It's a good thing that racism ended with the election of Obama and the removing of statues. And that's the problem with the current iteration of "woke": it focuses on cultural aesthetics while ignoring political rot, thereby serving, as others have noted, as a distraction, which, while orchestrated by puppet-masters in Washington and Silicon Valley, is an unwitting distraction among the populace, which is what makes it so insidious. The so-called 'woke' are eager to lick the jackboot of authoritarianism because it's stamped with their preferred personal pronouns, which clearly illustrates that to be 'woke' doesn't mean you're woke about everything -- in their case, not 'woke' to their own manipulation by opportunists. And people getting branded as 'bigots' and other irrelevant pejoratives for pointing this out further substantiates that the woke/anti-woke culture-war is just theater. Saying this doesn't mean I don't support the causes that 'woke' ostensibly stands for, because I do. It's just that my version of civil rights and human dignity includes everyone, not just those wearing rainbow hair and screaming at the top of their lungs. But like they say, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
It's a good thing that racism ended with the election of Obama and the removing of statues. And that's the problem with the current iteration of "woke": it focuses on cultural aesthetics while ignoring political rot, thereby serving, as others have noted, as a distraction, which, while orchestrated by puppet-masters in Washington and Silicon Valley, is an unwitting distraction among the populace, which is what makes it so insidious. The so-called 'woke' are eager to lick the jackboot of authoritarianism because it's stamped with their preferred personal pronouns, which clearly illustrates that to be 'woke' doesn't mean you're woke about everything -- in their case, not 'woke' to their own manipulation by opportunists. And people getting branded as 'bigots' and other irrelevant pejoratives for pointing this out further substantiates that the woke/anti-woke culture-war is just theater. Saying this doesn't mean I don't support the causes that 'woke' ostensibly stands for, because I do. It's just that my version of civil rights and human dignity includes everyone, not just those wearing rainbow hair and screaming at the top of their lungs. But like they say, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.