I'm going to disagee (kind of) - Reddit mods aren't woke. I think that reddit mods used the woke moment as a casus belli to consolidate power on the platform.

I'm going to disagee (kind of) - Reddit mods aren't woke. I think that reddit mods used the woke moment as a casus belli to consolidate power on the platform. The same thing is going on right now politically and culturally in the United States. There is an excusable reason to publicly and overtly eject people who do not have allegiances to specific hierarchies of power in institutions. And in this moment those hierarchies are doing what they can to purge their domain of the dissidents. The language of wokeness (and wokeness is very language-driven) is a tribal marker. Its use or rejection signals friend and foe. Even states are engaging in these purges by passing laws that their loyalists will endure if it means driving out the people not in the tribe. I can state prominent "left" and "right" wing examples of this, but for the sake of civility I will not. Edit: I say the mods aren't woke but cynical because while they embrace wokeness, they are not like the radical academics that wokeness sprang from. People who did a lot of reading, and have very esoteric knowledge and reasoning for the things wokeness represents. Most of the reddit mods seem to have just adopted that mantle for purposes of friend-enemy distinction.