# Is James Lindsay's description of Wokeness accurate?

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I’ve seen no convincing evidence that it’s anything beyond Sturgeon’s law: the Woke movement is no more full of these categories than any other group of people, and possibly less.

I think the core problem comes down to simply this: No one is surprised to find assholes in a white-supremacist movement; There is an expectation that you’ll find far fewer of them in a woke movement.

I don’t know if you read the link provided by **Demon\_Tree** to the Atlantic article. Well worth the read.

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