florence ⊮
One common epistemic pitfall was that you basically weren’t allowed to disagree with any woke-coded ideas except for woke-coded reasons. Eg say you see some feminists saying they hate men; arguing against them by saying “you shouldn’t hate people for their gender” would not have made you popular. Rather you have to say something like “claims about men being dangerous have been used in a racist way.” Nothing can be an overcorrection, nothing can encroach upon social-justice-related reasons. Something can only be bad because it isn’t woke enough.
ettingermentum
For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb