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https://www.wsj.com/articles/nike-nixes-betsy-ross-flag-sneaker-after-colin-kaepernick-intervenes-11562024126

I think the biggest problem with Liberalism this day and age is the way they analyze things in the past and apply current morality to it.

please sir... that should be small 'l'

You see it all the time with analysis of TV shows and movies that don't stand up to today's "Woke" Standards.

So in this case a Nike shoe that celebrates figure that lived in the latter half of the 18th Century. Well over a hundred years before Slavery was abolished. This sets the standard that No Historic Figure can be celebrated if they were part of a country that took part in Slavery. The Founding Fathers should never be celebrated either. They were all white males that likely owned slaves.

It's a slippery slope and, I would argue, the strident nature of this re-addressing of history actually helps the far right. They can't paint the "Woke Crowd" as extremist.

good to know/read that those with conservative wokeness are able to perceive... flush out... decry... as you say, "woke standards" of the "woke crowd".

paraphrasing David Brooks, political commentator:

The concept of woke: a plausible successor to the waning cool aesthetic; woke shares with cool a “rebel posture,” but where coolness is politically detached and individualistic, wokeness is “nationalistic and collectivist.” Cool is “emotionally reserved,” but “woke is angry.” “To be woke,” in short, “is to be radically aware and justifiably paranoid.”

by the by: assorted articles maintain that executives from New Balance, the only remaining major shoe company still manufacturing in the U.S., responded favourably to a Trump election victory and Trump statements related to manufacturing.  As a result, “The Daily Stormer”, (which identifies itself as a source for Republican news but is filled with anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, and white nationalist posts), woke to declare New Balance footwear the “Official Shoes of White People.”