Why Every Woke Movement Eventually Eats Itself

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Woke protest turning into internal chaos

 There’s a reason every woke movement eventually crashes harder than a Biden sentence. It’s not the evil conservatives. It’s not the system. It’s not even the billionaires they claim to hate while tweeting on iPhones. It’s something far simpler: woke movements always eat themselves alive.

Let’s walk through the self-destruction step-by-step — and no, nobody gets out clean.

Phase 1: The Holy Fire

It always starts the same way — with a cause that sounds noble.
“Fight injustice.”
“End discrimination.”
“Make society more inclusive.”

People join up with good intentions. They repost infographics. They chant. They change their profile pictures. And for a hot minute, it feels like something real. There’s a sense of purpose.

But then... the purity spiral begins.

Phase 2: The Purity Olympics

Once the hashtag hits critical mass, the race begins — not to fix anything, but to out-woke the next person.

You thought they were progressive?
Well I use five different neopronouns, avoid eye contact with privileged people, and canceled my own grandfather for voting incorrectly in 1984.

Suddenly, yesterday’s activist is today’s oppressor. Nobody’s safe. Everyone’s problematic. And being a true believer isn’t enough — you have to prove it, constantly.

This is where the movement turns into a cult. And every cult needs heretics.

Phase 3: The Cannibalization

This is the fun part (for us): they start eating each other.

Someone tweets something in 2013? Canceled.
You clapped for the wrong person? Problematic.
You hesitated before sharing the new gender flag emoji? Suspicious.

It becomes a never-ending tribunal. The movement fractures into factions, each accusing the others of being secretly racist, transphobic, classist, colonialist, or insufficiently vegan.

The same people who marched together a year ago now block each other over micro-sins. The purity spiral becomes a meat grinder — and every member is fair game.

Phase 4: The Collapse

By the time the movement hits this stage, it’s basically an implosion in slow motion.

No outsiders want in — they’re watching the infighting with popcorn.
The insiders are exhausted — they’re either paranoid, banned, or emotionally wrung out from self-policing.

And worst of all, nobody remembers the original goal. Was it climate justice? Racial equality? Gender rights? Now it’s just about who can signal harder while accusing others of not doing enough.

Eventually, the movement either disappears or becomes a meme. See: Occupy Wall Street, #MeToo, Extinction Rebellion, BLM (post-2020 version), and countless smaller identity-driven cults now locked in a Twitter war with each other.

Why Does This Keep Happening?

Because wokeness isn’t about truth.
It’s about status.

And status hierarchies don’t tolerate stagnation — they require escalation. That means the goalpost must always move. What was “allyship” last year is “violence” this year. Yesterday’s hero is today’s bigot. There’s no finish line, no resolution — only more performance.

It’s a game you lose by playing.

Wokeness Needs Victims — And When It Runs Out, It Turns Inward

The woke machine runs on outrage. But once all the actual villains are gone, it needs new fuel — and that fuel becomes its own members.

The internal witch hunts are a feature, not a bug. They’re what keeps the movement alive after it’s already failed to do anything useful. No one builds. No one creates. They just attack, shame, cancel, and repeat.

Eventually, the last person left will cancel themselves for being born.

Historical Examples (a Short Blood Trail)

  • #MeToo was about exposing predators — until it became about Twitter trials over bad dates.

  • BLM wanted police reform — but ended with million-dollar mansions and internal fraud claims.

  • LGBTQIA++ movements united against oppression — now they fight over flag colors and pronouns.

  • Feminist circles turned on each other over trans inclusion, race dynamics, and even “tone policing.”

The moment unity is no longer useful, division becomes the currency.

The Role of Corporate Cowards

Let’s not forget the enablers: corporate America.

They slapped rainbows and black squares on their logos, hoping it’d buy them peace. But woke movements aren’t satisfied — they smell fear. And once you cave, you’re a target forever.

Today you sell inclusive socks.
Tomorrow, you’re being boycotted for not naming a VP of Lived Experience.

Corporations fed the beast, thinking it was a marketing trick.
Now they’re on the menu.

What Comes Next?

Here’s the cycle:

  1. A cause starts.

  2. Woke branding joins in.

  3. Internal cannibalism begins.

  4. It collapses or morphs into a parody.

  5. The next “justice movement” starts — and the grift resets.

And like clockwork, everyone acts shocked.

So What Do You Do?

Simple: Don’t play the game.

Call it out.
Mock it.
Refuse to clap for naked emperors.

Wokeness only works when people are afraid. So stop being afraid. You don’t need to apologize for not updating your lexicon every 13 minutes or for thinking men shouldn’t cry about oatmeal.

Let the movement eat itself. Just don’t be on the menu.

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