I ran across this video on Twitter (where cringe goes to multiply) and couldn’t decide whether to laugh or cringe in disgust.

Anti-Racist Jeopardy – probably the most cringe white Leftist thing I've seen pic.twitter.com/jgBFqO46xM

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) December 8, 2022

It perfectly encapsulates a form of White liberal virtue signaling that uses performative self-hatred to project an underlying sense of moral superiority.

This video was filmed at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Brookfield WI, and features 3 White women playing Anti-Racist Jeopardy with a White man in the role of quizmaster. I love it because it features white people performing a kind of self-abasement that serves no purpose other than to elevate themselves above the hoi polloi.

It is clearly performative–if you watch carefully you can see that they are all reading from a script, and I think you can feel confident that nearly everyone in the audience is as white as the performers. It is White people performing for other White people pretending to feel guilty for what other White people have done.

Not a one of them is a bit self-conscious, and I am quite confident that none of them actually believes they or their fellow “worshippers” is actually racist.  The “church” is a bubble of virtue, surrounded by a sea of awful, likely Trump-voting racists.

I looked up the demographics of Brookfield and was utterly unsurprised to see that almost no black people live there. Fewer than 400 in a population of over 40,000. The members of the church could literally go visit every single one of them in a few weekends and be done with their guilt-displaying.

But that isn’t the point. These Unitarians have a lot about “worship” on their website, but nothing about God. Their common motivation is to find something higher than themselves to worship, and utterly failing to do so. The most “divine” mention I found on their website is a passing reference to the “earth spirit,” whatever that is.

Which brings me to my point. Modern Leftists have rejected God and traditional liturgies, but many have discovered the need for something to fill that void. For some it is power, others greed or hedonism. There is a huge group for whom indulging sexual desires substitutes for spirituality.

But the more “spiritual” among them they seek out an ideology to fill the spiritual void. And this is the result.

In a way this is superior to the baser pursuits–it points upward and beyond ourselves–but without God it all comes crashing back down to something prosaic like worshipping Ibram X Kendi or Robin DiAngelo. Throw in some “Green” gobbledygook and a dash of singing and you have a religion.

Not much of one, but a religion. It needs to be refreshed regularly, as ideological fashions change, but the essential quality remains: reassurance that the worshipper is worthy of being. Virtue signaling as a form of reassurance.

The power hungry can prey on these people–does anybody seriously believe that Kendi or DiAngelo, or for that matter Biden or Klaus Schwab believes in the platitudes they mouth? Their virtue signaling is an outer expression of their power hunger, feeding the spiritual needs of these God-starved “worshippers.” They are the televangelists of the woke crowd.

I am sure these Unitarians are nice enough people, but they are the ones who empower the power grabbers. Their need for spiritual reassurance is what empowers to grifters to accomplish their goals. They will reliably vote for the politicians who reassure them that they are worthy. They are led to worship government as a substitute for God.

Or at least to worship the woke leaders as high priests.