How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution

Written by Josh Stylman on April 5, 2025. Posted in Current News

Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either

The Covid era provided the perfect case study in how this machinery operates—and revealed how performative activism serves as its most potent enforcement mechanism.

Every major element of the official Covid narrative has been proven false: The origins of the virus, the validity of PCR tests, the suppression of early treatments, the denial of natural immunity, the so-called “safety and effectiveness” of vaccines, and the utility of masks, lockdowns, and vaccine passports.

Yet those who questioned any part of it faced unprecedented ostracism and persecution.

The manufactured panic ignored fundamental reality: Covid posed minimal risk to healthy people under 70, but was significantly more dangerous to the elderly and immunocompromised.

Rather than focusing resources on protecting vulnerable populations, we destroyed economies, stole childhoods, and enforced measures that made no epidemiological sense.

This wasn’t just about control—it was an engineered economic coup, the largest financial consolidation of power in modern history.

While small businesses were forcibly closed, Amazon’s profits soared. As working-class neighborhoods struggled, Wall Street celebrated record gains. The laptop class posted about ‘we’re all in this together’ from their home offices while essential workers were forced into what were portrayed as dangerous conditions to deliver their groceries.

The same corporations trumpeting their commitment to “equity” through DEI initiatives were destroying economic mobility for the very communities they claimed to champion.

Just months before Covid, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

An examination of the event reveals that the priority of the exercise centered not on treatment protocols or protecting the vulnerable but rather on how information control could be used to manufacture mass compliance.

When the real crisis arrived, this strategy found willing accomplices in a culture already primed for performative virtue. The height of this hypocrisy revealed itself during the pandemic, exposing not just empty virtue signaling, but active participation in one of the most egregious civil rights violations in recent American history.

As millions changed their profile pictures and posted solidarity symbols for social justice, these same voices fell silent—or worse, actively participated in the persecution of two distinct groups: the unvaccinated and the vaccine-injured.

The Profitable Performance of Power

The economic devastation fell hardest on those least able to bear it. While professionals attended Zoom meetings in their pajamas, service workers faced an impossible choice: show up to what was marketed as a deadly environment or lose their livelihoods.

The data tells the story:

• Black-owned businesses declined by 41% during the first few months of lockdowns
• Latino unemployment reached 18.9%, the highest of any demographic
• Women left the workforce in unprecedented numbers, erasing decades of gains
• Small businesses, the primary path to middle-class stability in minority communities, closed at triple the rate of their corporate competitors

The financial beneficiaries were clear:

• Amazon’s market value increased by $570 billion
• Zoom’s stock rose 396%
• Moderna executives became billionaires overnight
• Pfizer reported record profits of $100 billion
• BlackRock acquired 34% of single-family homes in major markets

During the lockdown, ostensibly put in place to “protect the vulnerable”, small businesses lost $4.6 trillion in value, with minority-owned enterprises accounting for 41 percent of closures despite representing only 20 percent of total businesses.

This wasn’t just hypocrisy—it was a calculated consolidation of power under the guise of public health.

The corporate duplicity was particularly stark during the same period when America was reckoning with ‘racial justice’ following George Floyd’s murder. Nike proclaimed “standing against racism” while terminating minority employees who would not comply with unscientific Covid shot mandates.

BlackRock published reports on “workplace equity” while creating a segregated office system. Google celebrated “inclusion” while their mandate policies disproportionately excluded minority workers who had historical reasons to distrust medical authorities.

These same corporations posting solidarity symbols were forcing their lowest-paid workers to choose between experimental injections or feeding their families. Their DEI committees issued statements about “inclusion” while they excluded anyone who questioned the narrative.

They celebrated “diversity” in carefully curated public messaging while their mandates disproportionately impacted minority communities—the very people their DEI initiatives were ostensibly designed to protect.

This hypocrisy was essentially economic warfare masked by virtuous platitudes. The professional class’s performative empathy enabled the greatest upward transfer of wealth and opportunity in modern history.

Their social media activism provided cover for policies that devastated the working class, particularly in minority communities. While they changed their profile pictures to signal how virtuous they were, they changed the economic landscape to enforce dependence.

The hypocrisy reached its peak during the Roe v. Wade controversy. The same voices passionately defending bodily autonomy in reproductive rights enthusiastically supported government-mandated medical procedures—often in the same social media feeds.

I saw this contradiction clearly one day and shared a meme that captured it perfectly: A woman holding a “My Body, My Choice” sign while wearing a “Vaccine Mandate Now!” t-shirt. The irony was obvious—or so I thought.

But instead of engaging with the point, a friend of 20 years replied:

“The right to an abortion is at stake and unlike vaccine mandates which remain a choice (granted with heavy weight regarding employment for those who choose against)…Equating the two issues works to piss off women for sure but I don’t think does much to further your cause.”

Her response characterized vaccine mandates as merely a “choice with heavy weight” while referring to reproductive rights as “my cause”—as if bodily autonomy were a partisan position rather than a universal principle.

Most telling was what happened afterward: when I shared trial data and peer-reviewed studies about fertility concerns, there was no reply. The conversation simply ended.

This pattern repeated itself across countless relationships—the desire to maintain a manufactured reality proved stronger than decades of friendship or even scientific evidence that might protect loved ones.

A simple observation—one that should have been common sense—was treated as ideological betrayal, even with a good friend. That was the moment I realized how deeply people had internalized the manufactured reality, where pointing out contradictions was itself a crime.

