This is all good, but I don't think that 'woke' is the hill that progressives (or any non-far-right reactionary conservative) wants to die on. 'Woke' sounds a bit silly, and it's been impugned into a term that can now be an automatic turn-off. I wonder if 'fairness' is better, like the old-school idea of 'a fair go'?
Also, while it's great that you're talking about why this political argument is being held, I fear that that argument in itself is part of the trap that the anti-woke brigade sets.
Perhaps as we (as a society) have become aware of systemic injustices, it's been too easy to talk about these issues endlessly and to not spend enough time doing something about it.
So if 'action is the antidote', perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Some examples that come to mind include charities in the UK that encourage more Muslim women ride to bikes - people at grassroots level helping addressing some of the specific cultural barriers to this cheap and healthy form of mass mobility. Another is hearing about how the Greens campaigned in Brisbane that led to their wins in 2022, and that their campaigns involved some kind of community service first and politics second.
Either way, yes, we should be heroically reclaiming from the far-right the basic decency of giving a shit about other people. Besides, they were only ever pretending.
This is all good, but I don't think that 'woke' is the hill that progressives (or any non-far-right reactionary conservative) wants to die on. 'Woke' sounds a bit silly, and it's been impugned into a term that can now be an automatic turn-off. I wonder if 'fairness' is better, like the old-school idea of 'a fair go'?
Also, while it's great that you're talking about why this political argument is being held, I fear that that argument in itself is part of the trap that the anti-woke brigade sets.
Perhaps as we (as a society) have become aware of systemic injustices, it's been too easy to talk about these issues endlessly and to not spend enough time doing something about it.
So if 'action is the antidote', perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Some examples that come to mind include charities in the UK that encourage more Muslim women ride to bikes - people at grassroots level helping addressing some of the specific cultural barriers to this cheap and healthy form of mass mobility. Another is hearing about how the Greens campaigned in Brisbane that led to their wins in 2022, and that their campaigns involved some kind of community service first and politics second.
Either way, yes, we should be heroically reclaiming from the far-right the basic decency of giving a shit about other people. Besides, they were only ever pretending.