I'd upvote you if I could... I think maybe one has to be old enough (I'm GenX) to see how this 'wokeness' is in part a cover story for some sort of authoritari

I'd upvote you if I could... I think maybe one has to be old enough (I'm GenX) to see how this 'wokeness' is in part a cover story for some sort of authoritarianism coming from the left. i.e. the "Soviet Union" is not merely history to me, unlike millennials. Is all this in reaction to - or in conjunction with - the growing authoritarianism coming from the right? I don't know. I am in all in favor of examining how America has failed Blacks, Native Americans, the working class left in the dust by uber-capitalism (aka Ronald Reagan and all that BS) etc, but what is going on now is becoming problematic aka a mindless ideology. If you pair this with [0], then it seems the Elites [motivated by power, social dominance, etc] have figured out how to leverage entirely valid ways of looking at the world, but not the only ways created by the Gentry into mechanisms / an ideology with which to control society and those in lower social classes. Sounds much like China's Cultural Revolution... Having the Elites of a society be in thrall to any sort of ideology is a bad idea and so having all these students of elite super-upper class schools on the way to the Ivy League being turned into mindless robots will end up badly. Of course, America is the Greatest Country in History (tm) and so having some sort of American fascism hit at the same time as some sort of Cultural Revolution is to be expected </s>. The 2020s are going be a mess. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210225030540/https://www.indiepf.com/michael-o-churchs-theory-of-3-class-ladders-in-america-archive/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210225030540/https://www.indie...