A.O.C. Said ‘Woke 1.0 Was Crazy.’ But What Is It?

GOP uses ‘woke’ as a synonym for ‘black’

Isn't that just capitulation though? Defund the police is already the watered down version of abolish the police. It wasn't that long ago that people hearing universal healthcare meant higher taxes and removing your "good" private healthcare. In fact, many people do still think that way, especially if they feel they "worked hard" to get their "good private care."

While I understand politicking, should we trust politicians who are willing to abandon pieces of the movement rather than standing on principle and finding better ways to explain them? Explain what defund means, what the policies are, what the goals are, don't just abandon it and call it crazy.

"Do you support defunding the police?"

"I support giving the police an easier time, they're already overworked and have many cases on their plates. I support having the police involved in more dangerous cases which they are trained for while instead having social workers respond to many less violent and more mundane cases which they are trained for. I think we can all agree that a police officer isn't a social worker nor a psychiatrist.

Further, I know I've personally dealt with this, but how many of you have felt that something is happening, being it stalking or threats against your life, and the police are of no help until actual harm is done? That's exactly because the police have more pressing cases that do involve actual harm first. I believe we should take a look at the funding for police departments, which sometimes is more funding than entire towns and cities, and instead of spending funds on invasive flock cameras that some officers and even flock employees are using to stalk individuals, gymnasiums, and fitness centers themselves, I'd appropriate that funding to separate divisions to better protect and handle more specific cases."

Woke was a black term about being aware of systemic racial injustice. Just another thing taken out of context by those unaware of its origins and let it get twisted. I knew woke was about racial injustice when I was in high school in 2010. People just dont learn words these days and believe a guy on youtube or a politician over wikipedia.

As with most things, it was stolen from the black community and bastardized in order to attack them

I understand the sentiment, but realistically we can push for more than one thing at a time. There is limited political capital, so I understand we cannot devote equal time to everything, but gay people and people of color used to be openly murdered. What would have happened if we decided that we couldn't worry about that then and needed to focus on other issues? I think we've come quite a way, and I don't see why we have to draw a line and decide we can stop pushing for social equality now and just focus on class. We can win doing both. In fact I think doing both is integral to progress overall. If we can't stand up for our othered friends then how do we show we stand for anything at all? Taking up just the easy fights is a failure of both politics and morals.

Someone responded to you suggest that feminism has run its course. Andrew Tate was able to continue to do unspeakable things to women in part because UK cops refused to take women's accusations seriously. He could have been caught way sooner if they had. Say what you will about men turning right because of economic issues, but if men viewed women as equal then it wouldn't matter what the economic conditions were, they wouldn't believe Tate when he said that women are incapable of having real feelings. This is a multi pronged issue and I think we need to approach it from all angles in order to ensure we get it right.

Yeah, that's kinda where I'm at. It's hard to get people that have to worry about making enough to survive to worry about what some middleclass person is struggling with 100 miles away.

That's why until the recent backsliding, I've thought for awhile that feminism has kinda run its course. Most issues feminists have are either a symptom of capitalism run amok, or shitty people in general getting away with sociopathic behavior. The intersectionality stuff tried to amend that, but at the end of the day it's a band-aid solution to a bigger issue.

Well fuck her for walking back "defund the police".

Ai has ruined the name Al.