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Re: Woke Culture
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2021, 01:53:25 pm »
A few articles on the subject.

People support a lot of things that wokeness stands for, and yet wokeness itself is a toxic brand. How did wokeness become a toxic brand?

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/24/what-is-woke-culture-and-why-has-it-become-so-toxic



Long-time Democrat strategist James Carville: "wokeness is a problem and we all know it."

https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days

He complains about "faculty lounge politics", where people talk in academic jargon instead of talking in the language that voters talk in.  First example he gives is "latinx".  You know who says "latinx"?  White liberals who want to feel like they're culturally aware and inclusive. You know who doesn't say "latinx"?  Latin American people. They hate it. They can't fucken stand it.  It's a fake word created by English speakers and makes no sense to the people it's supposed to describe.   

Back during the Democratic primaries there was a "sting video" by the goons at Project Veritas. One of their "reporters" went undercover as a volunteer with the Elizabeth Warren campaign, and spent the day with a Hispanic guy named Angel Alicea who said stuff like "I had to do diversity training. Like, I'm a brown man. What are you white liberals going to teach me about diversity?" "Nobody cares about **** pronouns, people want to know how you're going to create jobs."   "this is why we lose."  I think the Warren campaign denounced Angel's comments and fired him but they should have given him a promotion. I saw another video where a union organizer guy was ranting along the same lines. He went to a Democratic Socialists of America workshop on union organizing.  The DSA people started talking about pronouns, and attendees started getting up and leaving.  In the US, the Democrats lost touch with the workers and unionists, they lost their "blue wall" and the "Rust Belt" states. In the UK, Labour lost seats in blue collar territory that they had held for 80 years and suffered their worst defeat since before World War 2. Lower-class UK voters somehow got the impression that Boris Johnson is the guy representing their interests. In the US, lower-class voters somehow got the impression that Donald Trump was the guy standing up for their interests. That doesn't make any sense, so how did we get to this point?

Here's a think piece that doesn't relate specifically to wokeness, but does address that subject. This talks about a new kind of class division.  The author contracts two groups who he calls the "boorbours", the boorish bourgeoisie, and the "bobos", the bohemian bourgeois.  He uses the Trump flotillas as an example of the boorbours-- well off people on their power boats and cabin cruisers somehow convinced that they're the common man, the proverbial little-guy. And the bobos he sees as an almost caste-like privileged class who somehow believe they're progressive while unintentionally embodying the worst tendencies of previous elites. I found this article really interesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/

A point that pertains particularly to the topic of left-wing parties abandoning the working class: The parties that used to represent the factory worker, the farmer, the laborer, the blue collar class, have been gentrified by highly educated (and privileged) urban academics.

“The more than 150-year-old alliance between the industrial working class and what one might call the intellectual-cultural Left is over,” observes the Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein."


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