The leaders of the Democratic National Committee announced they plan to learn absolutely nothing from their embarrassing loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
There weren’t trans boxers in the 2024 Women’s Olympics, but many far-right commenters accused two boxers of being trans.
It shows us it’s not really about trans people at all, but anyone for whom they can gin up contempt for, among their followers.
Wokeness is about people understanding power structures like these. If you’re not woke, you don’t get how systemic stratification assures that those born in privilege stay in privilege, and those who aren’t are thwarted by more than luck.
Wokeness also includes understanding that in hyperconformist societies such as the US under the MAGA culture war, out-groups expand while mainstream in-groups contract.
It means unless you are a billionaire or providing irreplaceable service for one, you’re going to end up amobg the out-groups. And once the purge effort gets underway, it can be very dangerous for you and for anyone who knows you.
There weren’t trans boxers in the 2024 Women’s Olympics, but many far-right commenters accused two boxers of being trans.
It shows us it’s not really about trans people at all, but anyone for whom they can gin up contempt for, among their followers.
Wokeness is about people understanding power structures like these. If you’re not woke, you don’t get how systemic stratification assures that those born in privilege stay in privilege, and those who aren’t are thwarted by more than luck.
Wokeness also includes understanding that in hyperconformist societies such as the US under the MAGA culture war, out-groups expand while mainstream in-groups contract.
It means unless you are a billionaire or providing irreplaceable service for one, you’re going to end up amobg the out-groups. And once the purge effort gets underway, it can be very dangerous for you and for anyone who knows you.