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The anti-woke speech that shook Davos: Argentine President Milei criticizes “deeply erroneous” gender and migration ideology and says the United Kingdom “imprisons citizens for revealing crimes committed by Muslim immigrants”

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Argentina's President Javier Milei addresses the audience during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on January 23, 2025.

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has used his speech at the World Economic Forum to criticize “woke ideology” and condemn Western governments and institutions for being “colonized” by it.

The Argentine prime minister took aim at the WEF and denounced it for promoting “deeply wrong” ideas around gender ideology, feminism, climate change, mass migration and left-wing politics in general.

He also singled out the United Kingdom in his wide-ranging speech, implying that it is “imprisoning citizens for revealing abhorrent and truly atrocious crimes committed by Muslim immigrants that the government wants to hide.”

The rambling speech lasted half an hour and covered topics from the role of the European Union to terrorist attacks and abortion, but had one recurring theme throughout: the eradication of so-called “wokeness.”

The 54-year-old argued that what he called the “awakened mind virus” – a term he did not define – is an “epidemic that must be cured and cancer that must be eradicated.”

The libertarian leader praised other leaders he considers like-minded, such as Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Salvadoran Nayib Bukele.

“Little by little an international alliance has been formed between all those nations that want to be free and that believe in the ideas of freedom,” he stated.

Looking back at the Davos conference he was addressing, Milei said: “I must say that forums like this have been protagonists and promoters of the sinister ‘wokeism’ agenda that is doing so much damage to the West.”

Argentina’s President Javier Milei addresses the audience during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on January 23, 2025.

He told the audience of top global businessmen and politicians: ‘If we want to change, if we want to truly defend the rights of citizens, we first have to start by telling them the truth.

“And the truth is that there is something deeply wrong with the ideas that have been promoted in forums like this.”

He said that “the mental virus of woke ideology” was “the great epidemic of our time that must be cured.” “It is the cancer that must be removed.”

Among other things, he criticized what he called “invented” quotas created under the pretext of diversity, which he said undermine the “excellence” of public and educational institutions.

His comments on the matter come after his American ally Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to break with diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the federal government and when Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced the end of such programs at the company.

Milei also said that “wokeness” was to blame for changing immigration policies from those that focused on attracting foreign talent to ones that promote mass migration, “not out of national interest but out of guilt.”

He described “images of hordes of immigrants abusing, raping or killing European citizens” and stated that people did not question this for fear of being “branded as racist.”

Taking aim at feminist beliefs, she stated that women are valued more than men and also called abortion a “bloody, murderous agenda.”

He criticized the use of gender blockers on children, describing it as “criminal ideology” and saying their victimhood is covered up with “accusations of homophobia or transphobia and other fabrications.”

The libertarian leader praised other leaders he considers like-minded, such as Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (pictured).

The libertarian leader praised other leaders he considers like-minded, such as Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (pictured).

Karina Milei, right, sister of Argentine President Javier Milei, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

Karina Milei, right, sister of Argentine President Javier Milei, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

“In its most extreme versions, gender ideology simply constitutes child abuse,” she argued.

‘This is what awakening is all about. “It is the result of the inversion of Western values,” Milei declared.

“Each of the pillars of our civilization was modified by a distorted version of itself through the introduction of various mechanisms of cultural succession,” he continued.

He concluded his long speech by calling for the restoration of Western values ​​that he felt had been lost.

‘Today, like 215 years ago, Argentina has broken its chains and invites – as our anthem says – all mortals in the world to listen to the sacred cry: ‘freedom, freedom, freedom,’ Milei said.

‘May the forces of Heaven be with us. Thank you all very much and long live freedom, damn it!’

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