Friday, February 10, 2023

The Best Arguments Against Anti-Woke

Anti-wokeness is picking up steam (thank God). On an anecdotal note, I've started to notice fewer (he/she/him) tags on email and zoom IDs lately. And then there are the articles in Compact and The Atlantic, etc. All good all good. But don't count wokeness out. We should treat the thing like Michael Myers, capable of rising from the dead at any moment. It's proven itself resilient and able to capture a ton of seemingly rational people. 

All that said, I'm sympathetic to one argument against the anti-woke crusaders and that is: why pick this battle? Wokeness has a basic, inarguable point: the system ain't fair. Isn't this basically true? Why focus on the excesses when there are such larger problems: inequality, corporate greed, environmental destruction, etc. 

A fair point. But here's the thing: isn't this argument better leveled against the woke instead of the anti-woke?

I'm 100% willing to believe that both wokeness and anti-wokeness are a distraction engineered by the masters of the universe to keep middle management and lower management from looking upwards at the thieves who rule society. But if this were the case, why do the anti-woke skeptical focus their energy on criticizing the anti-woke? See where I'm going with this? Basically, this makes me think the anti-anti-woke deliberately tolerate the nutcases and refuse to side with the anti-woke because they think the anti-woke should join the woke coalition. And they think this somehow will better take on the masters of the universe. I'm skeptical. You want to take on the masters of the universe, you gotta be in the moral and epistemological right. Can't fake it. 

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