Re:Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never ar...
by dragonwriter on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:01AM
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> Why should we be interested in an anti-woke perspective from the left, when it's just repeating what the right has been pointing out for a long time now?
Critical use of the term “woke” originated within the Left before the critique was superficially adopted by the Right and then the term was stripped of all meaning and used as a generic term for everything non-Right by the Right; much the same as happened with “political correctness”, which it became a drop-in replacement for on the Right, before it.
Critical use of the term “woke” originated within the Left before the critique was superficially adopted by the Right and then the term was stripped of all meaning and used as a generic term for everything non-Right by the Right; much the same as happened with “political correctness”, which it became a drop-in replacement for on the Right, before it.