🧩 BND Motif Index · M772
The puritanical woke
The woke are cast as new Puritans: zealots of a moral code with no forgiveness, hunting sinners, an Old Testament without the mercy, Salem with hashtags.
- 2claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Cancel culture 🧩 Holier than thou
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-06 “The current era of wokeness lacks forgiveness and functions like the Old Testament.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Daily (NYT) - 2026-08-29 “Voters believe the Democratic Party has become overly focused on political correctness, which is a wedge issue for Republicans.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M772 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-06 · what this is · how the index works