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Don Rudy's avatar

As a rural white man, I'm trying to get more "woke". Hope to be one-quarter as woke as Jesus by the time I die. I sometimes lampoon people raised by progressive parents when they are so concerned with social issues it starts to cut into their enjoyment of life. Have to say that all of us who were raised in more traditional or conservative settings are so lucky all those woke people did the work to get rights for women, minorities, and people who are different - otherwise we would be living in a pre-1950's society!

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Helene S's avatar

I am fairly progressive and attuned to social justice but found that a lot of far left liberals really went a bit overboard in their expression of it, to the point that even someone like myself started to feel alienated and attacked. I tried to reason with friends who felt they had to pass judgement and cancel anything not to their liking that they might get a better reception if they considered dialing it back, or taking a more nuanced approach. I don’t think I ever got them to understand that the level of criticism and self-righteous judgement was going to have backlash but here we are.. being lashed. I agree it’s important to pay attention to this anti-woke ideology as well as to try to listen to the other side and find commonality and community first.

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