People who are not woke: blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, gays, trans people. People who are woke: a small minority of college-educated, disproportionately white, disproportionately wealthy people + educated, professional middle class minority rent-seekers
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The secret of wokeness is that nobody is actually woke. People are sufficiently woke not to be canceled until the motive and opportunity presents itself, and the standards are labile enough to catch anyone once they are targeted.
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Every trapped in this system knows it, and often tweets about it.
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Wokeness and cancelling is a fascinating group-psychological phenomenon and the conversation about it is constantly hijacked by those seeking to elide and obscure its true character by dumb analogies to far more banal antecedents
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I've come to think of it like an 'exploit' in a social milieu that has increasingly come to resemble a zero-sum game, or whose nature as such is increasingly difficult to deny
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In a sense this puts it in line with earlier phenomena like the 70s cult wave from which the most successful borrow their internal tactics. Except they didn't have the benefit of the (still largely undisturbed) legacy of satanic panic and hyperincarceration
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