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rhelz 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Origins of Wokeness

// Now you're just being performative about performative people. //

Nice ricochet.

I'm grateful to Paul Graham for actually giving a definition of "woke". Really, this is the first anti-woke essay I've seen which actually tells us exactly what the author is complaining about.

And it makes it rather abundantly clear why nobody else has given a definition of exactly what the author is complaining about.

_bee_hive_ 16 days ago [–]

Me as well, having a definition is useful when trying to understand someone’s perspective and I applaud him for that.

It seems that his opposition is with SJW Puritanisms and I agree with him on that point.

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