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With the working class viewed as a politically backward force, identity groups have provided a new focus for the social-justice left. Woke activists might pose as speaking for the downtrodden, but they only reflect the outlook and concerns of the intellectual elite.
Today's left is frustrated with the working class and this led it to retreat into universities for refuge. Disillusioned activists found it far easier to persuade middle-class students and university lecturers of their cause than to fight against corporations. Yes, it is far more easier to argue that womanhood is a social construct than to engage with women who work as cleaners or carers.

Thibaud70 7 Feb 25
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Interesting theory. Students are easier to persuade than working poor (especially women who more readily believe religious doctrines and men, wanting to connect with them for biologic procreation, take up their beliefs) so that is plausible. 1960's idealism didn't work but ideals don't die (nor should such beautiful ideals) simply because they are rejected. Witness Occupy. This is what they did. But I believe in equality, not Feminism, so women should be fully equal beneficiaries of our constitution and society.

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@Thibaud70 Try to ignore the sarcastic morons who missed the point you were trying to get across, unfortunately the site has a number of such people. The same people who are upset over the culture war personal identities etc being nothing but a distraction often times indulge in pointless distractions themselves. For example, they fixate on certain objects... like those high-capacity gun magazines, instead of focusing on the actual problem of there being desperate people in society who turn to a life of crime and who also often times turn violent, along with a broken public education system that continues to fail our youths. But no, they fixate on objects instead and ignore the real problems. Not that I'm shocked over such, as most such individuals are nothing more than intellectual cowards who want to run away when you confront them with reality, and the excuses they come up with are some of the pitiful I've ever heard.

Personally, I care not about the names or titles some people go by that others may consider to be questionable, that be their choice. I do however care when someone identifies as a woman and that "woman" proceeds to rape another woman and said woman gets impregnated, because at that point the reality sets in that we weren't really dealing with a woman in the first place but rather obviously it was a man who raped that woman. Two biological women cannot reproduce on their own, only a man and a woman could do that on their own. See, such scenarios go way beyond just talking about personal gender preferences etc, and anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial of reality. But some people cannot be reasoned with though, and their own personal political ideologies get in the way with logic and reasoning. And on goes the "culture war", and watching my fellow human beings quibble over such while ignoring the real problems in society makes me ashamed to be human.

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Ohferpetessake.
thank you for postng canned drivel.

Probably a word salad mixture of James Lindsay and Chris Rufo.

Ohferpetessake.--- ??
Sounds like verbal splatter shit.

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The reason you don't respond to the comments made on your posts is because you can't support your own arguments. You say you are a librarian but your posts don't include facts or evidence. Not a single sentence in your post is true and you can't prove that they are. Do you have anything of value to contribute or are you just a perpetual malcontent?

Well there could be reasonable discussion had on how close Derrick Bell’s “interest convergence” tracks historical reality of civil rights, if Michelle Alexander was too broad in her definition of incarceration, or if Crenshaw’s intersectionality has gone too far. I thought this a reasonable talk:

As for woke there’s:

@Scott321 Are you providing evidence to support his argument?

@LovinLarge

No though one could seek clarity through distinctions or be critically minded without going all anti-woke.

@Scott321 I'm always in favor of critical analysis, provided the information being analyzed is factual. This post is purely biased conjecture with no factual basis or supporting evidence. I'm not going to acknowledge a fallacy with a rebuttal. If you want to go ahead, but please address it to him. He is trying to cause dissention, please don't assist him.

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Oh look, we have another live one stoking the flames of the GOP moral panic. Woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, trigger the libs. Yawn.

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Isn't it always far easier for someone to argue than to focus more attention on actually making positive improvements in society?

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