Chris Bray on "Woke 1" / "Woke 2.0" Shenanigans

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So I've warned many times that we thought we beat political correctness--i.e. Woke 0--back in the '90s...but, of course, we were wrong. It just retreated into universities until it had brainwashed enough students to then burst forth again ca. 2014, even crazier than it was before. But PC Phase 1 / Woke 0 had been mostly limited to campus...PC2 / "Woke 1" nearly took over the Western world...

   I've wondered here many times what the left's strategy would be for denying that they ever thought that women had penises--and that they had sexually mutilated children on the basis of gender pseudoscience... I still don't know what they'll do. Currently, they seem to be committed to just continuing to insist that the view is true, hoping that they'll be able to fend off the day of reckoning. They seem to think they can still win this--continuing to pretend that 2+2=5 forever...

   But I'm not sure I ever wondered how they would address this problem with Woketarianism generally.

   Well, they've launched a trial balloon. It looks like this:

Oh, woopsie! Ha ha ha! All that woke stuff was really just "woke 1"! So funny! Like those clothes we were wearing back in the '90s! Soooo embarrassing!...

   As Bray says, basically, the aim is to pretend that was all just a funny phase that didn't really do anything bad...and to suggest without saying it that there's a better version of Woketarianism that's serious and to be taken seriously and that can't be criticized for being, ya know, in-fucking-sane...

   PC/Woketarianism isn't dead. It's currently losing...but unless we continue to crush the life out of it, it'll just go on the offensive again. The "Woke 2.0" bullshit makes that clear--as if it wasn't before.

   And even if we eliminate all its gains--which is unlikely--it's just going to do what it did before--retreat into universities, fester, hone its lunatic rhetorical tricks, and emerge again (perhaps crazier than ever, perhaps in some more moderate guise) a few years hence.

   Also note that AOC only admits that the "rhetoric" of "woke 1" was defective. She doesn't admit that they were wrong about anything substantive...