I put a note on the original post, but since writing about Sydney Sweeney and jeans, Rachel Bitecofer has called her a "butterface" and Chris Cuomo has reacted badly to a deepfake of AOC trashing Sweeney.
It all seems to undermine my point about Sweeney not really being attacked by the left, though the article confirms that no Democrat officials or lawmakers have commented on Sweeney.
I suspect if Cuomo called Sweeney ugly, those defending her would interpret it as an attack from the left. With a defense for the fake attack by someone more clearly left, does that make Cuomo not left, or neutral, or do you have to quibble about the defense to maintain the sense of being attacked by the woke?
Which one is more woke?
(Mostly kidding there; that's probably AOC.)
There is a part of me that finds this all ridiculous and irritating, but another part of me that really wants to get some definitions out there.
As it is, I did post about two years ago on "woke" and how people were using it. Ironically, it happened because of a person on the right who wrote a whole book criticizing wokeness but then couldn't define it, which meant that the journalist who asked was mean.
Journalists and their questions, right?
I think there could be an interesting post about what various political terms have historically meant and how they are being used and how Republicans have become such psychopaths that there is a pretty broad range of what constitutes "left" of that. Maybe someday.
Right now, I didn't even post yesterday because the reading for the section I am working on his heavier than usual and things are so stupid with so much to react to that I can't even. However, I am going to say this:
Currently, the people who are using "woke" the most are primarily using it to mean "I don't like this."
Whether that dislike is a vague sense of discomfort or an informed anger, it comes from a challenge to white supremacy, so does not bear close scrutiny, leaving them to use the word as just meaning stupid and bad.
This is why I don't take people using "woke" as an insult seriously; I don't know where you fall on the spectrum between ignorant and malicious, but I know you are there.
Here's the really important thing, though, and it cuts to the heart of the disagreements between progressives, leftists, liberals, socialists, third-party voters. and Democrats.
If you do become aware of the structural racism and colonialism and all of the problems with all of the suffering they have led to... if you have become aware of that and your response is not to focus on healing and repair, but to focus on directing your anger to everyone you blame for not fixing it, you are definitely not woke.
You should try getting that way.
If you believe something fake, criticize someone because of it, and then when called out on it just continue the criticism as if you were correct, you are not woke and your unwillingness to learn from your mistakes is going to be a serious impediment to becoming so.
You are part of the problem.
Please, if you find it possible to care about anyone other then yourself, get woke.
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