very funny how the left has so much historical concepts — like “racial liberalism,” “neoliberal multiculturalism” — to describe the elite liberal capture of the grammar of social and political struggles. and everyone has just… adopted the right’s framing of the phenomenon lol
For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb