JF

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.

Every trapped in this system knows it, and often tweets about it.

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

Unleash the most pedestrian and unimaginative minds in America on the most complex and bizarre social phenomenon in America and you get what we have

Genuine understanding of the Woke Ethic and the Spirit of Social Justice is distributed across various tweeters and bloggers, most of whom are veterans of message board and chat room wars -- no synoptic account yet exists.