#Wokeness

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/By focusing on immuteable characteristics (like race or sex) and making someones identity about those things wokeness, critical theory, and critical race theory ends up justifying, defending, and spreading racism

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

2/https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1277467083542913025 3/A thread on the deconstruction of gender:https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1277730769755009024 4/A thread on Woke Capitalism:https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ However aggravating you find so-called wokeness to be, deliberate anti-wokeness is many orders of magnitude worse. Bc it almost always serves to rationalize inequity, injustice, and the demonizing of

Cathy Young

CathyYoung63

You're hilarious, @realchrisrufo.I can think of 20-30 people, me included, who've done more to "put wokeness on the map" than Lindsay (I was writing about it in 2014). Also cute

JS🤔

jsthinks

If you're gonna let a little name-calling keep you from standing up for the Gospel, you ain't ready. Marxism has taken over much of our institutions and is making such

Brigadier General William Rufus Turnipseed, Jr.

SeanRMoorhead

Clearly woke means different things to different people, from "Pinkwashing Raytheon" to "Not hating gay people." But insofar as there is a set of values most people would identify with

A Japanese Feminist

Ishikawa_Sachi

Okay—we need to talk about white people’s idealization (fetishization) of Japan.You know why white cishet men love Japan?Because a) expat culture and white privilege b) orientalism c) classism d) sexism

Michael Perrone

michaelperrone

Finally finished Rod Dreher's "Live Not By Lies"Here's my review & my prediction for the future: Overall, he's right: Woke Capital & Woke Culture are here to stay for the

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ikanselarkuning

One of the more amusing things about the S'porean establishment's freakout over "wokeism" is how utterly clumsy & crude it has been.For example, the use of "wokeism”, a variation preferred

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

It's time to discuss a point academics do not understand when dealing with woke professors. STEM people listen up: The woke are not trying to intellectually defeat you with arguments

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Wokeness is a problem, although it's not a very big problem, and it's definitely not as big a problem as Trump, who is an insurrectionist, troll, quasi-fascist, and orange. It's

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

The basic problem, as I see it, with Pluckrose, Lindsay, et al. on what they call "wokery" is that they mistakenly attribute all the power to Critical Theory itself, rather

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

2020 hasn't been that interesting of a year. Unlike 2014, 2020 is the natural progression & culmination of existing trends rather than the apparent beginnings of new ones. Western figures

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/The woke are trying to take over every business.Companies like Coinbase and Trader Joes that reject wokeness thrive; companies like Yelp and Spotify that don't face backlash and woke employee

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zei_squirrel

both liberal "wokeness" & liberal anti-"wokeness" are lucrative grifts for aspiring media class types, so they're invested in maintaining the facade that they're actually battling over Core Principles, that t

Ruby RockStar 🇺🇸

RubyRockstar333

In June, Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an e-vite to WHITE city employees to attend a training on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness". Christopher Rufo submitted a public

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