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We’ve semantic-drifted a long way. ‘Woke’ first hit my radar as a black activist term around Ferguson/BLM in 2014. Feels like yesterday. It’s gone from a brain-dead obvious thing to be to a brain dead obvious thing to avoid being.
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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 hard part is belling the cat. Woke-2019 sociopaths are careful to stay out of explicitly dictatorial roles and present as invisible lieutenants to noble leaders representing the crowd. Unlike Jesse Jackson say, who is relatively easy to tag as a protection racketeer.
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Like how the highest title in USSR was the deceptively innocent “party general secretary”. There’s some camouflage cunning here that makes the problem harder than tagging fascist leaders who enjoy spotlight pageantry
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