My Problems With The Left Part 2: Wokescolding/Purity Testing
Author: Vaush Publisher: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HbPdVGfdhsA Publish Date: 2019-10-3 Review Date: Status:💥
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2:32 Wokescolding, in my mind, means when you chastise somebody for not being woke enough
4:49 The wokescold i envision in my head is somebody more interested in demonstrating that they are morally superior to others than they are in actually meaningfully advancing progressive politics
10:56 In leftist spaces there is a horrid tendency, a very common tendency, for people to base their identities around the extent to which they can demonstrate a greater level of wokeness than the people around them
12:27 nobody really liked me, nobody wanted to talk to me, so i had to find a way to gain social capital
16:03 That process, gaining social capital by like proving how woke you are. It’s a horrible, myopic, toxic, cannibalistic process
20:33 Its competitive by nature. You compete with others who’s the wokest. Who has the greatest degree of performative leftist what have you
20:59 leftists treat each other really shittily, really shittily, because they’re trying to prove to one another how woke and lefty they are