Newsflash. Normies don't care and actually think they should get funding

is there more context to hong describing her half white son as having "proximity to whiteness"

I'd say they do care since ICE hasn't exactly been greeted with open arms where they deploy at, Flock cameras being more known (and targeted) plus Trump's low approval ratings. they (we) are just easily mobilized against our best interests by disingenuously-framed reporting and opeds aka people are reactionary as hell

Anyone still excited about AOC after her DNC "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" bullshit is dim. When the establishment embraces someone with deafening applause, I know they aren't the reckoning I desire

Rashida Tlaib doing Stalinist purges please

Yeah, but I'm moreso talking about intellectual discussions, specifically with those individuals who would call themselves "progressive" or "liberal."

meanwhile nypd's $10+ billion budget grows exponentially (already top #30 military spending in the world), the spread of flock/palantir encroaches further in dozens of states (even after councils vote them down) and we're well past spending $100+ billion billion on an unjust war/genocide instead of on the people who need it here.

but defund is whats 'radical' and abolish a police state is whats 'crazy'..

Actually bro "normies" don't have an opinion other than "that's sad" or "politics or the news is too negative" or "me and my family are just trying to survive"

The maga cult isn't as big as they make themselves out to be

Woke 1 wasn’t crazy. You can’t give these niggas nothin. You give em an inch, they take a mile. You ever hear about conservatives saying s*** like “oh we took things too far”? No they double down

Woke 3 in theaters 2027

it was a smidge crazy

What AOC refers to as Woke 1 is actually Woke 2 and now we're in the dawn of Woke 3.

Who were the ethnonarcissists?

Was just about say the exact same thing. Now they will use the next 6 years talking about how very reasonable things were crazy admitted by AOC.

I keep hearing this and to me it means this was a lot of young people's first encounter with social justice activism and the academic/historic vocabulary needed to speak authoritatively about it. Some people got carried away in the fervor and ended up just lashing out at everything perceived as unjust or even purposely seeking out unjust things that felt underdiscussed, just to feel like we could purge them from society, even if they were our own fellow powerless people (AOC mentions cancel culture as one example that was a mistake in this same interview)

So like yeah some people went so deep into Woke 1.0 that they literally just became performatively neurodivergent genderfluid he/him lesbians who still wear covid masks and just LARP about the issues without having ever read a book. It just gave a certain crowd an identity and a moral alibi.

Woke 2.0 so far seems to be a lot more concerned with the issues that unite everyone like whether you can afford to own a home or whether AI is coming for your job or whether your tax dollars go to fund a genocide. Police brutality and sexual harassment/gender discrimination in the workplace and rape culture and ableism, gentrification, toxic masculinity and all those things are still pervasive and unresolved but I think the coalition is moving in the direction of addressing the root causes of these problems. "Be ruthless to systems, be kind to individuals" Like most people don't care that much whether you say the r word anymore but we all can't afford groceries type s***

That clip was so evil to watch to me

Facts woke already got coined on 2012 Black twitter

bruh being woke existed LONG before social media, man. it's a central tenet to being Black in America.

Shoutout to black people’s knack for always inventing the next lingo and never copyrighting it otherwise Badu would be a billionaire by now

we got woke 2 before gta 6 smh

What woke are we on currently

in between seasons

The 1619 project

Sadly this is the truth

Very long, but it seemed like an agreed upon resurgence started around then and there. Even in conscious spaces (That I’ve experienced) it was not so common in the 2000s