Who are these "woke" people? We don't see them in comments here on HN to defend themselves. Are they strawmen, loud groups and living in their own bubble?
I'd ask the same for far-right too.
Are these platforming issues?
I'd ask the same for far-right too.
Are these platforming issues?
For instance, I've seen people deride someone for "being too woke" when the issue at hand was sexual harassment. This is clearly absurd, since we have laws about sexual harassment, and it can't be simply "woke" people who respect laws.
On the flip side, things like "let's not name our principal branch 'master'" are, to me at least, clear examples of excessive wokeness.
This word, "woke", has become a smokescreen. People who use the same word may not be remotely talking about the same things. They only seem to be agreeing, but neither one actually knows what the other is saying.
"Woke" is a pointer, whose pointed at memory location has wildly varying values for different people.
An example would be that an old school democratic socialist since the 80ths or whatever shouldn't be seen as an extremist now just because the window has shifted so far to the right with Trump etc.