Maher: A woke revolution

I have been, and continue to be, a critic of Maher's anti-woke fanaticism. To me it only reinforces the fascist criticism of it to the point of aiding in implementing that fascism.

However, he's right that when you take legitimate woke values and try to rewrite human nature and then force that ideal on everyone it is itself totalitarian. To me it is reminiscent of the particular and latest iteration of this phenomenon that I wrote about here. 

While it is indeed necessary to work toward minimizing our human predispositions toward hate and violence, and maximizing our human needs for love and compassion, we have to realize that we cannot eliminate the former with enforcing the ideals of the latter lest it too become a form of totalitarianism. 

That realization, and it's practical application in the previously linked post, are to me validly woke.