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!
Isnāt it comical, Christianity warns of Anti-Christās coming. When it arrives, most westeners gave up on Christian belief and or follow a perverted form of it servingā¦
I would say our Controllers did a great job of keeping us dumbed down for centuries through a religious system based upon one bookā¦The Bible!! Whatever āChristianityā 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 āGodā 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 oneās entire life was destroyed by adhering to a certain Belief System!!
Many people have their own particular version of āJesusā that they believe in. We are each free to ābelieveā 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 āsafeā 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, youāre absolutely right ā 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 didnāt link to a source):
FROM: CHA Weekly Newsletter ā August 30, 2025
Quote of the Week
āNo one silences us more effectively than we silence ourselves.
The outcome of needing to be liked is fragile, fake relationships. Instead of bonding through loveā¦ 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 arenāt bonded by agreement. Theyāre built on respect for contrast and on curiosity about different beliefs and perspectives.
When love is real it isnāt threatened by disagreement. Itās deepened by it. Perhaps the real power isnāt found in being constantly liked. Perhaps the true liberation comes from caring less about how weāre perceived. Not to become cold to life or othersā¦ But to become free from the illusion of external validation.ā
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 youāre carrying deep trauma over your experience. I feel for what youāve been through.
A friend recently mused: Life is Full of Options, Options, Options. One chooses one Option, and if that produces consequences that donāt serve well, one then simply chooses another Option to try ā and there is oneās Life Path ā 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 Lifeās Path, that ultimately lead us to Wisdom.
Iām 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 personās experience has to do more with how a personās local community interprets a text that they use as the foundation of their religion, than the book itself? Iām not, myself, sure about any of this, as I was never forced by my Parents to belong to any religion (and they didnāt 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 itās hard to keep Wokeism at bay, even from people in the parish, as it is pervading society. (He canāt stand Wokeism himself ā 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 āvirusā.
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. 
Iām not overly familiar with Martin Geddes Q work.
One friend follows Q ā but we havenāt ourselves taken an interest in that speculative style. Weāve been getting more subtance from reading Dr. Farrellās 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 didnāt 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. Youāre not alone in this, and just be thankful to yourself that youāve 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 āprofessionalā sports (NFL, MLB, NBA) something they had never done in my day. Entertained to death some might say of those like them. They didnāt know what hit them.
I watched TV and movies, too, donāt get me wrong; not throwing my folks under the hindsight bus. (I still get sucked into YouTube how-toās 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.
Too funny, sharick!! It was because OF my strict Christain religious upbringing that my entire life was ruined!! Whatever way we perceive this, it boils down to each of our Journeys is unique & we do good to share what we have learned along the way!! Speaking of whichā¦the Huntsville, AL announcement is a BIG step toward bringing the Normies up to speed on what has been going on for decades with the SSP!! It is going to upset many Religious Apple Carts!! Imagine that! We are NOT the only intelligent inhabitants in the Universe!! 
All the antichritian sentiment makes me think wokeism and itās earlier forms have been all too successful. I was fortunate to have encountered actual joy and love filled Christians early in my life, artistic highly intelligent examples of truly good humanity. One family that I became close with as a preteen.
I agree on the āentertained to deathā front and have been thinking about it myself lately, noticing the early tropes and memes installed in the mass mind in the older television programming.
Iāve been a reader of Dr. Farrellās books for at least a decade and agree with them, and see an antihuman and antilife beast that has been raised.
Guess weāll all see in the end.
Thanks, Sharick, for sharing your own experience with the family TV and then finding your way to your Christian spiritual path (an antidote!), instead of having been forced into a traumatising community culture like @Morrisville has shared. It is telling how you mentioned that your Parents were āvictims of televisionā. I felt that, too, and I can also see how I was one as well, as my thinking was very definitely affected. Many years ago, we got rid of our TV and Radio for good, nor bought any newspapers. It takes a good long while to heal from these kinds of information systems. Weāve noticed, also, how we go about getting books has changed: many of the books we want to read are not stocked by bookstores or libraries, and we have to special order them.
Itās interesting you mention this, as my husband was raised in a devout Catholic family, and his benevolent and compassionate way of interacting with humans and animals drew me to him. He was/is so very, very different from many other people whom I met, and no doubt but that his Christian upbringing had something to do with his personal development.
And, paradoxically, we have occasionally met a few people who belong to Christian or yogic communities, call themselves āChristiansā or āspiritualā, who donāt exhibit behaviours that one would associate with spiritual life. Their behaviours towards other people, and towards animals, have been downright mean and cruel, if not heedless and careless. To what extent this is brought about by their āspiritualā community (many of which seem to be infected by the political wokeism project), or whether it is the TV/Radio these people consume, who knows?
Indeed! We live in a Dark Age, one that is hyper materialistic, thus raising an antilife beast. The antidote for materialism is a spiritually-centered life. Many people find Christianity very helpful in grounding them in a spiritual life. Others have found other pathways to access a spiritual life in which materialism is less important, and where exhibiting benevolence towards others takes a greater meaning than accumulating things. Itās one reason I cannot knock anyoneās spiritual practice, as I do see good in many people who have found their way to a spiritual practices that is grounding and positive towards life.
Thanks to the inspiration of Dark Journalist, who occasionally mentions the Austrian mystic, Rudolf Steiner, I recently picked up Steinerās book The Karma of Untruthfulness, and was interested in points that he made about a āsecret brotherhoodā that controls what he called three castes in our civilization: priestly, warrior, and mercantile. It was very eerie reading this book (it was as if what he was talking about 100 years ago is now unfolding before our very eyes ā almost as if he had a way of seeing what was coming!), as he talked about how this brotherhood began to steer these ācastesā (via the media systems that they control) into a hyper material world which is removed from Christ. They do it by normalising a field of Untruth.
To me, the Wokeism project is about precisely that ā the Normalization of Untruth. And we all need vigilence to watch that it does not infect any of our spiritual practices. Clyde Do Something spoke with Frances Widdowson (the professor who was fired for her stance on truthfulness) about a society wherein which people can no longer talk about Truth without fear of getting punished. Point after Point they made in their conversation is an account of how perverse our humanity has become, and how we need to stand firm ground on a Truth field, by continually questioning.