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Woke went too far and Black moderates are the ones speaking and acting out against it

The backlash by black moderates on crime is aided by the rapidly growing backlash against cancel culture and “Woke” progressivism. Witness the mainstream embrace of Woke Racism, a slashing liberal polemic against progressive “anti-racism,” by Columbia University linguist John McWhorter. Progressives had in the past been hostile or dismissive of McWhorter’s longer, more evidence-driven books, Losing the Race (2000) and Winning the Race (2001). (“McWhorter stirs the waters,” sniffed a New York Times review of Losing the Race. “Unfortunately, he does not clarify much in the process.”) But over the last few weeks The New York Times, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, and even the liberal hosts of “The View” gave Woke Racism largely positive treatment, turning it into a best-seller, and making McWhorter, who is also now a New York Times columnist, the most influential American thinker today on race.

Why is that? Why did it take black moderates to finally break the hypnotic race trance progressives fell into last year?

Progressives have for decades dismissed, demonized, and denigrated black conservatives, such as economist Thomas Sowell, pundit Candace Owens, and California Republican gubernatorial candidate, Larry Elder, who the Los Angeles Times called “the black face of white supremacy.”

Politics today trumps race for most everyone on both Left and Right. There’s no doubt that part of the progressive attraction to Barack Obama was because he was black, but Democrats were also genuinely passionate about the things that Obama had to say. Ultimately, progressives dismiss and demonize black conservatives because they disagree with their beliefs and values, not because of their race.

As such, progressive struggle more to dismiss San Francisco Mayor Breed, New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams, former Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, and Woke Racism author McWhorter because they are Democrats and self-identified liberals or progressives who stress liberal values of compassion and care for the weak.


During the fever dream of 2020, progressives had an easier time doing so. Seattle’s progressive council in August of last year slashed the police budget, effectively demanding mass lay-offs of officers, even though the city’s black police chief, Carmen Best, had spent the last two years growing and diversifying the police force at the request of the very same council.

Wokeism was, on the one hand, too extreme. “I think a real extreme point was hit in the summer of 2020,” McWhorter told PBS. “And at this point everybody is rubbing their eyes and realizing that something went too far. Not that there’s something wrong with a racial reckoning in general. But that something went beyond what most, even ‘good people’ would consider just and fair.”

In a sense, people were right last year when they felt that everything having to do with race, crime, and policing had changed, it’s just that it wasn’t for the better. The killing of George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter protests triggered white guilt, not real responsibility. It motivated cities to defund rather than work with the police. And it led Democrats, caught up in a Woke fury, to demand radical policing reforms they had not properly thought through.

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-black-moderates-awoke-the-woke

Are there people the need to read this to believe it?

Of course. Move to a safe place with your family and let America burn to the ground and let their failed policies and belief systems burn out. and self destruct. The worst thing you can do is go in and try and repair their damage in the rule as a useful idiot. . Let them live with their consequences.

There is no other choice

They started this crap, and now that 23 democrats are not running for re elections. The pendulum will swing back then other way. They do not want to risk being held accountable.

There is not enough tar, rope, and feathers for those [bleep].

Strider, that's what happens when you lower the hiring standards just to make things "equal".

Ron

The difference between rooting and looting is the demographic box checked on your application. It is much akin to the difference between hero and zero....

Details are important.

Black Americans are the least “woke” demographic in our country.

Asians excluded. LOL

This is all just the struggle for superior power.
Forget anything having to make sense.

george floyd was a criminal, pure and simple. Why would anybody want to celebrate a scumbag. Why not pick somebody like Allen West, a true Patriot or Dr. Ben Carson, a truly intelligent man, both with above average ethics. Guess because they don’t celebrate being a POS and believe in accountability, making them unacceptable to the group who wants to live off the government tit .

MOTO

Well,....no.

Anti Caucasian ideology is one of the prime drivers of the left.

Caucasian, heterosexual, Christian males are the most hated demographic in the leftist playbook.

But I'm not surprised that someone named Michael "Shellenberger" is trying to muddy the waters on the matter.

Basically, I'm not holding my breath in anticipation of Negroes voting rationally. Nothing else they do is rational. Why should voting be the exception?

This plus 10 You will not be welcome your attempts to help will be ignored. They are so caught up in the mantra of the left it's hopeless to try and convince them they are being used. I no longer have any sympathy for people too dumb to see the truth in front of them. Let them live with what they have created.

Now, in all fairness, there are some groids who have managed to "turn things around" and quit being parasites on society, they aren't collecting welfare, or committing felonies- - - - -for example, look at Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown, and yes, even George Floyd! None of them have done anything wrong recently, including stealing oxygen that more deserving people can breathe!

Me either.

General Milley want CRT taught to the army
https://twitter.com/RanttMedia/status/1407753160760889351

That wasn’t to smart, couldn’t they afford a hoodie

This.