbers of people attending mass at his church. And people have been taking their kids out of public schools and members of his church have started homeschooling their kids.
I hope that churches will start to set up resistance to Wokeism, which has been attacking all our institutions, like a “virus”.
Thank you for your musings. I think a good case in point would be Martin Geddes, if you are familiar with his Q work. He was raised in the Jehovah Witness faith. It was interesting to see how such a highly intelligent person could still be bound by the religious teachings of childhood as I was bound by mine until age 70. 
I’m not overly familiar with Martin Geddes Q work.
One friend follows Q – but we haven’t ourselves taken an interest in that speculative style. We’ve been getting more subtance from reading Dr. Farrell’s books, and also some of the authors he cites in his bibliography, and it has been very interesting to think about ideas in his books.
You shared that you were bound by religious teachings of your childhood. I will share that although my Parents didn’t force any religious (or any other kind of) belief system on me, I was bound by the brainwashing in the TV and Radio which my Parents had running the moment they returned from work, and then the obedience training of the public school system and the agent-to-be training of the university system. It has taken me a good while to try to decouple myself from the mind messing brought about by these systems, because for a very long time, I was completely and utterly unconscious of how my thinking was tightly linked to what was coming out of these systems. And so I have some appreciation of the mind struggle you have experienced. You’re not alone in this, and just be thankful to yourself that you’ve been able to pull your mind into a direction in which you are now steering it.
Yes, it is interesting how mind-numbed some of us have been. We each go through our various experiences & hopefully, come out the other side a bit wiser!! 
Growing up, our TV worked very hard. Captain Kangaroo and cartoons, hours of game shows, news at noon, soap operas, followed by old, syndicated TV shows, evening news, 3-hrs of prime time, news, and finally Johnny Carson.
With no religious convictions, my parents became the first victims of television. I left the nest at 18 and visits home showed how much the habit worsened. They had advanced to watching “professional” sports (NFL, MLB, NBA) something they had never done in my day. Entertained to death some might say of those like them. They didn’t know what hit them.
I watched TV and movies, too, don’t get me wrong; not throwing my folks under the hindsight bus. (I still get sucked into YouTube how-to’s and old cars.).
I am convinced the progression of radio, TV, movies, sports, etc. have been planned and foisted upon the world.
All I can do is share this perspective with others, especially young people, to help them see the evil in it.
Indeed. The absence of a Christian upbringing contributed to my later conviction and belief of the truth claims of the Bible.