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A real waste, and an underlying implication that everyone should stay in their assigned cultural category is even worse. Of course acknowledge influences, inspiration, don't claim undue credit, but almost everything moves around the world and gets remixed.

It's the difference between trying to attack someone over a kink that could theoretically be problematic and spending that same energy to attack the actual abusers. We still have bits and pieces of the first one, but it genuinely feels more rare cause it's so tired at this point.

The "woke mob" was widely overhyped by the far right BUT really did exist (I think more a consequence of occurring alongside the advent of social media rather than anything particular to wokeness) and I feel confident asserting it did more harm than good. But the principles have endured in good ways

I appreciate this thread. It's a good thing to be sensitive to people & cultures, esp marginalized ones. But there is a whole raft of people who substitute a 'gotcha' sanctimony for actual sensitivity. I auppose when "the Woke train" was all the fashion, some people wanted to be the most fashionable

one of our best bits.

Emotionally immature people too I guess lol. I’m coming at it from a “I lived on tumblr from 2011 to 2016” perspective I guess.

So much of what got spread as “SJW nonsense” from tumblr etc. was just teenagers doing what well-intentioned teenagers do and saying stupid shit.

I remember when, on my timeline, there was an honest discussion about whether or not it was racist for white people to see Black Panther on opening night or if that should be a space for only black people. I think that was when I realized we may have gone a little too far.

Yeah. I think the real lesson here was about the power of self righteous bullying and I hope we really did outgrow it no matter how righteous we are