In the future, when not wanting to signal the allegiance to the Bad Guys crowd...
If you find yourself uttering statements like this, consider that you may have been mind-killed by politics. (EDIT: To clarify, I’m from Europe, not the US, and am thus pretty far removed from US politics.)
Though to add a bit of substance to this comment, consider this: How would you expect a poll on the question “To the extent that you understand the term, do you consider yourself to be ‘woke’?” to break down by party? For instance, what numbers of “yes” vs. “no” would you expect for Republicans? Anyway, here’s such a poll from mid-2021.
If you find yourself uttering statements like this, consider that you may have been mind-killed by politics.
Politics is a very encompassing term, and unfortunately, many people like folding into it even questions of human rights, dignity, etc. (and technically speaking, it’s true). The danger of avoiding having a well-defined, strong opinion on normality and morality on the grounds that it would be politics, and having a strong opinion on politics means being mind-killed, is that I could accidentally ignore the true/false and right/wrong distinction.
Unless you mean the form of those phrases and not the content (in which case—I picked the form deliberately).
A third possible interpretation I can see that you’re saying political discourse caused me not to think clearly about this topic, in which case I think you’re overrelativizing the issue by overcompensating to avoid being mind-killed yourself.
For instance, what numbers of “yes” vs. “no” would you expect for Republicans?
I’d expect most of them to identify as not-woke, let’s say 85-15.
After looking at the poll (of which I’m not sure to what extent it’s trustworthy), the real numbers are 36-17, which is 68-32 after renormalizing, which is different from what I expected. I’m not sure to what extent I should update on that.
If you find yourself uttering statements like this, consider that you may have been mind-killed by politics. (EDIT: To clarify, I’m from Europe, not the US, and am thus pretty far removed from US politics.)
Though to add a bit of substance to this comment, consider this: How would you expect a poll on the question “To the extent that you understand the term, do you consider yourself to be ‘woke’?” to break down by party? For instance, what numbers of “yes” vs. “no” would you expect for Republicans? Anyway, here’s such a poll from mid-2021.
Politics is a very encompassing term, and unfortunately, many people like folding into it even questions of human rights, dignity, etc. (and technically speaking, it’s true). The danger of avoiding having a well-defined, strong opinion on normality and morality on the grounds that it would be politics, and having a strong opinion on politics means being mind-killed, is that I could accidentally ignore the true/false and right/wrong distinction.
Unless you mean the form of those phrases and not the content (in which case—I picked the form deliberately).
A third possible interpretation I can see that you’re saying political discourse caused me not to think clearly about this topic, in which case I think you’re overrelativizing the issue by overcompensating to avoid being mind-killed yourself.
I’d expect most of them to identify as not-woke, let’s say 85-15.
After looking at the poll (of which I’m not sure to what extent it’s trustworthy), the real numbers are 36-17, which is 68-32 after renormalizing, which is different from what I expected. I’m not sure to what extent I should update on that.