Blog #299 Woke 1.0 vs Woke 2.0
WOKE 1.0 VERSUS WOKE 2.0
Woke 1.0: Change the Culture
Robert W Malone MD from "Who is Robert Malone substack.com"
From: rwmalonemd@substack.com
DEI everywhere
Critical Race Theory
“Equity” over equality
Identity politics
Intersectionality
Pronouns in the bio
Gender as self-identification
“Latinx”
Defund the Police
Abolish the Police
Cancel culture
Safe spaces
Trigger warnings
Microaggressions
Speech is violence
Silence is violence
Words are violence
Men can get pregnant
Biological sex is a spectrum
Drag Queen Story Hour
Remove statues
Rename schools
Rename military bases
Rewrite curricula
Decolonize everything
Reparations
Corporate DEI departments
Racial preferences in hiring/admissions
Mandatory diversity training
ESG
“Anti-racism”
“White privilege”
“Whiteness”
“Heteronormativity”
“Lived experience” over inconvenient statistics
Censorship rebranded as “content moderation”
Disagreement rebranded as “hate”
And, naturally, a land acknowledgment before the quarterly sales meeting, because apparently the entire United States is stolen land, private property is a colonial construct, and the rightful owners are whichever Indigenous people occupied it at the historically convenient moment.
Woke 2.0: Change the System
Now the ambitions get somewhat larger.
Abolish ICE
Decriminalize illegal border crossing
Sanctuary cities and states
Mass amnesty / pathway to citizenship
Expand voting access to noncitizens in some local elections
Abolish the Electoral College
Make Washington, D.C. a state
Make Puerto Rico a state
Expand the Supreme Court
Impose Supreme Court term limits
Restrict presidential control over executive agencies
Strengthen the independence of the federal bureaucracy
Weaken or eliminate the Senate filibuster
Abolish the Senate, or radically restructure it
Replace equal state representation with population-based representation
Lower the voting age to 16
Expand federal voting-rights legislation
Universal voter registration
Restore voting rights to felons
Reparations through government policy
Wealth taxes
Expand federal administrative power over climate, labor and civil-rights policy
National gun-control measures
Restrict or eliminate qualified immunity
Federalize abortion protections
Constitutional amendments guaranteeing various positive rights
And when an inconvenient constitutional structure gets in the way, explain that the Constitution itself is the problem.
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