[MtnClimber]

I hope most people have learned not to comply with woke. Just mock and ridicule the wokeists.

[Nateman]

But they claim it is not Communism! Reminds me of a joke. A farmer sees a plane crash in his field and responds. Later on an investigation occurs. The plane was full of politicians . The farmer says he buried them all. The detective asks 'There was no survivors?'.

A few said they were OK but you know what kind of liars politicians are!

[1Old Pro]

Woke 2.0, huh, OK so it didn’t work out, we learned...now on to woke 3.0

[Nateman]

The difference between a disaster and a misfortune. A Sheepherder has one of his sheep fall off a cliff. A misfortune but not a disaster. A plane full of Democrat Socialists crashes. A disaster but not a misfortune.

[ek_hornbeck]

What has replaced it is what critics describe as a harder, more confrontational phase: Woke 2.0. Soft appeals to corporate allyship and workplace inclusivity have given way to an explicitly anti-capitalist politics that prioritizes raw power over persuasion. The new version moves from sensitivity workshops to street-level disruption – targeting law enforcement, blocking infrastructure, advancing postcolonial dogma,

The author is correct that the current version of "woke" is a lot more in your face, radical, and confrontational than old school political correctness, which tried to advance its cause through a false charade of being "nice" rather than vandalism and street violence.

There's also a subtle difference between some of the woke culture warriors and the more sophisticated strategy of "Democratic Socialists" who try to talk less about abolishing the police or "checking your white privelege" and more about giving out freebies like college loan forgiveness, bus passes, and "childcare for all". This approach appeals to people who misguidedly favor some leftist social or economic policies but aren't necessarily on board with all of the social/cultural insanity of the woke, though the cultural agenda inevitably also slips out, e.g. Francesca Hong takes a break from talking about "affordability" to complain about how much she hates being in restaurants around old white guys or how racist Thanksgiving is.