> when the right wing co-opted the term, as they tend to do with all leftist terms, and it became simply another pejorative
Even AOC is now running away from woke 1.0 and admitted that there was a lot of craziness. That says a lot.
Even AOC is now running away from woke 1.0 and admitted that there was a lot of craziness. That says a lot.
If "woke 2.0" (although actually it would be 4.0) means embracing some kind of milquetoast neoliberal centrism that seeks to maintain the status quo of respectability politics, capitalism and American exceptionalism above all else, I'll have none of it.
People forget that Trump used to be a Democrat and a liberal and he was pals with the Clintons and congratulated Hillary Clinton when she became Secretary of State. None of these people are sincere.
And the Democrats fail not because "Woke 1.0 was a miserable failure" but because they alienate their base (which is actual leftists who do support trans people and defunding the police and the like) while the other side is willing to embrace even the most activist fringe of their base because that's never a risk for the right.