But isn’t “wokeness” just a broader-based, soul-sucking version of this status game?
Over the past few years, vast numbers of people have traded their relatively sane and moderate prior opinions for extremely fringe concepts (like “defund the police”, multiple genders, “structural racism”, etc.) — for what? Status and belonging.
As a UMD graduate I’m going to push back on FIREs decision about the 10/7 victory dance by SJP. It’s not viewpoint discrimination because they are not allowing any student events that day, and it’s not a free speech issue because it falls under time and place restrictions. There is no constitutional right to have an event on a particular day in a particular place so far as I can see.
And I can’t help but wonder if you’d be feeling differently if a bunch of white supremacists wanted to hold a party on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder or the Dylan Roof shooting.
But isn’t “wokeness” just a broader-based, soul-sucking version of this status game?
Over the past few years, vast numbers of people have traded their relatively sane and moderate prior opinions for extremely fringe concepts (like “defund the police”, multiple genders, “structural racism”, etc.) — for what? Status and belonging.
As a UMD graduate I’m going to push back on FIREs decision about the 10/7 victory dance by SJP. It’s not viewpoint discrimination because they are not allowing any student events that day, and it’s not a free speech issue because it falls under time and place restrictions. There is no constitutional right to have an event on a particular day in a particular place so far as I can see.
And I can’t help but wonder if you’d be feeling differently if a bunch of white supremacists wanted to hold a party on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder or the Dylan Roof shooting.
I know I'd feel the same.
It's like saying they don't discriminate against Christians; they just don't allow services on Sunday.
p.s. Goerge Floyd wasn't murdered, but Ashli Babbit was.