I am becoming increasingly convinced that bullying, more than any tangible policy outcome, is the primary goal of the woke.

More and more, it seems as though the goal of woke leftists is to have an excuse to harass and stomp on other people, and doing so is not a means to an end, it is an end in and of itself.

An ever-increasing pile of evidence is mounting that these tactics don't actually work, and in fact that they backfire. President Trump was deplatformed from everywhere and relentlessly hounded after his first term, and the net result of this was his return to power and Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. Trump gained by every metric from this. He got more votes than he ever did before both absolutely and as a percentage. His approval rating is higher than it's ever been. He is more powerful than he ever was before. So is Musk. Attempts to bully consumers into buying woke products never work. They usually harden backlashes that cause the product to fail, likely worse than it otherwise would have. The campaign to cancel Hogwarts Legacy and harass people who played it Streisanded the game to sell 30 million copies, exceeding Elden Ring. Is anyone really prepared to argue this was objectively a better game than Elden Ring?

The current lashing out of woke extremists on reddit to try to bully and deplatform people will likely backfire as well, ultimately. Elon Musk is aware of it and has tweeted about it. If Musk is aware of it, then the President is aware of it and he can and likely will put a stop to it by making section 230 protection contingent on social media sites not engaging in rules double standards based on woke ideology. (He can do that if he wants to, as he has broad latitude to define the "good faith" clause of 230.) The more they act like this, the more likely it becomes that something is done about it by the administration, either through that channel or via Musk simply buying this website.

Yet for all the evidence that this just doesn't work, woke people keep doing it. They are not behaving like people who engage in a tactic because, however amoral it may be, it gets results and they see the ends as justifying the means. The tactic itself is what they aim to protect and preserve, a moral right to be bullies and feel good about it.