I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in the former communist countries where the communism was just nationalism with socialist coating. Adopting US terminology is not always adopting US ideas as well.

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andreasmetsala 7 days ago | parent [-]

> I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in the former communist countries where the communism was just nationalism with socialist coating. Adopting US terminology is not always adopting US ideas as well.

Our local right-wingers want to shut down our equivalent to the education department because “they are too woke”. Meanwhile those same “nationalists” want to stop funding local culture in favor of importing US culture.

This is in Finland of all places. I’m tired of our local social media drones going crazy over US nonsense but our right-wing parties want more of it.

The global cultural influence of the US is really showing and it’s going to be a wild ride as the world shifts to reject it as that influence starts turning against us.

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carlosjobim 7 days ago | parent [-]

Woke ideology was also imported whole sale from the US to your universities, so the American tint is both on action and reaction.

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simonask 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know what "woke ideology" means, and I question that anyone knows.

It certainly sounds scary.

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Anduia 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Woke ideology is a rebranding of social democracy and egalitarian humanism, and certainly not invented in US.

What is American is the endless need to slap a scary label on it, turn it into a culture war football, and export the outrage everywhere else. We’ve been talking about equality, workers' rights, and anti-discrimination in Europe for over a century without needing Fox News to tell us it's dangerous. Now suddenly our own politicians are parroting this imported panic as if it were homegrown wisdom.

	▲	carlosjobim 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		With the Internet it takes just a few seconds of searching and reading to find that traditional Nordic / European social democracy is not the roots of modern "woke" ideology. Especially when it comes to all the main doctrines of woke ideology concerning race and ethnicity, sexuality, immigration, labor and drug use.
	▲	wolvesechoes 7 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Woke ideology is a rebranding of social democracy and egalitarian humanism, and certainly not invented in US. It has nothing in common with socialist ideas, this is why it was so eagerly embraced by big corpos and media - to divide those that need solidarity, to substitute representation in place of equality.
	▲	emptysongglass 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Identity politics, a key component of woke ideology, is not a rebranding of social democracy and egalitarian humanism. The latter two used to be a common platforming of class equality. Woke ideology has turned common ground into a pitched battle against each other where the only winners are wealthy elites.