Democrats and the Distraction of Woke Politics
Democrats and the Distraction of Woke Politics
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Democrats and the Distraction of Woke Politics
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Unsurprisingly, the authors saying "Wokeness is to blame for Democrats not having an overwhelming majority!" are old white men.
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I think (hope) people are downvoting because they think this is an anti-woke screed rather than dismantling such centrist propaganda.
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It isn't immediately clear from the top that this is a critique of how the book in question is utter bullshit.
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I can't even see the downvotes (and I sincerely love it). This right here is why downvoting is stupid: it's lazy commentary, and people who can see it are left wondering why.
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I'm so tired of this "woke agenda" bullshit. Being Woke means one thing and only one thing. It simply means you've been disillusioned from "the land of the free" rhetoric we've all been fed since we were children and you acknowledge that the institutions that have been built up in the US, whether intentionally or otherwise, disproportionately disenfranchise minorities. It has jack shit to do with climate change, politics, abortion, or gun control. (Other than maybe how those things contribute to racist institutions) being for Abortion rights or climate action or gun control does not automatically make you 'woke'. Not unless you're approaching those issues specifically from the angle of fixing how this country has historical treated POC. Unfortunately, that's basically never the case and liberal policies that do end up being put in place either don't address minority issues at all or they may even exacerbate them.
I'm so sick of it being used as a catch all term for anything republicans disagree with. It takes the word away from its actual meaning and risks us forgetting what it actually stood for in the first place. And that's a shame. Because it's messaging is important. And the more watered down it gets the more we'll ignore the already downtrotten in this country.
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it's a litmus test. like antifa before it and sjw before that and feminist before that. I just hope I'm still hip enough to spot the next one coming round the bend
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I don't understand where this position that dems embraced neo-liberalism and abandoned unions comes from.
Who passed "right to work" laws in state houses all over the country? Who supported money as a form of speech in Citizens United? Who has tried to suppress the raising of the minimum wage at every opportunity?
Not dems, afaik. Dems have consistently fought these things.
Dems have definitely been consistently more pro-union than Republicans, but not nearly as pro-union as they used to be or could be. Biden has actually been a serious move in that direction in terms of his NLRB appointments and rhetoric, but there's a lot farther to go.
That I can agree with. I've been very pleased with the inroads unions have been making in just the past few years.
They don't have to start actively attacking the unions to have abandoned them. Clinton was the main break point.
https://www.lawcha.org/2016/11/23/bill-clinton-remade-democratic-party-abandoning-unions-working-class-whites/
I can definitely see an argument for Clinton, the champion of NAFTA, moving in a neo-liberal direction, but calling it some broader break-point where the whole democratic party abandoned labor is a much, much broader claim. Wouldn't you say?
Obviously this guy has a grudge.
Right? In my state, Right to Work was repealed as soon as Democrats had full control of the legislative and executive branches. Republicans passed it while completely disregarding Dems practically screaming that is was union busting and a horrible idea.