Re:Wokeness Is Here to Stay – Slavoj ŽIžek
by fidgewidge on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:11AM
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Woke people are some of the least polite people out there. They won't hesitate to label people they have never even met as racist, sexist *-phobes. This type of hyper-aggressive rhetoric is exactly why the woke are so widely loathed, and why wokeism will sooner or later implode under the recognition that it's impossible to be both a nice person and also woke.
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Re:Wokeness Is Here to Stay – Slavoj ŽIžek
by IndoorPatio on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:11PM
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People said the same thing about abolitionists, suffragists, anti-segregationists, etc, etc. It's certainly possible that this time will be different, but I wouldn't wager money on it.
Re:Wokeness Is Here to Stay – Slavoj ŽIžek
by fidgewidge on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:31AM
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Some radical suffragettes were actual terrorists and did their cause no good, quite possibly harm. Female suffrage came about as a result of the Great War, not verbal abuse by radicals.
At any rate, you seem to be agreeing with me but justifying it by claiming these people are on the right side of history. Communists and the Jacobins both thought that, but were both dead wrong. Merely being an abusive radical doesn't mean you're right. These people are clearly on the wrong side of history: they're trying to drag the world backwards to one where everything is decided along racial and gender lines.