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Re:Wokeness Is Here to Stay – Slavoj ŽIžek by RobotToaster on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:04PM (#34950020)
A lot of political terms are poorly defined, like liberalism. By the traditional economic definition both US parties are liberal.

Personally I'd define woke as the toxic mixture of identity politics and cancel culture. Mark Fisher wrote about an embryonic kind of this in "exiting the vampire castle"

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Re:Wokeness Is Here to Stay – Slavoj ŽIžek by jrm4 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:34PM (#34952269)
But what I'm saying is different. "Woke" is presently weaponized in an extremely effectively divisive way, e.g. Dave Chappelle's comedy is simultaneously extremely "woke" and also extremely NOT "woke."

You can't do that with e.g. "liberalism" today.

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