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That would be called concern trolling where I am from. This idea that "woke" has somehow threatened people is an amusing but rings more hollow every day.

Right wing authoritarianism is by far the biggest terrorist threat in the united states - right wingers literally threaten war on social media on the regular and love their guns, elected officials are literally conspiracy theorists who talk about jewish space lasers and weather control systems, women have lost the right to abortions, we are testing the waters on gay marriage and mixed race marriage, we started a global trade war, the courts, congress, and the executive branch are controlled by one party and no one is doing any balance of powers.

This all happens and I still hear people talk to me like "the liberals just shouldn't say X on twitter because its rude!!!" as if that's going to stop the white nationalists currently on the rampage in the government.



> This idea that "woke" has somehow threatened people is an amusing but rings more hollow every day.

Tim Urban makes an interesting argument to the contrary in https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem

Though he argues that both “sides” are dangerously anti-liberal, but in different way.




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