This essay is plainly on to something; an excerpt:
What if the people who speak in the language of identity politics were to recognize that their framework was the culturally dominant one? The one that helped you get into an elite college or win a coveted internship? If you spoke that language, you were working with dollars in a world of people who earned only rupees, or some other less valuable currency.
I’m not commenting on the accuracy or worth of wokeness. I’m commenting more on its increasing dominance in...the world bounded by players like Harvard and The New York Times.
Would the way wokeness navigated the world have to change if the self-understanding was that it was powerful rather than marginalized? What would it do to, say, the way the word “oppressed” was used? Or to how we understand call-out culture? What if the people doing the calling out and the canceling are viewed as the dominant ones beating up on the weak ones? What if the woke of the world were viewed as the bullies on the playground, filling the other kids with fear, beating someone up every couple of days with a call-out or a cancel in case anyone needed a reminder of their brute strength?
Isn’t it all about power?
There are many domains where this infantile pathology called "wokeness" still has no power, fortunately, but that may be changing.
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