Cultural grievance is not a governing agenda!

[Kimstu]

@octopus

academic institutions, politicians, law enforcement, sports teams, corporations etc. capitulating to the demands of an increasingly dangerous ‘woke’ mob

Woo-hoo, another textbook example of the conservative mythology of “wokeness”!

@Kimstu

Many “culture wars” conservatives seem to have arrived at their own mythology of “wokeness” that goes roughly as follows:

1. Some subject or other is a trivial non-issue (because the conservatives themselves have never encountered it or been bothered by it).
2. Some white “wokeness” activists accidentally stumbled across this subject and got all upset about it (because the conservatives themselves never see such criticisms until they’ve penetrated into the white-dominated mainstream).
3. None of the white “wokeness” activists bothered asking any actual minorities what they thought about this subject (because the conservatives themselves generally have no significant contact with minority views and imagine that other white people don’t either).
4. The white “wokeness” activists stirred up their “internet mobs” to “hysteria” and demanded that this trivial non-issue be changed (because conservative media and politicians have a vested interest in encouraging their audiences to believe that any liberal activism must be scary, lawless and misdirected).
5. The terrified corporations bowed to the will of the “internet mobs” and made the change (because it doesn’t occur to the conservatives that multinational marketing departments have simply been more observant and aware about the ongoing evolution of such public-relations issues than they themselves have).
6. Now “everybody” is burdened by having to cope with an “unnecessary” change to a trivial non-issue (because the conservatives are uncomfortable and resentful about the notion that something that they’ve never had a problem with could be considered undesirable enough to be worth changing. See also: the vested interests of conservative media and politicians in point 4).