The Cult of Woke By James Reed
Now, here is a human-interest story for you from the Daily mail.co.uk, which comes up with some good stuff each day. Remember when families hired people to kidnap their kids from cultists, then deprogram them? Well, now woke has become an even more dangerous cult, and the same thing is happening now. At least for those families that can afford it. Otherwise the kids grow up to be part of the same oppressive system. It is like domestic abuse, only on a state-sponsored scale.
“A Manhattan pharma heiress said her mother had to hire her a $300-a-day deprogrammer to unlearn the woke views she was 'brainwashed' with at an all-woman's Massachusetts college.
Annabella Rockwell, 29, graduated from Mount Holyoke in Western Massachusetts in 2015 and said it drove her to drink and made her briefly become estranged from her mother, who threw a vase during one of their arguments.
Prior to attending the elite school to study history, which charges $60,000 a year, Rockwell said she grew up in a 'traditional' household and had considered herself to be open-minded.
However, the politics minor claimed the all-women's school 'totally indoctrinated' her into thinking she was an oppressed victim of the patriarchy.
'This professor tells me about the patriarchy. I barely knew what the word meant. I didn’t know what she was talking about,' she told the New York Post. 'I wasn’t someone that into feminism. I just knew that I felt I had always been free to do what I wanted. I never experienced sexism.
'But I was told there’s the patriarchy and you don’t even understand it’s been working against you your whole life. You’ve been oppressed and you didn’t even know it. Now you have to fight it.
'And I just went down this deep rabbit hole.'
'I saw everything through the lens of oppression and bias and victimhood. I came to the school as someone who saw everyone equally. I left looking for injustice wherever I could and automatically assuming that all white men were sexist.'
That rabbit hole - which started when she took a Gender Studies class in her junior year left a deep division between her and her mom. She felt she had to educate about the real state of the world, including writing her a 'manifesto' that claimed her mother treated her like a 'wind-up toy.'
In her post-graduation manifesto, she also accused her mother Melina, who she had once considered her best friend, of never loving her.
'My thoughts were no longer my own,' she told the Post. 'I left school very anxious, very nervous, very depressed and sad.”
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