So how's woke doing?
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I’ve been waiting for this thread.
Yes I was wrong. The left has behaved much better than I had predicted. Why? The very people their identitarian ideology was supposed to serve rejected it which has caused some self reflection. Let’s hope it lasts.
I think on the corporate side it will. Let’s see if the momentum continues in higher ed. I fear that at the local level (eg school districts, etc) it might be different. Not sure that crowd feels chastened. They’re still on the Right Side of History(tm)
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in So how's woke doing?:
I fear that at the local level (eg school districts, etc) it might be different. Not sure that crowd feels chastened. They’re still on the Right Side of History(tm)
That is correct.
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@Horace said in So how's woke doing?:
There was an idea floated here by @jon-nyc that anybody who was against woke, should just vote Kamala.
Actually I said something different. Don't vote for Trump in order to get less woke. Vote for him for judges, vote for him for Greenland, or because you want a nanny-state leftist crank in charge of health policy, or whatever. But not for less woke.
In hindsight, that advice didn't apply to blacks and hispanics. For them, voting for Trump is going to give them less woke.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in So how's woke doing?:
@Horace said in So how's woke doing?:
There was an idea floated here by @jon-nyc that anybody who was against woke, should just vote Kamala.
Actually I said something different. Don't vote for Trump in order to get less woke. Vote for him for judges, vote for him for Greenland, or because you want a nanny-state leftist crank in charge of health policy, or whatever. But not for less woke.
In hindsight, that advice didn't apply to blacks and hispanics. For them, voting for Trump is going to give them less woke.
That sounds a little bit racist.
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I meant for it to sound a lot racist. I’ll do better next time.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Woke’s over. It’s the n-word all the way down.
