# Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 15, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287 "2024-11-15T15:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 395
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287/395 "2024-11-25T00:30:08Z")
They aren’t exact coy about it: > [@What could the Harris campaign have done differently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-the-harris-campaign-have-done-differently/1009798/325): > > The Democrats have followed the strategy of championing oppressed minorities, focusing on ever tinier and more aberrant fringe groups, to the point of diminishing returns. First African-Americans, then women, then gays, and now various flavors of non-binaries. I’m not sure there’s anywhere left to go except for maybe incest practitioners. The idea is to first force the Democrats to repudiate and vilify transgender people and then move on to the next “aberrant” group after that. The Republicans are finally in the position to effectively turn the ratchet of diminishing civil rights. They aren’t going to give up and they want you to join them. You might think that giving up ground today will help and once back in power you’ll reinstate those rights, but you’ll never give it back. In fact, the addiction to power will make many even forget they used to believe in these issues at all. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287)._