I've unpaywalled my post "Wokeness as respect redistribution".
It was the first of a series of posts I've been writing about woke culture's place and purpose in American society. Check it out!
noahpinion.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-…
It was the first of a series of posts I've been writing about woke culture's place and purpose in American society. Check it out!
noahpinion.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-…
The thesis of this piece is that by 2013, American society had become a supersaturated solution of disrespect -- an increasingly diverse populace where White was still equated with normal, an increasingly gender-equal economy where women still got harassed at work, etc.
Something like wokeness had to happen, because our country couldn't continue that way. You can't have a country that only respects a small subset of its population.
Wokeness, I argue, can be seen as a leveling movement: A socialism of respect.
Wokeness, I argue, can be seen as a leveling movement: A socialism of respect.
But just as socialism went overboard in some countries and became communism and made almost everyone poor in the name of equality, the danger is that wokeness will create a society where everyone feels equally disrespected.
Anyway, this post is part of a whole series, so this isn't meant to be a complete description of what I think wokeness is or does. But the respect angle is one crucial aspect that I think we should make more explicit.
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