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A lot of political terms are poorly defined, like liberalism. By the traditional economic definition both US parties are liberal. Personally I'd define woke a
by RobotToaster 4y ago
A lot of political terms are poorly defined, like liberalism. By the traditional economic definition both US parties are liberal.
Personally I'd define woke as the toxic mixture of identity politics and cancel culture. Mark Fisher wrote about an embryonic kind of this in "exiting the vampire castle"
- jrm4 4y agoBut what I'm saying is different. "Woke" is presently weaponized in an extremely effectively divisive way, e.g. Dave Chappelle's comedy is simultaneously extremely "woke" and also extremely NOT "woke." You can't do that with e.g. "liberalism" today.