Thread by @jessesingal

I'm not trying to get assaulted by any Slate staffers (historically dangerous bunch) but here's an example of me writing about 'wokeness' (or whatever you want to call it! truly don't care!) in a way that I think has some substance? Lotsa others have too.
jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-we-argu…

2/ Freddie deBoer and Matt Bruenig are two lefties who come to mind who have long tried to explain the new norms that have come to dominate liberal spaces (though they weren't yet dominant when they began writing about them). Instead of engagement, endless accusations of bigotry.

3/ Maybe 'critique' is more accurate than 'explain,' but if in 2021 you are arguing that NO ONE who is critiquing this stuff has any point other than they are mad white men don't dominate everything (!!), you could maybe try reading more widely? Also, don't threaten violence!

4/ Almost four years ago!!! And this is all much more dominant in liberal spaces than it was when Freddie rightly called it out.

Anyway my bad clearly FdB is just mad about the Civil Rights Act and this was his delayed response. Lotta pent-up anger.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/953778853826236416?lang=en

5/ Here is one of the most hardened white supremacists you'll ever meet, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, explaining some of the problems with what he calls "epistemic deference" (very similar) in privileged settings . Another reactionary furious at progress.

thephilosopher1923.org/essay-taiwo

6/ The bigotry wafts right off the screen, wave after nauseating wave. Reads better in the original German tbh!