Woke is the New Disco
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Woke is the New Disco
As with most modes of binary thinking, this creates superficial and destructive patterns: pretending that the conflict over pop culture is a simple battle between the right versus the woke corporatists allows the right to dictate the shape of reality, recasting diversity as a sincere corporate concern.
Lyta Gold • Dangerous Fictions
“Weird” doesn’t sound like much. But of all the attacks Democrats have levied against Republicans since Trump came down that escalator, this one appears to hit the hardest. Republican politicians seem taken aback by the idea that they’re outside the mainstream, by the charge that their interests and priorities are alienating to the average American... See more
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
Wokeness is sometimes described as a mind-virus. What makes it viral is that it defines new types of impropriety. Most people are afraid of impropriety; they're never exactly sure what the social rules are or which ones they might be breaking. Especially if the rules change rapidly. And since most people already worry that they might be breaking ru... See more
The Origins of Wokeness
The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17
Neil Slaven • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa
Much of the debate over Wokeness, as I’ve endeavored to show, is actually a debate over whether truth—that is, a correspondence between what’s thought and said and a reality that exists independently—can be had.