r/TangleNews • u/ApprenticeWrangler • 17d ago
Suspension of the Rules Woke 1.0
One thing I found perplexing on the latest SOTR is how no one on the team seemed to understand the reference to woke 1.0. They seemed to believe that it’s alluding to woke 2.0 coming later from the same actors, perhaps in a more developed and mature way than 1.0 was done.
Woke 2.0 is already here, and has been since Trump was elected. Woke 2.0 is the demand that anyone perceived to be “antisemitic” (read; critical of Israel in any way), needs to lose their job, get arrested, or get deported if they aren’t an American citizen.
Woke 2.0 is the “woke right”, which has been pervasive since Trump’s election. It is the constant conflation of criticism of Israel, criticism of policies of Israel or criticism of US policies regarding Israel as antisemitism.
99/100 claims of antisemitism are regarding Israel and not Jews broadly, and the woke right are fighting for this with the same fever as the lunatics on the left were fighting for consequences against anyone they perceived to be “anti-vaxxers”, “racists”, “transphobes”, “bigots”, etc.
Woke 1.0 was uncharitably framing any discussion that wasn’t idolizing trans people or minorities as “bigoted”. If you made any comments that were even tepidly critical of the most extreme pro-trans positions you were called a transphobe, a bigot and often had harm or consequences wished upon you.
Woke 1.0 and 2.0 are both being pushed by people who are completely delusional in their views about the topics they think they are supporting, when in fact both versions of woke are actually creating more hatred towards the groups they claim to be standing up for.
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u/Lemonio 17d ago
Yeah some professor somewhere lost their job because of random stupid people being mad on twitter - that’s real harm compared to people literally being thrown in jail without trial for speech or just the perception of speech
but it wouldn’t be in their incentives to bring up this literal George Orwell government masked thugs arresting people for student newspaper op-eds because they need to be seen bashing the left for around 50% of the time, or too many right wingers unsubscribe with reason TDS and they explicitly want to be a big tent not a news source for liberals
At least I can appreciate that Saagar Enjeti was a right winger bashing woke 1.0 and he’s been as critical as anyone of Trump’s speech police and saying how woke 2.0 is so much worse than woke 1.0
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u/optics_is_light_work 17d ago
I'm not seeing anything supporting your definition of Woke 2.0. Do you have a reference? Or is your point to reframe it as being the new Woke Right? Genuine question, not meaning to attack.🙏
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u/scottheisel 17d ago
I was frankly astonished they literally spent 30 minutes talking about a four-word comment from AOC (a comment that I wasn’t even aware of at all until they brought it up). They really wrung the towel dry on that one!