While professionals virtue signaled from home offices, essential workers faced impossible choices. Those who built careers championing marginalized communities suddenly celebrated stripping basic rights from their neighbors.

It was deeply enlightening to observe those who said they were passionate about fighting discrimination celebrating people losing their jobs for making personal medical choices.

Their empathy extended exactly as far as their pharmaceutical stock portfolios and/or unwavering faith in government authority—marching against discrimination until it became inconvenient for their tribal interests, rallying against medical coercion until they could enforce it themselves.

The Manufacturing of Hatred

The demonization of the non-compliant was systematic and crossed into territory that would be considered hate speech if directed at any other group. Major media outlets competed to express the most vitriolic condemnation of the unvaccinated.

The New York Times ran headlines like “I’m Furious at the Unvaccinated”, while The Washington Post declared that “remaining unvaccinated in public should be considered as bad as drunk driving.”

This wasn’t just media rhetoric—it directly programmed public perception and normalized extreme views. A January 2022 Rasmussen poll revealed that nearly half of Democratic voters supported not just fining the unvaccinated, but confining them to their homes, sending them to quarantine camps, and even taking their children.

Public health officials cultivated and then amplified this hostility, speaking of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” creating a narrative of blame that would be used to justify discrimination at a scale unprecedented in modern America.

The rhetoric from entertainment figures was particularly revealing. Gene Simmons declared:

“You’re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are the enemy.”

Sean Penn took this mandate mentality further, stating:

“It seems criminal to me…if someone chooses not to get vaccinated that they should choose to stay home, not go to work, not have a job…As long as we’re all paying for these streets, we got to ride safely on them.”

His framing perfectly captured the entitled perspective of the wealthy class—comparing basic employment rights to a privilege that could be revoked for non-compliance.

Don Lemon advocated for complete social exclusion:

“Don’t have the vaccine, can’t go to the supermarket…Can’t go to the ballgame…Can’t go to work…No shirt, no shoes, no service!”

Piers Morgan celebrated discrimination:

“Love the idea of COVID vaccine passports for everywhere: flights, clubs, gyms, shops. It’s time COVID denying, anti-vaxxer loonies had their bullshit bluff called.”

The dehumanization reached new heights as Jimmy Kimmel mocked the unvaccinated seeking medical care:

“Vaccinated person, come right in. Unvaccinated person who gobbled horse goo…Rest in peace, wheezy.”

Howard Stern demanded mandatory vaccination while cursing freedom itself:

“When are we gonna stop putting up with idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? Fuck ’em, fuck their freedom.”

Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who once championed individual rights, declared:

“Screw your freedom!”

These weren’t fringe voices—they were mainstream entertainers with millions of followers, demonstrating how quickly “progressive” entertainment could normalize discrimination and celebrate the stripping of basic human rights.

Their audiences, who typically pride themselves on defending the marginalized, cheered calls for persecution when it aligned with their tribal identity and boosted their social capital.

​​The absurdity was obvious to anyone who dared think critically. The architects of this deception are now openly admitting what critics said all along. Janine Small testified before the European Parliament, “No, we did not know whether the vaccine stopped transmission before we rolled it out,” justifying this by saying they had to “move at the speed of science.”

These admissions are accelerating. CDC Director Walensky now acknowledges they were “too late” to recognize natural immunity. FDA officials admit myocarditis risks were known earlier than disclosed.

Each revelation confirms not just what critics warned about, but what the data had shown from the beginning.

Most telling of all, Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator who was one of the chief architects of America’s Covid policies, finally admitted last week:

“What we got wrong in public health is we didn’t explain that COVID vaccines were nothing like childhood vaccines…That is not what the COVID vaccine was designed to do. It wasn’t designed against infection.”

Yet these admissions come only after the damage is done—after lives were upended, careers destroyed, and basic rights stripped from those who simply pointed to evidence that contradicted the official narrative.

For almost five years, anyone pointing out the data and facts now being casually revealed by public health officials faced social and professional exile.

The entire justification for mandates, passports, and mass firings was based on claims that public officials and the compliant public never bothered to verify or actively suppressed before coercing millions into compliance.

If the vaccines indeed protected the vaccinated, why did anyone else’s medical choices matter? The answer reveals the deeper agenda: This was never about health—it was about enforcing social coercion.

This mass psychosis wasn’t accidental—it was the product of sophisticated reality engineering. The same systems that manufactured consent for endless wars were now deployed to enforce medical and social compliance.

But this time, they had new tools: social media algorithms, AI content moderation, and real-time narrative control. And at every level, the deception was coordinated from the top down:

• Dr. Fauci: “When people are vaccinated they’re not going to get infected”
• President Biden: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”
• CDC Director Walensky: “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus and don’t get sick”
• Rachel Maddow: “Now we know the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops”
• Pfizer CEO Bourla: “There is no variant that escapes the protection of our vaccines”
• Bill Gates: “Everyone who takes the vaccine is not just protecting themselves but reducing their transmission”

Today’s ‘fact-checkers’ will claim these statements were “taken out of context” but the truth is simpler: these weren’t mistakes or misunderstandings—they were deliberate deceptions designed to drive compliance.

Even as internal data contradicted these absolute claims, the messaging remained unwavering, effectively saying comply or die.

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Editor’s note: enlightened observers have noted the whole ‘pandemic’ was most likely a test to see how willing people are to give up their rights and freedoms to defend themselves against an ‘existential crisis’ like so-called ‘climate change’, as the more extreme adherents of that religion say we need a three-month pandemic-style global lockdown every two years to ‘save the planet’.

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