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    1. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      On one hand I agree with Obama that much online dialogue is unhelpful and goofy (though this is a general phenomenon, not confined to woke dialogue). On the other hand, I think wokeness addressed some real thorny problems in our society that had previously been hard to address.

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    2. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      In the 20th century we outlawed racial discrimination, sexual harassment, etc. But although those legal changes helped a lot, there was a lot of tacit discrimination and quiet sexual harassment that the legal apparatus couldn't root out. Wokeness helped get at those problems.

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    3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      It's easy to see wokeness as defined by the performative goofballs who complain about prom dresses and such. But when I look at the reality of American life, I see many police departments starting to rethink the way they relate to Black communities...https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/10/police-violence-history-community-trust-reconciliation/600544/ …

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    4. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      And when I look at the reality of American life, I see big drops in sexual harassment.https://hbr.org/2019/07/has-sexual-harassment-at-work-decreased-since-metoo …

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    5. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      Just those two changes - less racist policing and reduced sexual harassment - outweigh the annoyance of a hundred million goofy performative woke-tweets. They represent real and enduring changes that I think couldn't have happened without wokeness, and without social media.

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    6. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      In fact, all along I thought this would be the outcome of the "awokening". I wrote this thread about it last year:https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1079116390420733952 …

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      1/I want to riff on this thread by SJW champion Jeffrey Sachs. Basically, Sachs' thread shows a number of polls indicating rising American support for racial equality, gender equality, immigration, etc. https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1079031986835128321 …
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    7. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      Has wokeness overreached? Sure, in many cases it has. Has wokeness gotten annoying and goofy? Sure, in many cases it has. But I believe the overreach and goofiness will disappear over time, and the positive changes - which always outweighed the downsides - will remain.

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    8. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 31
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      A healthy society is always looking for ways to improve itself. And usually it takes a movement in order to push improvements through. Maybe I'm being whiggish here, but I think wokeness appeared because we needed it, or something like it. (end)

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      j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter Oct 31
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      Overreach doesn’t begin to capture it. The 1619 Project and Ronan Farrow are one version of wokeness. “Dressing Like a Witch on Halloween is Peoblematic” is another. You can’t engage with this issue until you disaggregate the two

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