My understanding is that Bernie Sanders is not woke -- he's mainly progressive, even socialist, but that's different than woke which is a contingent that focuse

My understanding is that Bernie Sanders is not woke -- he's mainly progressive, even socialist, but that's different than woke which is a contingent that focuses on issues of identity excluding (or at least de-emphasizing) class. E.g. he doesn't invoke the phrase "white supremacy" much if at all -- someone who is woke would do that. I guess my point there is that we should draw a distinction between the woke, the center left in general, the socialist left, etc. Not sure if it's really a caricature of wokeness. My girlfriend and her friends are always talking about how "America is a dumpster fire of a country". I found the Hidden Tribes report (https://hiddentribes.us/ https://hiddentribes.us/) eye opening in this regard. Here's a quote from a respondent belonging to the farthest left tribe they name "Progressive Activists" (makes up 8% of total respondents): "The deck is stacked against people of color, against women, against people who don’t have the advantages that others have. It’s not an egalitarian society by any means." Progressive Activists are three times more likely than the average respondent to say they are "ashamed to be an American". (69% V. 24%) The focus by people in the woke camp is constantly on the negative -- you basically can't mention the fact that we've made progress without risking a lecture from them about each and every exception to that fact. re: Uighurs -- my point is not that it doesn't get a lot of coverage, but much of that coverage is not "front page" (as much as anything can be front page in the age of internet journalism). E.g. I went to the nytimes right now -- there is 1 opinion piece there talking about the Uighur situation, but depending on the time of day, I could easily miss it. I actually had to hunt for it to find it, was almost ready to say there wasn't one.