I do agree that "woke" virtue signaling, when performed by bourgeois upper-middle-class people who fail to see (or who have vested interests in not seeing, or at least pretending not to see) that capitalism is the underlying enemy, is insufferable. We should avoid falling for capitalism's myriad divide-and-conquer tactics. "Woke capitalism" is a product. So is Trumpism. So is the religious garbage of right-leaning or right-wing megachurches. So are the myriad intellectual hoops Ivy League professors have to twist themselves into to justify neoliberalism.
We do have problems of racism, sexism, and antisemitism in our society. We also have (as the right points out) a problem of cultural and moral rot. All these issues are serious and we need to attack the underlying cause. We need to stop fighting small battles and letting ourselves be divided, because the real enemy is corporate capitalism and the minute we stop letting those boardroom shitfucks divide us, we start winning.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 11.8 ms ] threadI do agree that "woke" virtue signaling, when performed by bourgeois upper-middle-class people who fail to see (or who have vested interests in not seeing, or at least pretending not to see) that capitalism is the underlying enemy, is insufferable. We should avoid falling for capitalism's myriad divide-and-conquer tactics. "Woke capitalism" is a product. So is Trumpism. So is the religious garbage of right-leaning or right-wing megachurches. So are the myriad intellectual hoops Ivy League professors have to twist themselves into to justify neoliberalism.
We do have problems of racism, sexism, and antisemitism in our society. We also have (as the right points out) a problem of cultural and moral rot. All these issues are serious and we need to attack the underlying cause. We need to stop fighting small battles and letting ourselves be divided, because the real enemy is corporate capitalism and the minute we stop letting those boardroom shitfucks divide us, we start winning.