Yes, there is injustice in the world. For example, right now there are people in concentration camps being enslaved and forced to do work making goods for big corporations, with the goods then being sold on the shelves of your local supermarket.
Or another example: right now there are massive corporations that unfairly make billions of dollars through rent-seeking. Often this involves bribing politicians to get a favourable regulatory environment. (Note that I am not complaining about companies that get rich making thinks people want, but only about one that get rich through rent-seeking).
A third example: in the USA the healthcare system costs per capita more than in any other country in the world, yet Americans have worse health -- for example they die earlier -- than in the vast majority of rich countries. This system continues to exist because it serves well the section of the ruling class that owns/runs the healthcare industry, even though many die every year because of it.
There are real injustices in the world, real things that could be fixed to make people's lives better. Find it in your heart to care about these things, rather than merely engaging in performative sanctimoniousness about the phrase “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”.
If woke people diverted their energy to finding real solutions to real problems rather than virtue climbing, they'd probably be able to cause significant good in the world. But as I see it their effect is mostly negative.
I have in the past spent thousands of hours and thousands of pounds attempting to fix some of these issues.
> How are is shutting this person up going to help fixing there wrongs?
I don't want to shut them up, I want to redirect their energy to things that are productive.
However I still do not agree that it helps the greater cause do dismiss identity politics aggressively. Let them right their fight, fight yours, collaborate where possible.
I think that in some cases the woke identity politics not only doesn't help, it actively hinders things.
> Blue-collar workers are especially sensitive to candidate messaging — and respond even more acutely to the differences between populist and “woke” language. Primarily manual blue-collar workers, in comparison with primarily white-collar workers, were even more drawn to candidates who stressed bread-and-butter issues, and who avoided activist rhetoric.
(Via [2], second segment)
If you are an intellectually honest person, you'll admit you were wrong, and that I have backed it up with objective evidence.
[1]: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/common-sense-solidarity-worki...
[2]: https://pontifex.substack.com/p/links-15-cash-for-peerages-a...
I'm not calling user-the-name woke because I disagree with them, but because that appears to me to be an accurate description of the ideology they subscribe to.
(Just like if someone advocated allocating resources by central planning instead of markets I might call them a communist; or if they wanted to abolish all states I might call them an anarchist.)
> they "virtue climb" (what does that even mean??)
It means attempt to appear virtuous in order to increase social status.