When Woke Satire Becomes a Ridiculous Reality

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the most ridiculous and absurd things Titania McGrath was tweeting five years ago are now part of our actual political discourse.

For years I’ve followed the tweets of Titania McGrath, a self-described “activist, healer, and radical intersectionalist poet,” and the author of Woke: A Guide to Social Justice.

Here is a sample of some of her tweets:

If you’re surprised I’d follow someone like McGrath, here’s the thing: she’s not real. Titania McGrath is a fictitious person, a personality made up by the writer Andrew Doyle.

Doyle’s satire is good, which is no doubt why his book (i.e. Titania McGrath’s) was praised by Ricky Gervais and Joe Rogan. But what makes the satire possible is that he clearly understands the “woke” mind.

Many people argue that nobody can define what woke is, but I’ve discussed the idea at great lengths and have offered what I happen to think is a tidy definition.

Woke: Social justice, intersectionality, and neo-Marxism masquerading as compassion for the poor and oppressed.

This definition accurately conveys the ideology of Titania McGrath. She’s obsessed with class structures and power, much like Karl Marx was; and just like Marx, she mistakes her resentment of “the bourgeois” and the prevailing society as love for the poor and oppressed.

This is what made Titania McGrath so effective. Doyle, a playwright who studied at Oxford and York University, is able to channel the woke ideology and expose it for what it really is: insanity.

But here’s where things get scary. Doyle recently shared on Substack the shocking number of Titania McGrath’s tweets that have come to pass.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the most ridiculous and absurd things Doyle was thinking up of five years ago (and Titania McGrath was tweeting) are now part of our political discourse. Here’s a case in point.

Here is another example.

The examples go on and on and on, and I encourage you to read in its entirety Doyle’s article, which is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.